The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-02-09
SEES JOY in WORK
WORLD SEEMS TO HAVE NO
PLACE FOR THE lDLER.
No Real Joy in Life Of Ease Without
Labor, Says Man Who Has Given
the Matter a Thorough
Trial.

After ALL" said man who some
time ago had fortune left 10 him,
there's nothing like work.
IL used to think that II I had
money enough TO live on comfortably,
So that didn't have to work, should
be happy My work was one incessant
grind. day after day the same un'
ending round of the same things over
and over again. and | used to get so
tired of II all that sometimes 1t seem
ed as though ] should fly
but had to keep at 1t to live, and
so did keep at 1t till distant rela-
tive of mine that | had never known
was worth anything died and left me
fortune.
There never was anything that
ever happened To me that ever gave
me half 81 much pleasure as that
The first thing I did was to shake the
work which I got rid OF as quickly as
| decently could. and then | set about
planning enjoyment.
THE one thing of all that 7 wanted
most was travel craved change.
and when that money came ! got l..
set out on my dreamed OF travels,
and found keen delight in them all
for a time.
ct was all the same to me whether
1t rained or the sun shon for wher.
ever | was or wherever / was going.
I was free to enjoy 1t all, and did
for o time, but then | began to find
myself In way apart. and not so
much privileged to enjoy these things
as | had been at first.
For | was an idler pure and SIM
pie. while all those to whom l was
indebted for the possibility of the
pleasures OF travel, the railroad men
and the steamship men, were all
workers. as were also the hotel men
and the theater people and every
body to whom | was indebted for
pleasures in soJourn, all workers. So
likewise were all or nearly all the
travellers | met, workers in one field
or another, all. and finding delight in
every breath they drew because they
were workers. .4S
And they were drawn, II not to-
gether, at least toward one another
of their kind. while |. an idler only
had nothing ia common with the
world Even in the far distant ports
where leaned over the rail | found
myself more and more separated from
| the laborer on the wharf, who, bound
though he might be to his work, yet
had an object in life, which he &C
complished by labor, while | was q
mere part -.s.s.e.
In fact the more | idled the more
clearly | came to realize at the law
of the universe is labor, that in nature
there Is nothing idle, and the more
! | travelled the more clearly 1t came tC
me how few real idlers there are
among men. When finally at the
end Of three years of idling had
come back again to the city | hat
this fact borne in upon me with
! greater intensity than ever. and now
the great Joy that had found al
first in sheer loafing was quite de
parted.
The city was alive with activity
/ Win men All at WOlhs All uDluk SOuit
thing. all accomplishing something
and | was out of IL, an idler and-a
stranger. Actually men looked a
me as strange being, and some o
them with curiosity, That should
be doing nothing when there was {
chance. they wondered.
Friends that had known greet
ed me and smiled and then--passel
ON. They had their work TO do, ano
their interests and their sympathie'
were with other people. So ! stlc.
alone, as one set off, until. BY
kind Of Providence, there arose witch
in me n desire TO work.
I've been at it ever since, and
am at 1t stll, grateful TO be back II
the fold Of men