The Archive · 1925

The Wasted Course

(America, the home of efficiency methods, is the fret country in shih special university course ie available for women she desire to- ft themselves for marriage. tow to win a man, how to hold him, how to prepare for anew Jeess in marriage just as one dace for professional carcer—this is the idea in the mind of the university auth-orifice Newspaper article]

Said her parents, "Little Annie When she comes to choose her mi allege, where they "That" suspicious creature: mans the (comparatively recent) past we thought less of enjoyment than of security. Not only did we frown upon pleasure as a sign of wickedness and licence, we sacrificed it deliberately in our youth and our middle-age in order that we might enjoy it in our old age. And of course we never did properly enjoy.

in our old age, because the capacity to enjoy is always impaired by age. We were always preparing to enjoy and never enjoying. Nay: more, we not infrequently killed ourselves in the effort to obtai security, and if we survived the effort we had a habit of dying frmmediately the period of secure enjoyment had begun. To-day we. say:. "I want to enjoy now. Why'

would. I sacrifice the certainty of Jenjoyment to-day for the uncertainty of enjoyment to-morrow?" We favour the present at the expense of the fature. We say: "A bird in the hand' is worth two in the bush, and certainly worth more than one in the ascendant." Here are two opposing schools of philosophy, each of them as old as civilization, and Perhaps older. Both schools "have their dangers.

Each school is apt to be overpraised while it is in the ascendant, A coRRESPONDENT in a contemporary wants to know how a jaz: pianist can be secured. The best way is to handcuff his bands behind his back and lock him in a room with no piano.

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