Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-02-11 | Page 4 | The Defense of Idleness

THE DEFENSE OF IDLENESS. -7 (From Success.) It Is not pntlroly a now Idea that a man who works requires moro food for hh body Mun a mn who does not, but fr the first time this truth hnn been reduced to srlontlfjc Proportions. A French 'scientist, fmbort. found by a sorios of experiments that about ono-flfteenlh or a laboiing man's wages goes -Into tho purchase of food fMjMjjMMMMMUMMMMMSEmmmSSZSSSSZS which would be unnecessary if the man were Idle. The Investigator made his experiments upon a messenger whom he divided up into heat-units and subjected to other indignities, including in-cluding compulsory work during part of the inquiry. It wns found during a prolonged strike in an English city not long ago that the general health of the community com-munity showed marked Improvement. Apparently, it Is both cheapor and healthier to loaf than to work. Stevenson's Stev-enson's delightful essay, "An Apology for Idlers," Is quite out of style. Idleness Idle-ness requires no apology; it has become be-come a duty.