The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-11

Contrast the man who has time to
give to his family, who returns after
his days work with restful and rest
ed mind; who has no great wealth to
disturb him, no investments he is
afraid he may lose no competitors to
fight, no schemes to drive sleep from
his brain. His boy with enough to
wear and to eat, grows up in the So
ciety of those who are supposed to be
his natural companions a part of each
day, and when he gets through school
his ambition and normal outlook in
life are not spoiled by the fact that
his father will leave him money.
The daughter has not been society
belle. She knows how to to things
with her hands. She will make some
good man a good wife.
Not the least advantage in being
poor is the necessity for work. Work
is one of the greatest blessings of life.
particularly work you are fitted to do,
and which, without being exacting
enough to make you "a dull boy" still
has in it an element of monotony at
times. Such work you are glad to
leave at night, but equally glad to re-
sumo in the morning.
Consider the. children of the rich,
and the schemes they must invent in
order to kill time
Their lack of purpose in life is as
pitiable as the purposeless pursuit of
wealth by their fathers.
Contentment, too, is one of the
greatest aids to happy life, and who
has it to a greater degree than the
man who is neither rich nor poor?
The ambitions of the rich, the poor
man never shares, ror is he Obliged to
bear the disappointments incident to
wealth
His sense of pity for the INDECENT
and suffering is keen, for he lives on
the borderland, and, in all ages, he
has been his brothers keeper and pro-
tector.
THE poor We have always with you"
hardly applies to the third and fourth
generation of millionaires
The sense of kinship with the ill
fed of his own city, has gone-he lives
in a world apart So Mr.. Vanderbilt
could say, "The public be id"
and Mr. Gould assure his friend that
the poverty of the poor was their own
affair.
That he should ever want a mate
rial thing long probably never oc-
ours to the rich man.
The very fact that he is rich re-
moves him from the common aspira-
lions, hopes and joys of mankind. He
is social Selkirk.
And more pitiable object it is
difficult to imagine.
We see in men like Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter the yearning for real comradeship
which he feels that he has lost by his
inordinate money-gettipg. He is not
far enough removed from the poor to
have grown calloused to their human
sympathies.
So he offers his conscience money, u
as have Mr.. Carnegie and many 9TH
ers. He cannot curb his propensity
to squeeze" the under man, but he
will help the under man along by
gifts, by returning his own money to
him at time and in a way the under
man does not like.
Then there is exquisite enjoyment
in the little economies of home; the
plans (perhaps never carried QUIT fol
a gift here and a surprise there the
expectation of long denied trip; the
dream Of an expedition which will taxi
the savings of months to bring tc
pass,-ah, this is not for the rich.
The appetite for what gives Others
pleasure is taken from him by his
Croesus-like power
Everything away from him is to be
desired; nothing in his hand seems
desirable.
This is why so many of the rich
look back to the days when they We're
poor, and say,-"Oh, those were the
happy times!
When my wife and had to count
the cost of the small luxuries. When
a new coat for her, and the few care
fully selected Christmas gifts for the
children, raised my heart beats and
made me gladder than I have ever been
since"
All, yes, zest for the simple and
beautiful and intrinsic things of life