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Show The Book of Life. Professor Swing. F;very man makes the book of his life, day by day, as he lives, and at his death the pages ' are turned over by his friends, and by his record each one is judged. Each later lino in the poem of jifo should add something to the opening open-ing lines. Each succeeding year should carry one's politics, creed and religion a little higher. One of the dangers to this country is the increasing tendency to devote "life to pleasure seeking. Nothing should displace laughter. It adds to life. But there is not a more Pitiable spectacle than that of an adult lifo wasted in pleasure. Some central utility should rise in every adult life. iho census takers could not tell how many people in this couutry are devoting devot-ing themselves almost wholly to pleasure. pleas-ure. The rapid accumulation of wealth may have lured a million, perhaps two millions, of peopfe from their usefulness. useful-ness. Next in evil to the devotion to pleasure is the struggle for notoriety. The book of life should be shown only to its writer. Certain parts of life are unexpressible, and every soul has a world of its own in which there can be , no reporter's footprint. |