Cheerfulness as a Life Power - Orison Swett Marden

I.	What Vanderbilt paid for Twelve Laughs	[7]
	The Laugh Cure	[9]
	A Cheap Medicine	[13]
	Why don't you Laugh?	[14]
II.	The Cure for Americanitis	[16]
	A Worrying Woman	[19]
	Our Hawaiian Paradise	[22]
	A Weather Breeder	[24]
	"What is an Optimist?	[27]
	Living up Thanksgiving Avenue	[29]
III.	Oiling your Business Machinery	[31]
	Singing at your Work	[33]
	Good Humor	[35]
	"Le Diable est Mort"	[38]
IV.	Taking your Fun Every Day as you do your Work	[42]
	Unworked Joy Mines	[44]
	The Queen of the World	[45]
V.	Finding what you do not seek	[51]
	Charles Lamb	[53]
	John B. Gough	[55]
	Phillips Brooks	[60]
VI.	"Looking Pleasant"—A Thing to be worked from the Inside	[64]
	Worth Five Hundred Dollars	[66]
	The "Don't Worry" Society	[67]
	A Pleasure Book	[69]
VII.	The Sunshine-Man	[73]

CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER.

I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.

William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the city at the time, to give a private recital on board his yacht, lying in the Bosphorus. Coquelin spoke three of his monologues. A few days afterwards Coquelin received the following memorandum from the millionaire:—

"You have brought tears to our eyes and laughter to our hearts. Since all philosophers are agreed that laughing is preferable to weeping, your account with me stands thus:—

"For tears, six times	$600
"For laughter, twelve times	2,400
	————
	$3,000

"Kindly acknowledge receipt of enclosed check."

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CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER.

I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.