Show OUR LIVES TOO STRENUOUS writer urges greater simplicity and more leisure tell your friend you mean to spend 5 our life fighting tor for money and power and he will nill it if he be an aver age man applaud your decision tell him you mean to dwell in the coun try gaining a simple livelihood from your labor and he will either not believe you mean it or he will conclude you are a beaten competitor in the city s race host most people dd not know they are slaves of their modern im prove ments so called they bailo houses larger than they can occupy tor for show they pinch and scrape year after year to pay tor for them and after that continue pinching to pay taxes repairs and other maintenance chang es A large house demands eapen sive furril furniture ture then fine dress and the demands increase the man keeps his nose on the grindstone the woman wears her self out tal ing care of fine feathers no time to just live and enjoy ita it got to make a show first going to take a real rest and cut off all the lit tie tle vanities next winter next sum mer some other time when matters are not quite so pressing I 1 am not exactly a loafer but I 1 like walt whit man best of all our american writ ers because he had sense enough to loaf and invite his soul once in L while I 1 am tired of hearing the ever lasting preachers of the strenuous life lilt go slower and you 11 go tar far ther and enjoy it better don t I 1 ve to work work to td live bread dread and butter work I 1 mean leave a little time for the sort of work you find your chief pleasure in national magazine |