HOW TO INVITE HAPPINESS 



and look into the clouds" for a space in a receptive 

 mood, "inviting his soul." Only let him remember 

 that this is a pastime for the holiday, the vacation time, 

 not the business of everyday life. Confidently may he 

 expect that the cloud-forms bodying forth into pictures 

 of the imagination will invite and point the way to 

 new possibilities of enjoyment such as no development 

 of the merely physical or even of the merely intellectual 

 sense of well-being could bring to him. For now to 

 the fully developed body, the well-trained thinking 

 mind, has been added the soul of artistic, of spiritual 

 susceptibility, sanely qualified, yet attuned to the 

 "music of the spheres" with well-nigh infinite possi- 

 bilities of response. 



The aesthetic pleasures of a nature thus developed 

 transcend the pleasures of the average personality as 

 widely as the intellect of a Plato or a Spencer transcends 

 the intellect of a Stone- Age barbarian. 



As I reflect on the possibilities thus open to the 

 generality of cultured minds, possibilities that for the 

 most part will never become realities, I am led to 

 recall an address that I heard once many years ago. 

 The speaker was the late Professor Swing, his theme 

 the possibilities of mental and spiritual culture. The 

 words of his peroration ring in my ears as if I had 

 heard them yesterday: 



"Climb the heights," he cried, in tones that as I 

 recall them were soft and melodious yet clear and 

 penetrating as a bugle-call. "Climb the heights, and 

 when you have reached the top look down upon the 

 world asleep amidst beautiful and fragrant flowers." 



