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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 53.

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MARTHA E. WARNER

By Martha E. Warner

Smiling

MARTHA E. WARNER

I ONCE knew a girl who wore a smile upon all occasions; it was “perpetual.” Her mother spoke of it as “Maud’s sunny smile,” but the neighbors called it “Maud’s perpetual grin.” Really, the girl looked silly.
One day, hearing a remark to that effect, she began to study how she could look happy, and not smile. In her study, she came across this from Henry Ward Beecher:—“A smile is a light in the windows of the face, by which the heart signifies it is at home and waiting. Laughter is day, sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both—more bewitching than either.”
Today it is a pleasure to see the smile that lights the windows of that young girl's face. So I would say to the young, If you want the corners of your mouth to incline up instead of down, cultivate a pleasant expression, have happy thoughts. Don’t grin.
Clintonville, Conn.