SMILE, EVEN IF IT HURTS.
A CURE FOR MOST ILLS. If you haven’t a .sense of humour, you’re in for some mighty painful bruises when you hit the sharp corners of life. Every time I see,a man with a long face I feel like slapping him on. the back as hard as I can and yelling in his ear: “Things aren’t so gloomy. Thank heaven you' havn’t got the smallpox!” Smiles are such wonderful softeners
of the hard bumps. A smile that begins in the heart and rajdiates in the eyes and the voice and the hand-shake is an asset the value of which a lot of otherwise hard-headed men ov rlook. The man who can’t he licked L the ■fellow who laughs at his own misfortunes. Henry Ward Beecher had it sized up pretty accurately in one sentence: “A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.” Smile! Honestly, sincerely, broadly. Better, still, go out in the back yard and laugh out loud. It will do you good.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 120, 11 February 1926, Page 2
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