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hotel, or, in fine, ever participated in the pleasures 

 of the rich? And well might we ask, how many 

 city people do these things ? For it is a fact that 

 three-fourths of the city people are engaged in a 

 fearful struggle for bread, who never do or never 

 can enjoy the so called pleasures of the rich, and 

 even in their condition they are a thousand times 

 better off that they are not able to do so. 



We have already shown that the trouble with 

 too many people is they think of nothing else but 

 pleasure seeking. They forget that our mission in 

 this world is one of service. That God intended 

 that the most of us should be of the common herd 

 for, as Lincoln said, he made so many of just plain 

 common people. 



If we would just adjust our mental state along 

 the right lines we would know that there is more 

 genuine pleasure and joy in living found right 

 among the common every day man upon the farm 

 than in the city, and the author would rather live 

 with, and be one of the common every day men, 

 whether situated in the city or country than to be 

 one of, and live with the idle rich that flitter hither 

 and thither in search of a happiness they do not 

 find, and can never find in the life they are living. 



Riches never have, and never will be the means 

 of securing happiness, for happiness is largely a 

 mental state. We must adjust our minds right 

 before we are first in position to secure it. Then 

 having got into the right mental state, we will find 

 it in simple living and in a "conscience clear, a 

 mind at ease, and simple pleasures that always 

 please." Add to this plenty of work amid pleas- 

 ant surroundings, especially the surroundings that 



