Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-27
HAPPINESS IN STRIFE.
Only Those Who Are Aggressive in Eff
fort to Do May Be Said
Really to Live.

All RlnuS OF people comprise lllS
world.
That statement is not remarkable for
it's originality or its brilliancy, but it
bears directly upon what | have to say.
Many aspiring human beings waste
time and opportunity in foolish efforts to
become like some one else.
/ have known good man. whose in
tiuence in business circles and in socie-
that was best in his associates, to make
himself quite unhappy because he was
not a great reformer, devoting his life
to humanity.
| have known an excellent mother and
wife to think her life was a failure be-
cause she was not q foreign missionary;
and a lovely girl, fitted to adorn the So
cial walks of life like a flower by the
highway, to feel she was doing wrong
in not donning a robe and becoming a
Sister of Charity.
But what a momOtonouS world this
would be were all men andGwomen doing
only reformatory and charitable work.
What would become of the race had
we no homes. no social circles, no per-
sonal ambitionsf
The woman of fashion has her place
in Gods great universe. just as the or
child has its place in the floral kingdom
or the butterfly in the insect world
The dancer has her part to fill in the
great drama of life. and it is as worthy
of respect, if she respects her art, as
that of the prima donna and as worthy
of her ambition to excel.
The one important thing in life is to
grow
TO grow iii OUR chosen work, or in the
work which has been given us to do,
and to make worthy progress, means to
be building character.
No artist can improve in his painting
unless he is improving as man. What
ever we are shows eventually in what we
do.
Instead of wasting vitality in wishing
your sphere were different and that you
were like some one else, use the time III
making yourself the very best specimen
of your type.
Each of us comes into this life under
conditions which we have invited by our
former actions and thoughts in former
lives.
Out of these conditions we can climb
to better things, or we can prepare more
unfortunate environments for ourselves.
both here and hereafter.
No matter what your environment, or
how poor your materials, you can per-
form miracles with your life if you
WILL
The glorious statues which shine
through the centuries with imperishable
beauty were all modelled in mud
Out of the mud in which you may be
walking you can shape something beau
tlful and helpful if you will.
But you must begin now.
DO something with your life!
DO something with your time!
Youth is passing-middle life, old age
lie ahead for those who do not meet
death at the cross roads.
For those who do, life still continues,
and its happiness or unhappiness, like
that of this world depends on what they
are doing with their capabilities-now.
You may be satisfied with yourself
temporarily if you are frittering away
the days in foolish and selfish ways
which benefit no one, not even yourself,
eventually.
Bnt you cannot long be satisfied with
this kind of life.
1t is not in the human heart to be con
tent with anythingswhich does not mean
progress.
There are thousands of restless. un-
happy pleasure-seekers in the world.
who do not know why they are restless,
why they are dissatisfied with what the
days offer them. The old amusements
pail; the old associations do not satisfy
they search and do not find; they look
and do not see. They imagine another S
personally, another's environment, an
others occupation, would make them
| happy. They wish for something, and
they do not know what. They are dis
contented and do not know why.
1t is because they have no ideal of
progress - of self-improvement - toward
which they are working.
| They are trying TO make today like
yesterday, instead of making it the best
possible today-with Il better tomorrow
| in mind.
You cannot create in yourself pleas
uFe in the playthings of childhood. I'm
| less you are an imbecile, an INCOMPLETE
mind, you cannot enjoy dolls and blocks
and Noah's arks at 20. If you grow
dissatisfied with those toys as you pass
into your teens, it is because you are
growing up. You need larger occupa-
| tons.
| If you find yourself dissatisfied and
restless as you pass out of the twentles
| il is because you need larger ideals than
early youth offered. You must not try
to cling to the same things which
pleased you i've years ago
| You are suffering with growing pains
and you must let yourself grow. You
are vine, and you must reach up TO q
wall or Il tree or Il trellis, or else you Will
trail along the earth and be trodden I'M
der foot.
] But you are conscious and immortal
vine. and you can choose your own wall
your own tree. your own treIlls. lou
can climb in the direction you wish. II
YOU really wish it with a sensible, clear
open mind.
However fall your days may seem to
be- there is always time 10 do some one
thing >-nore-pe and regularly.
| If you decide you will positively dc
| this thing whatever it may he, you VIII
| be astonshed at the way obstacles van
| ish from your path.
| Difficulties cannot stand before de
| termination.
| Resolve is a sun which dominates tht
| heavens of circumstance.
Purpose is an axe which cleaves it,
way through jungles and forests.
| If your are woman of fashion and
making each season replica of the past
You are laying ous a path of misery fol
! yourself by and by.
| Unless you are acquiring new mental
and spiritual accomplishments. you vii
cease to enjoy the cd pleasures and
cease To attract your world after time
| New faces viii supplant your own and
new rulers dominate your domain. Only
| by developing yourself. becoming greater
| in character and accomplishments, can
you hope to hold your own IN this moS'
l ap1 EREin world in which vD7l