Show would pick up roses in lifes early days dayi there la Is a great deal of head wag ging these days tin a about the extravagance of the lie modern young folks they are living beyond their they the are mortgaging the future by b buying on aith they are laying up U lot of af trouble for themselves in tho thil dark duys days to conle come undoubtedly purt part of this talk in ie sound there will some day be a period of slow bus business liless in these united states und and a lot of annoying obligations will come due all at once many folks who are now having their good times will have to go through n few years of hard times before they can be happy again and those who have no courage will be broken all this alila Is true but the old fash lilied notion that the chief end in life Is 4 steadily growing savings account and that one must ell eliminate minute all pleas 11 tires rea fr from 0 m his vigorous s years in order to prepare for possible want in old age this notion Is passing and should never return life Is made to live and enjoy enjo us its we go along cineas the wisp wise old philosopher once asked pyrrhus what he would do when lie he had conquered italy 1 I shall conquer sicily and after alc lly then africa and after you have conquered the world 1 I shall t ank 4 ke my ease and be merry then asked cineas why can you not take your cabb ease and be merry now Rn emerson ierson had a friend who said sald that he would like to raise fruit enough so ahat there would be some to eat some in the store some to give away some to be robbed of and some to rot lot on oil the ground in other words the babit of giving away or even of wasting a bit of the good things of life Is just ns as important as the habit of storing up for if one resists too loo long the impulse to lo give or even to waste a little the impulse lm will go away and he may ma whistle hastle in vain for its return somewhere between the old tinie thrift that knew no virtue except self dental denial and the too easy spending of today there Is a happy middle ground NN we e atla shall arrive at it in due course meanwhile I 1 for one am perfectly per fertl willing milling to let my mv old age run a reasonable rent oil risk it if self denial Is nece seary ill practice alce some of it when im old aind not try to do all of it now for who knows I 1 may never be old bruce barton in colliers |