Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — FINDING PLEASURE IN WORK [ARTICLE]

FINDING PLEASURE IN WORK

Quite Possible for Anyone to Get All Needed Amusement From EveryDay Occupation. Of course we are entitled to ft And we should take great pains to secure the fullest measure of it. So much may be taken for granted; the Important question is, when and where shall we find pleasure? Sir Walter Bagehot gave his opinion that “Business is so much more amusing than pleasure.” I suppose he meant that a man who is In love with his work will get more real “fun” out of It than was ever gathered In so-called “places of amusement.” Many of our pleasures do little more for us than kill time. They do not kill care, for It comes back again the next morning. He is a wise man who more and more learns to get his amusement out of the serious work he is doing. Then if he takes an occasional hour or day for sport or the “passing show,” he will come back to his real task In life to find his real entertainment. The other day I heard a scrub-woman singing at her work. I prefer to think that she sang because she was having a good time. At any rate, what finer art than that of having a good time in the thing which one has to do? Immensely wiser and more profoundly philosophical than the practice of planning for the good time afterward.—George Clarke Peck.