Show J 4 LIN IN PRISE PRAISE OF OF QUIET JET 1 v v t BY DY J. J QUIGLEY t f in this strenuous ago o ot of ours our one ono ts apt to to be carried away by tho the mania need od to be ber for for surry hurn hurry Vc We n r reminded minded that the secret of oC success lies les lesin In quiescence as ns well wel as a In activity an ani l that leisure Is essential to sustained tucce success We Ye mu must t receive as well wel as s workers of ot the give ve out The he great gret world have alwa always s realized this truth and have economized their with duo thought Instead of ot frittering 1 H wih n In n every ewer direction And all al who ho wish isi isito to io work effectually know kno that mo mo- menta O or hours sp spent nt In quiet thought repay themselves with interest Therefore a word in favor of ot quiet mo may well wel n l find a place in a magazine magazin that aims alms to enrich and strengthen life fa More ore especially Is this reminder 1 necessary for or people In cramped sur sur- So often oren the members oCa of oC ofa ofa a family In poor circumstances have a no chance of solitude Not ot only Is the 10 house small and mone money scarce and work always waiting to be done but not always recognize the parents do entitled to In Inu In- In that their children are arc u rights and anu mat tuat i it 1 is s guu ivi lUl e co human being to be at ot rest and alone If only onh for tor a short time dal dally daily 1 think that quiet study They are arc apt to Te aP of ot time How often or musing I Is waste oren oreno m complaints of ot this kind o one e hears hent Mabel lab 1 John Is always alwa's dreaming or books Certainly wastes all 01 her time Ume over books John and Mabel must not be encouraged t to shirk their share in or neglect the tho business bustness bust busi liou household duties dutes for for which the they ae are being paid X ness Individual culture that malE makes one dishonest dishonest dis dis- honest Is that wa way Is mere self salt of ot mind no peace which gives gence But and cannot lead to true tUC success misunderstood misunderstood risk of ot being at the even protest against that stood one must advocates advocates advocates unintelligent view of life which cates c ceaseless s activity Even people who ought to know The new shore share that view bettor better boter shue just juat sits there thero and nd h head nd does nothing 18 desk once said Id an experienced ex cx- x- x gazos gazes gaze a nt ot her rek the writer But clerk to the wrier cerk big schemes head hend was planning bib new the tho advancement of the society for schemes chemes nominated her that had just fruit The clerk that h have sIpCo since borne borno and experience In spite of ot long IonS training the fact act that quiet not gra grasped pe had that In all work thought is f essential al idea Her one involves organization leI something that Involved oC or work was outward sign of oC labor some manual letters copy- copy activity such HuCl a as writing In lug Ing documents CH ce know in these most people A As form of ot there thero Is a days das strenuous rest which nervous n nervous rous breakdown impossible during to the sufferer becomes a sign activity may be Therefore over than of ot mo health and I of disease rather becomes es essential es- es the tho gospel opel of ot Idleness are still tili te Idlers recovery recover to community to be he found In every cumber the tho who thriftless ss ones ons under only labor ground and will wt but Idlers of stress tress of circumstances minority As lon long are arc in the thC A this kind truth will the wU as a. the world worl endures ever every man must viz Iz That 1 hold ld good work out his 7 bear ber his hit own and burden do his utmost with own salvation tod to him There i IB Is entrusted the talents escape from Individual no absolutely character characters charac charac- live live- and Our IV and heredity responsibility b by ter terE are arc ar influenced of us each but environment onwards that leads 1 follow th the gleam Im comes Wi when This gleam and upwards upward from rom from proceed and ancl may l least lea al expected mo the lips o of or from lp pur our own conscience flash 01 out from f vs S 5 It may another I from the beauty book or frol from froni a good Tm of Nature Innumerable influences H at tt 01 the Individual but them v work rl to help holp Intended for our out influences Inn which which due duc arc to 10 chance chanc might and are minds s sI help nT on I non existent tent If It our U ua as well wel be I are re closed a against them Tho The message n they carry will ill not i ch i ch u un unless wo we out ourselves n adrift Irom om tho the noise of ot life hite and await It in silence expect expect- and receptive No one ono who wh wishes to get got the tho full ful value alue of ot orchestral music music music mu mu- sic chooses to sit sll near tho the powerful brass bra Instruments He prefers to sit at a a distance from whence ma may be heard to perfection the nicely adjusted adjusted sounds and the principal motif moUr led perhaps by the tho violin or b by a beautiful voice So it Is In life we listen for tor thu main theme that sweet melody which often ofen seems drowned by tho noise of oC our conflicting duties Sometimes wo we catch a word word word-a a stanza stanza but but stanz-but but nut not enough to make tho the whole meaning In Intelligible In- In and we ve are perhaps too tr tired d or too impatient to listen carefully Our thoughts as a well vell wel as our work seem to lack concentration But we must not be disheartened because our thoughts wander A great I philosopher has said Id that tha concentrated ed though is la the most thing In the world We Ye must try to train trin our restless preoccupied minds Into habits Often OCten we wo feel teel out of ot tuch touch with Ith Nature and unless art has hn acquired some meaning for tor us us we weare weare weare are content to glance at the best cst pictures And thus we wc go on never rising above tho the commonplace But lut It Is ls useless to force forc ones one's thoughts We shall learn at least something from a picture by sitting quietly before it I. I with a restful mind from which all al other thoughts thought have been banished for the moment moment Itis It Itis I is astonishing how pictures add to our enjoyment and how caRI easily easily If 1 if looked hooked at with wih loving eyes the they yield some Bome message which the artist artst strove to put on canvas We e were all al meant to enjoy enjo beauty Tho The love lo e of or goodness good good- ness fleas and beauty Is latent in us all al It I only waits walts to be bo developed And to enjoy Nature aturo we must tr try as In the thE case coe of or pictures to put aside worrying oro Ing thoughts and look at ather ather ather her beauties with a quiet mind Aa As A our ur minds grow row harmonious thou thoughts will wi come of ot themselves themselves for for beauty I Is Gods God's gift If meant to teach us more of ot the Divine Divino Nature than we could know otherwise B By and b by wo shall grasp some ome of ot tho the meaning oven even 11 Ii 1 wo never become real lovers hovers of ot Na Na- a ture Some of us can never get H awa away from Crom the Influence of or towns Perchance Perchance Per Per- Perchance I chance we were vere bred In the busy cit cl and feel Ceel more at home there thero tharin tharIn thal in solitary places Those rhose who realI love lovo Nature are indeed to be bo envied They Imbibe her restfulness and confide con con- tide fide to her their s sorrows Deep call eth unto to deep I is to for mr thorn thor a full ul or of sp special meaning Not the tho least leat a advantage to be derived from calm thought Is that It I helps one to acquire tho the power of fair Judgment If I only for tor a few moments at a time we can withdraw from tram some form of ot activity that we imagine must be done llone by hy ourselves and think or study stud our minds will wi grow deeper It is 11 a n good god thing to look on I at like to 0 think of oC oven o en everyday subjects as tho they really are and not as the they c effect their own telf 1 Putting our own work and our own self sel aside we e sh shall 1 learn to see sec good bood motives where we had imputed bt base baso O ones ones We e shall become more and more moro toler ant Wo We Vc may oven o en learn to see sec ec that In working feverishly tho the claims of ot those at homo home have boon been overlooked thoe About th nol p o of or th the tho orchestra of I h heard ard ud I life the 01 In melody may he be 1 But we WO must Rt m listen Isten for tor It I. I in a quiet apart Beauty and truth and amI all aU that these conta contain In fruit about aboul our Drop not ot 1 like 0 fuel feet We cUm climb to them through years car of ot sw sweat at an and pain Without long struggleS struggle none did oer o'er attain downward look look- from from Quiets Quiet's rho Tho bI blissful ul seat eat T Tx well c |