Evening star., 1928-11-01

! kind would be saved If 1t were not fol
the workings of this law!
Like children who grasp at the
moon, men and women continue
throughout life to look with enviou:
longing at the various moons of theii
| imagination.
These glittering bodies grow brighter
| and brighter as the years go by, until
many a life. satisfactory in itself, !:
ruined for the lack of something which
| after all might not have amounted te
very mach.
| Time has a queer trick of changing
| valuations What in youth appeared sc
essential, middle age knows to b, in
| consequential.
| What successful business man would
| be unhappy 40 years after" because he
| did not make" a certain college ira
| ternity?
Yet how downcast did he feel as a
young man, when social success in his
college town was measured by whether
or not one wore certain small jew
| eled pin on his vest.
| Seeing the absurdity of his feelings
of those days gone by, he might be ex-
pected to apply his self-gained knoWl-
edge to some good purpose In later lie
Does he?
He does not Now his ambitions are
centered on becoming member OF
certain exclusive luncheon club OF
business men.
| He yearns to belong"
He will never be happy till he gets 1t!
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The person who is dissatisfied with
himself presumably may go on to bet
ter himself, but he who wallows in the
mire of self-conceit will never change.
Therefore the only people who are
free from dissatisfaction are those GU
rious persons who not only know it all, y
as the popular expression has it, but
who are so pleased with themselves in
every way that they can see no pos
sibility for improvement in the great
product of Nature which they are.
More men are victims of this self
appreciation than women, although
when a woman is conceited she is
stuck on herself with a vengeance. She
not only knows it all, as her worthy
male compeer does, but she knows more
than that She knows. Her ideas are
sound. logical; her mental processes in
fallible. All which belongs to her Is
perfect. whether it be husband, child,
house. car, radio.
Happily, the mass of mankind falls
into mid-between classification,
somewhat we'll pleased with itself In
some respects, but displeased with
itself in others From the grinding OF
these two wheels comes life-in-the-
living as we know it.
The friction of these cogs strikes
forth sparks of life. From infancy to
old age, all that makes life interesting
comes from the illumination cast by
these interlocking forces.
The heat generated warns the heart
and the light thrown illumines the
mind, so that, warm-hearted and mind
Illuminated. we may go forward doing
the best we can for ourselves and
others.
Service, kindness. decency, honesty
these are few of the best products
from the turmoil arising in every char
acter because he is dissatisfied with
what he has, ever desirous of what he
hes not.
No complacent COW in stall, man
struggles to better himself, and out OF
the conflict comes what good he may
make for himself
Thus the D'Artagnans of this world,
although they may muse on the mis-
cries of poor human nature, are led
thereby to struggle onward and upward,
and to feel as they go that this, too,
is beneficent provision of the univer-
sal mother.