Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Week-End in Bed. [ARTICLE]

Week-End in Bed.

A philosopher in London Opinion has some views on warm-weather comfort and happiness that are hot altogether new but are well worth considering, even on this side pf the Atlantic. His view of happiness, or rather of comfort, is to retire to rest on a Friday night and get up on Monday afternoon. He regards the idea as restful and economical, but finds that the household government prevents putting it in practice. “Sloth,” he says, “we are told in the copybooks, is vicious, and a moralist has declared that what maintains one vice could bring up two children. I don r t want to bring up two children,” declares this lazy philosopher, “but it is pleasant to maintain one vice. Nearly all the worries of life arise from the imitative faculty. If duchesses suddenly developed a taste for breaking coal with a hammer, the assistants in drape shops would immediately want to do the same—not because they enjoyed breaking coal with a hammer but because it was ‘the thing’ ”