The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-11-27
REQUIREMENTS OF HIGH LIFE.


knowledge of what real happiness is.
We imagine that happiness depends
upon something external; whereas, /
in point of fact. externals have very |
little effect upon our happiness ex-
cept to hinder It. Many millionaire
poor man has longed for thousand |
lives
Happiness is a thing altogether in
ternal. and depends not upon the
multitude of our possessions, but up
on our appreciation Of the ones we
have. 1t is our failure to realize this
that our admiration for high society
| begins. We think that a champagne
supper is a jolly entertainment be-
| cause it looks like it. We regret that
the old family horse is not an auto
mobile, and we prefer steam heat to
the old CRATE fire. not because the
steam heat and the automobile are
essentially the more enjoyable, but
because they cost more money III
prunes were $3.50 pound they
would be considered a rare delicacy.
and mushrooms la carte would fall
below the level of spinach
1t should afford as much pleasure
to a person to go to the theater in a
street car and in ordinary clothing as
to be driven to the place in cab and
to wear picture hat large enough to
obstruct the vision of a dozen people
in the seats behind. 1t ought to give
as much satisfaction to read a single
book, and know it well, as to buy 40
yards of them in bindings to match
the wall paper and never see the in
side of any. It ought to be as pleas
ant to ride behind the same good old
family horse every day as to own
three stables full and use different
one on each pubic occasion. But to
the mind of the high liver simplicity
has no charm. To seem to be happy
is his ideal of happiness He does
not consult his own Judgment with
respect to what will give him solid
comfort or satisfaction, so much as
he considers the opinions of those
about him and struts for their APP
plause.
OF course the high liver is not al
ways to blame. Sometimes he has a
wife who would rather see him the
leader in local society than have him
+ President of the United States. Some
times he has daughters and sons who
lead him around by the nose and
bully him into a dress suit when he
! would rather be sitting at home be
side a base burner reading Shake
speare. Arkwright, the inventor,
had a wife who became disgruntled
at the poverty which her brilliant
husband might have prevented and
threw his models into the fire The
; wife of struggling politician, who
later achieved national fame, is re-
puted TO have driven him from the
house and soused him with bucket
= of sIop because she objected to the
! style in which she had been support.
ed. And many an equally brillian;
man, lacking the courage and resolu-
= ton of these men. has consented t
be made the lackey of some bridge
club in preference to running fol
j Congress.
F" But in the majority of cases tbs
fault lies strictly at the door of tn,
= offender himself. who prefers the
heshpots Of Egypt to the milk anC
= honey Of Canaan, and who sells hi
birthright to happiness for a mess o
, pottage. He loses present content
ment and future prosperity by hi
'e blind devotion to the requirements o
= high life; while the right liver, VIII,
seeks for the things that count gain
Z both
y There is a story somewhere in
book of long ago, that tells of a MAJ
u who iourneyed from worlds end t
worlds end, seeking the pot of gol
~ which lay at the base of the rainbow
- Forever grasping, forever struggling
~ he made his way over foreign land
and through perilous places. thinkin
as he staggered from hill to Hill tina
the wonder spot, where the many
tinted arch bent down and kissed tn
- earth. lay just beyond But when j
% had travelled around the world an
found the end of the rainbow at las
- he saw that it rested upon the yer
spot from which be had started, an
that neighbor who had remained
ia home had discovered the pot of gol
while blowing his own field.
a. The requirements of high life car
- not be met by any man or woma
= who desires to succeed. for they il
~ voIve a style of life that saps tt
% strength of mind and body that
necessary to all worthy attainmen
ne That man will live longest and Ii
'e' most happily who regulates his COZ
ile duct not with a nurnose of SEEN