The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-22
HAPPINESS RECEIPTS.

tawdriness, stop reading nasty books,
shake off political and social fakes and
frumperies. and, generally. regulate its
intellectual bowels and take Whit of
wholesome air, TO listen TO an authority
on happiness.
DIR. CHAUNoEY M. DEPEw is ac-
knowledged TO be such an authority.
DIR. DEpEw is universally reckoned good
worker and a good liver, but he never
allows himself to get worked into state
of gloomy WEAKNESS and he doesn't
overload his stomach with his feed. or
drink so much wine that he feels, next
morning, as IL he wanted to swear off.
He is blessed with an evenly balanced
disposition and store of good sense
that maintains for the disposition the
evenness of its balance.
DIR. DEPEw was 81 years old the other
day, and some of his friends, in accord
ance with custom Of few years
standing, gave him birthday dinner
DIR. DEPEw made q speech, of course,
and in the course of his remarks he
spoke about happiness and laid down
some general rules on how to be
happy. Acknowledging his faith
in a state of happiness beyond
the grave; DIR. DEPEw. however,
urged that specifically what is the
character of that happiness had never
been revealed, and. accordingly. in liv-
ing our life In this world, we should not
try to get all the misery we could out of
it and depend altogether on the happi-
ness to be attained to I'm the next world,
but secure all the happiness to be se-
cured right here. That is our immedi-
ate problem, to secure earthly happiness,
DIR. DEPEw declared.
The rules that DIR. DEPEw laid down
are familiar enough, but it sometimes
seems as if good many persons prefer
forgetting to remembering them and
indeed, in time, come to find it
easier to forget them than to re-
member them-just as some folk
become of such habit that it is
easier to lie than to tell the truth,
even though at the outset lying may be
as difficult an art, as it is false one, to
acquire. DIR. DEPEw's first rule is to
cherish and cultivate cheerful, helpful
and buoyant spirits, or il you haven't
them to cherish and cultivate, create
them. They are not difficult to cherish
and cultivate, or even to create. 1t is
very simple matter and they are evil
IDENTIFY necessary to happiness. Toen-
JOY things as they are is as easy habit,
once you get into 1t, as to want things
that are not. ''Let us never lose
our faith in human nature"
quoth DR.. DEPEw, mo matter
how often we are deceived" Sometimes
one deception will bias us so that we
think the whole world is base, when, as
a matter OF fact of COURSE, honesty,
goodness, generosity, humanity and
friendship have always controlled in
this big world, for all tie baneful prom
inence of traitors and rascals and frauds
of one kind and another. Quoting his
own personal business experiences, DR..
Depew said:
~ have lost 25 per cent. of all havo ever
made in lending money and endorsing notes,
aud have incurred. generally. the enmity of
those have helped because did not keep IL
up. But every once In while there was
somebody who did return In such full meas
ure the credit for the help that was rendered
that faith was kept alive and the beauty and
the goodness Of human nature were made
evident. have had appointed about thou
sand men TO Office and employment which
gave them support and the chance TO climb to
positions Of greater responsibility and trust il
they had the inclination and ability. About
nine out every ten Of them threw stones at me
because did not do better Tor them, and keep
pushing them, and yet there are hundred or
so who, by the exercise of their own ability.
their own grasp of the situation, have gone on
TO the accomplish OF such high ambitions
and successes, and have appreciated in SO
many ways the help extended 10 them by
helping others. that again my faith in human
nature remains undimiEished"
And DIR. DEPEw's third and last recipe
for happiness is TO keep in touch with
the young. "Join in their games," he
says; "be partner in the dance, romp
the fastest and turn the quickest in the
Virginia reel CIR the country dance; go up
10 the old college and sit down and light
your pipe and sing college songs; take
the children to the theater and howl with
them at the roaring farce, and laugh
with them at the comedy and cry with
them at the tragedy; be their confdant
in their love affairs, and il they are not
equal to it, write their love letters, and
never stop writing some for yourself"
We guess everybody who was lucky
enough to hear DR.. DaPEw's remarks on
his 6lst birthday must have gone away
feeling the better for them.
LOOK out for a rise in shoe leather.
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