Show LIFE HAS BUT ONE PURPOSE instruction and refinement of the one who la Is alive Is real object to be attained life alfo can have but one purpose the instruction and refinement of the one who la Is alive this true life becomes the souls BOUIS continuing adventure through shifting scenes and seasons an venturo ail al to which are incident every manner of lure excitement and thrill to hate such an adventure or to drudge through it either through misapprehension or sloth brings us ua only a foolish misery which makes a mock of the joy we ought to know to hall the adventure and dive into it with manly aag eagerness aness and hope uncovers in to our quiring inquiring eyes glory after glory for those who ask receive those who seek find fand and to those who knock the door of lifes great room swings free the wise wise do not dally with life they do not misconstrue it they do not neglect it they do not wish to throw it away for its intrinsic worth they choose it above rubles and make or of it an art whose object whose compensation pensa tion Is itself the thoughtless rabble worry themselves gray and thin over their occupation in life ilio or their station in life but the wise man concerns himself first with his craft and station which he catalogues cataloguer catal rightly as aa incidents not goal g als full well he knows that no i mere tai ere thing no jewel trapping or other weighable able possession can spur or satisfy his spirit only the sheer wine of living can do that so he makes his drink and stays by the cask cash richard elchard in october metropolitan |