The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

.cense. indeed and clownishness, but
not that abandon which ingenious joy
brings in its train.
THIS question of pleasure is capital
y Staid people generally neglect it
as a frivolity: utilitarians, as a costly
superiority. Those whom We designate
as pleasures seekers forage in this deli
cate domain like wild boars in gar
den. No one seems to doubt the i'm
mense human interest attached to joy.
Ii is a sacred flame that must be fed,
and that throws a splendid radiance
over life. He who takes pains to foster
it, accomplishes a work as profitable
for humanity as he who builds bridges,
pierces tunnels. or cultivates the
ground. So TO order ones life
as 10 keep, amid tolls and suf
fering, the faculty of happiness,
and be able to propagate it in a
sort OF salutary contagion among ones
fellowmen, is to do a work of fraterni-
ty i'm the noblest sense. To give a tri-
fling pleasure, smooth an anxious brow,
bring a little light into dark paths
what truly divine office in the midst
Of this poor humanity! But it is only
i'm great simplicity of heart that one
succeeds in filing it,
We are not simple enough to be hap
py and to render others 50. We lack
the singleness of heart and the self
fOrgetfulness. We spread joy, as we
do consolation, by such methods as TO
obtain negative results. To console
person, what do we do2 We set 70
work 10 dispute his suffering, persuade
him that he is mistaken in thinking
himself unhappy. In reality. our Ian
guage translated into truthful speech
would amount to this: You suffer.
my friend7 That is strange; you must
be mistaken. for I feel nothing AS
the only human means of soothing grief
is to share it in the heart, how must
s.. fferer feel, consoled in this fashion?
To divert our neighbor, make him
pass an agreeable hour. we set out in
the same way We invite him TO adj
mire our versatility. TO laugh at our
Wit. to frequent our house. to sit at
shine breaks forth. Sometimes, also.
with a patrons prodigality, we offer
him the beneficence Of public enter
tainment of our own choosing. unless
We ask him 10 find amusement at our
lone. as we sometimes do TO make up
q party at cards. with the arriere-pen-
see of exploiting him to our own profit.
Do you think IL the height of pleasure
for others to admire us, TO admit our
superiority. and TO act as our tools? Is
there anything in the world so disgust
ing as TO feel ones self patronized.
made capital of. enrolled in a claQue2
To give pleasure 10 others and take it
ourselves. we have TO begin by remov-
ing the ego. which is hateful and then
keep il i'm chains as long as the diver
sions last. There is no worse kill-ioy
than the ego. We must be good chill
an en-. sweet and kind. button our coats
over our medals and titles. aud with
our whole heart put ourselves al the
disposal of others
Let us sometimes live-be il only for
an hour. and though we must lay all
else aSide-tO make others smile. The
sacrifice is only in appearance: no one
hrds more pleasure for himself than he
who knows how. without ostsntation.
20 give himself that he may procure
for those around him a moment of for
Gttfulness and happiness.
When shall we be 50 simply and truly
men as not 10 Obtrude our personal
business and distreSses upon the pco-
: le we meet socially May we not for
get for an hour our pretensions. our
strife, our distributions into sets and
short. cur parts" and be-
come as children once more. TO laugh
again that good laugh which does so
T. uch to make the world better?