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V. ; dlATvLOTTE DAILY OEoEItVER, 10, 1C31 - Xi ii- SIMPLE, 1 LIFE By CHARLES WaQNBR TraasJatcJ from the,nwnch I Author of m. Better Tt,ay,". Mary EjouIsc Uowltse, v,j-ii nd,Bjr,tli flreildo.",, ; COFXniCHT, McCLU HE. fHILIPS CO. ". ' , SIMPLE NEEDS. . . th, fancier. w cannot oe - saiea. in ;2 wStS' ' loft!r n10' Enunciation. nnd matt tell lit oricny u "v ,. -,.,.. . (flesh, crush ttlelr' bones, suck tbelr otpotUf ana cannot be - satea. This Is contemporaries, and' Hstn' o their talk..! find myse!f unhappily, confirm 4 Jn the opinion that they do not get much -pleasure out of thing. -Ana cer tainly, it ti not from Uck of trying; but it must bo acknowledged that their success la metfr. Where can the fault Borne accuse oolitic or business; oth ers social problem or militarism. Wo meat only. an. embarrassment -of chotco when wo start to unstring tn cnepiei of our carking cares... Suppose we set out in pursuit of pleasure.- There ns too much pepper in our soup to maae u palatable. Our arms are filled with', a r multitude of embarrassments, any one assary for our new ihe whole thing hygiene. : t tn mm no the necet' Hue of most men, a few csncise.ittHW would answer. Their w.. PJJ sral of supreme simplicity. Eng as they follow U, weU g them. as with every obedient chihiof UotMr Nature. lt them depart from ir mr,iirtkna arise, health riaus, gevety vanishes,; Only simple u.. kMn t body In. full , a remembering this be aic principle, wofall into the Strang. . W hat material thing doe a man need ' n,w h h-st conditions? A . healthful dietv ainiplo olothlngv ajwttf. .. j-.iun.oiiir- .lr and exercise. I amfnot going to enter into hygienic details. ; composer ttemis. or " model tenement and dree reform. My aim. U to point out direction and teu what advantage would come to each of . us. from ordering hi nja 80 St BtmpUclty. To know that thia spirit dot not ruie in our vtw , but watch the Uvea of men of ail da.eea. -Aak different people, of very Uke aurroundmgv thie question. viit do you need to live? You will , . h tkn rttnoiii Nothing is more InstrucUve. For some aborlgln- ik. ttariiiiin. unnhuit. there la nc life possible outside a region bounded . b certain boulevards There one finds the resptrs-ow air; ine iununui.g rerml heat, claasio cookery, and, in : without wblch it -would not be worth the while to . promenaae wiis . On the various rungs of the bour geeis Udder people reply to the ques tlon.wht la necessary to live? by figures -varying with the degree ot their ambition or education: and by ducatlon"ia"-oftenest understood the 'outward customs of life, the style of house, drees, table an education pre cisely akin-deep. Upward from a cer tm Income, fee, or salary, life be- cornea possible: below that it Is impos ' olMo.' ' we hav seen men commit sui cide because their means had fallen un der a certain minimum. They prefer x& to disappear rather , than retrench. Obserye that this minimum, the cause - of their despair, would have been suf ficient for others of-lew exacting needs, auid enviable to men whose tastes are inodeet. On , lofty mounUlns vegetation changes with the altitude. There Is the region of ordinary flora, that of the forests, that Of pastures, that of bare rocka nd -glaciera. Above a certain one wheat is no longer found, but the vine '-till -prospers. The oak ceases in . th low regions, the pine flourishes at considerable heights. Human life, with its needs, reminds one of these phenomena of vegetation. At (Certain altitude of fortune the - financier thieves, the clubman, the so- ' ciety woman, all those in short for i whom the strictly necessary includes a 1 ' certain number of domestics and equip ages, as well as several town and country houses. Further on flourishes , " the rich upper middle class, with its own standards and life. In other re gions wo And men of ample, moderate, or. small means, and very unlike ex igencies. Then cojno the people arti sans, day-laborers, peasants, in short, ' the masses, who live dense and ser ried like the thick, sturdy growths on - the summits of the mountains, where the larger vegetation caji no longer i find nouriahment. In all these differ ent regions of society men live, and no matter In which particular regions they 1 flourish, all are alike human beings, bearing the same mark. How strange that among fellows there should bo nirh i nrndlTiouB difference in re- ' - uirements! And here the analogies of our comparison fail us. Plants and animals of the same families have Identical wants. In human life we ob- ' serve quite the contrary. What con clusion shall we draw from this, if not that with us there is a consider' ' avblo elasticity In the nature and num 1 . :tpr f needs? ' fs.lt well. Is it favorable to the de- 'Vfejopment of the Individual and hi happiness, and to the development and happiness of society, that man should . have multitude o needs, and bend Us energies to their satisfaction? Let ' us return for a moment to our c-omparl-son with' inferior beings. Provided .that their essential wants are satisfied, 'i they live content. Is this. true of men? "No. In all classes of society we And 1 discontent. I leave completely out of the question those who lack the neces sities of life. One cannot with Justice . -count in the number of mal-contents , those from whom hunger, cold, and ,' misery wring complaints. I am con sidering now that multitude of peo ple who live under conditions at least -supportable. Whence comes their heart-burning? Why is it found not only among those of modest though ; 'sufficient means, but also under shades of ever-increasing refinement, all along ,- ' the-ascending scale, even to opulence - and the summits of social place? They talk of the contented middle classes. V"vVho talk of them? People who, Judg ing from without, think that as soon , ope begins to enjoy ease he ought '' 4 M satisfied. But the middle classes ' ? themselves do they .consider them--selves satisfied? Not the least in the j 7 world. ' If there are people, at once rich -na -coBieni, w assured mat mey are ; content because, they know how to be ' - so, not because they are rich. An anl - f mal is satisfied when it has eaten; It k lies, down, and sleeps. A man also can k .""lie. down and sleep for a time, but it , ever lasts. When he becomes accus V tomed to his contentments, he tirea of ' it and demands greater. Man's appe- .tits-iS'not -appeased --by food: it in creases with eating. This may seem absurd, but it is strictly true. . ' And the fact that those who make the most outcry are almost alwaya those -( who should find the best reasons for contentment, proves unquestionably , that happiness Is not allied to the num- br ofi our meed and th seal we put Into their cultivation. It is for every pone's interest to Met , this truth sink deep Into his mind. If it does . not, lf he does not"by decisive action suir ceed In limiting his needs,-he rfeks ft OI W ,1 It: II WUU1U V VUVIII M ww. pensioner, no, ,.,T i Kl.ri .wl itemoer. From . morning till night. in ; don ooms-of the truths thfttround fnhereter w. go. the people we meet Has arunkenness. inventive as It' la have sollt their good blood In the mis-1 or. new drinks, found ths means of erable conflicts of petty politics; others, quenching thirst? Not at all. It might iare disheartened by the meanness and; rather, be called the Art of making jealousy they have encountered in the, thirst inextinguishable. Frank liber- world of literature or art.1 Commer-J ttnage, does It deaden the sting of 'cai competition troubles the sleep ofi enaeer, sso;, n enyenoms n, converts ; njt a few. The crowdea curricula oi natural aesire mto.a moroia oosession ;BtUdy and the exigencies of their opsn and makes It the dominant passion. w career spoil life for young men. T -t- rMts nsaa wnU van Ne eve rut Vtaam V ' r . . . Lot, your needs rule you. pamper them you will see them multiply like in sects in the sun. The more you give them, the more they, demand. He is The workinar classes suffer the conse quenoes of a ceaseless Industrial strug gle. It is becoming disagreeable to aemuna. no . ...c i. jii.i.k. senseless who seeks for happlnes in!fve"- TS material prosperity alone. As well !; t0 ""v becu" T.ffjff M? LI ,! undertak. to fill the ra.k of the Can. ilsbing. Wherever one turns there to aides. To those who have millions. matter for discontent. millions are wanting; to those who And yet history shows us certain have thousands, thousands. Others ' epochs of upheaval which were ae lack lack a twenty-franc piece or a hun-jing in Idyllic tranquillity as Is our own, dred sous. When they have a chicken but which the gravest events did not in the pot, they ask for a goose; when !DreVent from being gay. It even seems they have the goose, they wish It were ;; Jf tn ierlou,nMS of affairs, the un ? urky- "l.8.L.on- WAhaIl certainty of the morrow, the violence "r" "w i1""' inucii-jr im. Jiren . , . , ,,. are too many humble people who -wish to Imitate the great, too many poor worklngmen who ape the well-to-do middle classes, too many shop-girls who play at being ladles, too many clerks who act the club man or sports man: and among those In easy circum stances and the rich, are too many people who forget that what they pos sess could serve a better purpose than procuring pleasure for themselves, of social convulsions, sometimes became a new source of vitality. It Is not a rare thing to hear soldiers singing be tween two battles, and I think myself nowise mistaken tn saying that human Joy has celebrated its finest triumphs under the greatest tests of endurance. But to sleep peacefully on the eve of battle or to exult at the stake, men had then the stimulus of an Internal har- j- ivui t"m yissuiv ivi viiciimm , . . . T only to find in the end that one never nonjr wn,ch w P'P lack- ?oy has enough. Our needs. In place of the servants that they should be, have be come a turbulent and seditious crowd, a legion of tyrants in miniature. A not in things, it Is In us, and I hold to the belief that the causes of our present unrest, of this contagious dis content spreading everywhere, are In man enslaved to hla needs may beat be!,,, . isat as much as in exterior con- compared to a bear with a ring tn j dltlono nose, that is led about and made to, T J . ,f heartlly to di- dance at will.. The likeness is not . " ... . v... .. . .v.. .. version one must feel himself on a true It 'li Tin the train of thir own10'"1 basl8- must blleve ,n ,lfe and And pleasure-seekers forage in this delicate needs that so many of those men, are! It within him. And here lies our weak- domain like a wild boar In a garden. No dragged along who rant for liberty, ness. So many of us even, alas! the one seems to aoubt the immense numan progress, and I don't know what else. They cannot take a step without ask ing themselves if it might not irritate .- ' .WiBolCardu4l and daughters of two generations. It cured womew seyepty-flye yesxs s.v It . is curing women today of uob troubles - as disordare4 peiiodfl, : beailng dc pain, ; lnflammatioQ of the parts, nerrousnesa and weaknesses of all kinds peculiar to, the ex.' ,-. - - . ' Wine of Cardul smoothes the path of girlhood pmeoting MTere trouble at the oomlng of womanhood-, by correctly establishing the fuictloB so necessary, to womanly health.- As an emenaaroeue it is the support of a woman through life, preparing her for the ordeal ' t of cbuaitlrth ana ensuring her a quick recorery oi aer surengu wnjcans necessary to motherhood. "Wine ' - -of Cardul taken periodically will dispel attacks of weakness, and at the time when her health is menaced at the ' v s changeof We it will ensure a healthy old age. WwWR : This great tonic for women is within the reach of every sufferer. There is no expense of a . specialist attached to the treatment. Secure a dollar bottle from your druggist today and you can get the same grateful relief that over 1,500,000 other suffering women have eecured. Your druggist will sell you the same medicine that has been curing grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters for seyenty-five years. Here are a few of the 1,500,000 cured women who owe health and in some instances life itself to Wine Of Cardui. Beading this list should induce every sufferer to take Wine of Cardul. . UBS. CHARLES MASON, Vice-President, Mothers' Club, Houston, Tex. IC&a. L. M. THOMPSON, Director, Beethoven Musical Society, 1469 Second St., Louisville, Ky. MBS. CLARA SMITH, Tho Shskespere, Phoenix, Aril. MBS. LIZZIE H. THOMPSON, 85 West 88th Bt, New York City. MBS. FREDERICK NIRDLINGER, 886 Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. MBS. A. S. SCOTT, 7364i South Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal. Could you ask for a greater assurance of health than this record guarantees f Begin the treatment today. ta-tt-l-SdHftj oorted for the occasion, to civilise these rustics and give them a taste of refined pleasures. For drinks, liquors mixed with brandy or absinthe: In the. whole thing neither originality nor plctures- queness. License, inaeea, ana ciown ishness, but not that abandon which in genuous Joy brings in its train. This question of pleasure Is capital. Staid people generally neglect It as a frivolity; utilitarians, as a costly super fluity. These whom we designate as younger men are at variance with life; Interest attached to Joy. It is a sacred ures. iness and distresses upon the people we meet socially? May we not forget for an hour our-pretenslons, Our strife, our distributions Into sets and cliques In short, our "parts," and become as chil dren once more, to laugh again that good laugh which does so much to make the world better? Hera I feel drawn to speak of some thing very particular, and In so doing to offer my well-disposed readers an opportunity to go about a splendid business. I -want to call their atten tion to several classes of people seldom thought of with reference to their pleas- and I do not speak of philosophers nnlv. How do vnu think a man can be their masters. How many men aTidlamUge(j wnile he has his doubts wheth er after all life is worth living? Be sides this, one observes a disquieting depression of vital force, which must along the decUrlty of deslreu He who lives to eat, drink,: roleep. dress, take his walk, in short, pamper rumself al) that he can be it the cour tier basking in the sun. the drunken laborer, the commoner serving rs bel ly, the woman absorbed In her to.iettes, tve profligate of low estate or high, or :;ply the ordinary pleasure-lover,' a ' f ood fellow," but top obedient to ma 1 . is! needs that man or woman is on downward way of desire, and the - vert is fata.!. Thoie jw-ho follow it ' -v the same- laws as a body on an 1 ".ed plane. Dupes of an. Illusion i"vf.r repeated they think: 'Just a " st-ps more, the last.--toward the - r down- there that we covet; ; then - ' v.!.i unit." v- ro th 1 :-s able they are to .resist women have gone on and on, even to dishonesty, for the sole reason that they had too many needs and could not resign themselves to simple living? There are many guests in the cham bers of Mazas who could give us much light on the subject r of too exigent needs. , Let me tell you the story of an ex cellent-man whom I knew. He tender ly loved his wife and children, and they all lived together, In France, in comfort and plenty, but with little of tho luxury the wife coveted. Always short of money, though with a little management he might have been at ease, he ended by exiling himself to a distant colony, leaving his wire and children tn the mother country. I don't know how the poor man can reel off there; but his family has a finer apartment, more beautiful toil ettes, and what passes for an equip ige. At present they are perfectly con tented, but soon they will be used to this , luxury rudimentary after all. Then Madam will find her furniture common and her equipage mean. If this man loves his wife and that can not be doubted he will migrate to the moon if there is hope of a larger stipend. ' In other -cases the roles are reversed, and the wife and children are sacrificed to the ravenous needs -of the head of the family, whom an irreg ular ute, play, and countless other costly follies have robbed of all dig nity. Between his appetites and his role of father he has decided for the former, and he slowly drifts toward the most abject egoism. . This forgetfulness of all responslbll- 'ty, this gradual benumbing of noble reeling, is not alone to be found among pleasure-seekers of the upper class: the People also are infected. I know more than one little household, which ought to be happy, where the mother has only pain and heartache day and night, the Children are barefoot, and there Is ?reat ado for bread. Why? Because too much money is needed by the fath ?r. To speak only of the expendi ture for alcohol, everybody knows the proportions that ..has reached In the last twenty years. The sums swal 'owed up in this gulf are fabulous 'wlce the indemnity of the war of 1870. How many legitimate needs .could have been satisfied with that which has been thrown away on these artificial ones! The reign of wants Is by no rans the "reign of brotherhood. The ne things a man desires for him ?eif, the less he can do for his neigh bor, and even for those attached to him by ties of blood. see The destruction of happiness, inde pendence, moral fineness, even of the sentiment of common interests such Is the result of the reign of needs. A multitude of other unfortunate things might be added, of which not the least is the disturbance of the public wel fare When society has too great needs, it is absorbed with the present, sacrifices to it the conquests of the past, immolates to It the future. After us the deluge! To raze the forests in order to get gold: to squander your patrimony In youth, destroying in a day the fruit of long years: to warm your house by burning your furniture; to burden the future with debts for the sake of present pleasure: to live by ex pedients and sow for the morrow trouble, sickness, ruin, envy and hate the enumeration of all the misdeeds of this fatal regime has no end. On the other hand. If we hold to simple needs we avoid all these evils and replace them by measureless good. That temperance and sobriety are the best guardians of health is an old story. They spare1 him who observes them many a misery that saddens ex istence; they insuW, him health. lovo of action, mental ' poise. Whether It be a question of food, dress, or dwell ing, simplicity of taste is also a source of independence and safety. The more simply you live, the more secure Is your f uture; you .are less at the mercy of sur prises and reverses. An illness or 'a period of idleness does not suffice to dispossess yeu: a change of position. flame that must be fed, and that throws It is understood that a broom serves are, so to put it, tied down. The world is full of men and women sacrificed to others, who never have either rest or pleasure, and to whom the least relaxa tlply anniversaries, family parties, an4 excursions. Let us raise good humor in our homes to the height of an insti tution. Let the schools, too. do their tion, the slightest respite, is a priceless part. Let masters and students school- good. And this minimum of comfort boys and college-boys meet together could be so easily found for them loftener for amusement. It will be so only we thought of it. But the broom, much the better for serious work. There you know, is made for sweeping, and is no such aid to understanding" one's it seems as thcugh it could not be fa- professor as to have laughed in his com tigued. Let us rid ourselves of this pany; and conversely, to be well under criminal blindness which prevents us stood a pupil must be met elsewhere from seeing the exhaustion of those who j than in class or examination, are always in the breach. Believe the And who will furnish the mohev? sentinels perishing at their posts, give Sisyphus an hour to breathe; take for a moment the place of the mother, a What a question! That is exactly the error. Pleasure and money: people take them for the two wlpgs of - the a splendid radiance over life. He who only to sweep, a watering-pot to water takes pains to foster It accomplishes a plants, a coffee-mill to grind coffee, and work as profitable for humanity as likewise it Is supposed that a nurse is with the sick. Young girl, tired some- he who builds bridges, pierces tunnels, designed only to care for the sick, a times perhaps of your walk with your slave to tne cares or her house ana eame bird! a gross illusion! Pleasure. her children; sacrifice an hour of our like all other truly precious things In sleep for someone worn by long vigils this world, cannot be bought or sold. If you wish to be amused, you must do or cultivates Ihe ground. So to order professor to teach, priest to preach. be attributed to the abuse man makes one's life as to keep, amid tolls am jbury, and confess, a sentinel to mount of bis sensations. Excess of all kinds j suffering, the faculty of happiness, and guard; and the conclusion is drawn that be able to propagate it in a sort of the people given up to tire more serious salutary contagion among one's fellow- business of life are dedicated to labor. men, is to do a work of fraternity in like the ox. Amusement Is Incompatl-! UIB UUUICBi BCIIBC. V (1 V. n. H ,. - ....... .'vn wv....,. "-I'-HB ...im has blurred our senses and poisoned our faculty for happiness. Human na ture succumbs under tho7 irregularities Imposed upon it. Deeply attainted at its root, the desire to live, persistent. In g'overness, take the cook's apron, and your part toward it; that is the essen tial. There is no prohibition against give her the key to the fields. You 'opening your purse. If you can do it, will at once make others happy and land find It desirable. But I assure you happy yourself. We go unconcernedly along beside our brothers who are bent under burdens we might take upon our it is not indispensable. Pleasure and simplicity are two .old acquaintances. Entertain simply, meet your friends pleasure, smooth an anxious brow, view still further, we think ourselves spite of everything,, seeks satisfaction bring" a little light into dark paths ; warranted in believing that the lnllrm, In cheats and baubles. In medical scl-jwhat a truly divine office In the midst the afflicted, the bankrupt, the van ence we have recourse to artificial res- of this poor humanity! But it Is onlyjquished in life's battle, and all those plration. artificial alimentation, and galvanism. So, too, around expiring pleasure, we see a crowd of its votaries. exerting themselves to reawaken It, to selves for a minute. And this dhort res- simply. If you come from work well pite would suffice to aoothe aches, re- done, are as amiable and genuine as vive the flame of Joy in many a heart, possible toward your companions, and and open up a wide place for brother- rpeak no evil of the absent, your suc- liness. How much better would one 'ess is sure. in great simplicity of heart that one who carry heavy burdens, are in the understand another ir lie knew how tD succeeds in filling it. jshade, like the northern slopes of put himself heartllv in that other s We are not simple enough to be hap- j mountains, and that it is so of neces- place ar)(J now mUlll ,ro, c pleasure py and to render others so. We lack sity. Whence the conclusion that seri- j thpi e' would hp in lifp' reanimate it. Most ingenious mums tne singleness or neart ana tne seir-jous peopie nave no neea ot pleasure, have been Invented; it can never be forgetfulness. We spread Joy, as we and that to offer It to them would be I said that expense has been spared. Ev- do consolation, by such methods as to 1 unseemly; while as to the afflicted, I have spoken too fuiiy elsewhere erythlng has been tried, the possible obtaip negative results. To console a there would be a lack of delicacy in of systematizing amusement fur the in tij. Imnni.lhl. Ri.f In oil Ih.x 1 n.nnn what Hn a-a Anf Wo est to hrpaklne- tho thr.nH nf (heir Hnr! merll- VOUIIS. to ietU!'!. to it here 111 detail. complicated alembics no one has ever work to dispute his suffering, persuade tations. It seems therefore to be un- But Iswish to say in substance what boys, and while the train was p"elJ arrived at distilling a drop of veritable ; him that he is mistaken in thinking derstood that certain persons are con- cannot be too often repeated: If you J";y we' l l that thif rrMn? Joy. We must not confound pleasure! himself unhappy. In reality, our lan- demned to be always serious, that we wish youth to be moral, do not neglect; "e l",i,""'J ine f " with the instruments of pleasure. To'guage translated into truUiful speech should approach them in a serious Its pleasures, or leave to change fhe be-a painter, does It suffice to arm one's would amount to this: "You suffer, my jframe of mind, and talk to them only task of providing them. You will per self with a brush, or does the purchase friend? That Is strange; you must be' of serious things: so, too, when we haps say that young people do not like t great cost of a Stjadlvarlus make .mistaken, for I feel nothing." As the visit the sick or unfortunate; we should to have their amusements submitted to only human means of soothing grief is leave our smiles at the door, compose regulations, ana mat Desiaes. in our to share it tn the heart, how must a our face and manner to dolefulness. day. they are already over-spoiled and sufferer feel, consoled In this fashion? and talk of anything heartrending, divert themselves only too much. I To divert our neighbor, make him Thus we carry darkness to those in shall reply, first, that one may suggest pass an agreeable hour, we set out In, darkness, shade to those In shade. We Ideas, Indicate directions, offer oppor the same way. We invite him to ad- increase the isolation of solitary lives tunities for amusement, without making mire our versatility, to laugh at our and the monotony of the dull and sad. any regulations whatever. In the sec wit, to frequent our house, to sit at We wall up some existences as it were ond place, I shall make you see that our table; through It all, our desire to , In dungeons; and because the grass you deceive yourselves in thinking shine breaks forth. Sometimes, also, grows round their deserted prison- youth has too much diversion. Aside with a patron's prodigality, we offer house, we speak low In approaching it. from amusements that are artificial, him the beneficence of a public enter- as though it were a tomb. Who sus- enervating and Immoral, that blight life talnment of our own choosing, unless pects the work of Infernal cruelty which instead of making it bloom in splendor, we ask him to find amusement at our is thus accomplished every day in the there are very few left to-day. Abuse, home, an we unmrtlmos rtn tn make un world! This ousrht not to be. Ithat enemy of legitimate use. has so one a musician? No more, if you had the whole paraphernalia of amusement in the perfection of Its Ingenuity, would It advance you upon your road. ' But with a bit of crayon a great artist makes an immortal sketch. It needs talent or genius to paint; and to amuse one's self, the faculty ot being happy: whoever possesses it is amused at slight cost. .This faculty is destroyed by skepticism, artificial living, over abuse; it is fostered by confidence, mod eration and normal habits of thought and action. Wanted the Stenographer. Kansas City Times. A Kansas City man, who has two lit tle nephews living in Pueblo, tells ths iollowlng story "on" the President. A stenographer, who accompanied the presidential party on its trip West a year ago last spring, was related to the on the platform of his car, getting little fresh air when the boys approach ed the trajn. They recognized him but were not 'awed" in the least. They wanted to see that stenographer. "Say, Mister Rooserfelt," said one of tho youngsters, "will you please tell Mis ter So-and-So (the stenographer) to .come out here a minute-; You bet,' replied the President. Then he hur ried back Into the train and delivered the message.. An v.Allnt nrnnf rt mv nmnnaittnn and one very easily encountered, lies' Pty at cards, with the arriere-pensee W'hen you find men or women whose ! befouled the world, that it is bec oming in the fact that wherever life Is simple or "P'olttng mm to our own pront. Do lives are iosi in nara lasss, ur in me uum-uu i o,,., ...... . . and sane, true pleasure accompanies it yoi tnm 11 the height of pleasure for painful office of seeking out human unclean: whence watchfulness warn as fragrance does uncultivated flowers Mothers to admire us. to admit our su- wretchedness and binding up wounds, ings and endless prohibitions. One can Be this life hard hampered devoid 0fiPer,orlty. nl to ac' our tools? IS remember that they are beings made hardly stir without encountering some .n ..'i, .vT. there anvthlne- in the world so disgust- like you. that they have the same thing that resembles unhealthy pleas- very condition, of pleasure, the rare s to feel one's self patronized, i wants that there are hours when they ure Among voung people of to-day and delicate plant, Joy, flourishes there It springs up between the flags of the pavement, on an arid wall, in the fis sure of a rock. We ask ourselves how It comes, and whence: but it lives; while In the soft warmth of conserva tories or in fields richly fertilized you made capital of, enrolled in a claque? need pleasure and diversion. . You will particularly the self-respecting, the To give pleasure to others and tike It1 not turn them aside from their mis- death of amusements causes real suf ourselves, we have to begin by remov- sion by making" them laugh occasion-1 ferlng. One is not weaned from the ing the ego, which is hateful, and jthen -ally these people who see so many generous wine without discomfort. Im keep It in chains as long as the diver-'tears and griefs: on the contrary, you possible to prolong this state of affairs slons last. There is no worse kill-Joy ' WM Rive them strength to go on the without deepening the shadow around than the ego. We must be good chll- better with their work. (the heads of the younger generations. ...i. i. - . rtrffn ivul anA VlnA hlittnn nilr rn.it And nrhn nannl. uhnm vnil knnnr IWe must Come to men aia. UUr cnil- tuiinaiQ ik a V a. g-umcil cusi 10 Bee 1L ' " ' . " . .- ....... , , , , ... fade and die In your hand ovr our medals and titles, and with In trial, do not draw a sanitary cordon dren are heirs of a Joyless world, we Ask actors what audience is harDlest'our whole heart put ourselves at the round them as though they had the bequeath them cares, hard questions, a t the play; they will tell you the Mpop- disposal of others. ; plague-that you cross only with pre- heavy with shackles and complexl- ular one. The reason is not hard to Let us sometimes live be It only cautions which recall to them their sad ties. Let us at least make an effort grasp. To theAs people the play Is an for a" nour- and though we must lay lot. On the contrary, after showing all to brighten the morning of their days, exception, they ire not bored by it from I11 els aside to make Others smile. The your sympathy, all your respect f0r Let us Interest ourselves In their sports, over-indulgence. And. too, to them it! sacrifice Is only In appearance; no one their grief, comfort them, help them find them pleasure-grounds, open to - .... . j . n. . nnri mA niaiii- tnr Himaaif than h ty, tow .. aniii' nrrv thm s them our hearts and our homes. Let ib a. i rei ii un. i uut iuii. i nc measure - ........ K . . -" - w. - .. B.., j . . wno anows now. wunout ostentation, oreatn irom tne - oui-oi-aoors same- " w.o " - to give himself that he may procure for thing In short to remind them . that ments. Let gayety cease to be a com- thn around him a moment of foraret. i thalr mUrnrtiini does not shut 'them rrrodity Of export. Let US call In our fulness and haDDinesa off from the world. j sons, whom our gloomy Interiors send ffn&!it';& does not put you to confusion. Having simple needs, you find it less painful to accustom yourself u ine nazaraa or fortune, you re main a man, though you lose your of fice or your Income, because the foun dation on which your life rests is not they enjoy they have honestly earned. and they know its cost as they know that of each sou earned by the sweat of their labor. More, they have not frequented the wings, they have no In trigues with the actresses, they do not see the wires pulled. To them It is all real. And so they feel pleasure unal loyed. I think I think ( I see the sated skeptic, whose monocle' glistens In that box,, cast a disdainful glance over the smiling crowd. "Poor stupid creatures, ignorant and gross.' " And yet they are tho true Uvea while he is an artificial product, a mannlkin. Incapable of experiencing this fine and salutary intoxication of an hour of frsnk pleasure. Unhappily, ingenuousness is disap pearing, even in the rural districts. We see the people of our cities, and those of the country in their turn, breaking with tho good tradltlona The mind, warped by alcohol, by .the pas sion for gambling, and- by unhealthy literature, contracts little by little per verted tastes. Artificial, life-makes Ir ruption into communities ones simple in their plessures, and It Is tike phyl loxera to the vine. Ths robust tree of rustic joy finds Its sap, drained, its leaves turning yellow. Compart a fets champetrs of the good oia styie wnn tne village festivals, so your table. .-your cellar, your horses. calld- of to-day. In the one case. In your gooes ana chattels, or your money. In adversity you will not act like a nursling deprived of its bottle snd rattle. Stronger, better armed tor tho struggle, presenting, like those with tbavea heads, less advantage to the hands of your enemyj yoU-Will also be of - more profit to your neighbor For you will pot rouse Jealousy, his bass desires or his cenffur. b your luxury. L b. i?it7 .t.uey' a'ycophnt and, lew absorbed them on, and the further i tn your own comfort. -van win fin h means of working for that , of others. ' v- -v-1 SIMPLE : PIXASt BES. , i Do you find life amuslnrvln these aaysr : e 'crft of ths unresti'the t -irv of our conteitrBbr- "r -1 "M their will to . ; - : i'-r -. t '-.--y suf- When shall we be so simply and truly f And so extend your sympathy to those out into the street, ana our aaugncers, men as not to obtrude our personal bus- whose work quite absorbs them, who moping m aismai soutuae. iei us mm- True to Life. London Globe. An Exhibition of works of art has Just been opened in Paris, executed by , porters and other railway employs. 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 18, 1904, edition 1
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