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Could Happen Once In a Lifetime NEW YORK, April 29. -- When an elderly woman, recently arrived from Scotland, asked Louis Brunette, ticket clerk in the Canadian National Rail- ways office in New York, if he hap- pened to know her son, "James Smith, who works for a telegraph company either in New York or Chicago, with whom I have corresponded irregularly 15 years," Brunette took a long chance -- and won. He phoned the personnel department of a commer- cial telegraph company in New York and the man who answered the phone was James Smith--the right one. The mother, Mrs. I. Smith, had no idea that the Smith stake in New York's seven million is a pretty heavy one. "Scientists say that the ants are the hardest workers in the world, but somehow they find time to attend all the picnics." This country has turned out some great men, and there are quite a few others not so great that it ought to turn out. 123ZOntario St. SOS f+? etous Rubber Stamp Automatic Daters Ink ance PLACE YOUR CRDERS WITH The Fletcher Johnston Press Phone 115 Service Ster -'s riK Pads Stratford, Ont. 4 "|b nahn Spillet octal lessecdullnn jets lls ainsi ll cl Condensed from "How to Be Happy Though Human," from Readers' Digest. We once counseled a successful and very egoistic business man who could find no time to concern himself with the affairs and woes of his fellow-men during his business day to go to the Grand Central Station in New York and to look for someone to help. Largely in a spirit of supercilious con- descension and patronage he obeyed our prescription. A poor woman from a country town had come to New York to meet her daughter. She had lost the slip with her daughter's ad- dress, and sat silently weeping in a corner. Our patient managed to find her daughter's address in = the tele- phone directory, tock the old lady and her bags and put her in a taxicab, and accompanied her to an obscure street in the Bronx. On the way he bought the old lady a few roses. She wept for sheer joy on his shoulder. He de- posited her, smiling, in her daughter's house, rushed to the telephone to call us. "My God; Doc, I feel like a hu- man being at last!" he blurted as he told us the story. Since then he has become one of the directors of a boys' club on the lower East Side of New York, and a member of various child welfare and civic organizations. What is happiness? It is not a thing that can be defined by mathe- matical formulas. Happiness is a quality and an attribute. of the good life. It is as ineluctable as electri- city, as evanescent as melody, as in- definable as health, as variable as speed, time, matter. If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as if it were a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, but among hu- man beings who are living richly and fully the good life. Nearly every hu- man being is looking for happiness. Nevertheless if you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself, nor will he be seeking fer it among the nebulous wastes of metaphysics. He will be- come aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day. To find happiness we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves. If you live only for yourself you are always in immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. If your centre of gravity is some extra-person- al social movement ycu profit by the vitality and objectivity of that move- ment. It matters little, for psycho- logical purposes, whether you interest yourself in making your city cleaner, or enlist in the international campaign to rid the world of the illicit opium traffic, whether you go in for birth control or become a crusader against the vicious influence of Comstockery and superstition. Choose a movement that presents a distinct trend toward greeter human happin and align yourself with it. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow-men. There is a certain quantum of cre- ative energy left in every human be- ing which is not absorbed by the business of a work-a-day world. This is the essential godliness in man. No one can be happy who does not find some channel for this creative energy. It is quite possible to get a great deal of pleasure and recreation simply from attempting to model the head of your janitor or your wife in plasticene. It Don't Wait To Live is'not necessary to be a Rembrandt to get fun in drawing the types in the subway or in your office. The wise man has a variety of avocations--out- door hobbies and indoor, summer and winter ones, social and solitary forms of amusing himself in his leisure mo- ments. No one with a good hobby is ever lonely for a long time. One important source of unhappi- ness is the habit of putting off living to some fictional future date. 'When I have $10,000 in the bank I'll take a trip to Europe!" Why not go to Eur- ope in the student third class NOW, and enjoy life while you are young? "When I am _ 35 years old I will marry!" Why not marry now, and have the fun of struggling for some common objective in comradely co- operation with your wife? "When I am married, I'll settle down and do some serious reading!" Why not bud- get one good book a month during your celibate days? If we defer liv- ing too long, unfortunate intercurrent events frequently spoil our plans and change our aims. Take a_ chance! Buy a new picture for your room, en- roll in a new course. Buy that auto- mobile even though it is a second- hand Ford! Sit in the gallery and see that play, or listen to that con- cert. The dividends of too much cau- tion and security are boredom and smugness. It is better to have adven- tured in life, and m&ade mistakes, than to have petrified in mind and body, in the secure depths of an easy chair, with a horizon bounded by your of- fice, the daily paper, and the four walls of your home. Only the dead know complete security. Unlike the flesh; the spirit does not decay with years. Many of the hap- piest men and women in the word are men and women in their 60's, 70's or 80's, who have contributed richly to the world's work during their matur- ity, and at the same time have culti- vated sufficient awareness and inter- est in the undying cultural activities to make their leisure a delight. Grow- in gold gracefully should begin with youth. No one who intends to lead a happy old age should neglect the ad- venture of books, music, of dancing and the other arts, and above all, the art of social intercourse. The last of life, as Browning has so well put it, is the goal of youth. How can one be happy, then, looking always at the lost paradise of youth and denying the reality for which we were created? The artist in living must never stop Continued on next page CHINA HALL GLASS Cups and Saucers Heat Proof FIRE KING WARE 25c Cups (nly 2 for 25c J.L. Bradshaw Phone 179 84 Ontario St. b J . ~ Don't Wait To Live learning. You cannot coast through life on the momentum of a high school or even of a college education. Life teaches us much, but we must learn and learn and learn. To stop, even for a moment, in the pursuit of knowledge, is to bring mental death closer. Never before has life been so eminently worth living, and never be- fore so thrilling. The morning news- paper and the monthly magazine are veritable storehouses of challenges and stimuli. Never before have there been so many profoundly important causes crying for intelligent social co-operation. You can hardly name a sphere of human activity, be it transportation or international peace, be it economics or sociology, be it commerce or medi- cine, politics or philosophy, in which old values are not tumbling, in which there is not a cry for leaders. The world is sick of its mistakes; it is hungry for peace and brotherhood. We stand at the crossroads. One road leads definitely toward that brotherhood of man which has been the goal of every religious and philo- sophic movement of the past. One roads leads to the very destruction of mankind by war and competition. We can choose consciously. Mankind, must make civilization work for man- kind. No one need ever be unhappy who sees this task clearly, who looks to his resources, who goes forward, singing to the accompaniment of the greatest task of all, the establishment of a practical brotherhood of man. Two lovers walking down the street; She trips, he murmurs, "Careful, sweet!" Now wed, they walk the selfsame street, She trips, he growls, "Pick up your feet!" She--'"Do you think that plastic sur- gery would improve my features?" He--'"No." She--"Then, what do you suggest?" He--"Blasting." . "What do you call it when one woman is talking?" "A monologue." "And when two women talk?" "A cat-alogue." 25 - 40 and 60 watt Inside frosted l 5c Each Hydro Shop Phone 460 U. S. 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