Show E ESSENTIAL J N HAL E EXERCISE xa OUR NECESSARY TO MANS HAPPINESS i AS OIL TO MACHINERY clie tills blind ts Is so C instructed that it requires period periods of mental and Ilot llly the I art game hay play in affording AO I 1 needed heller all men feel the necessity of the hour the sloth will soon a fail out of his senses if lie does nothing but count the tile ticks of the clocks so man mail lias has invented for ilia solace un an infinite variety v metr of deliberate pastimes times artificial work at gif head bead or hand which lull his ills PercePt IOLI af the to lipping r sands rinds as well its a productive labor does that of the artisan 1 tit ho 0 energy which has been cited to show that there are no signs of decrepitude or senility sen clity ia la the world society mankind as a iua massie Is nowhere more manifest than in the ebalo orate and costly preparations fo or amuso ment for sheer pali pastime time which ensue as eoon awn as people get respite from the task cf cl bread winning A notable and somewhat unsatisfactory feature in this mimicry of work is that the tile professional la is coming in more ore and more to the front to the discouragement of the tile amateur to excel in billiards in fit cricket in golf tennis or any of the myriad games played with balls of various size and anti ma aerial more time must be filched from serious business bu than can by ruy means be afforded by those who have to earn ally it ily ing to become proficient proncie nt in the tile spot stroke postulates an apprenticeship at least as severe sev ere and as prolonged as that of any skilled handicraft and the extra extraordinary 0 binary linary perfection attained by those classed as lie gentlemen cricketers crick eters as dist distinguished i I 1 ell from players pl avers implies that for them it Is a the business of life and not mere helln atlon the tendency of all games iu in this age of wealth and leisure is to turn play ere ers into athletes and anti in these as in serious work amateur Is 1 synonymous with immature yet games are ar of such excellent use itse fu ili themselves not only as recreation from strain but as safety valves for the danger ous or mischievous forces in human na tin ture diverting the thoughts from un tin healthy tendencies and chastening the frames into symmetry and grace grac e that it ft were a pity if room mere were not kept for peo pie IT who ho can never aspire to professional proficiency they are potent safeguards against two of the most deplorable deform ties to which human nature is liable dullness in the hard worked and vanity vaulty in ill the idle each of which brings many a man mail and woman into a tragic degree of ridicule some young people are fire so constituted as to feel no inclination to games but very much the reverse their minds are of such fibers to retain elasticity without having re cou course roe to systematic d diversion version I 1 that they are tire not character characters of small capacity which exhibit this trait may be shown by quoting two well known instances of men highly distinguished in widely different careers the duke of 0 wellington could never be induced when at school to throw a any n spirit into the sports of other boys he Ile preferred wandering about alone to the engrossing occupation of football or cricket rous seau consumed days and nights in close study in an attempt to master the game of chess but though he lie persevered in repeated endeavors they all came to nothing for as often as be he sat gat down to a game all that he had learned went out of his head but dutruch such instances are exceptional and I 1 in it most characters bard work unrelieved by competitive games is apt to produce and superfluous leisure stu it is difficult to imagine a young woman iford of lawn tennis falling a prey to the morbid self conscious consciousness s nes ne s which consumed the contesse Com tesse do terre whom talle anant des reaux describes as a beautiful but ver very foolish ivo woman inan one of her fan eles cles was to have pillows of every size in her bed even for her tier thumbs for she prided lier herself self on her beautiful handa and slept with them open to keep the joints 1 email small athletics it ft is true are peculiarly I 1 prone to vanity vaulty but the form that vice 1 assumes in them la Is that of the pride of life by bi many degrees more pardonable than the deliberate del belt belf love of in indolence dolence it ittia Is a long descent from games which exercise mind or body to those of pure chance yet these havo have us its firm a hold upon human inclination as it if they possessed poss sed merit in themselves es no more piteous impression can be made on a mind capable of 1 reflection than is left by a visit to the tables at 41 monte carlo hour flou after rafter hou how day after day daiv ye ar after year the aine crowds gather round them blind to the of sapphire sea and glorious HUU hine whine content to swelter and scramble and w rangle for what well they are under the thrall of one or two motives mot iveli tv two de do ilo rable motives one olle the lowest low eat the thi other the saddest addest that can bo be conceived for the first is avarice of all lust the most obscene ab scene of all passions the most dasas iron trot valor belt belf devotion truth humanity may so ie is human nature coexist with much that Is evil in a it character but avarice taints the tile whole being unlike other desires it Is never satisfied it ft li 16 never at rest nothing sweet can flosa front the source which it lias has polluted let there be no mistake or palliation about this avarice is the primary lure to tho the casino casing lake take away the gold and anti who would be w childish as to play for fo r counters and an d sweet meats the theother other and subsidy subsidiary ary motive which collects a crowd around the table tables I 1 the desire of idle men to nd rid themselves of that most precious possession time which once it Is gone can never be re recalled called the tile lose loss of which Is ever the cause of fruitless regret Know knowledge ledie comes but bu wisdom tar tarries rles but here even knowledge seems to tobe be set at contempt crowds of educated people with ready access to all tho the stores of knowledge laid up through the laborious ages for present use aniro the contemptible creed of luck never was the there re a god tso false never one before whom eo so many showed the knee in profound and ignorant it would be lost labor to combat the belief almost universal and wholly ineradicable among gamblers in an in ill influence upon u pon human occasion capable of being offended or prop propitiated it differs dif fera in no respect from front indola indo latry try for civilized well veil educated people behave just aa as the pagan docs does in regard to the great spirit the souls of his ancestors or the tile dei del fled fied powers of nature it is in act fact a kind of Ju animism dont disappoint appoint dib your luckl the gam gain biers cardinal cArdi nat precept implies tile same dread of offending a ft powerful being im tin patient tient of slight as a all moves the innab fal tit tot of Tinn evellY in indo ch ina to lay brandy braudy anil anti cherooty cheroots che roots on the grave u of a certain british officer whom they hated and eared i on ou account of ili his tyrannical rule iter ter them believing that his ills spirit can only be bt kept from mischief by being plied piled w avith the same little luxuries lie loved then it live the lord thy god I 1 s a jeal uasa not peculiar to jewish aus 1 olt ill Is dagnia voral it it the idea uppermost I 1 n all if ion sir 11 jq atre MT axwell ill re at magazine gaz |