Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — AWAY WITH ALL GROUCHES [ARTICLE]

AWAY WITH ALL GROUCHES

Mr. Bl Inkinton's Great Scheme Would Make World a “Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever." “I have long meditated,” said Mr. Blinkinton, “a plan for canning, bottling or otherwise storing good humor, high spirits, cheerfulness. “We say of some chap we know that he fairly bubbles over wjth good humor. In fact I find myself as a rule In that happy condition. Just to be alive is a joy to I am likely most any time to find myself humming a tune or whistling softly, just overflowing with cheerfulness, good spirits, good humor. So with me as a rule; but — t “There are times even with me when I don’t feel that way at all; when things look far from rosy; indeed I fancy there are very few people, however cheerful they may be constitutionally, who do not feel blup occasionally; and what I would like to do would be to be able in, some way to store up some of my excess cheerfulness so that I could keep a stock of it by me, and thus be able When I needed it to open up a can or bottle of same to uplift me and tide me over to my more commonly accustomed state of natural cheerfulness. "We could use it not only to help Ourselves over periods of depression, but we could use it also to help other people. "You take the grouchy man in the office who makes everybody around him uncomfortable. Now, suppose that when he came into the office in the morning and began to spread his gloom—Just suppose I could pull out a drawer in my desk and reach in and uncork a bottle and liberate a spirit that would permeate the Mr, that would charge the atmosphere with t£ cheerfulness so potent that it would fairly change the grouchy man into a man of good humor! “My goodness! When I think of the benefit that that use of it would be to the world at large I feel I must not fall to find a way. In fact I think I can safely promise that Bllnkinton’s Condensed Good Humor, either in can or in bottle form, will be foufid in the market in the not-far-distant future."