PLEASURES OF CHANGE 45 



presents them with changing pictures of triumph 

 and defeat. Personal vanity, it is true, enhances 

 this excitement. But this would also be concerned 

 were the rivalry one of ostentatious expenditure, 

 and this would not be nearly as pleasurable as a 

 contest in the courts. Variety, or change of mood, 

 generally enters into the pleasure which we derive 

 from games. It is certainly one of the attractions 

 of golf. Games in which chance is the principal 

 element have, indeed, little but this to commend 

 them. 



The pleasure of intoxication is of a more com- 

 plicated nature. There enters into it the taste of 

 the drug or liquor, the attraction of habit, and 

 the relief of freeing oneself from the worries and 

 mistrust that afflict introspective sobriety. But 

 intoxication is above all things a change of mood 

 often, indeed, a series of changes which to 

 onlookers may appear exceedingly ludicrous. 

 The change is not always in the way of gaiety 

 not infrequently the reverse and its attractive- 

 ness lies in itself. Some of the lower animals can 

 seemingly appreciate it ; and monkeys, and even 

 birds, may contract a very strong liking for 

 spirituous drinks. 



