The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-09
What Are You Going to Do Today?

When YOU get down to the bottom of
this article, which viii be the last thing
YOU read in the Sunday paper, what
Will YOU do with yourself the rest of
the day?
Stay home. and lounge around the
shady places in your shirtsleeves2 1t
is a temptation to Just do as You please.
To watch the hands of the clock pass
the extreme limit Of your usual rush
for the ear that YOU may reach your
place of business or toll just in time
TO escape censure or dock, and feel that
YOU don t have to do a lick of work for
any man on earth. | once heard of a
soldier who long after his discharge
used TO sleep near the cantonment,
where he could hear the CHEEKY bugles
sounding the reveille in the morning,
that he might reply to the call with
defiant execration, and roll over for an
other half hour nap.
When. in the old days, we used to
drive to church in the big wagon Sun
dav morning, I could not understand
| why the horses in every pasture rushed
| to the fence to watch the worshipers
drive by, and then, with loud neighings,
! tossed their heads. kicked up their heels
and galloped around the pasture. l com
prehend it now. They were expressing
| their feeling of freedom to their I'M
| happy comrades in the harness. They
were showing that they didn t have TO
work on Sunday. Their display of ami
nal spirits was merely a rational eX-
preston of horse sense. ! don t Won
der that man who has worked hard
all week feels like doing an immense
amount of loafing on Sunday. If is the
most natural feeling in the world. If
! like YOU. 7 had worked hard all week;
! if I had awakened early and sat NJ
| late: if 7 had been slave to an alarm
clock and Serf to a trolley schedule
ia want to lie in bed little while
longer. even after I was dead tired OF
the bed, lust to show that | could.
Put shirtsleeves make a man fee
more of Ioafer than he really is
Somehow any rag Of a coat dresses {
man a little more than shirtsleeves
Yon can t sit around that way all day
with well-dressed men and women going
past the house IF Won can. YOU ough'
10 feel ashamed of il. For the costume
is a badge of servitude. You take of
vou~ coat when YOU 90 to work. Yo1
toll in your shirtsleeves. \ Sunday
coat is toga Of freedom. \ clear
shirt is a proclamation Of liberty from
the bondage of toll. 4 new suit shout:
clear across the street that no living
Imam can make YOU do stroke Of worl
while YOU are wearing II.
You look more Of man in your Sun
dav clothes. Won carry yourself better
with shoulders squared and head erect
in a new suit. You are fully an incl
taller. Anybody knows that A MAJ
slourhes with his clothes. A misft Goa
makes a man lopsidea. When You
trousers begin to bag at the knees, yo1
begin to wohhle in your gait. A wrin
illle across the back Of your coat makes
Your shoulders droop. You know that
.'Cleaolness is next to godliness.'
And the morning bath and tue clear
garments give to the veFest sinner
certain of0r Of sanctitv When tramy
Is given even compulsory bath he feel
certain thrills of reformation. Tht
Japanese are among the cIeanliest PEG
nIc in the world. Bathing and persona
cleanliness are part Of their religion
The Russian peasants are quite Their re
verse See what happened when they
/ cIashed \ CRYING baby. bowling III
indignant lungs to rags, is so0thed anC
ouietcd by bath. Sometimes merel,
the washing Of the grimy, tear-and
ust-stained face makes a happy, laugh
ling baby Of it.
So Won are going to "dress un.'
arcn' t YOU? You viii put on your bes
clothes. won't Won? Just to please tn,
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