Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-05
Looking on the Sunny Side

There is a great difference in the
various kinds of wrinkles stamped
on the human face by emotions of one
sort or another. There are the wrink-
les of sorrow, laying across the fore
head and around the eyes, giving the
face, even when smiling, an express
sion of sadness, pitiable lock of
grief There are the wrinkles of dis
content and anger, marking crows
feet" between the eyes, drawing down
the lips with querulous lines from nose
to mouth and giving general air of
fretting to the whole face. ~.
Then, last and best of all, are the
lines of mirth, leaving fine wrinkles
around the corners of the eyes and
sometimes semi-circular line in each
cheek from smiling. The lines of
mirth are all curves, rattle: becoming
than otherwise If we must have
wrinkles at all, let us have these. They
are the landmarks of many happy
years gone before and many happy
ones to come, for the man or woman
who has learned to smile at life need
never fear the future.
More and more We are coming to
realize that happiness is within the
reach of all If we will but stretch out
our hands to take it. AS the practical
farmer said when a visitor admired
the picturesque quaintness of his farm
house, "Wal, it's. all in the pint of
view" And SO it is with happiness,
its all in the pint of view, for what
some OF us find happiness others
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Therefore, let us learn TO adjust
our viewpoint to the bright side of
things. If we are not happy in our
present environment let US look at
things from another angle and per-
haps they will not seem so gloomy.
To be sure, we may not be so we'll off
as some, but, then. we are a 81 eat deal
better off than others. .... r..
Then there is one great and all
sufficient remedy for all fancied I'M
happiness or Observation-Disclosures. If
we work hard enough We will not have
time to look for discomfort. If sor-
row or loss overtakes us on life's road,
let us pick ourselves up and throw our
selves with extra vigor into the task
of overcoming the obstacles in our
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the grief, which once looked so big,
we will find that we have left it far
behind on the road and that now it
looks like a speck in the distance.
So. when you think you are wretch
ed or miserable, set yourself some
task beyond your ability and go at it
with all your heart and soul. Do not
try to occupy your mind by simple.
little duties we'll within your power to
perform. For such tasks leave you
time to think, to dwell on your grief.
1t is only by undertaking something
which will need every bit of your at
tention that you can forget the sorrow
at hand.
Learn to smile at the jolts and
bumps you receive travelling over
life's highroads! ..-.
What is the use of stopping to
grieve over each and every one? You
received many a bump in childhood
which you cannot even recall now. So
it will be with the jolts that you en-
counter at present. No matter how
big they may seem now, FIVE or, ten
years hence they will have faded in
the past ~:
So don't waste time and strength
worrying over matters every time
YOU fall or are pushed down. Pick
yourself up as you did il infancy and
plunge ahead again. BY meeting such
knocks with laugh you take away
all their sting.