Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1915 — THOSE THAT ARE BORN TIRED [ARTICLE]

THOSE THAT ARE BORN TIRED

World Has Different Ways of Looking at Them, According to Their Station in Life. Out of the words of some modern thinkers those who are “born tired” may find consolation. They are the victims of a malady as incurable as birth itself. Like many other ailments, and like certain crimes, it bears different names in different circles of society. He of low degree is the “incorrigible idler” of the police courts, the “Weary Willy” of the comic papers. More fortunate lotus eaters escape with an epithet; they pass for “dreamy” or “thoughtful" among their fellows —the delicious phrase “temperamental languor,” was recently coined anent an eminent specimen—and they acquire actual kudos instead of a “week’s hard'labor” for their lounging. They are commonly great readers, long sitters in armchairs under the light of green-shaded lamps, when it is assumed that they are revolving mighty matters. Often, indeed, they experience the exquisite pleasure of being begged to “stop working now” for their eyes’ or health’s sake, and Melanchthon himself. after days and nights of intense study, never rose from his bench more crampedly than they, for they are really tired. The world holds no such hero as he who, thus afflicted, conquers his very nature and works.