The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-03-24

circumstances apd environment IN light
have made conspicuous success III
the professions, politics or business,
Just as there are men in the bus
ness or the learned professions who
under different circumstances, envi-
roument and opportunities N light
easily have fallen from grace and
dritted int the sporting class.
Psychologically there is no more
a sporting class than there is class
of college men or of horse breeders.
All classes, artist, business, sport
ing, professional, number an infinite
vaciety of dispositions; they are, IN
fact, rather trades than classes. The
case of college men proves that those
who are counted among them are rath-
er there by accident than because they
conform to a type Or class Many
go to the college because of rarticu lai
ability or aptitude iu certain dl
rection, but still III ore, perhaps, be-
cause they happened to be bonn
with chance to 60 to college. Their
parents saw the advantage of col
lege education and being able to
afford it, they furthered their sons
desires in that direcIon. But when a
man has gone to school, more especial
ly to college, he is quite sure to select
certain professions and equally certain
to discover that there ara certain 9TH
ers he may select. He may very nat
uraIly become a teacher or physician,
but he will hardly become a police
man.
Our instincts are born with US. The
arts and industries are acquired by the
race and must be learned by the ln1i.
viduaI after his birth. 1t was pointed
out 10 previous article on gambling
why it is that the satisfaction of THESE
instincts gives us pier sure and why
we find the acquired habits irksome
But while the instructive interests are
lisproportioDately stronger in the
sporting than i'll the merchant class,
vet the same instincts ale also strik-
ingly marked in what is roughly called
The artist class. TIE artist class like
wise finds it difficult to conform to
the irksome industrial life. Artists
are prone to follow their instincts
what else does the artistic tsmparma-
nent Imply? but their product hap
pens to have high social value and
they are, therefore, not considered I'M
manageable from the industrial point
of view.
Or if again we take into considera
how powerfully the game of gol,, to
choose an instance, seizes the world;
onese how easily scientists and men of
affairs lapse from their acquired habits
into their instincts. What Interests
them merely as a recreation absorbs
the sporting men as con slant thing.
The members Of the sporting class
are not abnormal to degree that rem
ders them socially unmanageable, but
they represent rather social and edu
cational neglect. 1.-The young man
of good family when sowing his
wild oats is temporarily a sporting
man following for the time the in
stincts of the race. Bat his connect
ions are such that the dragnet of spec
ial habit is finally gotten around him
and he is drawn into a reputable pro-
fesson. In the ease of the profession
al sport this las not happened. Most
men profess, any way. that they have
found their occupations in lite acc i
IDENTITY, and as long as this is so it is
not surprising that number of men
should miss the regular occupations
altogether. .
|. X. Friedman.-In Chicago News.