Show EMPTY LIFE OF THE IDLE kach why many men of wealth find no pleasure n ex stence the suicide of W R 1 ravers the N w york millionaire was the out come of one of the defective conditions of american life arthe general failure of members of the second generation of wealthy families to adjust them selves to theia surroundings if the so as of wealthy parents happen to have a taste for business they can get on comfortably as the for instance have shown but it they ar so unfortunate as to e a corn mercial 1 fe their lot is apt to be wretched there Is no lack of eunity outside of business for the sons of millionaires but unhappily many of them have been allowed to grow up without acquiring a rait lonal knowl edge of or interests in public life liter painting or any of the arts and sciences so they are practically help les and drift about aimlessly in a quest for the pleasure that constantly eludes tl em such overt tragedies as that of william R travers are rare but there are innumerable bankrupt es of character of which the world hears noth ng and that are the direct outcome of the failure of well to do men and women to find a rational basis for living kansas city star |