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Show CULTIVATE THE FRIENDLY SMILE In town boosting cheerfulness and cordiality have an important import-ant part. Too often people permit business cares and worries to cause them to forget the stranger within the gates and the friend who passes by. Many a man has gained a reputation for grouchi-ness grouchi-ness who merely has not thought to be cordial. A smile carries one much farther than a frown. The visitor in a city is favorably impressed if the people he sees on the streets are cheerful and smiling. smil-ing. He at once gains the impression that it must be a good town which has a cheerful people. The visitor naturally thinks that a city which offers welcome in so conspicuous a way means it. If the people he meets smile and are cheerful he at once realizes that they are a people worth while and the town one worth looking over. The cordial greeting greet-ing with an accompanying smile of welcome, helps more than anything any-thing else to give people a good impression of a place. The smile attracts and the grown repels. Grouchiness gains nothing for a person. Most people would prefer even the "Cheerful Idiot" to the "Chornic Grouch." |