Show too emch business no times to reid read I 1 BY GEORGE S hillara HILLARD HILLAR 6 I 1 this is a world of iv inflexible flexible commerce nothing is ever given iven aai awi away ly but everything is bought bouAt and am paid for if by exclusive and absolute surrender of to ma aerial pursuits we materialize the ibe mind we lose lode that class elass of satisfactions of which the mind is esthe the region and the source A young man in business for instance begins to feel i the exhilarating glow of success and delibe delab era irately fely determines to abandon himself to its delicious whirl he ge says to himself 1 I will think of nothing 1 but business till I 1 have moe made so go mu much eft M money oney and then 1 I will begin a new life 1 ati gather round me books and pictures a frida I 1 will have knowledge taste and cultivation I 1 1 the per 1 f umeso scholarship and winning speech I 1 1 and graceful ma manners I 1 1 will see foreign I 1 i countries and col converse iverse with accomplished men I 1 will drink deeply of the f fountain jn of classic classia lore philosophy shall guide mea me history shall instruct and poetry shall charm nie me science shall open to meher meher world of wonders I 1 shall then remember i my present resent life of drudgery as one recalls a pleasant pleasant dream when the morning has i dawned he keeps his self registered vo vow I 1 I 1 I 1 he ben ds his thoughts do downward anward and n nails 2 them to the dut dust egv thiry ery power every affee I 1 ti tion I 1 on 1 eiery every taste except those which his hii oar particular occupation calls into play plax is left to starve over the gates of his mind he writ 11 j i es in letters which he who runs i uns may read I 1 19 0 o admit admittance except on au bue business q 1 I 1 i in time he reaches the goal af hia hi a hopes bopa but now insulted begins to claim her I 1 revenge that which was once unnatural j is how to him the enforced can 1303 1 i strain thas become a rigid deformity the 11 spring g ot of his mamais As atte can no 0 longer lift his thoughts from the ground boots books and avd wise discourse and the amenities of arty art and the cordial of friendship are r like ws i 0 4 a strange tongue on ue to the vard smooth surface bf his sour R nothing genial trace graceful braceful ful or oi wini winning n 9 aull cling he cannot ete even purge purge hi bio voice ot of its facing tone or kluck NA his hid face faaee 1 the mean ironey getting mask masa w which h I 1 ch the child does not look at 1 ceasing to smile amid the oe graass and ana orna ments of wealth he is lite lie a blind man man in a I 1 picture gallery that which he be has done j he e must continue to do he must cumulate accumulate triebes riches which he cannot enjoy and contemplate the dreary prospect t ofero of growing win I 1 g old I 1 without anything to make age venerable or attractive for age without wisdom and without knowledge is the wat the winters Is fire aex ex |