Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — FEW PERSONS REALLY HAPPY [ARTICLE]

FEW PERSONS REALLY HAPPY

Whatever the Cause, the Great Major* | Ry of People Fall to Make the Best of Their Llv«s. The other night we chanced to ask an eminent physician of New York city £ h!“ opinion ns to the number of people who were truly happy. His rather, dogmatic reply was: “About one in a hundred.” And this was not the opinion of a pessimist, but of a most radical OP* < Umlst. We wonder if this opinion is shared by others. It does not mean, of Course, that ninety-nine people out of a hundred are deeply unhappy—that would be absurd. But there is no doubt that > a great many people are quite unhappy a good deal of the time, perhaps not half th? time, but enough rather tocloud their lives. We should like to know the opinion of physicians generally. More and more people go to the doctors to tell them their troubles. The physician of today takes the place of the confess 1 sional of yesterday. Then, too, there is the new application of psychology to the field of medicine—the so-called psycho-analysis, which is so rapidly taking its place as an important' part, Bterally, of the medical pharmacopeia. This new science has given a wonderful insight ( into our subconscious selves and reveals how far that subconscious self really dominates our lives and determines tlfe. amount of happiness which we really get out of this confused writer of existence. —New York Tribune.