Arizona republican., 1905-08-09
The Painful Pursuit of Pleasure.

caspar Whitney strikes a significant
 note iE the current number of the Out
 ing magazine when, in summing up
 Inc reasons for the defeat of our ten
 his representatives in England this
 summer. he says: Every time we
 come into athletic competition with
 England the lesson is repeated; they
 pafnstaking capable, thorough; We
 brilliant. clever, superficial
 IVEe are) nation of sprinters; take
 warning, my countrymen, lest we lose
 the physical stamina, the moral fibre. one needs to fight the battle enduring ly, honorably. successfully" We cer- #talnly enter f1ercely into our sports,
 just as we take our pleasures pain
 fully. We join the contest with rush and vfgor that may be sufficient for the
 moment to carry our opponents off their feet, but are the inevitable pre-
 cursors of disastrous fatigue. From this seasons tennis play in England. as from many previous examples of the same sort, we ought to learn that in the long run the most satisfactory GusIitbes in sport, as in the other and . more serious phases of our activity, are steadiness. carefulness and endur- ance.
 Yet if ouF British cousins are more moderate shan we in their athletic sports. we have it on good English au- thaFIty that they are addicted in other directions. as We ourselves are, to the pBInful pursuit of pleasure. Like us, they make business of recreation and eRgeF upon it seriously. even iugubri- osssIy. Where" asks Canon Barnett ia she Manchester (England Guar dian, "are the family parties so fla t11flfsr among the holiday takers on ;he continent. or in Japan, who take their pIeasuEes together and seem so much Co enjoy each others company" An English family off for holiday he re- saTds as a pftiful sight. The parents 1anvo come out ~to give the children 2 fFcEe and to get some fresh air." Their sources Of pleasure are wholly external sn4 they could with difficulty conceive l ef 9 pIeasurabIe holiday spent quietly bR home. To innumerable DaoDle. as The London Speaker says, pleasure is i something extraordinary and artificial; | something to be sought out with labor and pains" They have yet to learn | that fhe most satisfying joy is inde- te0dcnt of those laborious accessories | so desperately employed by the deIib- | efaEe pleasure seeker.
 th shts vacation season 1t would be | z fortnight of relief from ones crdi- nary business; yet without going SO far as to condemn the vacation prin- | ciple in toto we may say that thou sands of otherwise intelligent Amer jeans make hard work of their cher ished two weeks of pleasure" They | slave in advance to prepare themselves for 1t. They work over-hours to gain their release and are sure to be tired out when they start. The London Speaker, already quoted, puts the case in a nutshell when it says that i've make a sharp distinction between bus mess and pleasure" And the remedy is plain. We should make less of q business of pleasure and more If a pleasure Of business.
 To be on good terms with ones daily work. 10 find contentment in all kinds Of wholesome activities. to possess re- sources for enjoyment beyond the set limits of holidays and vacations-this is to abandon the painful pursuit of pleasure and tO increase the probabiI- ity of overriding it. For pleasure is sons. but of the open mind and heart.