Show philosophical cal observations by BYSON BYRON WILLIAMS WILLIAM air the young man who has been strenuously engaged during the summer months in sr stretching etching his abbreviated salary to cover an occasional dish of ice cream tor for hit his lady friend aud and who is now wen wan drawbacks Draw backa of dering about haunted by the thought that his big uncle the three balls will soon be I 1 hla winter minter kingly salary overcoat if lie he doehn t raise the due equivalent will stand aghast when con confronted fronted with the statement that the royal family of russia has almost 14 to spend annually the lack of equality in this world of finance will bf b none the tha less impressive when he learns that the rulers of germany austria england and italy have an allowance of pin money each year exceL exceeding ding 3 rulers of other countries are also well fixed so BO far as a long cold winter Is concerned nor Is the young man the only one impressed sed there are others of us who may ponder on liow how these moguls aie going to keep heep the wolf from the door between now and the coming of the anemone me memoria moroa next spring thare must be considerable advantage in being horn born to a kingship clfon the fellow we me used to read about in our old third readers had a million acres it will be remembered despite hig big riches it la Is written of cleon clean that he be had bad more trouble than the man with the prickly heat beat the third readers were not specific but it Is presumed the old granfor gr angers s trouble came from grogshop grasshoppers chinch bugs and foot rot in the sheep lie he this as a it may he had bad troubles multifarious the lords and kings how bow different dlf dif terent they dont have to worry or bug the potatoes the money Is in bank for them earned by a con more or less willing they don t have to condei or perspire ahey don t even have to imagine things 1 I 1 I heir checks are at always ays good at financial headquarters and they tan can have angel a food rainbow pudding anil and talk about the ancient age of their wines mines to their hearts content they abe can wear seven come eleven different kinds of clothes ride in golden knobbed chariots and put on I 1 as much ostentation as the of allowance will allow it they run short there tit Is always more whore chere that camo came from excuse US ua if we repeat that 14 flauio cigut a it Is 13 like the tion of the rivulet in hn the bosky doll s aptt i act music to the eai cat it reminds us of standing in ahe e r shadow tit at a royal ball and heat ing the I 1 brou frou brou frou of the feminine petticoats of silk bilk I 1 as the dance goes on what m would you do it if you had bad an income of 0 14 0 00 a year here Is tile the rub what would you do with it would sou be any happler happier afeei tho the glamer and the clink of the golden guinea had grown commonplace chose who have baso never bad annually would ho be prompt in replying that they mould be happier thus that settles the argument with them but the tha m writer riter having had 14 on several occasions oca has discovered it la Is a vain and empty show au an unsatisfying arrangement of providence after you have haie the primrose path of ual liance trod tor for a tibne time you are not one whit happier not one more iota satisfied than ahon you were worrying about your uncle three halls balls disposition of the tha overcoat that Is the way may we felt falt about it when ve me awoke the president of the united states manages to sled along on 50 a year occasionally some one raises the cry that ethcie Is nothing in tho the presidential chair from a L nn anctil il standpoint they men even go so far Rs ai to make the statement that the president Is losing money ali then n everybody gets out and klavs leapfrog trying to get the position so they may lose losa their monea it if there Is a road good thing in 50 a year how much better is there in 14 little wlllie willie jones away down at the end of the class may answer looking over the list of kingly salaries we are inclined to feet feel sorry barry tor for the they dont know tile the real value of wanting something and cannot enjoy the happiness of securing that tor for which in happy uncertainty their hearts have 3 earned and their fancies painted citi them every wish every whim is gratified not one ot of these kings can coree corca his bis wife by promising a now new liat aliat she can buy herself a dobon doi cn tommy won wont t do the chores for a new knife mamie won wont t wash the di dishes because the she doean doesn t lime have to do mental menial service what ts Is home without a boy doing chores anda and A daughter washing dishes it male mako some of son on old heads of fam illes hies lonesome to go home some night and not find some member of 0 the fr family mily climbing your anatomy tor for a now new something after all kings may have money but they cannot buy happiness they cannot purchase love they are helpless to secure aiom the ele elements menta or from the god above one act or look of obeisance they cannot love loie the blue sky or any other of the beauties of nature more than sou they are po powerless merless to be anything more than good men it is not wealth or position or luck that makes happi happiness ricas it Is contentment ile he who has that hag a greated comry than all the kings ot of all tie kingdoms of the earth |