THE LUMBER ROOM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 4

THE LUMBER ROOM

"padl PRY."

Beauty Fays. Beaiuty pays. And if we ever should. attaan to uni,versal euthusiasm for iq many of our sorest economic probldms wouid dissoive. "We would iind more Of the satisfaction in activities that are not cOstly. We would have a standard of living, as distinguished froin the standard Of spending. And that,, after all, may be what we must have before we can clintb the heights of satisfyang life. On those heightB dwells serenity, and serenity and beauty are sisters,— J, - G. Derieux, Chronic Happiness2 When happiness or sorrdw becomes chronic, then. it becomes dangeroua, Permanent SOrrdW is produced by ihe exaggerated picturos of our imagination; the longer we allow oureelves to dweil in that state the further we drif t f rdm xeaMty. Permanent happiness tends to make people selffsh, oblivious "of xeality, uuinterestedin anythihg Outside their orira happiness.— Eom Landau, Everyman a Fhffosopher. Fof avery philosopher Who reduce* his system to a written form/ there aro thousands, nay millions, who are day by day working out a private system *ti their owja We may not have the mathematical ability d£ PaSCal, the clarity of Descattes or the power to visuaiise the infinite of Spinoza, but at leaat we at- - tempt to arrange the sun and planets of our own universe according to oUr own. conceptxon of life. Now and again a comet of inspiration dashes into our horizon lashing US with its star-dust tail of hope, but of this the average man has little to say • — he ponders ouj — AnoiL. The Desire To Be Imjjortaili. Pfofessor John Dewey says that the deepest urge in Human nature iis the desire to be important. Remember that pkrase, "the. desire to be important." it is a gnawing and unfaltering human hunger. It was this desire that led the unedueated, poverty-stricken clerk Abraham Lincoln, to study law» that inspired Dickens to write his immortal ndVelS. It makes you want to weat the latest styles, diivo the latest car, and talk about your bxilliaat children. — Dale Carnegie. This Game of Thihking. We nee.d oraginality as a Way of iifo rather than something We lift outyoi' inoth balls only at rafe intervals or in a erisis. Imagination does mor4 than uccelerato materiai progress; if creates more eatisfying human relationships. Too often our lives dfop "to B hunidrum . levei through lack of origiijality ili whttt W6 do. A mRl'fiagO becomes bogged, perhaps bCeause imagination is nceded in its deepest intimaOur home life may become monotonotiffiy groOVed because of a lack of ' imagination in planning the recreation or in preparing the meals. The ehxid who learns early. to think creatively is establishing a life attitude which will manifest itself in all depfirtments of his living and make hdm a more interesting person foliimself as well as Others^— Eay Gilfla; The Second' Dark Ages. Before 1914 we lived in wliat seemed a secure world; WO cotild afford—oc thoUglit w© could— » race of men whdr regarded life as a foOtbdll matCh in which decent fellOwS "pl&yed th* aaW0. ' 1 To-day only luHatxcs Gaii harbour , such illusions. We are flghting ""our Wfty through what the Futnre will probably call th» Second Dark Ages. If Our ©ivilisation is to escapd the flnal diaaSter, WO have got to grow Up fast hnd aee tO it that ouf children gfOw up itt time to take out places. — I A, R. Wylie. Ufikind Comraent The theory and pf&etice of government are divided betWeCn sOeialdgists, who have knowledge but iie power, and politicians who have power but no knowledge, — W.-R.L Fatriotism " An absurd pre.iudiCe fouiided 6h an extended selfishness. ' ' — Ruskin. "A vulgar vice— the natiorial of coilective form of the monopolist instinct, ' Grant Allen. "A virtue— among barharians. ' Havelock Ellis. "Eeflex egoism' — extended selflslineSs,"— Herbert SpenCCf. Horizons. It is most noticeable in traVellilig about New Zeaiand how bold in. outljn* is the horizon.' For the "most part we gaze ixito fche distance and see the sky sliced off With n sweeping lilie of Mouiitain or toru jrfggedly by some razoibncked hill. There is little or nOMO of that nsellowing iilto hazy outlines that we ' read of in the other eountries, And wliat of this etfcct on the New Zeaiand mind, •if We can talk of sucli. A bokl horizon suggdsts the other side of the inotmtiau, we ai'e lead on in fanoy. We lOok forward, picturing the future as Wo would see it over tlie hill. . . RestJess we hlay be, perhaps, but still ihs bold horizon calls Qufistions. He that questioneth much shall leafn much, and Conteut much ; but especially if he apply his questions to the skiil of the persons whom he asketh ; for he sliall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and he himself shall/ continually gather knowledge. But let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a poser ; let him be sure to leave other ineix their turua to speak. — Francis Bacon. A Friend. Withoufc a hdrse, and a dog, and a friend, man would pciisli. The Gods gave me all t-hree, and there is no gift like friendship. Remember this .... when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make. ..Rudyard Kipling