Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Mirth is Truly God’s Own Medicine [ARTICLE]

Mirth is Truly God’s Own Medicine

By R. W. REICH

Dr. Orison Swett Marden is perfectly right in saying that mirth is God’s medicine; but how about those to whom this is denied, those that live within the limits of privation and even at that do not really live but only exist? For those I do not believe there is any fun. When people battle with misfortune every day in the year, every day in their lives, how can they laugh in the face of fate and say, “We won’t concede that we are beaten ?” When everything looks dark in the future that is an impossibility. For some unfortunates the sun never shines. They are hu-

man machines and they drudge from morning till night and wear out their lives before their time. ' "7 7 And there are others less fortunate even than the human machines, those poor souls that lost their jobs because work is slacking and there is no bank roll to back them up. They do not feel like being cheerful about it. They have desperation written on their faces. And I am sorry to say that many of these have not the education or ability and perseverance to better their condition.