The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-03-02
CREATING OURSELVES

CrGAI 1Nd VONOG1VGO
There's good deal of difference between happiness and
pleasure No grew of through pleasure;
but through happiness you the word rightly he does grow
Much of the work which do is utterly
esting But of the work done by the and
that make that State What interesting
work the bank clerk who has add figures all day
cash through grating? He gets paid
but that does make the itself interesting
Happiness is what comes of interesting work And there's
hardly of that's thought ask himself what it
that makes any work interesting.
man ought have hobby. A hobby occupa-
ton gives himself in which he's making
thing, using his making creating faculty He requires
hobby his spare just because speaking generally
days work. bread and butter work. don't call his creative
power. Does bank clerks, shop girls? AS rule
when these people have done their days work. they after
pleasure instead of happiness That's because they
tired for anything else they think
hold of hobby work. creative making work.
intessng THAT is happiness producingl work Pleasure
what done by surroundings and the Likes hap
pness what you get yourself yourself active
and comes of creative make-ative action right work.
who his garden. evenings, violin payiog
makng is getting something pass from his
creative effort Hover beds and flowers music
He's happy He's got his creative soul in job. If he
paid gardener voln-make he might work
mechanically for love of ceativey and get
happiness Then in his evenings he'd get work
he did love after pleasure. Every mans got capacity
along some line in him. but many find wha, it is.
Well them you'll say, what chance of happiness in
here? Where's chance of Monotony all
day and emptiness all the evening.
say that we've got ourselves eae that
on this job should find only the evenings but the whole
day producing happiness, find the whole game interesting.
Most of will of here sometime Out of here
the in?or secreated all different?
How of stand upright and walk like Wouin,
little attention and few daily bring
interesting results beside helping health How many of
us control our moods and tempersf How about few
weeks practice acquiring inner cheerful
that can't be rued and that begins with the first
put of bed? Wouldn't that be having? Think
willpower should grow in the attempt Think how
health would improve if every in that spirit and
will that the food should build bodies will
stead of hndeng, and he Joy to live in! We eleven
hundred meals year and the body changes all through
few years We make pattern altogether
How many of us have minds that control? How
could carefully read good long of
poetry and then look away from the book repeat right
If could steady and strengthen enough that
should have mighty little difficulty learning anythng-say
useful language two.
How many of up in electricity engineering or
chemistry thousand things like that that double
worth makers when get These matters
languages shorthand there's end the things have
time and opportunity get in here
And in the highest thing of all, acknowledges Which
of know what he is what that that train mind
guide boss moods and good to
have, hold the thought that good hold forget
that if boss the mind and the mood bigger
than they Isn't it worth while give little every
evening at bedtime to the idea can will what
will, feel myself creative soul behind mind. this
body couded by moods creating oneself free
for the first time.
If get work along lines should soon
find life happy and growing every part a year or two
shouldn't know ourselves And it's all just
doing for those who ai seems won't get as for those
who will. The New Way.