Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-25
TELLS
People How to
Live.
A Leading Magazine
Gives Counsel
That Can be Heeded With a Great
Deal Of Profit.

Ii Starvcd.--TillotSon.
Governor William Il. Russell, Of
Massachusetts, said: "Make a living,
but remember there is one thing better
than making a living, g,-making a life"
Most people are so absorbed in max
ing living that they forget to make
n life, says Success"
Many Of us spend our best energies,
the best years Of our lives, accumuat-
ing money, lands houses, stocks. We
spend comparatively little time in real
living; we are always going to live
tomorrow, next week, next year, after
we have laid up little more money.
We shall have more leisure, then; we
shall spend more time in self.culture;
we shall take that long contemplated
trip abroad, visit the great art gal
lerics of Europe, and study the condi-
tions of life in other lands: Next
yenr, we shall send the boy or girl to
college, start library, buy works of
art, and taken time enough from our
business or profession to get acquaint-
ed with our families.
But tomorrow, next week, or next
year, finds us farther than today from
the realization OF our dreams. The
habit OF accommodating, of making Il
living instead of life, has so fast
ened itself upon us, has become so in
tertwned with the fiber OF our charac
ter, that 1t has already mastered us
We are slaves in its iron grip; and
though we may go on deceiving our
selves with the fiction of tomorrow ant
tomorrow, building castles in the air
dreaming of the things we shall do by
and by TO make life pleasant and pro
litable, we are slowly but surely los
ing even the desire to enlarge oul
horizon.
A fine art Is this, learning to live
But how few people ever acquire 1t
IL Is comparatively easy to bccom,
proficient in law, in medicine, in bust
nes methods, or to become Il states
man; hut how rarely do we lind mal
or woman who lives true life,-a lif,
of simplicity, OF refinement, of culture
| of building. How few of
Ms develop our finer social or home in
stincts. We hurry at our meals; w,
hurry TO our place of business; we tr,
to crowd more than an average day',
work into our working hours, and ar,
all day pursued by demon of hurry
When we return home, we are tired
Irritable, exhausted utterly unit I,
enjoy the family life, or to contrl
butte TO the happiness of those abou
MS. In the rush and nervous hurr,
of the day, we have used up all ou
energy We have left no reserve 70
the cultivation of the higher side o
our nature. We are exhausted, sucket
dry like squeezed orange. The mex
morning, as soon as we have rccupcrat
ed after the night, we repeat the pre-
vious days routine.
SO we so through life, Knocked h,
expectations which are never realized
simply because we never learn th
secret OF living properly, each day
as we 80 along. The future Is delu
sion and snare, and he who banks upoI
1t for his happiness Is sure TO end II
bankruptcy, 1t is as much our dut
to enjoy life today, to be cheerful am
happy, TO ill It with pictures of 10
and gladncss, as 1t Is TO tell the trutl
to be honest, upright, and industrious
Happiness today, now, Is our dut,
4 and 1t Is n positive sin TO neglect /
This putting Off ones enjoyment, hal
piness, until the sap OF life has bee
drained, until the nervous system Il
T longer responds TO healthy, normf
. stimulants, this waiting until the fir,