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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 215, 4 September 1908, Page 4

IT PAYS TO SMILE.

■ It is worth stopping to think of (savs an American writer) that Tuft is known as ''Smiling Bill" and Sherman as " Sunny Jim." President Roosevelt, with his bulldog countenance, is the best-known for his good-natured grin. It is hard for him to wear a sober face even when he poses for a photograph. The Bryan smile is believed to lie the best asset of the "great commoner." It is expansive, pervasive and contagious. Everybody feels good in the presence of Bryan.

Although Governor Johnson seems to have a sad countenance, there is a curious little twist to his lip that suggests capacity for quiet fun, and an eye to the humorous side of life. All of which leads to the conclusion that American people prefer the men who smile. There have been times when statesmen were expected to have squarecut mouths and wear frock coats tightly buttoned. But it is past. It is a tendency of (he times. Even the clergy in these days have discarded solemn garments and smile cheerfully on their congregations. It pays to smile. There is an inner satisfaction in looking on the world through smiling'eyes. And the rewards of life in this age are for the optimists.

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