Show ATTACK NO ANIMAL ANIA BUT MAN AN l. l r Pangs of Ennui Exclusively the Property of the Human Family S BIRDS BiRES AND BEASTS HAPPY Forms of or Lift Busy y All lI the Time lInt Hut Nu cr Seem to I Worry orr 4 E cr Every human being man mai woman and anil child suffers lS occasionally with what they call the blues lues No o matter matter mat mat- ter tow halI happy the temperament as as a 3 g general l ml thing a a. time comes In the tho life UCo of or each pc person on when the blue I devils get the upper hand What hat the French call ennui afflicts everybody occasionally occasional and l many find low Jow spirits spir its boredom melancholy the chief c bane hano of oC But Dut the lower ani- ani t. t maN mals evidently C do ao not suffer at nil all Inthis in inthis this way a U- U Birds and boasts beasts ts as V well we'll 11 as the tho in insects in- in 4 sects m manage to pass through life JIo U without succumbing to what almost t crazes craz's their more mm-c intelligent superIor super super- hors Loafing or 01 chronic idleness as asI I every vcr one ono knows know is the most fruitful source of misery cry and lark lack of occupation occupation tion lion Is the sure breeder of ot despond despond- c ency The other animals however do llo donot U not Dot loaf Loafing is 1 an art which few living Irig creatures une understand Lizards crocodiles and other sane satir- Inns fans seem eem to have fave m mastered the philosophy phil phil- s. of oC being b ing laboriously Idle l le without without without with with- out Idle results but hut there Is nothing to 10 Indicate that the they suffer from the thc blues blue The art appears appena'S to consist In the till fact act that animals have have- acquired the knack of or making much ado about nothing the they have learned to be he heery very ery 1 hu busy r without doing anything U. U One Olle Compensation of tit Old Oh Ape g ge U O Obviously this accomplishment difU dif dlf- U ten fers from what hat among men is called loafing It is in one which animals havo o brought to perfection and by knowing how to eliminate the the horros of oC ennui en cn en- en nui nul the they obtain from Crom life lire the maximum max max- z- z of oC happiness Some human beings be bt ings chiefly women omen also succeed In iii t mastering tring this art of ot pottering and time though nothing really Is being done Old men too som sometimes some some- times limes exhibit that samo eime amI trait WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ash ashIn ington In ton Irving Ir remarks that one of the compensations o of old a age e is ii that It al allows al- al lows ns one to b be idle with impunity and without reproach The Tho aged rite rise early mb I and amI are aro t e-t eternally petering ring abound In Inan Inan an aimless busily busHy occupied In do doIng doing doing do- do ing nothing of consequence nc Watch n ft wasp asp overhead u busily busH ox- ox C the holes In tho trunk of or a tree Why hy h he does dOls this he plo probably abl does not know he I has Igis as no time to toe e stop slop and ancl think lIe He is quite content I to explore away awny as If it his life lire depended de the- d upon It and will Inspect over o and over O again every Pry P ry portion lon of or the Ole tc same mme hole holo All this laho Is useless in III u a sense hut but it apparently tho thu wasps wasp's lute taale w which e H po i nf men call low spirits Many Jany other creatures eros crea U tures are t rt at frittering away awa time Ume They Thoy spend much ranch nf or their time in futile dalliance i r oj Note a canary In a cage He hops backward and forward between two t- t perches as i If be was paid by the distance dis dis- dis y r tance for J for or doing so 10 Look at a butterfly butter butter- fly He no Leads s an aimless existence lJ r but t manages tp t i keep keel busy hus all the theIo o I time am embodies s the er very perfection perree tion of If living hiving 1 A bee bce 1 visits iR more mono flowers than a butterfly but his trips ps 1 are for business while the other seems to ha ha e hano no other object than U to to keep moving t Cattle Hul ami Horse Cheerful 1 The farmer and ancl tho the farmers farmer's wife suffer more or I less from worry They have havo ha e their cares their troubles their 4 anxieties of a tho thousand san I kinds which 4 4 often orten eventuate e In ill horrible and lon long long- continued fits of Ue tile the blues blues Not ot so o tho the animals around them There is chanticleers chanticleer's crow cro- i I no cl despondency spon In 1 or biddy's lively cackle The cows and hordes sc's hones are arc always cheerful always in and have no trouble good spirits spiris killing 1 time Unless ill H or Injured j some ome wn way say the they are nev never nevOr r despon despon- 4 dent hr i mans man's very superiority cau causes e much of ot his hi misery n Perhaps f r j he would be bc happier If it 1 he was not with If h he hid did not F U 4 endowed wih reason 1 J think The much vaunted happiness of or children l i ii evidently the bl s of k I Ignorance They have not yet ct r reached reach aeh- aeh e ed the age of 0 worry which thinking The Tho lower yer animals never er t. t reach this stage tage and their lives are arc 1 i rech L the regret Iet for r- r free freu from care care from le fol pa past aKl or ot worry for the future There t Is nothing good or 01 bad ball hut but hu makes it so o remarks remark the melancholy melani melan- melan cho choly Hamlet Men cn think themselves their unhappiness while i Into inti most roost of or l A the animals riot not Ilo possessing this this this' faculty escape its Is most fruitful source of misery The Tue philosophy of or it all al would seem j knows too lit little littie lit lit- to be that man num either elthel It- It tie tle 01 or he 1 knows no 8 too loo much Do nolI not nol tc I the lower lowel animals prove the truth of or th the tho old maxim that Ignorance Is t bliss bUs If H so so 20 is IR It not flot fol folly to be beI wl and Is It II not questionable If wise c I civilization after all aU al brings mankind desired but I any nearer to the the much 1 U ever Illusive entity called clell happiness t CI Chicago Chronicle |