Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — Search for Happiness. [ARTICLE]

Search for Happiness.

A wealthy epicure applied to an Arabian doctor for a prescription that would restore his body to health and give happiness to his mind. The physician advised him to exchange shirts with a man who was perfectly contented with his lot, whereupon the patient set out on a journey in pursuit of such a person. After many months spent without accomplishing his object., he was told of a certain cobbler of whom every one had spoken as a model .of contentment and happiness. Pursuing the direction given, the traveler was at length rewarded with the sight of the cobbler enjoying a comfortable nap on a board. Without ceremony he was aroused from his slumbers, aud the important interrogatory, whether he was contented with his lot, was answered in the affirmative. "Theu,” said the seeker after happiness, “ I have one small boon to ask at your hands. It is that you exchange shirts with me, that by this meaus, I also may become contented and happy.” “ Most gladly would I accede to your Tequest.” replied the cobbler, “ but— ’ “ Nay, refuse me not,” interrupted tho man of wealth; “any sum that thou rnayst name shall be thine.” “ I seek not thy wealth,” said tho cobbler, “ but—but—” B Tins wKof * The truth is— l have no shirt”