Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-16
Must Seek Adventure.

Idlers' should be our gospel Of
leisure.
Must Seek Adventure.
But l surely can not convince
you of the pleasant adventures
locked up in books by eXhuming a
few quotations, any more than you
could convince me of the pleasures
OF tennis by showing me a racquet
or bucket of lime Let us get
oack to our original proposition,
namely, that leisure ahould be
spent in search of adventure.
1t is essential that adventure, to
be real must be in part on untrod-
den ground. 1t is because the vast
majority of people do not have the
courage to venture off the beaten
track that they fail to find it and
live lop-sided lives accordingly.
Lack Of courage to adventure
INTO the unknown is common even
in our universities. The man who
spends his leisure in the pursuit of
anything outside the regular"
round of athletics, societies, dra-
MATES, etc, is likely to be thought
more or less queer And thus we
graduate each year tens of thou
sands of nice boys and girls,
chained for life to a little dusty
piece of Gods green earth bounded
on the north by dollars. on the
south by movies, on the east by an
automobile, and on the west by
clothes. OF course, these things are
all good. and there are even people
who exc out tolerable existence
on them, for like the squirrel born
in a cage, they know nothing bet
ter.
Dollar Route BoresOmc.
But the time will come when
one of you, who has chosen the
dollar clothes-auto-m route will
tire of these things and will
need more dollars and more autos,
and then still more, to escape
boredom, while another. who may
be different only in having devel-
oped a thirst for collecting butter
flies, or whiting at a bench, or
growing dahlias, will keep his
youth and constantly augment his
happiness. And this man will also
somehow achieve many incidental
NiAliIoS INV illAlOA NoIN NAlhii NANiANh
his happiness or his dahlias. His
sons will love him because he can
talk their young language. His fell
low men will respect him because
he is happy and generous. His pol
itics and religion will be sound, be-
cause he is tolerant and sane and
sympathetic.
Describes adventures"
IT suppose that consistency de-
mands that now point out the To-
cation of some of these untrodden
pastures l have been talking about.
Yesterday for instance, l read
about a man who had found an
egg-a plover's egg. He was in an
ecstasy of delight and pride be-
cause the egg was spotted whereas
the egg of that peculiar species of
plover should have been white.
Now most of us would find little to
crow over in a spotted egg.
yet such is the fact. The ex-
PLANTATION is this: There is only one
species of plover in the world that
lays white egg. All other plovers
eggs are spotted. This anamoly
has always thrown a monkey
wrench into the theory of generic
relations. Now it is proven that
even this one species occasionally
lays a spotted egg like the other
species. This spotted egg, regard
ed as a "throwback" or an avatlsm,
indicates that after all the whole
genus of plover had a common ORR
gin. The monkey wrench is re-
moved, and the whole world of sci
ence is indebted to the man who
did it.
Fisherman May Study.
"Once l knew a doctor who