Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-21

perhaps week. Maybe you'd be willing to do it for two weeks. But to do it week after week and keep l on doing it right along,-I-doR't- 1 know!
 Money is mighty handy thing to ] have. A hundred and twenty-five l dollars a day are big wages for any l farmer Investments of quarter Of
 a million are pleasant papers to have around the house. MT. Reard worked | twenty hours days or worse to get 1 there. It is rather evident that he did 1 mt have time for anything except ! work and those on -the-ca "snoozes" 1 during money getting trips, And now i he's got so that he can't do anything | different. He still works sixteen to l eighteen hours a day, and doesn't want any 'Iayoffs or picnics." Why" !" he says, T couldn't take a rest if l wanted to. l don't know how. Two
 weeks of vacation would put me in l the insane asylum. Work is what l want; I've got to keep going" Now the first question is whether Peter Reard has or has not paid for | his quarter of 8 million all that 1t is worth and a trihe more?
 i What do you think? Come, young man with your ardent desire for
 wealth; think it over. Are you will 1 ing to work from eighteen to twenty l hours a day for twenty-nine years [ from this 1914 to 1943 without one hours recreation or rest. except what you may get by 'snOOzes' on 8 mar ket cart during your rides,-are you yourself that, after twenty mine years of that sort of work you'll have a quarter of a million dollars; and be incapable of any other aim in life eX- cept the collecting of more dollars? :? Do you really believe that that would be the best way for you to use your self?
 confess that. a I think over this side of it, l am tempted to hold up Peter Reard as a horrible example of what NOT to do.
 But let me quote two sentences more from MT. Reard:-
 'Td rather pull a fine onion and sell it at a good price than play a hand in a poker game: and there's more recreation in watching a real cabbage head grow than in watching certain human cabbage heads caVort past the footlights. I'm out of doors and I'm doing what I like to do; what more can a man ask
 Now, that puts another color into | the situation. You see now what it was made Peter Reard do the work he has done
 He hi>ed il.
 what WOuIO nave pGC1 inLOlSFaOlo 1 hardship to most of us was enjoyment to him. What we should have con- sidered drudgery, he found recreation. 1 It wasn't work for him to pull onions and tend cabbages; 1t was just fun. i He preferred raising radishes to rais- i ing Cain with the other boys. 7 So there comes in the other query l whether he oughtnt to be held up as sorr of model. He chose out the work he was fitted for and to which he naturally inclined. He made of that work an enthusiasm and an in- ! spirat1on. Growing cabbages isn't anything like as hard work as playing 1 baseball and. if one can really find 1 as much live fun in ?, as i'll base 1 ball. It Is certainly apt to prove more l profitable. You don't have to pay anything to get into your own cab | bage- patch to see the things grow. 1 On tho other hand, the cabbage heads i pay You something for helping them i to grow. It is perfectly clear that 1 Peter Ecard like many of us, had his i choice and &nose the sort of life which l held tho most,-for him. He succeed l ed at it, to his own satisfaction. He's | 'Out q doors and doing what he likes i to do; what more can a man ask?" confess that l have a good deal of l admiration for that spirit As near as ] l tween work and play is exactly con- 1 ,ained in that sentence. Play is what We want to do but can't: work is what we don't want to do but have
 to. At least that is the case with the llost of us. But isn't he a blessed i fellow who can turn the proposition i inside out and take for his work ex- l arllg that which he would, If ;t ful!
 IL eTty. av~ chosen as his play? i ---
 l And how much happier We would ! all be.-hoW much more successful we would all be,-how much better off 1 the world would be if all could follow
 l that plan!
 "Alf very nice, MT. Farmer" seem
 1 to hear some one say: but how about
 1 those numerous Sons of Rest who hate
 i Il work of every sort, as the devil
 i IS said to hate holy water
 l Oh, well, I'm not preaching any
 crusade or defending any particular
 ] philosophy.
 1 Indeed, I'm not quite sure where ]
 am going to bring up myself, in the
 l matter. I'm only sort Q thinking il