| Show s S g I 1 something to think about J F A WALKER e S 3 THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE truy truly treat great the large men and women who delight in solas going afield in the mystic realm of thought you will find and are ardent lov ers era of solitude they are never lonely wherever they may be for or they have found the WRY way to hap happiness by getting acquainted with themselves whose companionship they prefer to any other washington chose solitude when he be prayed for strength and guidance in the forests lincoln knew nothing of loneliness when he lay upon the floor of big log cabin before the glow of a hearth bearth fire are studying by its faint aint light and pondering the subject matter of his hl lessons the late john wanamaker solved his most difili difficult cult business problems in privacy the men and women of exclusion illuminato illuminate the world by dazzling achievements born to them in their quiet hours of isolation their works flare bare up like magic torches to light the paths of the faltering and dis heartened the greatest writers do their beat work in solitude eoll tude often in the nighttime when voices are hushed and silence allence Is supreme and so do pointers painters and presidents kings and captains students and inventors there Is nothing more inspiring to thinking minds than quietude nothing so eo grandly sublime and impressive as ft a canopy of stars in a still night when one Is far away from the noisy haunts of men with ones own thoughts only in solitude eoll tudo con can man find himself it was in solitude on the sea ebore that demosthenes found himself whence he be came and stirred the people of his time with tuch such oratory as had never been heard real nobility of the soul dwells dwell only in the men and women who care noab nothing for social and frivol tilea such men mea and women prefer to be alone with their muses muse where they find their greatest pleasure ure la in study meditation and exploration the best beat in science la in art aft and in literature comes from the people who choose seclusion ln in preference to the glamour of bright lights and the folly of merrymaking merry making among turbulent crowds barely able to find their way about add up a column of figures or to tell offhand off hand UIA the number dumber of feet LO in a square mile a 0 by mcclure Ne 0 |
