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Show Bourke Cockran on Happiness. "What Constitutes Real Happiness?" is the subpect which Mr. Bourke Cock-ran, Cock-ran, with a good" deal, of wisdom and insight, expounds"1 in a ' New York paper. --.,; - - "What is happiness?" he asks. "Is it fame?" "Some wise men hold that fame is posthumuous. and notoriety contemporaneous. contemp-oraneous. To be gazed at in the street or in a public conveyance soon palls upon the mind; from being a source of satisfaction it becomes a source of embarrassment. The prominence promi-nence which has cost a lifetime of industry in-dustry and self-denial to acquire can be forfeited in a moment by an ill-considered act or sk maladroit expression. "Is power happiness? Ask the possessor of H, and he will tell you that it is an obstacle to all contentment. content-ment. Is knowledge happiness? happi-ness? The utmost that a life devoted to study can hope to accomplish is to discover the fountain of knowledge; not one of us can ever hope to slake his thirst at it. "Is wealth happiness? Look at those who possess it and tell me if you think they are a happy rcce. I have heard of jolly beggars, but no one has ever heard of jolly millionaires. The cripple sometimes smiles on the bed to which he Is chained. It is as natural for a workman to sing while the obpect of his labor assumes a form in which it will be at once the monument t? his industry and the source of his wages, as it is for a mother moth-er to sing over the cradle of the child she has borne. But who ever heard of a millionaire singing a comic song or whistling a merry tune as he clips coupons in a subterranean cell? From a somewhat extensive observation observa-tion of life I can say with perfect sincerity sin-cerity that in my judgment hopeless misery exists nowhere except among the idle rich. Happiness consists, con-sists, not in our. possession, but In ourselves; our-selves; not in what we have, but what we are." |
