TRY TO BE CHEERFUL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 November 1913, Page 2

TRY TO BE CHEERFUL.

Most arsons will declare that if a man is not 'naturally cheerful he cannot make himself so\ -:.?C$ this IS far from being the case, and tiigre ,is many a man who is at present a weary burden to'his relatives, miserable through the carking care of some bodily ailment, perhaps, or some worldly misfortune, whOj « ha h*£ grown up into tn -Q idea that to be cheerful under all circumstances was one of the first duties of life, might stifl see a pleasant enough world around him. The discontented worries of a moroso person may' very likely shorten his days, ' and " the general justice of nature's arrangements provides that his early departure should entail no long regrets. On the other hand., the man who can laugh keeps his health, and his friends are glad to keep. him. To the perfectly healthy, laughter comes often. Too commonly, though, as childhooi is left behind the habit fails, and a half smile is the lift that visits the thought-lined mouth of a modern man or woman. People become more and more burdened with the accumulations of knowledge and with the weighty responsibilities of life, but they should -s*till spare time to laugh;