New-York tribune. [volume], May 19, 1919, Page 7, Image 7

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FOR four long years tKe men and women of tKe
world Have gone about their daily tasks weighed
clown with ?fear.
Men have hated the summons of the telephone, the
message of the telegram; women have worked with
double intensity, first from a consuming eagerness to
win, and also because they knew that those who
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work the hardest have the least time in which to
dread.
From forty million homes the sons and brothers
and fathers have gone out to fight; and they who
stayed behind have known that millions of them
never could return. It has been for every land a Ions,
dark night of bitterness.
HERE IS THE MARVELOUS FACT?a fac?
that gives new cause for pride in this humanity
of which each one of us is part. Even in Us
darkest hour the world has never once forgotten how to smile.
From every corner of it, from papers and maga?
zines in every land and language, there has come
piercing through the blackness the blessed gleam
of mirth.
Mingled with the somber undertone of suffering,
the tinkle of fresh laughter still has lived. Men
have thrown themselves at death, with gladness on
their lips; and other men with heavy hearts have
hidden their grieving underneath a smile. ,
It will be an inspiring chapter In the history of
?the war?this miraculous power of men to lift their
load of bitterness with mirth.
It was the secret that carried Lincoln serene
through trials that would have crushed another man;
it is a secret that the million LITERARY DIGEST
readers have discovered and that other millions of
thoughtful men and women of America ought to
learn?
No single group of men provides the humor
that keeps the twinkle in the eyes of these million
men and women. Their laughter springs from the
four corners of the earth?from papers and periodi?
cals of every clime and tongue, which each week
And yet?
are read and drawn upon to fill the teeming pages of
THE LITERARY DIGEST,
This ** Digested ** humor has so caught the popular
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der the title *'Topics of the Day Selected from the
Press of the World by THE LITERARY DIGEST.0
No doubt you have seen these "Topics** and you
know that they are one of the most popular of the
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While DIGEST readers laugh at the cartoons,
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They are the men and women in every company who
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You may know them by their breadth of under?
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They have weighed the world, with all its prob?
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its responsibilities, they still have kept the good secret
of Lincoln's strength?the fine capacity to laugh.
Why not join this chosen company to-day?this
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