ART OF HAPPINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 7 December 1906, Page 4

ART OF HAPPINESS.

"All the recipes for happiness are simple, and t.u pi.ncyal ingredient always g-ouir.* . Uf course it i' presumed '.'" L >"■ al ! want t0 bc happy, but ;l-.c wouiu C"" ear t0 . ü be some diversity of opiuion as to tber we all want to bc gi od. : ' Thus Jlme. Sarah Grand, in the course of a delightful lecture at tne Bishopsgate Institute on "Art of Happiness." Here are some; of the lecture points:

Man makes his own happiness or misery; yet there is nothing he knows less about than how to make ife ,w<i(.U living, although it must) be confessed n e undeistands the matte.' much better thau woman.

Much of the resignation exhibited by 'ivomen is only stagnation. Women will deliberately deny themselves when men wil. spend money upon themselves for comfort.

Great pleasures may be rare, but it is the enormous variety of minor pleasures that make up happiness of life.

Pleasure to be perfect must be earned.

Pleasure is in every act of choico, those who choose to be miserable enjoy being miserable.

Perhaps one of the rarest pleasures of life is when we make the discovery of the worth and beauty of character in an enemy.

All through the ages, humanity has made astonishing efforts to be miserable. Neither man nor woman should enter the bond of marriage except in the spirit of devotion and sacince.

One of the great sources of happiness is a definite purpose in life. Some women fly to marriage, others to suffrage; but these latter are the untrained and undisciplined who do not understand life.

"In the quest for happiness," said the lecturer in conclusion, "we cannot do better than put in practice the precepts of the great Persian—fii6t, the good though;,, second, the good word; third, the good deed—and then 1 entered into paradise!"