Cheerfulness

CHEERFULNESS.

There is nothing better established among physicians than that cheerfulness prolongs life, and also enriches and enlarges it. Wholesouled, joyous laughter is a powerful health tonic. "There is no one remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body," says an eminent physician, "that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by a good hearty laugh." Laughter stimulates the digestive process, accelerates the respiration, and gives a warm glow to the whole system. It brightens the eye, expands the chest, forces the poison out from the least-used lung cells, and fills them with life-giving oxygen, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health. It is said that Lycurgus set up the god of laughter in the Spartan eating halls. If there is anything the American people need to learn, it is to laugh at meals. There is no table-sauce like it. It is the great enemy of dyspepsia. Success.