The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09
THE OPEN ROAD
AlO ns Which An Effort Will be nade
10 Assist the Wanderer on His
WAY Up Hill.
BY LEO ]. RASCHE.
THE CHEER SEASON


THE CHEER SEASON
There are some people who profess
constant unhappiness, VINO go about
with continual aches and pains and who
are eternally drumming their ills into
their neighbors' ears. If a happy-go-
lucky chap expected you to unload all
of your favorite diseases on him when
he smilinglY asks you how you are feel
ing he wouldn't ask you. Did you ever
notice, John. how quickly the sunshine
" expression with which your friend
meant to cheer you turns to cloudy
weather when you begin pouring out
your Ills? and did you ever notice that
he glances many times at his watch to
give you quiet steer that he has an
engagement elsewhere and hasn't very
much time to spare? That, John, is
because he is anxious to get in out of
the weather. because he wants to get
back to the sunshine. So you shouldn't
keep him long, John. if you have no
funny story to tell him, because he is
-ot interested in the other variety, No
nne is, and the probability is strong,
and getting stronger, that no one ever
/ will be.
1 When you feel these i'll splitting spells
coming on, John, it would be good
plan to go into seclusion until they are
gone and while in your retreat Just tell
/ them over several times to yourself. In
that way you can get them out of your
system without worrying Jones. Be-
cause YOU know, Jones may have lot
oflittle troubles of his own that he is
not saying word about and it's rather
loading him up double when you pile all
/ of yours on top of those he already has.
/ There are bound to be little moments
Of trouble in every ones life, but that's
usually always a rainbow after the
/ storm, and there is usually ALWAYS a
/ port to put into during the progress of
/ the storm. The best haven of refuge
to put into during a storm is that of
your secret self Look within your
/ secret self and there analyze the cause
of the things that have disturbed you
and by so dong you can avoid those
same causes in the future, for deeply
buried in your secret self are the cause
/ of most ailments, and these causes can
| be rooted out with resolutions. Happi-
| ness and unhappiness are largely due
/ to the state of mind. DIsappointments,
of course, we can not help, but we can
combat them with cheerfulness. You
can learn to laugh at disappointments
and that is the best possible way to
combat their depressing influence.
Maurice Maeterlinck has written
some very splendid things and he pen
ned good one when he wrote: ITO be
happy is to have freed ones soul from
the unrest of unhappiness. " That's
about the idea in about as concise a
form as it can be put, and the best part
of it is that it's not only plausible but
possible. There are people who do
much in life to make others unhappy,
and there are others whose lives are de-
voted to making others happy. f. H.
Sothern, the actor, is among those who
has contributed his.part to tighten the
cares of the people as all actors do, and
therefore the profession is noble one.
Mr.. Sothern celebrates a birthday to-
day, his fifty-sixth. you have de-
served high commentator, true ap-
plause. As You Like It,"
If you do your part, John, to help
spread little cheer along the way up
hill, and don't spread any sob stuff,
you will help make the old world Just a
little bit better place in which to live.
If you will spread a few smiles, and
this is a good season in which to do it,
and serve out a few glad hands it will
all help heap. You can very easily
do this without cost, and on the profit
sharing plan, because you will reap
rich rewards on everything you give
away along this line. Try passing out
a few today and note the effect and the
returns on the investment. lAs Old
Bill says:
Frame your mind on mirth and mer-
riment,
Which bars a thousand harms and