El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-24

| ~ happiness We go through life
searching for it Aud when we
find it. we don't recognize it.
This has been said before by
writer's too numerous to mention. No
one ever said It more beautifully than
did Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet and
philosopher, in THE Bluebird." Mityl
and Tityl go hand in hand through
kingdoms Of the world. and beyond
the world find the bluebird of happi-
ness They come home at last to their
little cottage, and in the case that
swings there the brother and sister
find the bluebird. And, finding It,
they free it for the rest OF the world
to possess
Most OF US go wandering about
hunting for happiness. and there IL
is all the while right at home. It
isn't a mysterious, unusual. elusive
bluebird-it is nothing we can cage
ii is just the simple peace that comes
from well doing and kindness and the
contentment real honest effort
Happiness in Dreams.
Some Of US find happiness IN
dreams which we never strive to ful-
fill-those OF US are weak The
strong, too. must dream, only they
follow and strive to capture work
and to make dreams come true.
After all, when Kipling wrote For
the Colonefs Lady and Judy OGrady
Are Sisters Under Their SKINS he
told a great, big, vital truth
All Of US are alike-an Of us want
the same things, comfort and success
are the way some Of US put ito
others II can mean no more than a
roof over the head and enough to eat
What we want is always Just a little
unhappiness Is in having no desires.
in being too blase or too stupid to
have visions and longing for their full
fillment-in being dull and lethargic
and completely fed up by dull pros
perity which we have done nothing
to earn.
All of us have TO meet bitter, heart
breaking sorrows. We have to bend
before them now and then. however
brave we are Some Of them are IN
conQuerable. There are minor ills,
however, which can be conQuerd by
gripping yourslf. meeting or defeat
ing them, and cheerfully assuring
yourself that you can get beyond
them to the good and the desirs bic.
Satisfaction in COnquering.
There is a certain satisfaction in
knowing you have fought and con-
quered these difficulties. Co on and
do the days work with an undercur-
rent OF desire to find the bluebird of
happiness and suddenly you will dis
cover that you have been so interested
to miss happiness or to notice I
whether or no you are actually happy. I
That's the Joy of being busy-it keeps !
you from being morbid enough TO 4
analyze your own state of mind.
Do you realize that we are making /
a little journey and passing a series I
Of landmarks We thought we wanted I
to be happy-but that selfcenTered, |
selfish desire possessed us. But We
had to do the days work. So xith 4 |
little vision Of beauty we set off and |
found ourselves getting Interested IN 4
our job At night there came = Ger
tain satisfaction. That satisfaction /
meant an inner Joy at having been I
part Of the world building process So 4
work brought a certain cheer -per-
haps that in itself is happiness.
Well. it is. Real happiness comes
from contributing something 10 the /
world. not in taking something from
Cecile has her own roadster. her
father has a limousine, a touriag car
and an electric Her home is heljsti-
full She can order $40 dresses with
out taking thought - who will ray
the bill But when he gets IN N
the morning an aimless lay lies
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view. She's just going 10 Kill time.
She sits out a dance at the country
club. and that makes her misera bic.
Her beloved Norman falls in love
with her chum. Cecile is heart
broken" She has no work TO maize
her forget herself-no duties to take
her out Of herself: she is Just given
over to complete. absorbing, selfcen-
tered misery She has q dreadful
lime and is pathetically sorry for her
is sorry for heT, poor
hing,
And yet you envy her-you. Judy
0'Grady. who gets up morniuGs and
lurry ont TO your Job as waitress on
he early shift in the cafe. Sat the
good looking head waiter likes yoU-i
sdmires your neat efficient WAYS
Perhaps you will fall in love and
marry and be happy. Perhaps he will
urn from You TO that Nelson girl.
Ind you will be pretty miserable for
! time. too.
-hink how misera bic you are because
you need your $50 a month and lips
And you have TO earn them Earning
rem means remembering roast reef
are and French frieds. You can't
hink about our own misery when