The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-09-30
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HOME BUILDER JACK
GIVES GOOD ADVICE.
Suburban Life Most Intimately
Connected With Elevation Of
Character. :, -
Cost Of Living Too Becomes Un.
known Factor Amidst Gar %
den Possibilities.

den Possibilities.
Second of a series OF weekly SER
monettes on the ART of LIVING
and HOME LIFE" by the Rev Mr..
Jack the Home Builder; whose home
and passionate Is in Duluth.
address myself ON this occasion
to the ladies. I do; So. advisedly,
because, whether the opinion be
right or wrong, it is given credence
by many, that the womens OPPOSE
ton to the so-called. drudgery of ru-
raj and suburban life, is largely re-
sponsible for the congestion of city
population. - :: a..
If that be the attitude of our good
sisters. the art of living becomes a
very difficult problem, and one that
for it's solution demands the most
earnest and persistent efforts on
part of laymen, as we'll as clergy
men, who have the uplifting Of the
masses and the building Of charac-
ter dear to their hearts.
Solomon was accredited. not
only with being wiser than most of
us, but as being the wisest man that
ever lived during the three thou
sand years or more that had pre-
| coded his advent upon the planet.
This man was a reigning monarch
| whose will was the law of the land.
He united in himself the three func-
! lions of government-executi leg
islative and judicial. He could say
| to this man go" and he went,
usually to his death. He could say
to another come" and he came
to the King with all the "coin Of
the realm" in his possession. In
short, he had all the power his ex-
allied position could bestow; he had
every comfort and luxury that, a SUI
perabundance of money could bring:
he had no less than nine hundred
and sixty-nine of the fairest and
contest ma1dens in the land to dance
attendance upon his every whim; he
was what the honest Hibernian of
the present day would call "a cork
er''-so he was. Queens from sheba,
and kings from the remotest ends
! of the earth, with trains of attend
ants, and immense bodies of dis
tinguished retaineEy. =. made regular
excursions to his, home to testify of
their admiration for his magnif1-
cence and splendor. His city life
was a perpetual rainbow of pleasur-
able enjoyment. But he knew moth
Ing of the enobling influences of
"a TIL :
flowers and meadows, did not COM
municate their language to him. A
greater than he, however, stated In
substance that the simple lily of the
field excels in grandeur, the most
imposing splendors of royalty. SOL
ONION in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these"
Surely forty years of the posses
sion of those city circumstances and
.felicities ought to have been long
enough time to have enabled. this
monarch to extract happiness there
from, if such an attribute could ever
be predicted Of them. But alas! My
text gives you his conclusion Of the
whole matter, "All is Vanity and
Vexation of Spirit and he who
drank to the dregs the cup of all
the pleasures that social life in the
| city could give went down to his
grave unwept unhonored and I
might add without doing injustice
to Ms record-unhung. II
After one has gone the whole
round of all the city's fashionable
designations, and there is nothing
left which one can relish, life really
| becomes masquerade, in which one
can recognize only hypocrites and
f1atterers, and regardless of wealth,
surroundings or, anything else life
will be failure. because the true art
Of living was ignored or rather lost
sight Of Lux r >z...
The seeing eye and the feeling
heart give truest zest to life. The
! former is best developed not in the
! crowded flats or tenements Of cities,
but in natures own school rooms,
the gardens and the fields, and these
only yield Of their richness to the
men and the women who show their
appreciation Of them by dwelling
| with them, whether that be In beauti-
full Woodland. picturesque Lakeside
or exalted Duluth Heights. it mat
tiers not the, great question is to be
closer to nature where she can relish
her charms unmolested and unalloy-
ed. T. = !. 81 III 55
But this is not all. In these days
Of complaint about high cost OF liv-.
Ing, If our city men, and city women
too, would bestow one-quarter Of the.
nervous energy they now devote to
denouncing the trusts upon cultivating
and developing q patch Of land In any
Of the suburbs named, the cost. OF liv-.
Ing would become an unknown guam
ttty, and the reflective influence for
good upon the thought, health. mind
and judgment would be inestimable.
.1.,z 81. sS IN. 3ss5 's5.s AMEN.
a Comp ARSON.
horse is man Z, truest friend, !"
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