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Show I TEARS BEFORE SMILES. The average baby learns to cry before be-fore it can laugh. Tears may be ehed I as early as ths twenty-second day, according ac-cording to Dr. John S. Huber, New j York (physician, who has noted the high spots of a dawning life in his book, "Why Die So Young " But not until the twenty-sixth day does baby smile! Tears come easier than smiles. That, however, isn t true only of babies. ba-bies. The average adult finds the road to tears Bhorter than the pathway to smiles. Why? Because the world has more woo than Joy? More discord than happl ness? More pain than pleasure? Surely not! But it is that the average human J animal is more inclined to share his i i troubles than his delights. He walls I loudly and laughs inaudlbly. I And why does he do this'' Selfish- j ness, of course. The baby, being a human, takes its share of human assets and human lia i bHltie8, smiles and toars. It has fol -. I lowed generations of humans who j have frowned oftener than they have H smiled. Therefore, it la to be expect- H ed that baby would exhibit tears be 'j for smiles. Would this be true, if for genera-lions genera-lions humans had laughed more often than they lamented? If they had revealed re-vealed smiles and concealed sorrows1 Don't you think that a few generations genera-tions of ean lily srullers would make it possible for hubio a few centuries henco to smile lone before their twen ty-sixth day? 00 |