The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-02
DIR. Depew on HAPPINESS.

! Chauncey Depew was 81 years old the
other day and the birthday anniversary
was properly celebrated by his local
friends. The genial Doctor made n
lengthy speech which might have had for
its title, The Philosohy of Life or How to
Live for the Largest Results Measured in
Human Happiness. This is a subject
that everybody is interested in or should be
for the biggest thing any of us possess is
life. While all possess il but few know it's
! value. One man lives on the theory
| that there are two or three lives. We do
| our work in this and enjoy ourselves in
the next. Another spends his sixty or
seventy years in drudgery and simply lives
for his grandchildren. Another is not at
fault on this point but finds it impossi-
BILE to break off from the habit formed in
| the days of small things and so repeats
perpetually the petty economies, once wise
but no longer needed, of youth, while he
lets the large results of life which make
for breadth and heighth, intellectual devel-
Opment and nobility of SOUL slip through
his fingers He has simply made money
an end instead of a means. DIR. Depew
after going into the usefulness of knowl-
edge in broadening and developing
student and lover of nature winds up with
these remarks:
We can live only by getting out of life
all there Is in it. What is happiness any
wayS While do not discredit the future
world but on the contrary believe in it ac-
cording to the doctrines of the church
which attend, yet we do not personally
know either from those who have come
from the other world or from revelations
received from there, precisely what is the
happiness of then tnext world Our prob
lem Is not so much to long for that as TO
find our happiness here. Where is itY
The rules Of happiness and longevity in
my Judgment are, first, cherish and Guilt
vate cheerful hopeful buoyant spirits. If
you haven't them create them. Enjoy
things as they are The raggedest person
ever saw was Turkish peasant stand
ing in the field clothed in bits Of old
carpet. But the combination of color
made him thing of beauty If not joy
forever
Let us never lose our faith in human
nature no matter how often we are de-
ceived Do no let the deceptions destroy
confidence In the real honesty, goodness
generosity, humanity and friendship that
exists in the world. l have lost 90 per
cent Of all have ever made In lending
money and endorsing notes and have in
CURED generally the enmity of those /
have helped because did not keep 1t up.
But every once in while there was some
body who did return in such full measure
the credit for the help that was rendered
that faith was kept alive and the beauty
and the goodness of our human nature
were made evident.
| And my last receipt for happiness is TO
keep in touch with the young. Join in
their games be n partner In the dance.
Romp the fastest and turn the quickest
i'm the Virginia reel or the country dance;
go up to the old college and sit down and
light your pipe and sing college songs
take the children to the theatre and howl
with them at the roaring farce and laugh
with them at the comedy and cry with
them at the tragedy; be their con1dant
In their love affairs and II they are not
equal 10 IL write their love letters and
never stop writing some for yourself.
OF course there are great many in
fiuences that make for happiness that Mr..
Depew does not touch upon. The poetic