Show Know How to Be Idle Most of us know people who religiously ke keep p busy ever every working moment ano uno even grudge lh the time they give to sleep Such folks look with disapproval upon those who idle away wa a portion of each da day no matter r how small that portion may be Hut But what an unmitigated hon bon these zealots are arc who brag that they ar art never idle I I 1 never sit down without some won worl worlin in Ira m my hands said the never Idle woman j jand and then she goes to work and dens ders flowers on a n. pie piece of ot white while linen Yet strange to say she criticises as lazy iaz a woman who refuses to embroider a stitch but who spends her time lime lying back bade In a steamer chair gazing gazin at the ther thel thereal r l' real al flowers in he How can cnn you OU sit there doing nothIng nothing noth ing asks the energetic woman as her needle goes in and out of oC the cloth while I the silks shape them themselves eJ s into o a poor noon I imitation of oC a rose roue The idle hue woman would find it useless to explain that embroidering em em- eni- eni broidering Is a waste of oC time lime when pie cae can sit and gaze upon the beauty of ot the thereal thereal real flowers flower The busy woman would not understand It If explanations were svere made to her until doomsday Beware De of oC the men and women who tel tet you they never waste a moment They are bad had examples dont don't follow tollow them No 0 Noone Noone one can qan ln be seriously occupied all nIl his waking wakIng wak wak- ing moments and have all the work he does amount to something Such a thing thins I isn't nt within human possibility Its It's the theman when to lO be idle whose man n who knows work is worth while nut But there thene ure are those who sa say I am never happy unless I 1 am bus busy When people feel this way theer Is something won with them Its It's true enough that the happiest folks in the world ure are those thos who have ha regular duties dulles to perform each day Just as sure as you ou see anyone emitting cutting loose from all such regular duties you Oll Ollma ma may expect to lO see lee him unhappy before very long Tint But the one who must always has u a r dispo dipo- be bus busy to be happy que queer There Is so o much beauty beaul In nature na- na nature nature na na- ture and art in books in ill music In congenial congenial con con- genial companionship that the right bal mind should be able to lo find keen leen happiness whenever duties dulies can be set sel aside long enough for these other things to claim first attention nut But the gospel of activity is so continually preached nowadays nowadays now now- adas ada's that men and women almost appear ap- ap appear ap aft pear ashamed to acknowledge that the thc they can enjoy relaxation Some da day It will be different And will be bl when that day arrives women arrives women ashamed to lO show the time fine sewing they have Jun-c done Olle und arid the rows of ot canned fruit In their cellars If their t eyes t are arc hollow and und their cheeks thin And men inca will wil loath to lO acknowledge that thal they havi haV broken down clown because they had long leng dit unbecoming or or Mary ary to sometimes be idle We re arc are hearing a great d fal al these da days das s a about out how the children in tile the large e cities d ar aro being how to It Is said d that many of of them I m I iia e have no Idea of ot how really rally to pIa play Why Wh I Inot not have hoe the tue business men mn taught how to play too too And ml sonar housekeepers als Iso 0 Teach reach the business man that it isn't the number of oC hours he lie puts PUlS In Iii it LL his work worle that list l Is going to count BO so much muchas as ag what shat he accomplishes In the end Teach him that he lie should find It possible ble tile to enjoy other othel things than hard work worl and if he doesn't something It is i wrong wrong- v with him Teach the woman that she shell she'll II accomplish most when she has lies learned how to pUsh be he Idle These lessons learned will Insure fewer doctors doctor's bills and happier h homes o in cc blue And AndS remember this If youre you're whenever youre you're not riot bus busy then youre you're living an nn artificial life no matter how sincere ma may hard you ou work or how you rou beTho be to yourself imagine Tho Those ThoE who are aro living normally anti and the right truck track ought to be ablo abl arc are on an atm tub Idle day lay ns os LoII Longfellow to enjoy enJo tho the Showed showed he lie could when he lie penned oh perfect day gitt of or God Oh shall no man nian work worl but play Whereon hereon Whereon hereon it i is I enough for mn me 10 but to be Not to b be doing J |