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Show Finding Time Men iscy Subtracts! f For Happiness -and Adds! oti aNi By FRANK B. GILBRETH,JR. LATOR gives fast and accurate solutions to math chores at home or in business. Adds, subtracts, multiplies in an instant, totals to 99,999.99. Helps you remain true to the budget, figures out tax problems, bank balance, etc. Lowest price ever for this calculator. 5¥%x5x4”". 8098—Calculator ... seserssesse++++.4.98 (plus 75¢ post.) Author of “Time Out for Happiness” and Coauthor of “Cheaper by the Dozen” GREENLAND STUDIOS, 4790 Greeniand Bidg., Miami, Fla. 33054 They don’t teach courses on happiness in school. But perhaps they should. Because, although it’s true that a certain amountof happiness comes naturally, the amountcan be increasedif a person consciously strives forit. Jumping on a chair won't help. But d-CON® Mouse-PRuFE will! MOUSE-PRUFE is the amazing mousekiller that’s... MOST EFFECTIVE... has twice as much mouse-killing ingredient as other leading brands. 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Happiness can be the contemplation of past pleasures; doing a good deed every day; counting blessings; a Beethoven symphony; a stampcollection; lov- ing God; a new car; a grand slam doubled and redoubled. Happiness, Joseph Addison wrote, “. . . arises in the enjoyment of one’s self.” Happiness, Robert Ingersoll wrote, “|. is to make others so.” sults. Only KLEENITE gives you this easyto-use formula that gets even older den- J create happiness for others and himself, if he sets his mind to it. My motherusedto illustrate that point by quoting Douglas Malloch’s poem: “You have to believe in happiness ... Or happiness never comes . . . Ah, that’s the reason a bird can sing . . . On his darkest day he believes in Spring.” Corny? All right, the same idea was expressed 200 years ago by Samue! Johnson, who wrote, “No man can enjoy happiness back to the first century before Christ, Publilius Syrus wrote, “No man is happy who does schemesdevised for factories would also work piness” is collecting stamps, then take time in homes. As early as 1912 they were ielling industrialists it was their duty to create “Hap- out every day not only to work on your stamp collection but to relish working on it. A new piness Minutes”in ihe lives of their employees by making work less exhausting. The Gil- car? Save for it. And when yougetit, take especially good care of it, polish it, keep it breths also were the first to insist that workers looking new, enjoy it. not think himself so.” The point is that if your “pursuit of hap- be given rest periods—the forerunner of to- day’s coffee break. And they had a raft of statistics, time studies, and motion pictures to prove that elimination of fatigue resulted not only in “Happiness Minutes”but also in faster, better, and safer production. tures cieaner, brighter faster. Dentures thatfit are essentia! to health, See your dentist regularly. convince himself that he can consciously without thinking he enjoys it.” And, going told each child the exact time he was supposed to roli out of bed, brush his teeth, take his bath, play his French- and German-language lessons on the phonograph, make his bed, report for breakfast, etc. it sounds mighty regimented when summarized like that. But my parents were psy- etrating power than ever. It surges to every denture surface. Loosensfilm. The dingier : the denture, the more spectacular the re- them to enjoy the beauties of nature—orrisk the consequences. But it doesn’t have to be like that! Andthe first step is for a person to Rccodiny as it may seem, my parents believed that happiness was a dozen (shudder!) children. Being pioneers in scientific management, they were convinced that efficiency So in our house, when I was growing up, we had “process charts” on the walls that Improved KLEENITE has more detergent action; more effervescence; more pen- Can happiness really be budgeted on a person’s actual orfigurative time chart? One has 4 Family Weekly, February 7, 1971 oO: course the best kind of happiness is that which, as Ingersoll said, makes “others so.” If everybody practiced happiness of that genre, there’d be an accumulative force which would push the world in spite of itself right into Utopia. Nobody expects Utopia. Butif it’s too much to ask every man tostrive to make others happy, it shouldn’t be too much to ask him to strive to make himself so—to take “time out for happiness.” Utopian or not, it’s worth the effort. And even if everyone isn’t willing to makethe ef- fort, it will work for the individual. It will work for you. # |