The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-03

Is life worth living? That is a question which sooner or later will every man and woman. Some of those who have this question propounded by tteir inner selves will unhesitatingly answer that ii is most certainly moi worth living Some men and some women will answer thus. and. If they tio they have real or fancied cause foI deciding that from their own ex perence the game is not worth the ,andle.'
 But the majority of men and the ma jority of women will either answer the question promptly in the af'irma- tive. 1t is worth living. or they will think the matter over and after due (, nsideration decide that they would rather be alive than dead. A general axiom which is world wide and maybe as obi as the world 2 nd that is the variety Is the spice of ! life"
 Ii this is SO and if life is worth liv , ing at all which 1t is. then it is worth filling with spice.
 | Those who we will find answering 1 the question lis life worth living" In the negative are those whose life has l ro variety. no spice.
 eople who get out into the world end DO things. accomplish things make something go" are never found ! complaining that life has no variety. They find plenty of variety and plenty of spice in attending to their own af fairs. and sometimes in attending to the affairs of others. This latter habit may not be so inspiring to the "others" but it certainly lends spice to the lives o. those who do the attending and they are therefore happy because they are out of rut
 The recluse is never happy. The stay at home is never happy. The misanthrope and the chronic kicker are never happy.
 The happy people. rich or poor. are those who are out in the midst of things that are going on. They do not stick SD close 10 their business or their home that they loose touch with all of the life and movement going on about them. They mix They go 10 things and when they get there they do not sit down and twirl their thumbs and wish that they were home. They do what the rest of the live ones do and they do it with a heart filled with the joy of the doing. With 4 mind at peace with the world and with a determination to get the best out of 0 life that is very much worth the living.
 One of the worst things in the world for man or woman Is idlenass. Men require occupation of body and of mind and more and more women are be ginning to require the same thing
 This is supplied to some extent for the nan by the exactions of his business or profession and for the woman by the duties of the home. But there is rot enough of change or of relaxation
 in this and both a man and a woman must seek the variety that lends the spice. That is one reason why clubs and fraternal orders where men gather to discuss subjects other than mat ters of business arc such excellent things It as a reason why the wo- mems clubs are of % much benefit to the members. Both take the mind from the sordid things of the daily routine and add the spice"
 But just home and club or just ofics and club are not enough. The variety is not really variety if confined tc
 but one or two. or even few things
 In a place where the variety is al
 limited as 1t is in Nome t should in. clude everything Ball games. for in. stance. and dances and everything els< that is going on.
 l Perhaps 1t is a bore to get ready and go. If 1t is. look out. You art getting to the stage where life is go- ing to become not worth living" Per