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The Most Beautiful Smile
of All
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What Is It? Stop For a Moment and Answer That
Question Before You Read the Answer Given Here.
In many business offices you see a sign that reads. Keep on
Smiling.” The idea in that sign is not based upon knowledge of the
power that lies in a smile, but rather it is the kind ol sign that might
have been hung above an Indian tied to the stake, ready for torture.
When the business man hangs up a sign. ‘'Keep on Smiling,”
he does not mean that he is going to smile continuously, but that he
is NOT going to weep. It means that he intends, in spite of hard
times, hard competition, grinding monopoly, high prices, high rents,
high taxes ami high interest rates, to keep up his courage and,
metaphorically at least, ‘‘keep on smiling.
The smile of “business” is tile least important and the least
pleasant of ail smilbs. It is at best a make-believe smile, a money
getting smile, a smile iuteiidetl to beguile and overcome rather than
to communicate spiritual happiness to another.
But even the business smile is better than none. And as all of
us actually do hypnotize and make ourselves better by
thinking that we are better, so perhaps the improved methods of
business, the greater honesty and self-respect among business men
today as compared with shopkeepers of old. may be due to the in
troduction of the permanent smile into business methods.
Enough about the business smile least important ol all and
least pleasing.
What is the mosl beautiful and ■ •si uonderful smile that you
can ci|j)eeive? Please stop for a moment and answer the question
before you read the answer given here.
There are many smiles of great meaning and beauty. It is
beautiful when an old mother smiles upon hearing praise of her son,
or an old man when he witnesses the first triumph of his boy.
There must have been a wonderful smile on Caesar s grim face
when after the long years of fighting in Gaul he drove into Rome,
dragging Vercingetorix behind his car.
There have been deep, heavenly smiles upon the faces of great
scientists as PROOF has come to justify and vindicate their spec
ulations.
The great astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers, working
through themges amid hatred, distrust, bigotry and persecution—
wonderful and awe-inspiring their quiet smiles must have been as
each in turn found that he was indeed a servant of eternal truth.
Imagine the face of such a man as Newton when absolute proof
came to vindicate his law of gravitation a law proved exact by
every movement of distant stars, by every falling leaf.
Then there is the smile of the callow young man who has just
been accosted by a young woman too good for him. His smile is
positively sickening in its dreadful complacency yet it has its own
sticky beauty. And there is the smile of the girl that accosts him
poor thingl She believes that in him she has Bayard, The (’id. Ben
Franklin and Little Rollo into one.
Very beautiful is her seraphic smile and very pitiful. Would
that it might last I This world, luckily, is full of smiles of all kinds
- they are the bull bearings that make life possible. Each has its
especial value. Even the man whoseliat has blown off, who smiles
that hollow smile as he races after it. and the man who slips ami
falls before thousands and smiles that smile of hellish hate- such
smiles have value, lor the hat-chasing man and the fallen man if
they did not smile might commit murder instead.
Then the little boy with his first pair of long “pants” and the
little girl with a brand new dress and a big blue sash and her hair
brushed as precisely as tin* fun on a bronze Newfoundland dog—
how beautiful are theit’’smiles ami their efforts not to look self-eon
scions I If the angels really do notice us and rejoice when we are
happy, it is a rejoicing day in heaven when a small boy. hitherto un
spoiled, gets his first watch and his first “long pants” at the same
time.
The most beautiful smile of all has not been named and that is
the first smile of a little baby.
Thai smile and the answering smile on the mother's face are
both, of all things of this world, perfect and beautiful. The baby's
first smile is his real entrance into human life. He has had a very
hard and a very cruel time His arrival has been dreadfully pain
ful. and it has compelled him to inflict pain upon his mother.
Sorrowful surprises have awaited him here in this world of
giants and wonders that suddenly surrounds him.
His little Jogs have been lied up, he has been thrust into cloth
ing. often choky' and pricky. More than once his system has been
convulsed by terrible agony, as important to him as the Martinique
eruption. Sour milk has made him feel that the cosmos was shaking
on its foundations. But. in spite of all. the smile comes as his
mother s face bends over him. and there is her reward for all that
she has suffered: her payment, perhaps, for many bitter disappoint
mentc.
A baby smile is such a complete thing. His little face goes all
to pieces His cheeks and even the top of his little bald head are
wrinkled with pleasure Frankly he reveals the full extent of his
pink, toothless gums He smiles all over mouth, save, head, tongue,
legs, arms and wriggling body. A smiling baby is simply one happy
amile and such a baby is the prettiest thing that exists between
the North and South Poles, without a doubt
Laughing ami smiling are keys to human nature. Study a
Continued in L ast Column.
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UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright, 1912, National News Association.
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“William, now that the convention is over, there seems to be a carnival of nature-fak
ing started! Theodore has got ajiew animal, a cross between an elephant and a bull moose!
He calls it a 'Progressive Mooselphant!' It almost frightens one to look at it! And your new
kind of elephant called the 'Rollerphanf is also remarkable! Elihu makes up well as a jackal,
too! But you haven't got anytthing on me;, what's the matter with this talking lobster of
mine? I guess we'll have to start a zoo before long!"
ASK HER BOLDLY TO WED,
URGES BEATRICE FAIRFAX
"The Father in confession. Rose.
Won't count that love a sin.
That with a kiss taps at the heart
And lets ah angel in."
Malachy Ryan.
SH 1.. writes:
"I am a young man of 26,
and in love with an excep
tionally clever girl of 19, who is
possessed of all the virtues that
make a girl ideal. "
"1 love her so much that to Ipse
her would be worse than death, but
have never had the courage to pop
the question. J love her more than
1 love my life, but I doubt if she
loves me, for these reasons:
"In spite of the fact that we have
been going together for nearly a
year, she has never permitted me
to kiss her, nor even to put my arm
around her waist. If 1 steal a kiss,
after racing her al! over the house
to get it, 1 have to stay away for
a month, racking my brains in the
meanwhileTo compose 30 letters of
apology, and I am mighty fortunate
if at the end of that time I get a
curt little note telling me she will
forgive me if it never happens
again. •
"I love her so 1 can't keep my
Diana of the Uplands
NOT with her nymphs, by some cool shadowed pool
Where Pan. goat-footed, lurks among the reeds
Piping his love, nor yet with valiant deeds
Hunting the deer in glades of forest cool!
Out on the English Uplands keen, sweet face
Wind-tumbled hair, uncrescent-shaded eyes;
Feet deep in bracken, braving storm-swept skies
Diana! Huntress! Eager for the chase.
Yet one there is who. as the Latmian.
Sleeps deep, with youth untouched, and dreams unstirred
By noise of chase, or song of dawn-waked bird
Greeting the day. A new Endymion!
Silence the horns! Forsake the Hunting ground!
Once more the gods have loved His sleep is sound.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29. 1912.
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
arms from around her waist, and
when I put them there She reddens
to the roots of her hair and says
the tailor put pockets in my coat
for me to keep my hands in them.
Does she love me under, the circum
stances?
"Recently she went out with an
other.man who is very wealthy, but
she doesn't syem to care for him,
and Is always refusing the atten
tions of othet men. Ko 1 know I
have no rfval.Z. ""
"I have tried to make her jealous,
‘but when I have taken other girls
out and told her so her only com
ment was, 'Glad you had a nice
time. Enjoy life while it lasts.’
"I have a good income, and can
afford to marry, but am afraid to
ask her. for fear that she will re
fuse, and her refusal wilL lose me
the joy of her friendship.”
And that is where you make a
mistake!
You expect a girl to run into your
arms, holding up her lips for a kiss,
when, so far as she knows, you ex
pect the same thing from every girl
you know.
You don’t expect every girl you
know to become your wife. Hav
ing asked a girl to become your
wife, her acceptance gives you the
right to give the caresses yow long
to give, and I am sure she will be
as prone to receive them under
those circumstances as she is now
to evade them.
That there will be a refusal of
your offer is not probable. No one
knows the heart of a woman, but
so far as 1 can read the heart of
this girl, she cares for you.
She goes with no one as much
as she goes with you. And when
you offend with your hands around
her waist, when the tailor says
they must be in your pockets, she
Always Forgives.
True, she makes you do penance
to earn that forgiveness, but I ad
mire her for it. She does not hold
herself cheaply, and for this one
reason alone you have won a prize
of great value in the market of
love.
She is not like a peach on a tree,
ready to fall into the hands of a
man who walks underneath. You
have to climb to get her, and the
higher and harder the climb the
more you will appreciate her when
she is in your hands.
Further is she to be admired be
cause she refuses to let you awak
en any display of jealousy. She
hopes you had a good time when
you went out with the other girl!
I glory-fn the spirit that made her
say it.
I glory in the Independence of
any girl whose spirit never gets on
its knees to a lover. I admire,
above all others, the girl who keeps
herself just out of the reach of the
hands that are grasping for her.
Tell thifc gir you love her. and
want her to be your wife. If she
refuses, which I doubt, don’t be
dlscoura ged
"Have you not heard it said full
o/t. a woman s nay doth stand for
naught?"
Ask her the second time and the
third, and keep on asking till you
win her hdnd. Her heart, I am
satisfied, is already in your keep
ing
Anri when you have won her,
you will have the supreme bliss of
knowing you have won a girl who
was not won lightly.
You will have a wife who was
never to be the wife of any man
just for the mere asking.
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the
Voter
WHAT IS GOVERNMENT?
In Its Active Operations It Embraces Every
Individual in the National Family
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By THOMAS TAPPER.
THE word government, wheth
er applied to one’s self, to a
family, a city, state or na
tion, means guidance, management
and control. A governor is one
who guides and manages and con
trols.
When you undertake self-govern
ment (or self-control) this is ex
actly what you must accomplish.
And when we speak of the na
tional government, we imply that
there is a body of men somewhere
who are guiding the affairs of the
country, them on a
sound basis, and controlling them
so that nothing goes amiss.
All this is Implied by the word
government, and-when we get any
thing less from the body of men
who constitute our active govern
ment we are not in a safe condi
tion.
You know that you are obliged
every day of your life to take your
self in hand in order to guide, man
age and control yourself.
Should you break the bonds of
this self-government you may land
in prison. It is a little harder for
a family of six or eight to settle
down to a similar form of good
government, and as for a family of
one hundred million, witness the
anxiety they are having about it at
Chicago.
Laws Necessary to Proper
Conduct of Government.
Tfle proper conduct of govern
mental affairs has to proceed by
rules. Collectively, they are called
laws. Some men spend all their
lives burrowing in law books, and
even then do not obtain a full un
derstanding of the subject. But
for the regular run of affaire, laws
are so comparatively simple
any person of ordinary common
sense wiU obey them all without
having to read them.
All law has one object: to estab
lish the right. And the purpose of
the right is to assure to every in
dividual in the fullest measure the
benefits of peace, safety, protec
tion; in brief, a complete defense
of his citizenship. The reason of
this is that he must be left free to
go and come, to perform his labor,
to build up his family, to fulfill his
ambition, or he cap not become a
valuable citizen.
But there is another side to gov
ernment. It dojs not consist mere
ly in a body of laws and a group
of men who fight for office that
they may carry out the laws for
others. Government in its active
operation embraces every Individ
ual in the national family.
Evbry citizen Is bound up in the
active affairs of government to an
extent he hardly appreciates. You
are a citizen. Thomas Jefferson
voiced the belief that you were
born the equal of every other citi
zen. Os course, Thomas Jefferson
did not attempt to prove this in
your case. He left that for you to
do.
Being a citizen, you have what
The Most Beautiful Smile
of All
Continued from First Column.
man's laugh, watch him smile and you will know more about him
than you could know by listening for hours to his talk. »
• There are frank smiles, sour smiles, crafty smiles, cruel smiles,
tired smiles, sickly smiles. Study them and learn to know them.
Laughter describes character. The loud laugh sometimes does be
tray a vacant mind, but sometimes it tells of superabundant health
or of another nationality. A laugh natural and pleasing in an Afri
can might surely indicate intoxication in a certain type of whits
man. and the charming laughter of Italy or Southern France might
mean insanity in some cold Northern being. Remember also that
smiles and laughter tell not only of different characters in different
men, but tell also of the condition of the individual.
Keep track carefully of your children as they smile and laugh
Fewer smiles, less hearty laughter in children, are serious danget
signs .
If your little boy or girl comes home from school with -ths
tendency to laugh and smile gradually diminishing, take the child
from school, for no schooling can make up in your child for the loss
of the mental happiness that laughter reveals. The child too tired
to laugh and smile freely is much too tired to study—remember that
—and if the boy or the girl for any reason seems less inclined to
smile, tind out the reason and do away with it.
Remember that laughter is a real and important remedy for
illness —the greatest remedy for illness. The greatest medical au
thorities will tell you that laughter actually keeps off apoplexy and
other troubles t-hat come from excessive pressure on the blood
vessels. The moment a man laughs, pressure on the blood vessels
ceases and if a man were threatened with rupture of any artery or
vein, not all the doctors in the world could do as much for him as
hearty laughter.
Remember also that laughter is vibration, and that vibration
destroys disease germs.
we term civil and political rights.
Civil rights apply equally to men,
women and children. Political
rights belong to certain citizens,
and allow them to participate in
the actual government. This in
cludes the right to vote and to hold
office.
You will remember that by gov
ernment we mean guidance, man
agement and control. The guid
ance infers a proper direction;
management means wise use of
power, and control means strength
for the right at all times.
Every Citizen’s Political
And Civil Rights.
Does all this aj>ply to the offi
cers of the government alone, or
does it reach down and touch you
with its responsibility? Both.. In
your capacity as a private citizen
you receive protection of person
an<j property. You receive liberty
to follow your activity if It be an
honorable one. You send your
children to school, and the gov
ernment educates them, because,
later on, when they grow up, the
government insists that they must
have a certain amount of knowl
edge in OBder to become fit citizens
In their turn.
But when you are called upon to
vote, to do jury duty, to act as a
special officer, and so on, you are
suddenly changed from one receiv
ing rights and protection to one
giving them. You are now an ac
tive unit In the government of your
nation. When you cast your vote
you must know why you are doing
it. The reason we have already
learned; you are voting that the
affairs of the nation may be guid
ed. managed and controlled in the
best possible way.
When, by the action of the refer
endum a law is referred to the peo
ple from the legislature, it is your
duty so thoroughly to understand
that law that no vote of yours will
disturb the guidance, management
and control of our affairs.
When, by the initiative, you are
one of many proposing a law, your
vote must kee-> this same sane and
safe procedure intact. If you dis
turb that, you have failed to act as
a worthy and honest instrument of
government.
Must Know About Man J
And the Office.
When, through your participa
tion in the primaries, you are
called upon tb say whom you deem
a safe man for office, you must be
in no doubt about the man or the
office. This Is simply and politi
cally your business as a citizen.
Government, then, is not merely
the assurance of protection given
by those in office to those who are
not. It is the assurance of every
citizen speaking for himself that
so far as he can help to guide,
manage and control the affairs of
Ms country, he will do it with full
understanding of his duty toward
himself and his fellow man.
