El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-30
THE USE OF ANYTHING
WHY ARE WE FIERE?I

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CPEAKINe Of discomfort among men and women, young
- and girls whether working for wages and salaries
N trades and commercial service or in business for them
selves engaged professional work, just making
living OF keeping home-what is the object Of living
anyhow
What are We here for7 Is It merely to win something
call pleasure7 And if So what is pleasure? pleasure
something definite and outside 70 be bought and consumed
ourselves If we VIII?
Too many Of US are inclined to look about little en-
Yiousiy others apparently making and spend
ing more than we too many folks seem to think that
every couteuted and ordinarily Wetodo person the
muuy must have been born in the lap of luxury and must
be sliding through life with small effort and worry.
IF the life history Of every person in FL Paso were
known who possesses share OF worldly goods it would
be found that with few exceptions the accuuang Of the
goods has been due to effort and application out Of the
ordinary, and accompanied by the devong Of considerable
time and energy and money to community work that could
not Be cassed purely selfish It would be found that
the Thrift that has resulted in the storing up Of something
denial al along the way.
It would Be hard to imagine dusr less profitable
monty calls pleasure These are the hopeless ones the
bored and morbid ones the useless ones who have no
thoughts in their heads but only the instinct that is really
predatory because it implies contribution to humanity
return for what it requires Of society.
Is It enough Z would be happy and conteuted,
merely to turn ones attention for few hours day
task whose fulment calls for certain amount Of pay2
Does duty to oneself end with the receiving Of the pay
chek2 Il is not intended to urge here any duty that
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II Is sufficient to start little thinking about what oppor
tunes for real pleasure being overlooked by folks
who strive hard for the false and delusTe pleasure
which turns TO ashes.
There IS sort Of pleasure that comes from increasing
ones knowledge. person who continues all through life
parsiseuy Studying and reading and observing and form
ing opinions and setting up for himself standards Of
judgment, VIII IND his enjoyment IN all things and al men
constantly becoming keene acute and the effects are
lasting This sort Of pleasure costs little nothing It IS
matter Of disposonof choosing to devote IN this
rav part Of ones leisure time. By consciously
consciously substituting tine standards for false finds
that there much the world to enjoy than he used
to think there vas
There is another kind Of pleasure that comes from doing
ines work thoroughly and vel for the works sake, quite
without regard to any appreciation lack Of It that nay
be received, quite without regard to the size OF the pay
hee Poets and plumbers, architects and h0uSena1dss
nay equally earn and share this SOFT Of pleasure. If one
an Be sure that he is doing all things vel when nobody
looking On, when nobody VII know If he had an
audience working under the eye OF somebody who
night make break hm-then indeed he Is the road
% pleasure Every man whether he knows i OF not Is ms
n se7erest CENSOR his greatest dlsappoinnents IN Ire
from his Of having failed to do his best.
There is pleasure hunting for the good IN all things
nd al men, hunting for what is worth While worth saving
nd developing worth helping; this habit once formed one
ecoss less and less inclined to cese harshy, and al
ife becomes EWestsr.
There is pleasure simply in playing the game in taking
isks overcoming obstacles Most Of those who make
-ood1 in this world hava been little daring than
her fellows; they have broken forth from the herd; they
ave had faith IN themselves and N the essential 7gsss
f The world. They have not been content always to let
hera direct their lives for them but they have asserted
heir personality. If they show that they have character
hey VII not find the world cold.
The most real and lasting and soul refreshing pleasure
ones from service One who Is always getting taking
sing and who gives not ont, is risug future Of dis
oHtent This is truth old the world. It is mystical
way, and yet It Is substantial anything IN human
psrence There IS not religion philosophy in the
World which does not in fern include this principle in
Is code
This Is chryzantherum time. Many weeks ago flower
overs began picking the crysantheum buds their gar
ems all but few but formed and had TO be picked
turn, and always it seemed that the buds
ing With the gardener 70 get the buds ready in
bundancs for Towering tine The gardener had to be
uthlsss; sometimes he merciful bit regretfu,
nd let 100 many buds remain Ii
When the buds begin 10 blow and the flowers unfold
heir glory to The autumn sun, then all the world
hat the beauty and magnioencs and opulence Of the
lowers Is IN inverse ratio to the number Of buds allowed TO
orm- Tie plant has been giving away what seemed its
cry life in order that the Ultimate product should be more
sautful. Tie more flowers pck-znd it is true Of
eses-the flowers nature n rapturous joy Of ful-
ed purpose. Let the plant do It pleases-ake buds
the pleasure it may getand It reverts to its wild
nd uncouth ancestry and its seeds OF slips vauess
inos its standards are degraded
An around Us, and women who have Hsuc-
sed5d giving Of themselves to the community. They DO