The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-07

all Such libraries as millionaires could not buy offer the treasures of their knowledge for nothing. Of course one does not need to be learned in order to make the best of being poor, but hardly any one is happy nowadays without books. Those who regard reading merely as pastime need never be in want of the newest novel. The finest treasures of art are open to the sight of all. Any one who desires can hear music, any one can see plays. As to the pleasures of so- cial intercourse, they reduce them selves, when our earliest youth is over to the pleasures of conversation, and to get all the pleasure out of talk that can be got is certainly great part of the art of being poor, and it is the easiest part to cultivate. The soul of all outdoor sports Is to be fund in the love of Nature and the love of exercise and both these delights are within tho grasp of comparatively poor people. It is one of the strangest things in life how few people have settled in their own minds what it Is they really want, or who will take the trouble to be hap lpy. "I have often thought how much l should like to do so-and-so," we hear | people say, and nine times out of ten | it is something they could very easily have done, only they always put 1t off. Where the cultivated poor feel the pinch of poverty. and where no art avails them anything, is in the matter of health. The really poor man can have the most complicated, dangerous and longest of operations performed at a hospital as well as it could be per formed upon royalty in palace. The poor gentleman is in very different position. But doctors are so kind" we hear some one say. No doubt that is true; but to accept kindness is not always easy, and to ask it is seldom possible. Paying wards and systems of insurance will mitigate the evil in the end, but at present it is a crying Sne.
 Given health, almost all the sources of happiness enjoyed by the wealthy man are now within the grasp of his cousin on a small professional income,
 
 more effort to lay hold on them. If he wants to be socially popular, he must allow himself fewer lapses into grumpi- ness, and must make a greater effort not to be bored or opinionated. He must expect to be judged on his mer- it's alone, and sought for nothing but his company He must brace himself to go in search of those opportunities of enjoyment which the rich man finds at his hand, What is perhaps hardest of all, he must be content to let his children have only the essentials of a good education without the conven- tional stamp. Nothing is so dear as conventionalism. Learning Is cheap and play is not expensive, but public schools are prohibitlve for poor man with several sons. All departures from the usual are attended with in- creased consciousness of risk; but luckily these departures when prompt ed by necessity, appear to be more often undertaken by good results than those undertaken for the sake of ex- lperiment The comparatively poor man will never be able to forget that nothing is to be had for nothing; but as we watch the careers Of those who have succeeded in the art we have been considering, we shall perforce admit that out of their extra trouble springs an extra vitalization, an extra
 capacity for happiness.-L London Spec. tator