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Show j TIMsELY TOPICS ) A ftOTHIfttOMm THOUGHT. V 1 i ygoaa tb attoao QtobaX - ' Every now and than aoma cm rat raafiro at tha thought that mayba aa much onjoymant doaan't ra-alda ra-alda in woaHh and material thins no many fondly suppose. Tha usual reault Is a defena of mat aria, ar-ia, 11 am with sarer argument and very evident anxiety to convince. And this very desire to make the point certain la exactly what often spoils the whole plea. "No high aim can be achieved without uae of tha things which constitute wealth." Mr. Sherman Whipple, one of the moot raaeurceful ef tha lawyers of the Massachusetts bar, le speaking. Ha throws this general phUoeophicel reflection hi to a discussion which he la mahlng before the Virginia Bar aaoool-atlon aaoool-atlon about legal ethics. Mr. Whipple haa been explaining ex-plaining that lawyers can't walk onward through their profession with their eyea on the stars, and the (aot that they are charged with being materially minded Isn't, he suggests, any Important charge at all. For if man are not materially mindM In a material age they will be out of step with their world. jnar The danger of generall sTtTona en each a subject Is eerlous, and It needs only te be pointed out that Christ achieved eome of the highest alms la recorded history without the use of things that constitute wealth. Michelangelo tolled en 4 lived like a elare for yeara. and turned practically all hie earnings aver to Ma father and brothera. Much ef his greet set creative work was achieved while tha walked ca the poverty line. . THI MOOD Or THE CINTURY. From the alow cumbereome agee of antiquity to I the present day of highly developed civilisation I there h.are been countless epochs of evolutions, raclr, characteristic of Its 'earn time and surrounding. surround-ing. . - In- art In ad nee. In comfort, in education, the mood of the twentieth century la that of simplicity. We no longer revel In the exaggerated lines, for Instance, that "rococo and renalssanoe gave to the world of art. Science, today, ta bared of the speculation spec-ulation and mysticism of the alchemist. We be-lis be-lis to In comfort of dress man at least---and movement, move-ment, and our educational program, much aa It still needs Improvement, haa done away with muck cumbersome booklshnese that burdened our fathers. In this age of ours we. are decidedly et riving tot simplicity In every line of human endeavor. And because of thla almpllcly of the age, any endeavor or enterprise baaed upon simplicity Is alwaya al-waya bound to please and succeed. Take the man with elm pie, unassuming manners, the product of modern education, or, the wonder of all moving wonders,, a Ford automobile both the gifts ef our ags! This same modern simplicity may be found In the better American borne. Its architecture ta eongruouo to its surroundings, truly American. Its furniture smacks of simplicity, all Its own. No longer need an American drawing room revel In , richness of material. Imported from the far off seven aeaa, costly glided and ornamented In fancy to compare with the French oalon. The educated American ef today loves to reet his eye upon his furniture that haa been hewn from the trees of his own native forests along his own ijatlve streame. Thus, while sitting In a roclFmg chair, he studies the queer undulations In the grain of oak or walnut, flndlnj-In flndlnj-In them, quiet hidden values ef heme atmoephere. And does not hla desk ever which he bends at his day's work absorb the same simplicity of home and the age In the polish, its color play and Its unobtrusive tones- all qualities that not even the maKngany deck may surpass? 0 Truly, the more ws guoceed In bodsTtg down Ufa to simplicity, the more truthfully we may boast of civilisation achieved. A ' .t a. |