ALWAYS BE MERRY.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10352, 28 April 1911, Page 2

ALWAYS BE MERRY.

Would you always bei merry find 'bright 1? Of course you would, but ]io\v ia it possible to effectually and perpetually banish dull care? Just massage your solar plexus! Such, indeed, is tho latest gospel. Wei take no responsibility for the gospel or for tho particular pa.vt of the anatomy effected. Probably further' information is; desired. Well, the solar plexus is nerve stuff between tho stomach and the spine which controls respiranion, circulation, and digestion, and i.s very susceptible to emotion. Therefore if yon continulally say to' youriieilt that you aie a miserable 1 sinner you put a wet blanket on the solar plexus, andl so chill nndl dishearten yoia' various bodily processes. On the "other 1 hand, if you keep on repieating that everything' is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, the solar plexus, being an irrational thing 1, ia immensely pleased, and sets itself to smai'tien up your whole frame. But in spite of its susceptibility to emotion, tho solar plexus cannot do< without stimulants of another* kind. It wants, like a cat, to be stroked, and, like a cat again, when yon strofce it, it purra S'troikiripr, of ctoulrse, means massage, amd) the Way to apply massaeie to the article is to breathe deeply. In fact, a course of deep breathing ought to turn yon out. a convinced' optimist.. So now -thero is no more exciuso for the existence of depressed and depressing' people.