The Washington herald., 1916-07-28
The Best Health Promoters.
BY oRIsON SWEET MARDEN.

| Josh Billings said, "If man kant laft there
is sum mistake made in putting him together'
and 1t he won't laugh he wants az mutch keep
ing away from az bear trap when it IL sot.
| Laugh and your troubles and disappointments
will fall form you frown and go about with a
gloomy, lowering face and you will draw host
more to you. q
During an acute financial panic merchant
whose shelves were groaning with unsold mer-
chandise and whose clerks standing around
gloomy and discouraged in going about his store
one day caught glimpse of his own face in a
long mirror and was shocked at what he saw.
Il was amazed to see how blue and gloomy
looked" he told friend, "and /. said to myself
III don't wonder business is bad in this store
don't wonder people don't come here to buy.
Everybody is in the dumps The sight OF all
these gloomy discouraged faces would drive GUS
toners away even in the most prosperous tunes
: Then | called all the clerks together and had a
talk with them. l told them that the store
needed bracing up and cheering up, more than
anything else; that | wanted a complete change
in the expression of their faces that were
losing business and our faces told the story to
the world. | told them that hereafter | would
discharge any clerk who did not have pleasant
cheerful expression. From that time things
changed very materially and business improved
hOi 'iauS, SNSh HiOlc IN ndIu tiHlSs lildH "liSH
conditions normal, is a matter of attraction
| | found that we had all been blue and dis
! couraged because of the wretched business con-
ditions that had created an atmosphere of
discouragement which had actually driven away
business"
Who has not felt the upft, the refreshment
that comes from the sight OF a CHEEKY smiling
face! l have in mind a sunny soul who some
times drops in to see me when l am so busy
that | do not know which way to turn. But
do not remember ever being so busy as to
regret this mans call. for he brings with him
a care-free air that is like healing BALM and
wherever he goes he leaves sunshine behind
him. He scattcrs his flowers as he goes along
for he knows he never will go exactly
the same road again.
There is invitation waiting for this man
wherever he goes just because he has the low
If he had streak in him; if he had
sour, sullcn disposition, if he went around with
long sad face no one would want him.
1t is human nature to love agreeable qualities
charming traits. We all attracted by the
things that make feel better, the things that
give pleasure. . We like to have people call
on us, who leave a good taste in our mouths
and abiding, pleasant memories. We like men
and women who bring sunshine into our lives
Tighten our cares instead OF loading US with
their and make it easier for us to keep
sweet ourselves.
The man who puts sunshine into
the lives OF those about him is not only his
own best friend, but he is also bencfactor
Of the race.
If | could give word OF advice to the
young man and the young woman entering
upon lfc's responsibilities l think it would be
this: "Cutivate the joys OF life" Resolve that
no matter how you may be situated what your
occupation or profession you will not allow
the dlsagrccable things you encounter to shadow
your life, to make you gloomy and depressed
People who take life so very seriously, who
think it awful responsibility to live, people
full OF suffering and who are always imprcssing
themselves and others with the idea that thev
must be up and doing while the day lasts, for
the night comcth,' etc, do not realize that they
are making their minds negative. They do not
realize that JOY and gladness the habit of good
cheer, arc tremendous uplifting, creative forces
The mind must be spontaneous effective and
the sad, serious soul, obsessed with the idea of
what an awful thing it is to live is not normal
We were constructed to radiatc sunshine
good cheer and a spirit Of hclpfulncss. lust as
the rose was constructed to radiate beauty
and perfume. The man or woman who is pessi-
mistic pcrsistently gloomy is abnormal, un-
balanced
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