Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — Employment Essential to Happiness. [ARTICLE]

Employment Essential to Happiness.

It may be laid down as an incontrovertible principle that no family can be happy without employment—regular, diversified, continually recurring employment. There may be the possession of wealth, there may be an ample and beautiful domain, there may be everything externally tb enjoy, but unless there be an appropriate and varied employment to occupy the body, engross the mind, and awaken the energies, there cannot be happiness. It is the active, industrious, persevering family that is the truly happy family; not the idle, the slothful, the useless — not the family that has no definite plan, no fixed and important object, no personal and collective energy. f