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YOUR SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 



IN our schoolboy lyceum days we were accus- 

 tomed to discuss the momentous question : "Re- 

 solved, that the pleasures of anticipation sur- 

 pass those of realization." The ayes had it, or 

 ought to have had it. It was wasted time to dis- 

 cuss such a certainty as that. 



Look back over the realizations of your own life, 

 and set them over against the fond dreams you 

 once had about what you thought your life was 

 going to be. You will be very apt to conclude that 

 anticipation has realization backed off the boards 

 when it comes to solid comfort. The real pleasure 

 of life consists in dreaming of things we want to 

 do. The most interesting reading in the world is 

 that which tells us about ourselves as we would like 

 to be, or about things we would like to do, or about 

 how to get things we want to get. For my own part, 

 I always thought the wholly impractical pages of a 

 sporting goods catalog were, in the light of a true 

 philosophy, the finest reading in the world. In that 



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