Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1911 — KEEP PINK LAMPS LIGHTED [ARTICLE]

KEEP PINK LAMPS LIGHTED

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett on Cheerfulness —Greatest of Qualities Except Love. Boston. —"Forget your devils and keep your pink lamps lighted. A pink lamp always makes everything look lovely. I am the disciple of happiness. Be happy and you will be good. Unhappiness is the world’s greatest evil. Unhappiness Is indecent.’’ So said Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burness,'the novelist, In talking her religion of cheerfulness. "Cheerfulness,” she said, “is the religion of which I am the apostle. It is the greatest of qualities except love. Love Is the biggest thing In the world. “People should forget their devils and keep their pink lamps lighted. That Is a little word among my friends. So we’ll tell each other all the nice thlngß whenever we can. You must sacrifice everything to happiness. If you are happy you know you are bound to be good, for you can’t be happy unless you are good. “People who believe in an Inferno for evildoers do not belong to this age. They don’t belong to the time

when people walk on two legs. They ought to go back to the days when the men on earth went about on all fours. “There’s fine power In suggestion. Just keep thinking lovely things about your personal devil and you’ll come out all right Every time your belief in a devil gets uppermost in your mind, why, say there Is none, and keep repeating it You will find it a splendid practice and you will Boon convince yourself." Mrs. Burnett then digressed to fcersonal habits and said, on the subject of cigarette smoking by women, that the question was a personal one, and each woman must decide for herself whether she wished to smoke.