WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2555, 15 March 1877, Page 2

WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS.

: The first- mistake which'- is- made* by most men is in making w«alth the object of their lives. But wealth,'** we know, does not give happiness. The Vanderbilts, the Stewarts, and Astbrs have not been our happiest, men. .They are .not, typical men in the home; they are not the typical men in social life j they are not the typical men in the delights'of'KfeVor'in the pror gresaion of learning, which perhaps yields the finest joys men can know. We can go-down-lower stilirand find thenrerrwho %■ have only, a milli<nu>r so, .or half a million and they- do not typify- fcheUs'ppineßS of American homes. „Go into their houses. How splendid, howgorgepus.'hW* g*udy they are, and yet" tjiejf cannot th* little homes in the'lbvebbraf ra Kltisb^att^ And wife, the revqfence 6JP children for 'pikejtfgg ' the.parents' guardiansh'ip^v'er^ c2u^reo*is .- >all the sweet happiness'"that, spreads abroad/like^ fragranceHthrouglt the chambers of our houses,; know that almosteevery^Ameriean getiAwealth who chooses to, though lie loseait 1* again/ " perhaps ; but he gets it. It is not' great - proof of ability", nor "evideric# T6f ■success for arman to get 'Wealth' 1 in-^fhis country and this age: " Now,' srthfa; it' ieeina, to us that if. a^yonrisp dan "should " picture 'to' himself '* rather "aV'quiet " house/sunnijyon "'some HllsiaeV'with'.a ' .stretch of meadoVin froTnlt; through; whjch'" bourses a running stteam, , sb.iid.edr hy ' pleasant trees,' with a Ipving' wjfe.'a group of, pleasant-faced and virtuous, children, quietude of.daysj.and. peacefulnegg; of . nights, health and contentment of. mind, . that would be much better than to set-up - a fictitious standard and strive incessantly for it atr though/youmust reacif if or'^9, utterly undone,—Mu^piiy;' ''v <* "' ' .