THE ORIENTAL BUSINESS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 939, 28 June 1877, Page 3

THE ORIENTAL BUSINESS.

{Detroit Free Press.) A good citizen of Crogh n street was reading the other day of a good Persian gentleman who always walked about with a smile on his face. When this Persian was asked why he always looked so happy when other men looked sad he replied : ‘ I smile because it may be sunshine to some poor soul surrounded by shadows.’ It was very nice in the Persian, and the Croghan street man said he’d be-hanged if ha couldn’t outsmile a Persian or anybody else walking around on two legs. He at once began to smile at his wife. She stood it for a few minutes, and then observed : ‘What’s the matter, William—got the colic again ? ’ ‘ I smile because I want to carry sunshine to yoar darkened soul,’ he readied. She wanted him to understand that fifteen minutes at the woodpile would help her more than all the grins he could grin in a straight week, and when he went mto the kitchen to smile some sunshine at the hired girl the wife followed him and raised a row that put dinner three-quarters of an hour behind hand. However, one can’t get the hang of Oriental business in a day, and this man tried it on the street car as he came down town yesterday. < 'pposite him sat an old woman with a basket, and he undertook to smile the shadows from her heart. She watched him for two or three minutes, growing mad all the time, and presently she asked—“Do you think you know me, that you arc grinning across the aisle like a circus baboon ?” “ I smile, madam, because—because —,” he stammered, forgetting what the Persian said. “ I smile because —” “ You are grinning because I’ve got sore eyes !” she shouted. “ No, madam. I smile that I that I “!’ll not stand it!” she excldim'd, and she hammeied Inm with the basket until he escaped off the platform. Now grin over that, will you !” she called after him as she shook the basket in the air “ The Persian who went around smiling was a fool, and I'm his first cousin !’" growled the man, and he quit smiling and picked a light with a harnes -make ",