St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-13
sUNBE ANS FROM CuCUMBERs

SUNBE ANS FROM CUCUMBERS
This world is not entirely given over
to pleasure Ii is wise dispensation
which iniects little misery into the
body polite as we go along.
In fact. il all were pleasure, there
would be surfeit, and the very mouot-
ony would bring unhappiness. By hav-
ing little misery judiciously inter-
Spersed in life it fits men to enjoy their
pleasures, when they can obtain them.
Take, for instance, the present finan-
cial crisis. The only really happy man
is the one whose account is overdrawn
in a suspended bank.
The one who is not happy can draw
comfort from the fact that if he could
check out his money there would soon
be none left.
Here is case Of pleasure and misery
fro m the same cause, and upon the
whole the bank suspension can be
ranked as blessing in disguise.
The youth who may feel little
twinge of misery and irksomeness from
attending church today can reflect
with comfort that the fish are having
day of rest.
The young lovers who take pleasure
in each others society have their mis-
cry because, for lack of income, they
must defer the supposed marital happi-
ness; but in the same breath they can
indulge in nope and fear over the un-
settled conundrum, SIS marriage fail
ure?" They can congratulate them
selves upon enjoying more happiness
and misery combined than it will be
possible to obtain when they become
older and know more.
The hungry tramp who is made mis-
cradle by finGing the farmer or gardener
guarding his watermelon patch with a
shotgun can derive pleasure from the
reflection that cholera morbus might
follow if ne could have the same free
dom in the melon preserve which is ac-
corded him in riding to his death on the
trucks of freight cars.
RUSSELL SAGE, ROCKEFELLER and
other mliionaireS, whose money is sup
posed to bring them pleasure, have to
protect themselves and their residences
by detectives to keep the bomb throw
ers away. They do not dare to mingle
with the crowd and "see the sights in
public places as does the poor man; but
the poor man, relieved of the bomb anX-
iety, looks with envy upon them. and
makes himself miserable because he is
not Cr9sus.
The man who is about to die. in many
cases. does not appreciate his coming
pleasures, and makes himself miserable
by desiring one more turn with the
world; while many others have so much
misery in living that they successfully
arrange to die for the comfort they inn
agine to be in store for them.
Living or dying, there seems tG be no
condition in human affairs where what
is pleasure for one MAY not be misery
for another.
Under the circumstances, it is we'll to
try to be miserable; or, better still. be
miserable without trying. Almost any
| one can make a success in this line, and
the successful man is due to be happy.
Besides, il you have made yourself
thoroughly miserable, as most of you
have, if little unexpected pleasure
strikes you amidships you enjoy it all
the more for its novelty.
Be gloomy. Respondent, discouraged.
morose. fretful. ugly; look on the dark
side, make life burden and your home
wretched. By so doing yo6 render a
service to your fellows who resolve to
lead different life as a contrast to your
misery.
You can, therefore, by miserable
example, induce others to enjoy them
selves, and can take little enjoyment
on the side owing to having failed TO
make all the world as unhappy as your
self.
In brief, be a paradoXical heterodoX