Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Easily Satisfied. [ARTICLE]

Easily Satisfied.

“Money, my dear young friend,” said an elderly adviser, “doesn’t alone bring happiness in this world. ” “I know it doesn’t, sir,” responded the young man, frankly. “It only brings terrapin, and small bottles, and trips to Europe, and canvas-backs, and lying abed late in the mornings, and taking tailor-made girls to the opera nights, and all that sort of grief and misery. Give me a contented mind and, say, $20,000 a year, and somebody else can have the money,” he concluded, with fine scorn — Life. In the thirteenth century Pope Honorius Ilf., in order to conceal a disfigured lip, allowed his beard to grow, and inaugurated anew the fashion, which became prevalent in Europe in the age of Francis I. The right of the clergy to wear their beards was then again disputed. In 1561 the College of Sorbonne decided that a beard was contrary to sacerdotal modesty.