New-York tribune., 1902-08-09
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IT DISCUSSES LIFE. LIBERTY AND
SUIT OF HAPPINESS.

IT DISCUSSES LIFE. LIBERTY AND The PUR-
SUIT OF HAPPINESS
The Rocker Club came together August
day. when the untiring mercury seemed ardently
bent upon ching the 100 mark alpine
climber upon reaching the summit OF Mont Blanc.
Mrs Weldon made the foregoing remark and add
ed:
Not that I know whether any climber ever has
reached the summit OF Mont Blanc or even tried
TO co So but will do for a comparison. Just the
same. rs farguing idea and this Is a fatiguing
day"
'It's day when you care nothing for life lib
erty or the pursuit of happiness. said Miss Meri-
vale.
The pursuit OF happiness is a very tatigutng
idea" said Mrs Easley. 7 don't see why they
ever put foolish clause into the constitution
or Is II the Declaration Of Independence? It's
al the same II they had merely said, life. lib
erty and happiness every would understand
that II the special BIT OF happiness that may
come TO every individual But the pursuit Of hap
piness' gives you q horrid suggestion Of running
after something that you will probably never
catch"
IT'S a thing that you certainly never will catch
by running after Il" said Miss Msrtvale
That's true" said Mrs Outing. with sigh of
mingled heat and sentiment 7 have been rum
ing after il most OF my lfe-Tm naturally inclined
TO the excitement of the chase. I've after 1t
and walked after IT, and danced and toiled after It,
and don't know that got any Of it
waited for it
IT'S the same with liberty, when you step to
think OF it." said Mrs Weldon We boast OF free
dom but who among US is really free? We are
bound by d thousand chains-not only the greater
obligations Of life but the little things that re-
strain US upon every side. They not chains;
they are more Ike cobwebs that dare not break
-impal pable but strong with the strength Of des-
tiny 7 once heard 4 preacher speak most i'm
pressively Of that helpiessness as to independent
action which is the lot OF every OF US Which
O, YOU ne asked. could start for China to-mor-
row II you were SO inclincdT In far less decisive
acts than that we are perpetualIy unclaimed. Lib
erty a myth
yes we are al. slaves" said Mrs. Wright
slaves condition our duties. even our affec-
s.Yop know" whispered some one to her neigh
bor Mrs. Wright has husband and three sons
Poor EouIr' was the sympathetic reply.
Slaves TO affections most Of all sighed
Miss Holmes . . - l., .,a
odd thing for splnster 10 say, put IN the
Liberty isn't a myth but an ideal" said Miss
Merivale Of the ready tongue. 1T is like kphns
True Romance
Thy face is far from this war,
Our call and counter-cry.'
Fr,erson's free and self-reant soul cannot live in
We must strike compromise It's the same WIN
happiness I suppose must always pursue It
good TO US each having different concep1r-SpI rS
Of it according 10 the cravings OF his nature H
winning Of Il is another story But-aIler dll'
we've each had our little portion" $1,000,
Miss Holmes quoted Longfellow's lines:
star stay at home my heart and rest
Home keeping hearts are happlest
Not always" said Miss Mertvale For 10
be- old this world wide is the ideal OF some aho
nursne il forever AZ Americans were legally en-
titled 10 IL, whether we get II or not