The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-29
Dr.-Marden's
Uplift Talks
BY ORIsoN SWEET MARDEN
PREACH THE DOC. .RiNE OF
cHEERFULNESS.
BY Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

PREACH THE DOC rRINE OF
cHEERFULNESs.
smile once in a while.
1t will make your heart seem lighter.
LIES a mirror-if we smile.
Smiles come back to greet us;
II we're frowning all the While,
Frowns forever meet us.
Mr.. Paul Poiret, the well-known
Frenchman who visited our shores
last fall, carried away some not very
flattering impressions of our people
and country-says We do not know
how to laugh, or at least must be
made" to laugh. With the French
laughter is the expression of a gay
heart, while with the American humor
Is appealed to through the intelligence
Even in our sports we are serious.
says NJ. Poiret. Those who take part
in them do 1t as soberly and as In
tensely as If it were an act Of bust
ness. And the spectators! They
might be watching q man being tried
tor his life. They could hardly loo
more concerned If they were."
Many people give US the impression
that the famed Damocletian sword OF
pain, suspended by a thread, hangs
over them constantly, ready to fall
and pierce them at any moment, even
In their joys and pleasures. They
never seem to enjoy anything without
alloy. They give you the impression
that they are conscious Of the skele-
IONS presence at every feast.
The American people as a rule take
life much too seriously. They do not
have half enough fun. Europeans look
IN our care-worn, solemn-faced people
IS on pieces Of machinery run at
forced speed and which squeak for
ack of oil.
81 question If care and doubt ever
wrote their names so legibly on the
aces of any other population" says
Emerson. "Old age begins In the
nursery"
Why take life so seriously, anyway"
A lot of play will not only improve
Four health, but increase your eff
:iency wonderfully.
If q man is living in a perfectly nor
nal way he ought not 10 have, as SO
many have, a haunted, bounded look,
Is though he suspected either a police.
nan or a detective were On his track.
He ought not to be worried and
anxious every minute. He ought not
% take his vocation SO very seriously
and should not give the impression
hat the whole universe Is hanging
lpon the result: of his task.
A great many men fail because they
ire too serious; because they develop
msocial, morose, cold qualities, which
,epel and which make them poor mix
srs. 1t is the sunshiny, happy nature
which attracts friends and trade. The
200 serious people seem to say, "Keer
away from me, life is too serious
natter to be spent on trivial things.
they are dry and rutty because there
S not enough play in their lives tt
furnish the necessary fabrication, va
.iety, or change.
Not long ago ] heard a young cler
lyman preach a sermon which was sc
very serious, and so very gloomy. tina
{ made everybody in the congregation
EEL melancholy and depressed. Theirs
was no uplift, no encouragement, moth
ng to stimulate one to greatest Ell
ieavor. People did not go out OF the
church, as they should have gone, re
solved to try a little harder than evel
before, to do something worth while
out the whole congregation vent ava!
with a gloomy look on their faces
There had been nothing inspiring IL
he clergyman's appearance. His fac'
was so serious and his whole manne
50 depressing that it was really pain
tul to listen to him.
: People have burdens enough of thei
own to bear, and do not want nybod,
20 inject dark, doleful pictures in -hei
minds. They go 70 church for uplift
encouragement. They want to Ri
themselves Of the enemies of thei
happiness and prosperity. Thousand
IF people who now remain away from
church would gladly go if they coul,
come away feeling uplifted, encoul
aged, and with increased hopefulness
"He that cannot laugh and be ga
should look to himself" wrote Henri,
Ward Beecher. "He should fast an
pray until his face breaks forth int
light"