Show v NOTICE OTICE THE 31 IiI MN AX THAT LAUGHS Ho lie gets there The man that lau laughs hs other things being equal will best win his wa way vay In tho the world and leave cave behind him a gracious crowd clowd of friends who would would gladly give gl him nil all the benefits over a again If Ie he sho should come along and a ask k for Cor them Il The e man that X k laughs has Ons an advantage arl 1 f t In the first place the chance Is big that he keeps hl his temper And the man who Is In full command of oC oil all hIs jus faculties has an advantage Ho lIe Is Is in a n good tion Zion The Thc man who loses Joes his temper and quits smiling Is at the mercy of the clever man who has provoked pro him lIe He can not catch quickly the the opportunities the contention pro produces uces He Hc loses something b by a judgment judgment judg judg- ment slightly biased with passion lIe He gets to the place where he would rather Insist on some unimportant de de- Ic- Ic i tail tall than win the real point at nt issue And while he e is in temper that laugh twi twists ts him and turns him and aOl despoils him t It is a n. gr great at thing in politics Your average politician politician poli poli- is likely to tako take himself very cr seriously to believe believe be be- lieve that the party part to which he te belongs is the alpha and the omega of ot political wisdom and he ho will come nearer fighting lighting for or that than for anything else He Ho cant can't laugh because it Is no joke jolce to him And he will lose arguments because he has no sense of oC humor But the politician with a smile smite even en for his bitterest opponents robs their shafts of all sting and turns their attacks to o deferential suggestions Grants Grant's first vice- vice President Schuyler Colfax was famous for his smile They used to call him Colfax In derision until he won with his smiles his ts wa way to an enduring place Inthe in inthe inthe the nation It Is a a. l good thing In business People who are spendIng spending spend spend- ing mone money are arc a n little lilUe inclined to be bo Irritable They hate to let ht go If a salesman or a l merchant cross them with tempered ill-tempered or dictatorial manner they are arc in a ai l i 1 rA yin will not buy b Y anything in If t that 1 t I tile they starve i nd the they will never com I back again You have seen them Maybe you OU have ha seen one of thc them In a n. mirror But the cleric clerk with a a. smile the salesman with a n. laugh augh will smooth even the most glaring difficulty make the thc sale get th the mone money and pin a n. customer to him for forth forth th rest of his life Ue Maybe the hardest thing In the world is to talk re reA religion re- re A ligion and smile Some Somo people think religion Is a a. very serious erious and and gloomy gloom subject In spite of oC the fact that all religion is supposed to be a n. means for t the greatest I and most permanent happiness possible adherents are 1 prone to glower over it to take talce Instant and mortal offense offense of ot- when any anyone one attacks their religion and to cherish 2 an nn antipathy in their hearts for the offender through all allI I t time c. c And yet the men with the smile running side b by side Eldo with the stated staled tenets of oC their faith are the men J who who win Naturally one likes cs to feel Ceel kindly to any Influence which seems to have a tendency to make other men kindly Laugh if you OU can Cultivate the habit of oC looking on the tho bright side Above all things learn to l keep your our temper while you argue You will get into a bad quarrel i If YOU you don't dont and dont and the other party part to the quarrel is as Imprudent as yourself You will win It and think better of r yourself and ancl better of the man you OU have overcome if ir you ou c can n laugh while you OU are doing it Besides It ii is excellent mental practice To laugh on one must have something to laugh at That means one must think One can not be he dull and bright at tho the same sam time One can not get weapons weapons for argument without mental activity Laugh h It I is an evidence of or strength of confidence g o of self centre Laugh It convinces the opposition more mor than an anything else in the tOe world that you are in perI per per- I feet command of all you OU need need and and that is Ig ever a an element of discouragement ement for tho the man with whom yo you oU ai are e contending |