The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
KEEP SMILING.
An Unfailing Way of Cultivating an
Optimistic Spirit.

Some leading business men short
time back started a club, says Lucille
Caine in the Birmingham Age-Her.
aid. 1t is a year old now, which is
distinct novelty in business. Its
great object is to impress upon per
sons who want to succeed in business
that they should keep smiling" The
smilers in business are going ahead
They are men who make it rule to
look at the bright side Of things. If
you want to do your best work, they
say, you must cultivate the optimistic
spirit. 1t makes all the 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. 1t was a characteristic OF
the adventures of the days of Eliza
beth 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 gentlemen laugh at the
idea of failure and snap their fingers
in it's face. They are desperately in
earnest. Laugh and grow success
full" is their motto. Their recon-
mendation is one of the highest testi-
monials optimism has ever received
The manager of Lancashire cot
ton mill some time since made an
interesting experiment. He watch
ed the girls as they left the mill for
several days, and made a 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 matrimony
quicker than her gravefaced sisters,
He declared that he found that smll-
ers were the best hands in the mill.
Good, But he really detested those
smiles in one way. 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 smiler, and carried her off. He
wanted that smiling face to adorn his
home. The manager came to the
conclusion that smilers married much
earlier than the solemn-faced ones.
Arn't the most delightful girls
one knows smilers?
"Of course, 1 hope" lady remark
ed to me the other day, while we
were discussing the recent marriage
and she laid a frightfully big
emphasis on the hope" 81 hope
she will make him a good wife. But
she strikes me as frivolous thing
always smiling. l like serious peo-
ple." N
l don't believe she ever smiles her
self-except, perhaps, when she is
told to do so by photographer
She tries then, but it isn't success
Just a stretching of the mouth
The photographer looks at it, shud-
ders. and waits till it has worn off,
Anything is better than that. II
he photographed that and people
saw it they would avoid his studio
He might make them look like that!
She has never married.
That young lady who she hopes
will make a good wife, but whom
she suspects of being frivolous, is
really a very serious young person
have seen those 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. l have not the slightest
doubt myself she will make an excel
lent wife, and have not much doubt
too: that she will do an enormous
lot, with those smiles of hers, tc
make her husband an excellent hus'
band. SSmiling goes an enormous
way to making marriage happiness
l remember Edward Terry, the
famous actor, telling me of a man
who was by no means such a mode
of husband as he should have been
1t was thoughtessness rather than
anything that caused day by day the
pretty face he had married to be-
come sadder and sadder. What q
happy, smiling face it had been once!
A 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 flash. He simply
wrote on a scrap of paper he sent
with the picture:
where has the smile gomez
That photograph woke the receiv'