Show THE WORTH OF it A SMILE little jimmy godfrey aged thir teen een climbed a tree out in kansas city to gather walnuts he came I 1 in in contact with an electric wire one side of his face was burned leaving an ugly sear scar A damage suit against the power and light company was instituted on jimmys behalf the chief element of damage about which the claim centered was that jimmy 1 had lost his youthful I smile on the witness stand jimmy was asked to try to smile the only result was a puckering of the lips and a melan holy drawing of the face A physician that the smile muscle in ills cheek had been bound by the scarred tissue above the jury promptly returned a verdict giving jimmy that Ie becomes comes the i officially fixed value ot of a smile moral if a smile is worth when you lose it it is worth when you use it the world Is full of stray godfreys godfreyh God freys some ot of am m little chaps like hini him some of ern em big grownup grown up folks some of em are like jimmy used to be with a warming cheering helpful smile that makes life happier tor for everybody in it some of em are lika jimmy is now sile muscle always gone instead a deep dark foreboding frown that makes the world a little darker and a little gloomier for all who come in contact with them they paid jimmy to cona c om i him for ills his loss ills his li loss do you get that lt 15 i other words important as jimmys smile was to others it was most important ot of all a to him it if all the smile muscles in the and were electrocutes electrocute and all the radiance went out or tile tiie faces of hose you know them who help us burn urn the dark clouds inside out all he be gold in the woric borla shiri bright enough to make a i ing light grand rapids herald |