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Show Laugh and Live long. Thackeray truly remarked that the world is for each of us much as we show ourselves to the world. If we face it with a cherry acceptance we find the world fairly full of cheerful people, glad to see us. If we snarl at it and abuse it, we may be sure of abuse in return. The discontented worries of a morose person may very likely shorten his days, and the general gen-eral justice of nature's arrangement provides that his early departure should entail no long regrets. On the other hand, a 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 childhood is left behind the habit fails, and a' half-smile half-smile is the best that: visits the thought-lined mouth of the modern man or women. People become more and more burdened with the accumu-lations accumu-lations of knowledge' and with the weighing responsibilities of life, but they should still spare time to laugh. Let them never forget, moreover, and let it be a medical man's practice to remind them that "a smile sits .rer serene upon the face of Wisdom. London Lancet. |