Show jefferson s cheerful philosophy we spoke of happiness writes francis wilson in joy I 1 said was the god of our household no one was permitted to hang crepe on the door of our feelings the proper way he made answer happiness Is the religion of our family to begin with we take all the comic papers no oat Is permitted to read aloud and he s begged not to read even to himself about the mangled corpse of the father and the roasted bodies of the babies subjects with which the dally papers disgustingly teem |