Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-11-26 | Page 51 | Is it worth While?

4 a j 1 f IS IFS IT T W WORTHWHILE WORTH 0 RTH WHILE i 1 f I Just Exactly ly 1 What You Make Y Yourself o rs lf Today You Will J t Be e in in Planes and Realms and States e y yr ond t j h- h 0 r By Ella Wheeler Wilcox IT rn Copyright 1911 Journal American Journal m is is 15 a good question to asK ase 1 1 ourel If It you are on the verge vergeot of ot a temptation to do something yon yau ou would not like e the whole world to Know Perhaps It is a matter of ot the emo emo- tons and you are deciding that happiness hap hap- ss lies for tor you rou only onh In the possession possession posses posses- sion slon of ot some other mans man's wife or some other worn tans tan's s husband You have convinced yourself that this this' poison person Is la your our truo true mate and that life Uto can never be complete until your OUr affinity belongs to you OU First look about you ou and stud study the people who have done as you OU are arc de deciding deciding de- de cl to do It lt will not be he difficult to find one couple who defied the world and hastened hastened hast hast- ened to gratify raut such desires now repentIng repent- repent frig Ing at nt leisure showing b by appearance and actions that happiness has not been attained Another will be found In the divorce courts trying to untie the tho knot It was so difficult to tie lie And still another another another an an- other living In open discord And Aud you ou ml may search many a a. day bo- bo I lore fore you OU will find a man and woman who have violated an any principle to obtain obI obtain ob ob- I tain their happiness who are both growing In character nobility and wort worth h. h When you oU do find that one it will prove pro the exception to the general rule and an exceptional emotion which ac actuated actuated actuated ac- ac the conduct Remember that the most terrible pain life lito can give In the way of 01 renunciation does not compare with the slow ugly misery of 01 getting what you OU want nant at an any cost and then thou finding It Is not what you thought thought not not what you OU needed need need- ed Perhaps your our temptation lies In the way of 01 making money You know leno of ot methods not quite regular regular reg reg- ular yet not open to the p punishment of ot tine the t claw law And you OU arc aro turning all your mental menta powers posers toward toward tho the Idea of ot getting rich b by those methods But stop top again and ask Is It worth worthwhile worthwhile while hUe Wll Wil n you ou happiness In the result to pa pay Ifor or all the consequences may follow tollow These consequences ma may not be bc fine tine prison or open disgrace But they will be worse than that for thc they will mean a loss of ot self respect And the they will cheapen your character and make ke you OU feel teel the need of 01 constant excitement to avoid sitting alone with Ith yourself The They will reflect upon those you U love those who bear your our name and there will be bo an Interrogation mark always alwa's placed after atte that namo name In genera generations lions to come Is It worth while Can Never Destroy Character Any day ay a a- a great cataclysm of ot nature mn may occur Which will destroy destro your our fortune fortune for tor- tune but your our character can never bo be destroyed Just exactly what you au are making yourself today you will be beg be In planes plane and realms and states beyond this earth Nothing Js is worth while bile but NOBILITY NOBILITY NOBIL OBIL ITY OF OP CHARACTER All our our wonderful Inventions All AU your our houses vast an and taU tall All your our great gun fronted vessels fort Every tort and every en wall With Ith the passing of the A ages e They shall pass and the they shall fall tan A As you OU sit eft among the Idols That your our avarice gave gate birth As Ay Ayou you count the hoarded treasures Th That t you OU think of or priceless worth Time Is digging tombs t to hl hide de e them In the bosom of at the earth There Thero shall shan come como a great convulsion I Or a ru rushing tidal wave Or a sound of 01 mighty might thunders From a subterranean n cave Mid And a n. boasting worlds world's possessions I Shall be burled buried in n one grave gra From the centuries of ot silence We Wo are bringing back again Burled vase ase and ind bust and column And the tho gods they thc worshiped tin then In the strange 6 un cities Built by prehistoric men Did they thoy tho steal and lie He and slaughter Did thc they steep their souls In shame Did Dial they fe sell ll eternal virtues Just jUHt to win 1 a fam fame Did they hey give h ll tIlt tho gold gold 1 01 of at honor For the tinsel of a name We 0 are arc hurrying all together Toward coward the silence and the night There Is nothing worth orth tho seeking But Bart the sun kissed moral height height- Z There hero In is nothing ng worth the doln doing But the doing of ot the tho RIGHT i