The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-31
o MUCH WORK.
Why Americana S~"i tho Gospel Of RecYea.
tiOn Preached tn Them.

tiOn Preached tn Them.
If ever people needed to have
preached to them a gospel of rccrea-
ton. the Americans need it now. Wo
work too hard. and too fast, and with
too much friction. and, above all. too
constantly. Weare proud of our speed.
We believe in push" and ..go." We
are careless of the fact that haste
makes waste. because we have plenty
to waste. We do not understand nor
practice, nOr car any thing about
economy. because we have not felt, as
most peoples have, the need of econ
Omy. Our business man hurries from
his home in the morning on the fastest
train he a get. reads the newspaper
all the way to his office, and grumbles
at a delay of two minutes. He rushes
through his business a: a breaknec,s
rate, snatches a lunch at midday, die
tates letters to his typewriter. leaves
himself just time enough to catch his
train. and PUSHES home ut the same
pace. Once there. he enjoys himself
by taking a ride behind the fastest
horse he can afford to own. After dim
he plays a game of whist. n. as
that is generally two slow for him. of
poker, until after what ought to be his
bedtime. If he lives in the city his
evenings are spent 1t the club or tho
theater. OF in the hotel corridors talk
ir~ hrn-- P,-A hn 1n MONA ,.-,an%
perhaps. on Sunday. when he spends
most of the morning looking through
the papers. and most of the afternoon
doing. or perhaps taking another
ride behind his trot:ers. Americans
do everything fast. especially in New
York. They take their drinks stand
ing and at a gulp. They eat one meal a
day in about the same fashion. They
walk fast. talk fast. make and lose
money fast, ride fast. sail fast. eat fast,
drink fast. and if a way could be dis.
covered of sleeping fast, they would
do that.
After one gets into it there is q
swing and Il movement in all this that
is fascinating. 1t is contagious. and
We all catch it. There is the same
sort OF pleasure in doing business fast
that there is in driving i fast horse or
sailing a fast boat. That is one real
sol why New York is the most fasci.
mating of American cities. After it's
''gO" others seem a little tame. One
becomes use to excitement, and wants
to keep strung up to concert pitch all
the time. Beyond doubt, too. there is
something good and admirable in this
rapidity. 1t enables us to accomplish
marvels. We have ON are than
any other people to annihilating time
and space.
But. after all. when one thinks it over
calmly-if perchance he can ever find
time to think calmly-is this hurry
worth our while? Or. TO put it from
the American point of view. does it
pay? The answer to that question dc.
ponds upon the goal we have in view.
Most men are making all this haste in
order to get rich; but when they get
rich do they take things easy" and
enjoy life? Possibly q few of them
may. but the vast majority do not
When they get an income OF 80.
600 they want so 1000: when they have
got that they want so. 00O. Not one
in a million OF Us yer gets rich enough,
and the few who do leave of business
generally find that they have lost, from
disuse. whatever faculty Of enjoyment
they once had. aside from the hurry
and push Of the business world. The
capacity for enjoyment has ~ be cult
waited. like any other capacity: and il
will not grow except BY constant use