A patient writes: “I used to seem cheerful, and people often remarked it; but my husband would look sad, and tell me he feared I did not feel it; which was true. But now it does me good to take a hearty laugh. Every one I meet says, ‘How well you are looking.’ I tell them it is the Compound Oxygen rebuilding me.... I can scarcely believe myself to be the same miserable little woman I once was.” “VICTORY!” Under this caption, a gentleman in Iowa, who had procured the Compound Oxygen Treatment for his wife, writes: “I am surprised at finding her so much improved in health. When she began using the Oxygen she could not sit up more than four hours at a time. Could not walk a quarter of a mile. Improved from the first inhalation, and now, having used the Treatment for six weeks, does considerable work around the house, and can walk two miles and not be tired. Raises no more bloody matter. No cough. Sleeps and eats well. All that I can say is, ‘Thank God, and Drs. Starkey & Palen.’”

Forced Cheerfulness Monologue from The Rising of the Moon

Rehearse Forced Cheerfulness's monologue