Evening star., 1926-06-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

We left Louis Cornaro yesterday
making the statement that he felt he
had a long time to live in this beau
tiful world. which is, indeed, beautiful
to those who know how to make it sc
for themselves"
Written 400 years ago at Venice
| the above is answer enough to the
American lady who hoped up at a
social work convention recently tc
make known her views that the home
as an institution, Is in q class with
Santa Claus.
Sneering at the home makers, she
Is reported to have declared that the
home is a "fetish," that is, q sort OF
modern god. because no one seems to
believe In it any more.
The existence of hundreds of thou.
! sands OF happy homes throughout
America proves the lady entirely
wrong. There are, 1t is true, many
fake homes, homes that are failures
simply because the occupants do not
know how to make them beautiful.
This minority, however, Is far. far
outnumbered by those who do know
how to make their homes beautiful
for themselves. as we'll as the world
in which, they live. Each home is its
own problem, and no one else can
work 1t out for you except yourself
Life, as a general proposition, is a
personal affair, in which one may be
aided, undoubtedly, but where the
main work has to be done by one
self.
We present now a few more gems
from Cornaro's "The Temperate
Life" and will leave out the quota.
ton marks, as every word following
will be the product of the Venetian
centenarian. The gems:
1t is certain that habit. in man
eventually becomes second nature,
The force of habit will triumph even
over reason.
o wretched and unhappy Italy,
canst thou not see that intemperance
Kills every year amongst thy people
as great q number as would perish
during the time of a most dreadful
pest1lence, or by the sword or fire of
many bloody wars!
And these truly immoral banuuets S
OF thine, now so commonly the GUS
tom-teaSts so great and intolerable
that the tables are never found large
enough to accommodate the innumer-
aole dlshes set upon them, so that
they must be heaped, one upon an.
other, almost mountain high,-must
we not brand them as. so MANY de-
structiVe battles! Who could live
amid such a multitude of disorders
and excesses.
ON, for the love Of God, I con lure
you TO apply a remedy to this unholy
condition. for / am certain there is
no vice more displeasing to His Df.
vine Majesty than this fatal one of
intemperance. (Note: Cornaro used
lntemperance in its general sense.
not IL limited one) Let this new
death. worse than any pestilence
ever known, be driven out of ItaIy. as
was the case with that other epi-
demic, which. though it once caused
so much misery, nowadays does but
very little harn-indeed, scarcely
any-thanks to the improved state Of
affairs brought about by good sani-
tary regulations.
For there is a remedy by which
we may Danish this fatal vice of IN
temperance-an easy remedy, and
one of which every man may avail
himself If he will--that Is, to live in
accordance with the simplicity Of
Nature, which teaches us to be salts
ned with little, to follow the ways of
holy self-control and divine reason
and to accustom ourselves to eat
nothing but that which is necessary
to sustain life.
Intempe:ance is merely a. gratifica.
ton of the palate-a pleasure that