San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-03
Art Of Living and Loving
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Are you enjoying every moment
Of your life: Arc you bringing out
your entire capacity for usefulness.
and happiness, friendship and love-?
Yes? Then you have succeeded in
linking love with the fine art Of liv-
ing.
Art is a skillful, systematic ar
rangcment of means 10 attain an end.
The end of life is permanent joy and
peace. To really live we must enjoy
our lives. So the art of living con-
sists in arranging every circumstance
and detail of your lives i'll such Il
way as to produce the utmost lasting
happiness.
Men and women are social beings,
so they look to their fellows for hap
piness and can't live unto themselves
alone. We must love and be loved
TO be happy. Also human beings do
not reach the fulfillment of life and
the content that comes with fulfill
mcnt unless they pass along the torch
OF life to the next generation through
love and marriage. From all this it
follows that completely successful
life must include friendship. good will
to others. love and happy marriage.
My family has always pulled to-
gether." said n radiant little woman to
me. She had just returned from n
successful search for an apartment for
her brother and his wife in response
to a wire from them asking her to
find them a home in the city before
their arrival.
There's nothing my brothers and
sisters wouldn't do for me-" she added.
"and nothing l wouldn't do for them"
Such a family, devoting every effort
and all skill and ability to mutual
happiness, makes an art of family af-
| lection.
Whatever you do with all your
might and skill and absorbed interest,
you do artistically. whether it's bak-
ing loaf of bread, tipping a page or
writing a poem. And in doing your
work artistically, you do it success
fully to that degree and love doing
it. This is the secret of happy work.
Sarah Bernhardt has told some
where in her memoirs how she became
an artist. She was making mediocre
success in a play. She needed a vaca-
ton, but the manager of the play de-
MED her leave of absence.
Discouraged and piQued by this re-
fusal. she resolved to work so hard
at her acting that her health would
break and shame the hard hearted
manager. So she threw herself into
her work, sparing not one iota OF
strength and vitality, skill and clever
ness, losing herself completely in what
she was doing.
To her surprise, she found this ut
ter absorption in work rested her.
gave her work added zest interest and
enjoyment for her and made her an
artist acclaimed by all critics.
If we would throw all our clever
ness and tact, all our devotion, skill,
interest and enthusiasm into our af-
fections, friendship and love, We would
make a tremendous, beautiful success
of friendship. love and marriage, and
of all the relationships of home.
Anne loved John and she knew she
loved him. AS the months went by
she felt more and more convinced that
John was the one man who could
make her happy. even though he were
poor. John was a good man-and
that was that.
Her parents tried to dissuade her
from dreadful marriage" But at
% Anne married John, refusing the
alternative of trip around the world.
SO her parents went travelling and
Anne went TO live with John in a
tiny bungalow.
That was three years ago. One
year ago Mother returned from her
travels and made Anne a long visit
in the tiny cottage. She returned hap
| py and contcnted, convinced that
Daughter has after all made a won
derful marriage-not dreadful at all.
] Yes, John is poor. But he's ambi-