Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
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at tracking their victims. Their play is
their preparation for their work
So with the normal course of humanity.
Child's play Is an imitation and prophecy
of mans work In normal manhood work
and play are unified In pleasurable employ
ment. And the higher and better and finer
mans work. the purer and sweeter ana
more exquisitely intense Is his enjoy ment
There are many abnormalities In the
workaday world which produce abnormaIi-
ties In the workers experience. But even
these abnormalities do not veil the TACT
that toll Is beautiful In Its happiness. some
of the finest intellectual and scientific work
of the world has been done by men OF
leisure without the spur of necessity, pure
ly for the pleasure In their labors. Pleas
ure there is In the world of play, but not
pleasure that can vie with the fine costa
sizes that must sweep the delicate fiber OF
the mind capable of tracing stars In their
courses or of disclosing new truth 70
God, cried Kepler in rapture on discover
ing his celebrated laws Il am thinking
Thy thoughts after Thee!'
We
Can make the experience of this minute.
Of this day. positive source of happiness,
of satisfaction, of gratitude. We can ex-
tract from every experience the supreme
quality or qualities that render 1t useful
plessurable to us.
We can mold the effect of every expert
ence to suit the precise needs or require
ments of our natures. We can make every
passing minute what we would have it-a
happy minute We can rob disappointment
of disappointment by finding in disappoint-
ment some cause for Thanksgiving. We can
wrest the sorrow from sorrow by learning
the ever sweet lessons of sorrow.
We can multiply pleasure by increasing
the means of pleasure, by finding in every
thing a reason for contentment happiness,
good.
The world is what we make 1t: today Is
what We make 1t: this minute is what we
make 1t. Whatever life brings forth what
ever today brings forth, whatever this min
ute brings forth Is what we have caused 1t
to bring forth. We do not make events,
but we make their effect upon US. We do
not make the weather either cloudy or
clear, but make 1t either depressing or
refreshing, a matter of Indifference, or or
Joy, a plague. We can be passive and
let the weather do what 1t will with US, or
be active and take the upper mas
ter hand and do what we will with rhe
weather. We can choose what we will for
the influence 1t shall exert upon u.s.
With
The return of brighter days and the per-
sistent efforts OF the sun 10 persuade US of
his good intentions, there is an irresistible
and laudable desire to renovate and smart
en- up everything inside the home In SYM
going on outside.
In the interregnum of winter and summer
furnishings and furniture nothing is more
acceptable and satisfactory for Frightening
the interior and imparting a real sense of
the presence of spring than by increasing
the number of pretty Towering plants about
the house, end easy of accomplishment
to all In these times Of plenty combined
with inexpensiveness IN the way of flowers
and foliage.
A good plan and one that is found to give
pleasing results in interior floral deeora-
ton is to keep the Towering plants and cut
flowers In any room in the same harmony
of color, yellow, for instance. and then
when they need rene wing to change the
scheme to a harmony OF pink or red, and
so on, bearing in mind that they must har
monte not only with each other, but also
with the room tones
ADA MAY KRECKER.