The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-14
GET OUT INTO THE OPEN ENJOY NATURE
Then You Won't Have So Much Time to Gossip About
Your Neighbors and Hand On Unpleasant
Stories Concerning Your Friends
AZ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Stories Concern
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
The greatest thing In the world Is
good health.
This has been animadverted upon
here before but its Just as true once
as it Is another time.
There's no discounting the fact that
money is nice.
But all the money in the world Is
not going to compensate for an ailing
body.
Although it ameliorates.
When it comes to q choice between
perfect health and piled up golden
ducats-there is no question-health
every time.
But when it comes to sick rich or
sick poor-why sick rich.
You can at least be more cOmforta-
BILE and have the opportunity Of try
ing a thousand remedies offered by
travel and change Of scene and envir-
onment.
But its splendid to be we'll.
The writer thinks she referred be-
fore to the story by Willis in which
a man, an invalid, pinched and SILVER
ing, wrapped to the ears and buttoned
to the throat, passed girl. rudy with
health, her collar blown open, her
hair tossed, her cheeks crimson and
his envious and despairing exclama-
ton:
God! How we'll she looks!"
There's nothing like 1t in the uni
verse.
The stings and arrows of outra-
geous fortune" may ball you up.
Fate may play you uncou tricks.
Friends desert you.
Love fail.
Ambition disappoint. ~
Ideals topple. !"
Hope fade.
But II health remains-you are free.
Life still takes on rose-colored hues.
You can camp by the roadside and
enjoy to the utmost the eating of a
bit Of dry bread or a juicy APPLE snatch
ed from an overhung hedge.
The out-of-doors!
There's magic in the words.
Why don't people live in the open
in the livable months?
When you hug the steam radiator
and sit afrectionately cheek by jowl
with the stove for eight months in the
year-why not take a chance at the
gifts of the gods the other four?
There's nothing that blows the
cobwebs out Of the brain sooner or
more surely than a walk.
II more people walked regularly and
often there would be fewer doctors
bills and less gossip.
II more girls took to golf and ten
mis- and out Of door sports there would
be less time for unhealthy emotions.
Richmond has one Of the best golf
links in the state. It is a part of the
Country Club and is for the club
membership, but any one desiring to
play the game can join the club.
Golf is as good a game as ever was
invented.
And it possesses a fascination i'm
possible to understand unless you are
its devotee.
l. Anyone can play.
The young, the old, the half and half
and the uncertain Of years. Its a game
for q whole family-father, mother.
sons and daughters can Join in.
Women, men, boys. girls-every-
body. anybody. And its beauty is that
1t can be played alone. You don't have
to run round hunting up someone to
play with unless you are averse to
your own exclusive society. You can
play against your own record and its
Frequently as exciting as against
someone else's.
You can take q whole day or a
week, for a game. You can sit down
between strokes and read a book or
look at the sky or hold a political ar
gument.
The statute Of limitations is not op-
erative in golf-except In match play
or tournaments.
But in ensemble play, so to speak,
there is more amusement and friendly
rivalry than in almost any other
game.
More and more are public golf links
being established by municipalities. A
recognition Of what they mean to CIV
ic life il dawning on the official pub
lie.
A public golf links would work
greater reforms In town than a doz.
en- "revivals Of religion" or a sheaf Of
blue laws with y Gordon Of police six
deep to enforce EN-.
People spend too much time gossip
ing about each other.