Show THINGS MOST W I Theres a story in this saId saida a ayoung young oung I leporter about aboul a year ago age I 1 have hae just heard that Henry had bought a couI couple le of ol old for fer about sixty fifty thousand dollars But Dul there wasn't really much of at ata ofa ofa a story in that thaI Hen Henry Ford buys bus a lot of ot thi things s that he to want and a n pair of ot violins for sixty thousand dollars Isn't much ol 01 an event avent in his life Suppose for Instance that we looked In on him this morning and By the way Henry Henrys what about those violins you bought last summer Violins he would probably say What violins I 1 think we did pick up some some rather good ones ibey may be around the house hause somewhere Ask the purchasing age agent t and see it If he be can remember remember ber I 1 dont don't know which ones onea you anyhow Wo We 0 often orten buy fine old violins just to have em cm So much for violins at sixty t thirty or er forty thousand apiece But a a for a dollar That's That was his first vio yb- violin violin lin and his mother bought It for him when hen he was ten years old ald at was more than fifty years ears ago and Henry lenry has bought baught violins and motors and steam yachts and andt andro t vo ro I private cars cara and banks and old dd Inns and aeroplanes since then Cut But of or all the things that Henry For Ford ever bought and of all the presents ever sent to him by mU- mU millionaire friends or distinguished foreign diplomats the little old dollar dj violin he aS says was the best of alt all For life lICe was simpler then and that dollar violin was the bIggest thin thing g In it on the day he got it aid for tor many succeeding days It filled his world and and Illuminated It He wanted a violin with all hIs heart and hi his mother saw to it that he be got it That was happi happl happiness ness Less And now perhaps he be would give halt his fortune just to be able to want anything so joyfully and to 80 whole whale heartedly as he ho once nce wanted that violin Wonder If It we dont don't all make a In our mad search for happiness Wonder Wander It If we arent aren't beginning at the wrong end Here Hero we wo are our beads heads oft off to get tet the wherewithal to saUd satisfy wants that always keep just a little ahead of ofus ofus ofus us The Tho more we get the more we want and the the more we want the harder we strive and struggle to achieve It it Perhaps s happiness lies Iles In editing our wants Perhaps we haven't sense enough to find out what really give the most pleas pleas- pleasure pleas ure ure but stupidly Imagine that han hap goes with the biggest and most expensive wants J Jerome rome K Jerome the the author of Three Men in a Boat Doal who had made thousands of at people peaple happy with his humorous tales told a group of ot grammar school boys the theother theother theother other day that making the most I money boney was not nat always making the I bits of of life lIe Most of th the things worth having he be eXI explained books music scenery sport a holiday with a 0 knapsack on an your back friendship and love are to be had for little or ar no money maney |