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Show Nothing from Nothing Leaves Nothing. Recently a man wrote to the New York Times saying that he was a little over 50 years of age, and having worked all of his life to acquire enough money to make hiim independent, and having succeeded, he had retired, and was now trying to make himself happy with nothing to do. He passed five hours a day iu reading, three hours in exercise and eating, which left him eight hours, which he found it hard to dispose of. His letter was in the nature na-ture of a lament. His bubble had burst. What he had dreamed of being able to do all his life had come true, and was an empty vanity. Foolish man! exclaims ex-claims Life. The independence that money brings with it is the least of all our independencies. And where it enables en-ables a. man to improve himself, it almost al-most invariably leads to his deterioration. deteriora-tion. To criticize one's creator is surely sure-ly in bad taste; perhaps it should rather bo said in his praise therefore, - that he has provided nothing better for us in the way of permanent satisfaction satis-faction than being compelled to work for a living. s |