The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24
DEPnw,s PHILOSOPHY.
He Advises Everybody to Have
Hours of Recreation.

He Advises Everybody to Have
Hours of Recreation.
New York. April 23.--At the seventh ban
quet of the Montauk Club of this city, ten
dered to MIN in celebration of his BIRTH
day, Chauncey NJ. Depew made a most
iteresting speech. The closing part of it
was as fellows:
Il do not intend to tell stories tonight.
have had a warning. We are putting
four new stories upon the Grand Central
depot. The other day a careless workman
let brick fan from the tcp. Il landed on
the platform just outside my window,
banged through the glass and missed my
head by a sixteenth of an inch. Prot.
Hadley remarked, Even the Grand Cen
trail depot wall NOT stand four OF your
stories c.,,t
when Pyrrhus was flushed with victory
a phiiosophic friend said TO him, When
you have conquered Italy, what
them? shall conquer Africa.
And when you have con-
quered Area, what then?' L shall con-
quer the world And when you have con-
quered the world, what them I shall
take my ease and be merry. We'll, saia
his friend, why not take your ease and be
merry how?' Gentlemen. we are all of u
engrossed in the cares OF business; we are
all of us absorbed in the conduct of orr
affairs because of the hot competitions of
modern life. But that man is more srr'
cessful i'm business, has q better iudgmcn,
in critical affairs of the bank, reader
apprehension of the Kaleidoscope peTiis OF
railroading and a clearer grasp Of the
problems of law or theology or medicine
who can find time, and will find time, no
matter what the nature Of
his vocation to take his ease. and be
merry now" The fools who give the
twenty-four hours to business, and boast
of it, may criucise the man who can ex
pei business from his mind and enjoy his
books, his friends, his club, the theater,
the opera, the dinner, or the dance, but
| the cheerful man gets dividends out of life
where the other gets trouble. Such peo-
pie are the Bourbons of business. They nell
Their learn nor forget, but they sometimes
get temporary regulations. Some years
ago 1 was on an inspection tour over all
of our lines with party of railroad men.
We lived on the car, and all of US worked
/ hard all day, and when darkness inter
rupted work the card table carried off the
evening Cards do not interest me, and
so one night l delivered a lecture TO the
students of a college in the town where
we were stopping and another night I
| spoke at a supper of the Loyal Legion, and
another at a convention Of railway EN-
! poyes, contributing as best / could to the
| life Of the places we visited The writer's
on railway subjects In the press praised
the skill and practical talents for their
| business and the scientific methods of my
| friends who found rest and recreation IN
! the game, and lamented that such vast IN
terests should be in charge of a theorist
and speech-maker ike myself Our daily
| labors were the same and ouf methods of
spending the evening were different, but
/ no one ever heard of the card-playing
/ amusements Of my associates, and my
| speeches were in the newspapers. IL was
/ that prince Of utllitarians, Lord Chester
| field, / think, who advised that for sue
/ cess in life good form is lister than good
character, and appearances tban merit
1.-The gray matter of the brain Is like a
/ rubber band Stretch it continuously and
| keep It strained and the elasticity goes out
] Of ii, and it rots and falls to pieces. Wise
/ judgment must be fortified by variety.
versatility and travel My graveyard of
"Reminiscences is full of the buried bones Of
/ those who gave out and failed IN the '30s
4 the '4Os or the sos because they planted
/ by night and reaped by day, because even
/ the church service was simply helping to
solve their business problems, ana because
they sedulously avoided and scrupuousiy
| denounced frivolous people like ourselves,
who can frivol as we DO here Tonight.
/ Gentlemen, the mortuary tables Of the
men who for eight years have gathered
! here on my birthday would enrich any life
/ insurance company. None Of US grow old,
none Of US decay. and our sentiment to-
| night Is, that better than medical facuI-
ties and pharmacopoeias and dispensaries
and mineral springs are cheerful DISPOSE
tons. peTsistently cultivated and kept
alive, no matter what the obstacles in their
way. and the joys OF life extracted from
every situation-public, business. domestic
and social