40 Red Room and Other Chat 



Though the Myopia Hunt Club is only a sapling, 

 the prospects of becoming a tree were never brighter 

 than now, for the reason that the interest in sport is 

 increasing, and the leisure contingent is growing. 

 To use the latest definition — "Leisure consists in 

 the diligent and intelligent use of time." When 

 lived up to on these lines, leisure ought to be con- 

 sidered highly respectable, though the comment is 

 sometimes harsh. Men of leisure cannot be drones. 

 Those who had earned a competency used to take 

 their ease ; though a rich retired soap-maker once 

 applied to his successors for permission to assist at 

 the soap-boiling on boiling days. This seems to 

 be doing a sort of penance for idleness. But now 

 we have golf, with its never-ceasing interest and 

 adapted to all ages, which is the panacea of all ills 

 of body and soul ; and the retired need not sigh for 

 the "shop." New England is fast becoming the 

 play-ground of this country for the leisure element. 

 A sporting colony is their paradise, and we are likely 

 to receive our share of their support. 



Everything within the limits of the Club purse is 

 being expended to improve the sporting facilities. 

 With such an able management as we have, who 

 give up much valuable time for the benefit of mem- 

 bers, the Myopia Hunt Club is sure to preserve its 

 attractions, and — though perhaps it may be hard for 

 old members to admit it — may have a future even 

 more interesting than its past. 



