Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1917 — MOST POWERFUL OF DRUGS [ARTICLE]

MOST POWERFUL OF DRUGS

Of Course It Is Contagious, but It May Be Taken Often and in Any Quantity. The most powerful drug of all and one whose potency and habit-forming tendency give it the highest value, is happiness. This may be taken as often as it can be obtained and in any quantity. It is highly contagious and can be relied on to spread through any number of people the moment it is really started. There are forms of It without number and all of them help. Some people, however distrust even this wonderful discovery, remarks the Christian Register, saying that it is too good to be true. They are the people who think no medicine can be good for much unless it is bitter. It is hard to make happiness effective among these people, because their trouble Is ancestral. The puritans so often made virtue hateful and goodness somber and put bo much or tbeir religion into their harshness that wherever there is puritan blood any dose of happiness hardly gets assimilated. But cleverly managed and disguised with wholesome additions of duty or distraction, happiness may almost always be administered. It is most powerful in its effects upon the giver, having a quality unknown in any other therapeutics of doing more good to the one who gave it than to the one who takes it.