The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-23
KEEP SMILING
By LUCILLE CANE

Some leading business men a short time back started club. It is a year old now, which Is a distinct novelty in business.
 It's great object Is to impress upon per
 sons who want to succeed In business that they should keep smiling The smllers
 in business are going ahead. They are men who make 1t a rule to look at the bright side of things. If you want to do your hest work. they say. you must cnlti-
 vate the optimistic spirit It makes all tho difference in the world.
 Optimism" said the chairman at one of their meetings 'has been the feature of successful nations ever since trading was recognized as factor. ft was characteristic of the adventurers of the days of Elizabeth and of the Phoenicians. All the successful traders and merchants of the world had been optimists, and it had helped to give to commerce that charm and fascination which nothing else could replace
 So these geneltmen laugh at the idea of failure and snap thelr fingers in it's face They are desperately in earnest. Laugh and grow successful Is their motto Their recommendation is one of the highest testimonials optimism has ever received.
 The manager of a Lancashire cotton mill sometime since made an interesting
 experiment. He watched the girls as they left the mill for several days. and made note of those who left smiling. What he wanted to discover was whether the smiling girl did best, and whether she got snapped up in matfimony quicker than her grave-faced sisters He de- clared he found that slniiers were the
 best hands in the mill. Good But he The girl who smiled was one of his best workers and he didn't want to lose her. | Then some fellow came along, saw that | smler, and carried her off. He wanted that smiling face to adorn his home. The manager came to the conclusion that smers married much earlier than the solemn faced ones.
 1 Aren't the most delightful girls one knows smilers7
 l "Of course l hope lady remarked to me the other day, while we were discuss 1 ing the recent marriage--and she laid a frightfully big emphasis on the hope
 T hope she will make him a good wife
 But she strikes me as a frivolous thing always smiling. 1 like serious. people, 1 I don't believe she ever smiles herself
 except, perhaps, when she is told to do so by a photographer. She tries then but 1t isn't Q success--just a stretching of the mouth. The photographer looks at 1 it, shudders, and waits till it has worn off "Anytpng is better than that. If
 he photographed that and people saw 1t
 they would avoid his studio He might
 make them look like thatT'
 1 She has never married.
 l That young lady who she hopes will l make good wife, but whom she suspects l of being frivolous, is really a very se- l rious young person. I have seen those 1 eyes when there has been no twinkle of laughter in them--when they have been | filled with tears, and the tears were not for her own trouble, but for those of another. I have not the slightest doubt myself she will make an excellent wife and have not much doubt. too that she will do an enormous lot, with those l smiles of hers, to make her husband an excellent husband Smiling goes an enor- nous way to making marriage happi- ness.
 l remember Edward Terry. the famous actor, telling me of a man who was by no means such a model of husband as he should have been. It was thought lessness rather than anything that caused day by day the pretty face he had mar ried to become sadder and sadder. What happy, smiling face 1t had been once friend remembered that, and one day sent her husband a photograph of her taken before that smile had become so rare, and the eyes had lost their happy fash He simply wrote on a scrap of paper he sent with the picture: Where has the smile gone?" That photograph woke the receiver up with a jerk. How can man who is a decent fellow at heart stand being a smil.