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Show HAPPY MAN WHO " ' HAS FOUND joy s IN LIFE'S WORij Evicted from his cheap flat t i non-payment of rent, a young nve ' J tor stood guard over his tools for 3,, 1 hours without food or sleep, jj , 1 until a neighbor gave safe stora to his precious Implements would if give thought to shelter or noui ment. "They are my jewels," he said. ' cannot work without them." ' That man may be homeless, hemn be hungry, but he Is not one of D ture's step-children. On the contrary ? he is one of fortune's favored. ' ? So are any other men and woo)eil '' who know that their tools are their ' jewels. For they have within then,. 1 selves the seeds of that usually exot ? Ic plant, happiness. ' A questionnaire distributed to pie who have tried most of the al-leged al-leged approaches to the source of happiness would doubtless reveal thf conclusion that about the most relia- ' ble hope for It lies In love of one'g , work. Yet how many people know real ' ' love of their work? How many are fortunate enough to have work that ' ' they do because they want to anj ' not because they have to? How ' many are led in their youth which. Is the important time to choose or find work that will be their Interest Instead of their job? How many 1 workers regard their tools as "mj jewels" rather than as their signs of slavery? Your work may be of the kind that is quickly amenable to visible sue- j cess. It may be rich in financial re j ward. Then it may or may not bring t you more or less content and happi. ( ness. On the other hand you may have chosen a medium of expression t that Is slow to show results, that Is , meager in worldly return. You may c know only labor without reward, t may experience poverty, ridicule. And yet you may be among fortune's fa- , vored. the elite of the earth. v00 may know real content ' ami happ. ness. That is, if you are a man or l woman who can say from your heart T about your tools or the medium of f your labors, "They are my jewels." f , 1933. Boll Syndicate. WNU Service. t ' V |