WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 260, 21 February 1877, Page 3

WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS.

Tho first mistake which. is made by moat makitij; wealth the object of tlwir tfves- But wealth, a »w# know, does not give happiness. The \ anderbitts, the Stewarts and the Astors have not been , ;nr h ;ip pi-Hli men. They are not typical iin■ i.omw ;■ they are not the typi- ,,, i„ Mcial life; they are not the ,,j in the detights of life, or in •.. inn of learning, which per--1,.,, H • I lie finest joys men can know, ty, -J.;i . down lower still, and tind the m un who have only one milti mor so. or ftulf a million, and they do not. type the happiness of American homes. «.► into t heir houses. How splendid, how gorue.xw, how gaudy they are, and yet they cannot rival the tittle homes in the love of a, husband and wife, the reverence of chit,lvun For parents, the parents' guardianship over children, in all the sweet happiness tfuit all'ectiou spreads abroad tike a fra(franco through the chambers of our houses. Vou know that almost every Aiiterie;m gets w.-rlc who chooses to, though he loses it again, perhaps ; but he „ ots ?t!. tfc is not great proof of ability, nop evidence of success, for a man to get wealth iu this country and this age.. Now. then, it seems to us that if a young man should picture to himself rather a unlet huuse, sunnily placed on some hilUde, with a stretch of meadow iu front, turough which courses a running stream, shaded by pbisHuli trees, with a l-ving wife, a group of pleasant-faced and virtuous children, ipiietmle of days and peacefutuess of u'iidits, health and contentment of miiul, tliat would be much better than to sot up a lictltious standard and strive incwffluulsly for it as though, you mush reach it. or In; utterly undone.