Volume 10 / Part 1 — IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY[5]
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IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY[5]
By Tom Masson
She is so gay, so very gay, And not by fits and starts, But ever, through each livelong day She's sunshine to all hearts. A tonic is her merry laugh! So wondrous is her power That listening grief would stop and chaff With her from hour to hour. Disease before that cheery smile Grows dim, begins to fade. A Christian scientist, meanwhile, Is this delightful maid. And who would not throw off dull care And be like unto her, When happiness brings, as her share, One hundred dollars per ——?