The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-30
CAMBRIDGE PLAYERS
FEATURED PROGRAM
They Failed to Arrive in
Time for the Afternoon
Session, but the Public was
More than Compensated
by the Fine Program Of
Last Night--Dr. Atkinson
Delivers Final Lecture.
CBY GILFTLLAN sCOTT1


The fourth day OF PensaCola's first
Chautauqua proved another day of
success. Doctor Dent Atkinson and the
Cambridge players being the attrac-
tions. AS each day arrives the CSowds
continue to arrive and to increase. and
the promoters are to he congra tulated
upon tho great success attending this
first attempt TO establish = Chautau-
qua system in the city. there being no
longer any doubt Of the wisdom OF
making it an annual event,
The afternoon session Of the Chau-
tauqua was devoted to = lecture by
DR.. Dent Atkinson entitled, -Four
Faced People"
Those who had the good fortune 10
be present at the First Methodist
Atkinson addressed ono of tho largest
congregation that church has ever
held, came in great expectation OF
hearing something worth while, and
they were not disappointed
Doctor Atkinson has drawn expert
ences of all kinds from all sources
and in all parts Of tho world and,
when he undertakes to speak for an
hour 1t means that he has something
to say: that he will give his hearers
some Of the results Of his experience.
whereby they may profit and at the
same time be entertained
Philosophy and wisdom OF conduct,
were the keynotes Of his address.
which was couched in simple. direct
language, fun Of illustrations and apt
SMILES which held the attention OF
his audience and called for frequent
applause
BELIEVES IN cHEERFULNEss.
Doctor Atkinson is "A great believer
in cheerfulness: he believes cheerful
ness is a habit we can cultivate az
well as the ability to smile; and that
grouchiness is also a habit as well as
the inability to smile: that whichever
habit we cultivate is the habit which
will grow, and we will get a resulting
crop of happiness or unhappiness ac-
cordingly.
Many of US are like an old buggy
which goes on squeaking and groaning
for want of little axle grease.
And the same mental condition
causes us to notice only the freckles
and the warts on our neiEhbors faces,
forgetting all the rest Of the complex
ion.
We could avoid many Of the hard
knocks we get if we were hanitually
cheerful. for the world never hits
cheerful face. We should cultivate the
Of looking as if ii were a good morn
ing
The world is mirror and we see in
It the reelection of our own minds, and
mental attitude.
The man who wants to be thought
ot of may become a general but will
be a general nuisance.
A monkey can't smile, why should
we initiate the monkey If we don't
'eel like smiling let us smile as a
natter of duty to our neighbors and
smiling will become a habit which will
iraw our neighboTs nearer TO us,
whilst froWns will drive them away.
TROUBLE BROADENS A MAN.
Trouble broadens "A man, il takes
IF the sharp corners and makes him
more considerate of others in trouble.
wen as "a fellow feeling makes us
yondrous kind"
Every man ought to be a king and
very woman a queen.
A man should be king Of himself;
e should be king Of his appetite and
ling of his intellect and king Of his
morals.
Young people overdo love and old
eople underdO II.
We should not say unkind things
ntil we have exhausted the kind
is the only way to get
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