The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-13
SAYS UNCLE CAV

In the long run, the cheapest
things are best-the things that are
cheapest when measured by the
money standard. For the economy
of creation prevents the great neces-
stiles from being long herded into
anybody's corner and made the in
strument' of continued extortion. 1t
is the simple foods that make strong
bodies and cost least; simple pleas
ures hat are the lightest burden upon
1.-THE pocketbook and afford the great
est inspira ton. The cheap things
make for healthy bodies and Vigor-
Gus mindS-in themselves the hugest
possessions and the cheapest pleas
ures in the world.
Most of us are really letting the
world go to waste. We turn enV1ouS
eyes to our fat, overfed and over
dressed neigh bors and complain that
the good things of the earth are gath
cred into the hands of the few. We
hate the man who has a great deal of
money, regardless of whether he is
killing himself and losing the fun of
life in getting it. We lament the
weakness that keeps us from wrest-
ing wealth and power and place
from those who possess them. Yet
few of US seek to attain the strength
necessary to win, and still fewer of
us realize that the best things of life
are to De naQ IOr the mere
Il have the seed of genius within
me and might amount to something
if I had the means to obtain the medi-
cal treatment necessary to restore
my health" complained brilliant
man to a wise physician. without
such means L shall die a failure"
You deserve to- retorted the ply
stefan. The public road is free
that's all you need to recover your
health-about all that anybody needs.
Do ten miles a day and you'll have
all the strength you need for your
mental labors
The patient was quite correct as to
the seeds of genius. He had them.
But, like most persons who are i'll,
he was dying of his own folly. He
was physically low. 1t cost him
nothing but a little effort to make
himself strong and successful. Wealth
has not yet cornered the two greatest
healing factors in the universe-the
free fresh air and the open road. 1t
never will corner them, but most of
us let them go to waste. holding them
of little account because they are
without price.
Once on my wandering along
lonely road, 1 came upon two pur-
poseful men dwelling side by side in
wooden shacks, through the plankS
of which the breezes of winter and
summer might play with equal free
dom. One had been a dweller in the
SlumS and one mad known TOO mucn
luxury. Both had come back to the
soil for healing.
Said one: Il couldn't breathe in
the squalid surroundings of my boy
hood. l couldn't get strong. So [
broke for the open and here l am,
working now and then to provide my
small necessities and educating myself
from books, which, thank God, are
cheap"
Said the other: IT lived too easily,
therefore 1 didn't live at all Mem
tally and physically, I became the VIC
tim of a sort of fatty degeneration
found my friend here and he
showed me the way. When we've
paid our dues to nature were going
back to fight it out with men who
haven't"
They're going back soon and when
they go back they'll win.
There is no capital in the world like
health. no purchasable pleasure like
that of feeling the good red blood
rioting in veins atingle for useful toll.
When the artificial life gets you down
and out, remember that the road is
free and the fresh air is free, that
simple food costs little and clothes
are a matter of little consequence to
man at the bottom who is pre-
pared to climb.
There isn't wealth enough in the
world nor are there strong men
enough to deprive you of your chance
to make a man of yourself if they
wished to-and they on't-(Copy-
right, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)