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Show OUR LIVES TOO STRENUOUS. Writer Urges Greater Simplicity and More Leisure. Tell your friend you mean to spend your llfo fighting for money nnd power, nnd ho will, If he bo an aver-ago aver-ago man, applaud your decision; tell him you mean to dwell In the country, coun-try, gaining a slmplo livelihood from your labor, and ho will cither not bo-llovo bo-llovo you mean It, or ho will concludo you are a beaten competitor In the city's raco. Most people do not know they are slavos of their modern improvements, im-provements, so called. Thoy bull houses larger than they can occupy for show; they pinch and scrape year after year to pay for them, and after that continue pinching to pay taxes, repairs and othor maintenance charges. charg-es. A large houso demands expensive expen-sive furniture Then flno dress, And tho demands Increase. Tho man keeps his noso on tho grlndBtonc, the woman wears herself her-self out taking care of flno feathers. No tlmo to just llvo and enjoy It; got to mako a 'show first going to take a real rest and cut oft all tho llttlo llt-tlo vanities next winter next summer sum-mer somo other time, when matters aro not qulto so pressing. I am not exactly a loafer, but I llko Walt Whitman Whit-man best of all our Amorican writers, writ-ers, becauso ho had sense enough to "loaf and Invito his soul" onco in a whllo. I am tired of hearing tho everlasting ever-lasting preachers of tho "strenuous" lifo. Go slower, and you'll go farther far-ther and enjoy It better. Don't llvo to work; work to live. Bread and butter work, I mean. Leave a llttlo tlmo for the sort of work you find your chief pleasuro In. National Magazine. |
