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Show THE 15 A.N" CI I AXD NATURE (By L. A. Ilollcivbcck.) Several years ago a young girl in bcr teens at Kansas City, developed considerable talent as a singer. Slio bad backers, and the went out Into the musical world to aing. She has become a prima donna, and is famous fam-ous in New York and other Cities on th American continent. With her fame has come riches, and at 22 she Is now both famous and rich. But to the astonishment fo the vorld she has decided to quit the prima donna fame, and the appreciative public at the footlights of the greit cities with all of ite applause and money, and w-hat, simply to come west and huf a farm and cultivate it, work and manage man-age it where she can enjoy the eon-tact eon-tact with nature, to cultivate the soil, to experiment with nature, to see things grow, to create vegetation, vegeta-tion, and to be a potent and appreciative appre-ciative factor In improving nature's methods of development and to commune com-mune with nature and nature's God. The paramount law of life Is to produce and to grow. Many people do not realize that. They seem to think that the main object of life is to have a good tim, and to seek pleasure as an objective, njt realizing realiz-ing the great truth that pleasure docs not come as an objective. It doesn't come to the seeker of pleasure and happiness merely for the sake of pleasure an-d happiness. Happiness and pleasure only comes as an iuci-denlal iuci-denlal to the main purposes of life, and ihe main purpose of life is to produce. pro-duce. That is, production is the production is, the paramount law of nature, and man is a part of i?i? law of nalnre, and many do not reai.'r? this great truth, and often the criticism, criti-cism, of a worker and a producer after af-ter he has passed out, is, "Ve,ll, where did he get any enjoyment out of life?' And the fad ' is that the critic, if he had a level head should have envied the happiness of thai worker instead of criticising him. Well, the Kansas City girl's name-Is name-Is Marion Tally. Sho has my admiration admi-ration and plaudits. I would haiul her the highest enconium of praise that my ability would allow me (r. snatch from tho English lan;;u'o. She is pound to the corp. jtv? u a logician, a worker, a planner and knows the philosophy f life. Nature offers Its bounteous girts v.-'iirh ii-.j youns woman appreciates, a.: .:r-is .:r-is wise enough, to put forth her hsiv.l and pluck and .'.elect tli.vr .h-,icc -;r . f production in which i vr.Mr. .,. pretentions bundle with r, iap! that none can undr-r.tand, excr-t I hose that or endowed with w!;.(!o:n to translate the word,-, "li;.m,icr,., and Pleasure.-: L-t the youns pes pi... of this country loam a wlioksomo j lesson from Maricn Tallcy. |