Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1918 — SIMPLE THINGS WORTH WHILE [ARTICLE]

SIMPLE THINGS WORTH WHILE

Many Make Mistake of Thinking Happiness Comes Only From Material or Outward Conditions. 'Why should you care to be pestered with a large bank account or distressed by a house full of servants? asks the Albuquerque Evening Herald, which adds: Adam and Eve had neither of these and they called their place -of abode Paradise. Few people have learned the secret of living well. Too many think it depends almost wholly on the condition of the pocketbook. This Is most certainly a mistake. Happiness is not born of material or outward conditions. It is largely the result of a purely mental process. Amid the duller threads of duty it Is well to weave one bright strand of desires —it is well to .mix a little sunshine with your daily food. You can soften the sound of cab and car in the stony street by calling to memory a bird's song heard in the fields on a summer afternoon in childhood. It is sweeter to your soul —if you have one—than is the railroad that you own yourself. Take a day off and go out to some cemetery where you may reflect on the brevity of life and the insufficiency of things pertaining to the pocketbook. It is better that you go before it comes your turn to ride out there in the big plumed car that never hauls its load back again. Don’t wait until you own your private automobile, but go while you are able to walk and to think. From the dead you may learn much of life. Scan all the virtues ihscribed upon all the headstones by loving hands —and among them all yon will not find recorded the possession of a million dollars or a dockedtall horse or a brownstone palace or a 12-cyllnder car or a “handsome" w’ardrobe. No! The headstopes usually tell .you only of those things worth while.