Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-07
WORK is NOT MANS PUNISH.
MENT; 1T Is HIS REWARD
AND HIS STRENGTH, HIS
GLORY AND HIS
PLEASURE.

BY sybil LoveIoy Pritchard

BY SybiI Lovejoy Pritchard
The most useless, the most dissatis.
fed, the most unhappy man in the
world is he who does not labor,
either with hands or with brain.
There is no other satisfaction, 10
other happiness equal to that of the
man who has by his own toll produc-
ed a tale to teach the people, a pic
ture TO tell of the beauties of this
world. or food and clothing for the
nations of the earth.
There Is in every human soul this
desire to produce. The soul hat by
~selfshness, by dissipation or by pure
mental OF physical 1aziness has lost
this desire, has lost the joy of living.
Truly there are many who are liv-.
ing with some degree of happiness,
who do not appear to labor, but their
work Is the hardest and most unsatis-
flying in the world.
Recreation after toll is mans just
due. Without it he could not reach
his highest perfection. But when rec
reation becomes a business it is
WEAKNESS. To have nothing to do
day after day. year afer year means
q life of utter ~stagnation. which is
life at all. or a life of constant
search for amusement, a life of weary
disgust with unearned Joys that can
bring no joy. I
One of the greatest punishments
that can be inflicted upon a criminal
is to deprive him of labor in any form
The poorest oyerworked slave is hap
pier than he who has no means OF
occupying either ibis hands or his
brain.
The little child, who by unaccus-
toned concentration has accomplish
ed a small task for the mother has
felt a happiness not gained by the
most glorious play time.
There is a Joy to the iahorer in the
play of his muscles. in the feel of
the tools in his busy, competent
hands.
no make a plot of barren earth
bring forth, first the blade, then the
ear and then the full corr In the ear
to see his cattle housed and fed by
his NJ industry, brings to the farm.
err d sense OF sturdy independence
unknown to the dweller of a tropical
paradise, where the indolent need
only o eat Of the fruits SO abundant
III supplied and To sleep and dream
the lazy hours away.
There is pleasure 9 the housewife
In the sensation OF cleansing for her
self her cleaning glass, or more pro,
sale kettles. In hanging The snowy
linen to dry. and Ii doing the count
lless duties of the busy home maker.
The sculptor loves the clay be.
meath hts hands. What though bis
body he wears. hla brain tagged and
his heart sick With the needfni des
truction of unsatisfactory work. hi
10y wac ID the doing. II the labor i
self.
each of bis must work to give e thps'
warld that which Is ours 70 give. Th'
worId owes no man d living. Each 9
lis must justify oar existence by gu
usefulness and Id return receive sat
i~sfaetion and happiness in the reali7
!, alton of work well done
rs him who has labored Joyful
, through all his earthly days, who ha
! been privileged ii know the keen e
I ioymenf of deeds accomplished .
]. hard toll, hy sleepless nights. and ,
weary days, the future can hold 4
!, more glorious vision than the On
!. Kipling gives Iii his r Enyoir
I ana none but the Master shall prais
I as;
!, And none but the Master shall blame
1 And no i shall work for money
And az one shall work Tor fame,
But each for tie Joy Of the workin
And each Iii his separate star
4 shall paint the thing as he sees !
4 FOR the God of things as they are
IA