Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1909-11-30
Tuesday, November 80. IeO9
HELP ZOE zee DISTRESSED RICE.

HELP FOR THE DISTRESSED RICH.
n ELP is at hand for the new rich" who are
= = puzzled as to how they shall spend their
time and their money. An Englishman with an
idea has come to their rescue. If they will only
help him he will teach the rich how to enjoy life
to get the full pleasure that goes with money and
leisure time. The other day this friend inserted
an advertisement addressed to "Millonaires
only" in a London paper. The advertisement
said that as millionaires were frequently quoted
as complaining that their wealth did not bring
happiness. to them and was burdensome, he in
Vited some dissatisfied millionaire to hand him
over about FIVE millions OF dollars so that ne
might prove the falacy of the complaint.
1t would require the enterprising Engshman
two years to prove his case and his expenditures
of the money would be submitted to a committee
OF business men. Investigation proved that the
advertiser is man deeply in earnest He holds
a good government position. He says he has
started his movement because of many COM
plants OF ncn who have spent most of their lives
in accommodating wealth only to find that they do
not know what to do with it when they get It.
The enterprisng Englishman has not made pub
lie his elixir of JOY for millionaires but It is
stated that he does not think highly of philan-
throprc schemes He has another method of pro-
noting real pleasure.
Doubtless there are some men who really do
not know what to do with their wealth. The
acquiring of it is an exciting game, calling into
play all their talents. With the prudent man
fairly on the road to riches, his riches increase
without effort Then begins the time to spend
Then come the automobiles, the yachts, the so
cial functions" the dinners. And the dinners while
they may not make much of dent in the money
pile often do create a crapulence.
But there is no likelihood in America that
millionaire who parts with of his fortune for
the pleasures of the dinner table will meet the
fate Of Apicius, the Roman gutton, who spent
seven and one-half millions of dollars in the graf
ifcaton of his palate and then committed suicide
for fear that he would die of hunger although he
had a comfortable fortune OF three hundred
thousand dollars left with which to keep the wolf
from the pantry. Judged by the standard OF
this old Roman the recent feastng of Taft in the
West and South was as baked beans to bottle
and bird dinner.
OF course the yachts and the automobiles AMI
their repairs take considerable of the million
aires money, and the round of social functions
the fine houses and the other things may reduce
the pile, but do they always bring happiness
Doubtful is it whether Rockefeller is happier
than the man who earns his subsistence by the
sweat of his brow rather than by the agitation
of his brain.
To some men the round of social pleasures the
constant going to this and that, the frantic effort
TO secure enjoyment, or supposed enjoyment, is
the hardest kind Of labor, and no man who enters
the social life of the millionaires of the large
cities should lack for an occupation. It is a
vocation we should think of itself. But when
men really face themselves for self examination
how many of them there are who have doubts
such this London advertiser speaks of
Perhaps after all, the London mans scheme
is not SO far fetched as it seems but the enjoy
ment of wealth depends upon natural Temperament
and disposition. To some such enjoyment is
easy to find TO others it is difficult
Still, if a man is really burdened by his money
one way in which he could get rid OF It would b,
to enter politics. Mr.. Addicks always said tina
he found real happiness and enjoyment in poll
teal life