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Show VA8T WEALTH NOT EVERYTHING. Life's Enjoyments That Belong to Man of Modest Income. Our good friend with $1,000,000 a year can not cat much more or bettor food or drink much more or better drinks than we can. If ho does ho will bo sorry. Ho can havo more places to live in and enormously more and handsomer nrraratus of living, but ho enn't live in more than ono place at once, and too much appnratus Is o bother. Ho can make himself conv fortablo and live healthful. So can wo. Ho can havo all tho leisure he wants, can go where ho likes and stay as long as ho will. Ho has the tetter of us there. Wo havo tho bettor of him In having tho daily excitomont and discipline too. Wo aro npt to g.et more than ho does tho salutnry discipline dis-cipline of steady work, of self-denial, cf effort. That Is enormously valuable to soul, body and mind. Ho can't buy It. We got It thrown In with our daily bread. Wo have rather better chances than he of raising our children well. Wo nre as Hkoly as ho to have good friends worth having and to find pleas vro In them. Atlanta Monthly. |