Evening star., 1932-05-20

Some one once said of Daniel Web
ster that there is no malice in the
man, but broad good humor and much
enjoyment of the hour"
The great buffalo of American ora
tory knew how to take life as it came,
| in which valuable art we can all learn
lessons.
Life often turns out not the way we
| want it, but the way it wants to be.
Better equipped is he to meet its bad
turns who has stored up the refresh
ments of the happy hours.
Much enjoyment Of the hour"
There are all too many people who
deliberately make a practice OF post
poning their happiness.
This they do, in part, by failing to
realize the little happinesses of the
every day which are theirs in the liv-
ing.
To keep their eyes so persistently on
the years ahead that they fail to live
| fully in this and in time come to make
a habit OF hope.
There is nothing in life greater than
hope, but when one puts of laughter
to futurity, he gives expectation a
greater place than it deserves, we think.
The great mansion one dreams of,
sitting on an eminence in the sight OF
all men. may never come, but the SIM
pie cottage of the passing years is warm
in Winter and cool in Summer.
He who can get much enjoyment of
the hour-any hour-at the time of the
hours passing is perhaps in better
position than he who eternally looks to
the future for happiness, or who prefers
to look backward to it.
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a sane adoption of leaf from the ami
mails book. The creatures do get a
great deal of fun out of living, which
they accept without sense of shame.
Where is the owner of pet dog or cat
who does not know their vast satisfsc-
ton In a tasty dinner or the great out
of-doors?
Many dog derives vastly more pleas
ure from its masters automobile than
the owner thereof. Yonder shrimp, sit
ting there in the right-hand scat, loves
the free flow Of air around its ears, the
sense of motion. the exhilaration which
comes with the consumption of space.
Men are space eaters, and so are
dogs. The house cat secures its best
pleasure by the simple fact Of being
out in the air, which is pleasant to its
nostrils. Every owner Of a cat knows
air as 1t comes in at a window De-
prived Of the real thing, they will sit
fairly content in open windows for
hours. smiling the air now and then
and watching with the greatest interest
everything which moves outside.
In a sense only can 1t be taken that
the best enjoyment of the passing hour
comes to those who are careless and in
different. Such undoubtedly enjoy their
hours, but inasmuch as they put no
thought upon them in passing, they fail
to reach to the heart OF this situation.
For the mind is all-important. II
mankind is to be different from the
animals, in this or any other matter,
1t must be so by the use of the brain,
the conscious realization Of felicity as
one goes along.
Now it must be admitted that for
thousands OF human beings the great
failure in life comes, not so much In
failure to reach desired objectives as
in failing to realize that one would
never get there, after all
More disappointment is caused more
people by this than by any other one
thing, perhaps. 1t is self-caused. too,
and therefore all the more hurtful.
Dream as large as one may, he can
never be hurt too badly who under
stands as he goes along that there is
little likelihood Of ever reaching his
goal.
This is not defeatist philosophy, as
some prefer to call it, but the homely
old attitude known for generations as
common sense.
The combinations which bring about
what the world chooses to call great
success are not in the province of
thousands, and of these the real ar
lists In life are those who scarce would
choose to utilize them if they we're
Hence 1t becomes essential at times
for such people to put away worldly
things, in a sense, and to make the