The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-03-05
KEEPING A HOLIDAY.
How Shall We Plan to Get from 1t All the
Good 1t Can Give?


What is the very best way to spend it ?
How shall we plan to get from it all that
ii can give? TO make the very most OF
AZ tle day, holiday, day that we
syyW liberty to spend as we like, may
be some thing of puzzle.
1t suggests the question-what do
you care most about doing with all
your time? Time is the stuff of which
life is made, and just to be sure of what
gre care most to do with it is worth
thinking about.
Most young people, and in fact pretty
much all persons, have some favorite
occupation or study, or both in one,
some special direction in which they
are strongly drawn, that lies outside of
the daily necessary routine of work.
For those who have ordinarily but lit
tie leisure (and in this busy work-a-day
world this includes the majority, the
Indulgence of this private liking is Il
CAPITAL use for at least a part of the
holiday. 1t may lead to important re-
suits or it may not-the thing we are
most eager to do may be n mere amuse-
ment of which we soon tire, or ii may be
the thing that we were made to do
the real serious business of our lives
which circumstances have seemed TIC
put beyond our reach, yet which per-
severance will enable us to achieve.
However that may be, there is nc
question about the pleasure of doing
the thing one likes best. 1t may b.
music or history, or football, or wood
carving, or what not-there is certainly
Il very keen satisfaction in followin"
ones own personal taste. And tn
chances are that if you are enough il
earnest, something worth while vii
come Of it. Too much is made Of tn
motive of making money. 1t is well t.
remember that there is another kind r
satisfaction in good work. in every kinf
of employment. done for its own sake
1t does not make much difference what
the work is. Any kind of useful o.
beautiful thing done, in the measure
in which the heart is thrown into it
doing ones very best for the sake o.
seeing it we'll done, is good ard satisfy
ing. Time spent in this way is well
spent.
II there is any such thing as secret
of happiness, it is surely this-maIls
Others happy. And all good work is
an antidote for selfshness. Not Only.
that, but it is one of the surest. mos
lasting and rightful sources Of cor
tinual happiness. To talk about worl
us the hest play-the best resource
for cnioying Il holiday, seems on tn
surface II contradiction. But the bes'
ulav is not idleness merely. To /
worth having. it must be some k.rd Q.
activity. and TO be really dclightful.f'
rhust be something loved. Tomnkc Tho
Most of holiday, then, it is quite fa''
10 10 tie very thing that you care TO
personally. however unimportant 1t may
appcar to somebody else.
Something is due to the day its%' 4
Is It Thanksgiving day? Are we Nc
more readv 10 give thanks in sinccrif
for material blessings, for aburdnr
food and rich dress, prosncritN III II
,hnpo Of money. houses and lands, than
for better culture and richer gains II
building IN our own characters ara
l;vcsq Yet these are worth more.
Is it Christmas? Do we think oil IT
as a time of gifts, of merry making OF
unusual gayety and self-indulgenec' or
do we care first for its higher mean
inrs? Do we maize it tire OF good
will toward all, time for earnest
THOUGHT and generous deeds TO pro-
mote the welfare of those whom we love,
first. but also, so far as w" may OF all
our human brothers and sisters?
Even on holiday, and PERTAINS most
on holiday. when our time IS free from
ordinary claims, little honest discus
sion with ones self of the very bHs'
uses and objects to which we can &c
vote a little of our time will not com
amiss.-Country Gentleman.