At every opportune chance laugh long and heartily, nothing is better to
cheer and comfort, and while it is doing the other fellow good you are
getting the cheapest medicine on the market for your digestive organs.
Try it after you eat some boarding house pancakes an inch think. You
have lots of things to smile for. There is always some one else worse
off than yourself. You see them everywhere. If you have a large family
your neighbor has a larger one. If you have none at all pity your
neighbor who can’t figure out some way to get rid of his mother-in-law
without losing his wife. If you are able to hobble around, have a heart
for the fellow in the wheel chair and the fellow that has to stay flat
on his back and never sees the sun rise.
There are two kinds of sunshine; one is entirely dependent upon the
individual and the other was inaugurated shortly after creation. Each is
necessary to fill the divine plan. While one kind is periodical in some
people, the other is always at hand unless clouds intervene. God’s
sunshine is unexcelled and is a marvel in itself for warmth, beauty,
cheerfulness and grandeur. The rising and falling of this wonderful
orbit body is said to start and finish the work of man, as he was
supposed to labor and scheme from sun to sun.
This plan may have been popular and proper before the day of the
multi-millionaire, but the time is too short for the present day man,
and in order to pay the necessary obligations to exist the twilight at
both ends must be consumed and then reach in and grab several hours of
darkness. The housewife may have to sew and rock the baby and prove her
contention that her work is never done, but it’s up to the Governor, the
old man, Dad, or any other name you may call him, to keep the flour in
the bin, coal in the bucket, shoes on the children, and an endless
number of other things. He’s the lad that must fix it up with the banker
when the note is renewed. He must through some devised method dress the
kids in schools as good as his more prosperous neighbor, or there’s
snobs and tears. He must provide something besides the proverbial soup
bone that one neighbor could borrow from another through the winter
months. He must buy the latest books, procure lyceum and chautauqua
tickets, pay the preacher, the ice man, the milk man, the water man,
light man, and dig continually for charity, and thus you see the sun to
sun theory has the bottom torn out of it.
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