a Mate ent sin like (la on @ dav in October when the Chesterkeld cigarette, satisfied. Fie sen ded oe: aes course i happing fo"Femin te Perm Lower One. hrough Januasy last and June torrents, but at present ce prefer Not to be happy on a perfect October day would argue oneself difficult to please, a positive misanthrone, On a dancing, sunlit day we might all sing as in the opera of La Bayadere:
"Happy am I; from care I'm Why aren't they all contented like me?"
'The homespun American poet, James Whitzomb Riley, has express ted the thought of many in' his autumn classic as he soliloquizes:
"But the air's 99 appetizing' and ye landscape through the haze of F crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Isa pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock—When the frost ig on the punkin
Shanghai's climatic faults, snd the fodder' in the shock! even in the mellow glow of these caressing hours, we cannot forget that these have existed in the past, cannot be denied; but bygones are bygones and should not be mentioned among friends. If life was conducted on anything like sensible Upes there would be a proclamation issued to the effect that no work should be done in the day-time, but that all abound, under pain of im-Prisonment in asylums if dis obedient, wander out of doors daring the sunlit hours. The evenings, cinemas, or concerts. might instead of being devoted to dancing,
be used for the transaction of unavoidable duties. When there is vet too much good weather lying around loose in the Far Esstern year we should make the best of it while it is here. One sensible insstitution of learning, set in the midst of, beckoning and mountaing used to wait until," crisp, Designed and drayon for the of grey velours with a flared back, stimulating day dawned, then the: being. "What," we say to our-college bell pealed the assembly selves "What though the sorrows call and everybody scampered jaf the would are outside, waiting chapel. to be told to climb mou to descend upon us. In the mean-tains for the day. Wouldn't {time we have tea."
Wellamade ton moratorium ordinary business an achievement in itself, but: and social engagements go well to-when we consider that it wards off day? the perplexities of the day, its The Hap-y Half-Dozen Jcontentment outruns its creature comfort.
Perhaps you are among the con-'After the soothing surcease scientious who writhe rythmically tea, interrupted by an occasional to the one, two, three and four and chuckle, comes the bath. We hold music of the "Daily Dozen which that said bath may be either hot or guarantees to make you healthy. cold, whichever gives one the more Listen to @ brief description of six happiness. There are those of, simple exercises well calculated to course, who claim that the produce happiness. primary purpose of the bath is to First of all in the morning of get clean, but we insist again that course one has to wake. This in this aim' is only secondary. The itself is not a happiness _help. morning tub must restore one's Often it is disagreeable, and while it sense of self-sufficiency, of com-may be made a pleasure by retiring ete ney, of verve and join de vive, carly enough the night before, one and the temperature must make must bear in mind that after all for that devoutly to be wished we are living in Shanghai, which consummation. Then, too the song was not the town where the "early for those who warble in the bath.
bed" adage originated. One The "Crow's Nest" of last Satur. should never be awakened by an day gave a delightful description alarm clock. That in itself is of those musical phocoids, meaning Jenough: to dispel the happiness of seals, in ease you shouldn't re even a Pollyanna. The boy with cognize the term any more than tea is the best thing we know about. did. Our only suggestion is In one musical family different that the song should invariably be member took turns in playing or of a cheerful description, something singing the others out of bed, which like "A sunbeam, a sunbeam," or was all very romantic, but the "Hark, hark the' Lark," according sweeter the melody the deeper the 'a5 one's tastes run, dreams induced until bugles alone Dressing must follow, conditioned could rouse the sleeper. by the occupation next in order, One's waking thoughts should be whether riding, tennis, golf, or only happy ones, that goes without say-the usual avocations' of the day. ing: bat all too often they are an-Dressing, while not an intrinsically noyed, or sluggish, or despondent. ndivening prospect, may be brighten One cannot count upon one's final by new clothes, or by the ease. dream to put one into trim for the encounters of the day. Then! with which old ones may be slipped fon. And here we must mention that what, should be one's automatic comfort be insisted upon in the coction upon walking? Why, the chuckle. It makes up difference whether you feel dike laughing or not, grin and chuckle, chuckle out Bud. Psychological laws tell us that we feel amused because we Faugh and that running away makes us frightened. So chuckle until yor laugh becomes sincere and in the doing of it you will have taken good physlotogical exercise wall. Now @ few luxurious yawns and stretches, than which is no better early exercise, and one is eady for the second stop, meaning fea.
Morning tea is a marvellous in-bat 80 to us because it stitution for 'a number of reasons, {induces @ sense of leisure and. wall morning. A slight tightness ina shoo, for instance, which is at worst a disgomfart in the afternoon is a tragedy in the morning, and may well wreck a day. about here should come breakfast, or else it eating breakfast altogether swank The people who have given
so tremendously about the sacrifice that they doubtless get more satis faction therefrom than they could from any amount of the most delicious bacon and eggs or even waffles. It's not what you have, but how happy it makes you that counts. And finally, brethren, the plunge into the day's activities. If the preliminary steps have been
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.