The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-17

the huge Homeric feasts that sustain
the mowers, reapers and binders un-
der their fine, manly labors If you arc
a poor woman. But get 1t! Get some
sun, wind, rain, grass. trees, flowers,
exercise, freedom. fun. in your blood
the autumn comes and the severe
weather drives you back to desk, office.
mill store oiGmachine. There is no
better investment than the open air.
The Silent Partner.
We pay mighty little attention to
this quiet. but terrible member of the
firm, until smash comes. He sends in
heard, known, upon being paid the ut
termost farthng.
we toll and moil and strain and
struggle up and fall down, and set TO
work again feebly, mercfully using
, up all our physical resources day after
day, month after month, year after
mating sr a and fans
crushed and killed beneath it's iron
wheels. We have mo time for
pleasant walk: mo time for spcnding
| happily, easily, cheerfully with wife
and children, learning to know, guide
and love them; no time" for church
| or Sunday school, only for collapse on
Gods own day in the week; mo time"
/ to read, to play some instrument to
| acquire some language. to go out with
/ the wife to some pleasant entertain
men dinner or supper or thea5fe sn o
people who would like to be friendly am
call to see us or to return their visits:
mo time" for travel or even the neces-
sary dog-days' outing; mo time" for
!. driving or riding orrowing or tennis OF
j baseball. All these buffers we scorn.
and send ourselves with terrific i'm.
petus against the hard things of life.
, What then, is time for, ore even eter-
nifty? This grim, relentless pursuit of
wealth, or even livelihood, on the
part OF our American men, defeats It's
own object. They would work far bet
{ far more money and make 1T far more
, easily. II they would only remembet
, that flesh and blood cannot be over.
!, ! driven. like surly brute beast, without
. in the end terribly revenging itself
There never were such slaves as our
J free born American men! Never We're
. there men who made so many sacrl-
s. fees. worked SO unremttinSly, Sc
j Verely, considered themselves SO little.
got so little in return. The personal
expenses of the average American are
!, with what he earns.
Even our richest men are so set in
the mould of self-sacritice. self-denial,
self-control. economy. moderation. by
the business habits of n lifetime, that
: when atiiuenoe comes, they do no,
! know how to be idle. to occupy them
y themselves to materially alter thelI
7; way of living. German men of every
s class are to be seen every evening a,
i the public gardens with wife. and chill.
t, dren and friends enjoying their beer
q and pipes; at the opera (Which is won.
i. derfully good there, and SO cheap that
Il nearly every one can enjoy it, en-.
n joying their music; at the games, en-
H joying ball as well at sixty as they
d used to at six; at races. parades, pic
3 ture galleries enjoying beautiful horses
h fine regiments, lovely pictures; at IL
g braries spending long evenings OF every
II winter, enjoying new and old books
i, They put plenty or enjoyment into their
II lives and lay aside business with theft
n actly the same thing, and adds his
Z weekly excursions, If in Paris, to Com.
a piegne; Versailles, Fontainebleu. the
!. Bois de Boulogne, his religious an {
ID the provinces out into the countryside
,e The Italians have their arbors ane
n daily. assemblies OF friends for a glas:
10 of wine, while the children make flow.
ie err garlands for the goats and the ole
h grandmother. mother, babies. dogs. cats
st disport themselves all around him an'
,e to be fed and petted. In Bavaria TIL
a forests are gemmed with pavtlions ans
,e tho cities with art galleries and tn
- whole country is full of good ligh
are minded to be merry they fau 7
\ dancing to Strauss waltzes until the.
are tired out, sing .glees and drinl
toasts and talk politics, the play. tn
pany with Their their families, or r. viii
knapsacks on their backs they talk
their beautiful mountains or summer i
goat herds hut In one of their higi
secluded. cattle-dotted, foWer-decket
esop sav. as ore nysn m tSaa
do-at least our men do. They wall
ride drive over hill, dale and heather
they curl, golf, travel, read enjoy .the1
numerous clubs, boat. fish for salmon
shoot in the highlands and are bound
lessly hospitable
And in England, in that. gloom
damp. dismal climate, men have az
take a great many plcasures-all tt
national ones-horse races, boat race
Marathons. clubs. Libraries, theatre
picture galleries. cricket, walsln
only Virginia, in her palmy days, ev
| folk Of England, indeed. But v
| Americans are only just beginning
| recognize the fact that all work Al
| no play" makes Jack not only du
| boy but sick, stupid, miserable al
| dead boy. as wsl. We give to o.
| women and our children the earth al
| the fulness thereof; no others on ear
| are SO INDUCED, so honored. SO loved
| pampered so spoiled. That gigan
figure OF Liberty in the harboI, q, OF ! ~ !,
York really. stands for the Amere'
| see our women Chinese doll-slaves n
| Oriental prisoners in harem, II
/ yoked with the ass in our fields as
/ Switzerland nor worked like the ifs
i wives Of France and Scotland, II
| half -starved and worked to death,
| in the mill communities of Great Br
| ain and tho Continent. But do not 9
women and our children work. I
4 little? DO not our men work entire
/ Of them quite pride themselves, We
| foolishly. upon not having taken
i holiday for twenty years GOOD hoa
l ems! Where Is the merit of It? WI
i have they not suffered and lost
health. life, happiness, by, not dol
i soY And not they only, their wiz
their children, their friends and neig
i borhood. Haste Is not getting abe
always; 1t sometimes means fall
far, far behind, and out OF the ra
altogether, and into metallic oy'
4 coat
In This is another matter, ours rs
fearfully extrayagant nation, s.,
/ don't know what thrift means IN eltl
II the parlor or ,he kitchen. We COY
III a meanness TO lower the gas.
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