The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-23
by Marguerite Mooers Marshall.


Start off the morning with a laupb
aud You needn't worry about the rest
Of the day"
Smiling is better than nothing and
chnckle is better stiIl--hut out-and-
ont laughter is the real thing"
We can always afford to laugh
when we're honest"
LanglI and live long--ir Won had a
thought of dying: laugh and grow
well-n you're sick and respondent;
glauel ana grow fat your tendency
rs toward the lean and catayrons;
lauRh aud succaed--if you're elum ana
nHlucEN. laugh ana nothing can
feaze you--not even the Grim Reaper
for The man who has laughed his
way through life las nothing to fear
OF the future
,iinl.l IlfxI spH Aiitsk,M ah.>]smiles
chn,kles, Erina roars ana cachinna
IRONS OF mirtI contained In '1.anrh aud
Lave, Douglas Fairbanks book oil 100
per cent optimism. For the Genial
Hawthorne of the l.. s. A" and "iIr
Comes Up Smiling" the yonnt man
who is one OF tie Big Three in tll,
moving picture world, has turned at-
thor and written volume that Is a
prescription for erouchcs. so brimruI
is it Of optimaxioms.
In this world and time when 50
laugh again, a genuine langhinl, phil
osopher is notable discovery so /
hurried to have IA look ut Mr.. Fair
banks.
All But Lead Ones Laugh
The man who doesn't laugh doesn't
live; he's u dead one uuoth Mr. Fair
banks his black eyes Swapping. BY.
the way he can walk across the floor
Of hotel lobby quite normally. He
didn't leap down the elevator Well or
hurdle 4 single chair ut 80 last night.
Yet even when he isn't death dolying
he looks the square shouldered. SPLEEN
'iidly tanned, white toothed young
American who could yaver be taken
for anybody else
The man or woman who succeeds
Is the MAN or woman who knows how
To hugh, he continued. Why Be-
ca,is. il you can laugh il proves that
you have self-contidence cheerfulncss
= sense Of hurnor: that You are not
easily discouraged by obstacles that
Son make" friends readily; III short
that You have pep and are going to
get there.
You're so much happier too. if
Won laugh u good deal Look at chill
dren, they laugh heartily many times
day and they are the happiest per-
sons in the world. II their fathers and
mothers cultivated laughter instead OF
rrouches the world would be better
off"
But what is the method yon rec
ommcnd for learning to laugh" 7
asked. "You'n admit that most of us
in this dsilusoned world do need to
learn. And IT surely isn't enough to
open ones mouth and make a noise
"' That's Laugh OF Hyena.
No. in,ieed," agreed Mr.. Fairbanks.
That's how n hyena laughs. and we
don't want any human hyenas
The first step in learning to laugh
for most people is to learn to take ex-
"rcise. Whenever we find that we are
losing onr ability TO laugh, we are
neGiecting Our physical we'll. being
Let us then and there drop the sombre
tfoaghta and get out into the open
air=srln down the street. and. if pos
sibc. out into the country. ii we see
"a tree and have the inclination to
climb h~-sweil, then, climb it. II we
sensitive about what our nei"h-
sbora might say~-too bad. But w can
romp with easy grace. II but
90 knew sIfoWs GLADLY our neighhe,es would
emulate our gymnastics pro. idad they
knew the value of them the laugh
would be on ua for dreadinr their
I'D opinion One thing we do know--,hey
viii envy MS our good health and
spirits" -
Hi9hbatl Laugh Is False.
We have another way OF inducing
laughter 'hereahouts." suggested
gently The prescription calls for
unlimited lhshballa.
Tfs."Thsre's nothing to that" said Mr..
tSairbanlSs, firmly. They do say that,
Though, he >is ~ member of TIN. Isafnl,s'
Club in good and regular standing, he