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Show ' JUST LAUGH " There's an inexpensive recipe for curing sundry ills, , .,,','. Such as gout and Indigestion bullous- fever and tho .chills, Which tho family physician ' ' v " ' ! t 'IX Would ascribe to .malnutrition . And attack with drugc nnd physic hnd' with medicated pills. . You'd be astonished, really at thP benefit It yields Simply mix h llttlo merriment and.. laughter with your meals. It doesn't matter greatly what you drink or what you eat You can feed on roastod chicken or tho toughest cuts ot meat. If you don't believe It, try It, Mingle laughter with your diet And your' gastronomic functions! would digest a rubber sheet; For the pancreatic organs do their,. work with double zest If you in'ttcrsper8e the menu with a Jolly little Jest. If tho biscuit should be over weight, an ounce or two to, spare ! Don't gulp It down in silence With a cold and stony glare Dut use a lot ot butter And laugh instend of mutter, And, tho stomach will receive It like tho daintiest of fare. The gastric Juice will Jump. &X It as It it werq augel food, If you only masticate It to 'tjheir6per kind of mood. . . ' ' You may ho doing penance as a Horace Fletcherlte (; ' ; And chewing fifty-seven ,'tlmes each morsel that you bite, nut however much you chew It,. O, bo Joyful as you do It And give a happy chuckle as it passes pass-es out of sight. You might chew your food forever with a sour and gloomy mien, And tho Fletcherlstlc doctrine would not rectify your spleen. Harper's Monthly. |