The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-01-13

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it was going to frost, you would cover
up your tender flowers. Things are
shaping themselves so that it looks
like man owes it to himself to have
some one thing that he can always be
sure. will be a good support for himself
and those depending upon him.
While in that great, dissatisfied city,
the city of Chicago, the writer had ex-
cellent opportunities to observe the
causes of its being dissatisfied.
In one case, machine had been in
vented that abolished one mans posi-.
ton, with many others; in another, he
had been working in one place for sew
eral years, and he had a family, and
the firm was to change hands, with it, a
change of favorites. In another case,
| the head of his department had a
nephew, or niece, that had just got.
ten old enough to try to do the work
that he had spent so many years trying
to perfect-and so on, ad intinitum. He
| begins to feel that he is not of much
consequence in the world after all
finally he begins to try to make one
linen collar do duty for whole week.
which argues the beginning of the
end:
Well, now say, what has become OF
all the money you were paid for so
many years? Spent? What for? Well,
you see, he had hopes of becoming the
head of the department some day, and
those hopes made him feel rich. O.,
those hopes. How often in vain. No
man has right to hope for anything.
Hope implies sitting down under a
shady bough in the summer time, wait
ing for an apple to drop off, near
enough to avoid getting up out of the
hammock to reach it. Faith and ac-
ton are better. In one case, he gets
up, knocks the apple, and lies back in
the hammock and eats it. In the other
case. nine chances out of ten, the apple
is rotten after it does fall. Hope and
faith are not social equals at all.
The man on salary is a slave, and
is directly dependent upon the whims
of others. And we all know what an
unhandy habit people have of having
whims. No peace of mind, never GER
tain of anything, always expecting the
worst to happen, and ofton it does.
Not long ago the writer met friend,
and after courtesies were exchanged,
he announced that he was out of a job.
Well. well. that was bad in a friendless
city like Chicago-and out of a job.
80, no. :" said he "You know | bought
that little place near our old home, and
that furnishes me fifteen dollars a
month. Then | put some savings in
the big office building that my rich old
friend built. That gives me thirty
dollars month big interest, so you
see. | won't have to patronize the
free lunch counters anyway. | will just
take my time and get into something
good next time"
Now. if you want mental picture of
satisfaction. just take this one: Bless
his heart. he had bought farm"-a
glorious feeling of independence that
Marshall Field himself would enjoy.
Every young man or young woman is
fitted by nature to "buy farm" A
young man on a salary, in a large city,
gets it into his head that he needs lots
of things in his business that he does
not, and will not stint himself, because
his friends will not think he is good
fellow. Now, the experience of others
absolutely demonstrates that the young
man has mistaken idea of things. If
he would just content himself with
those things he formerly had so much
pleasure in, to wit: Taking some good
girl to church, etc, for few short
years, he could then 60 to grand opera,
instead of combining himself to 40, 20,
30's." That is theater-going with a
benefit to it, and there are lots of ben
efits to it. The nature, INFORM begins
to see that Melba in Romeo ct Jul
let, is far superior to that little witch
in a short skirt, drop-stitch hose, and
smile, who sings rag time.
You will begin to see how silly were