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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: A Jolly by Josh</p> +<p>Author: "Josh"</p> +<p>Release Date: January 13, 2006 [eBook #17499]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A JOLLY BY JOSH***</p> +<p> </p> +<h4 class="pg">E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (http://www.pgdp.net/)</h4> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h1>A JOLLY BY JOSH</h1> +<h4>PRIVATELY PRINTED</h4> +<h3>MCMII</h3> +<hr /> +<div class="preface"> +<p>Dear Charlie,—Having a spare moment as I crossed the +continent last time, I sat down in the rear end of a Lake Shore +Limited train, and began to cast about me with a view to hitting +upon some way of passing the time amicably with myself. As I looked +about the car, I studied the faces and persons of my +fellow-travellers, and found them uniformly uninteresting. My mind +wandered from them out of the window, and I noted with a casual eye +the advance civilization was making on both sides of the track. I +began wandering vaguely from that back to the time when this was a +trackless wilderness; and I pictured to myself the advent of the +white man, and so on in an aimless sort of a way, from the +beginning of our country until I reached the Declaration of +Independence, the terms of which have always remained vividly +impressed upon my mind.</p> +<p>“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!” That +is what we are after. So it is. How ridiculous! Why don’t we +think of it oftener? How many of us are free? How many of us are +happy? And, particularly, how many of us would be any happier if we +got the things we want? What foolish wants we have, anyway! Almost +everybody wants something they don’t want.</p> +<p>Just then my eye caught sight of the official stenographer +advertised as free. To an economical soul like mine the opportunity +of having a free stenographer for a day and a half was too good to +let slip by. So, placing my chair up alongside of his, I took from +my pocket a letter which I had just received from my nephew, who +had been spending his vacation in the West, and which I had not +known exactly how to answer.</p> +<p>The train of thoughts in which I had indulged, and the +peculiarly vacant condition of my mind, made the time favorable for +expansion upon the theme which had occurred to me; and so I +inflicted on the poor boy a long letter, or sermon, or essay, or +whatever you may please to call it, which I am enclosing to +you.</p> +<p>I know that you are interested in topics of this sort, and so +send it along with an apology for the amount of your valuable time +which I am so wilfully wasting.</p> +<p class="signature">Your old friend,</p> +<p class="name">JOSH.</p> +</div> +<hr class="short" /> +<p><em>Dear Tom</em>,—I have just received your letter, +asking if you could bring a pony back from Colorado. I answer most +assuredly, “Yes”; that is, if you want to! But do you +want to? This question having occurred to my mind, and perhaps not +to yours, you must excuse my becoming a little long-winded if I +launch out on a train of ideas which has presented itself to my +mind.</p> +<p>Let me briefly serve up the circumstances that surround you, and +perhaps I can paint them so that you will look at them from a new +point of view.</p> +<p>You are eighteen years of age. You have lived surrounded by +wealth and a good deal of luxury; but the luxury in which you were +lapped was the comfort with which a man of great working brain, who +has well earned the right to spend freely, chose to take for his +own rest and amusement, knowing well the value of every cent he has +spent or given away.</p> +<p>As the youngest of many sons, you have never had any +responsibility; and yet your parents have left you with a taste for +all kinds of expensive things, although, when you come to your +money in a few years, you will have enough to gratify only a small +part of the tastes which you have acquired. Nevertheless, the money +to which you are heir, while necessitating a lower rate of +expenditures than that of the household you have been brought up +in, is sufficient to enable you to live under much easier +circumstances than most of your neighbors.</p> +<p>In fact, if many of your friends started life with the income +that will be yours, they would consider themselves decidedly rich, +and would become, for a time at least, very much happier.</p> +<p>It seems to me that the Declaration of Independence has put it +pat when it defines the principal object for which we strive as +“<span class="sc">Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of +Happiness</span>.”</p> +<p>This may seem wandering far from the question of a pony; but, if +you have patience and follow me closely, you will find the old man +is not too far from the point.</p> +<p>Now let us bear fully in mind that Life, Liberty, and Happiness +are the objects which we have in view. In the tangled complications +of modern existence one gets lost and bewildered, unless having +very definitely in mind the objects for which we are striving. We +would be like a ship drifting or sailing in a fog without a +compass. We do not know whether we are attaining and accomplishing, +or losing ground, unless we have definitely in mind an objective +point or points with which to make comparisons of our position at +different times.</p> +<p>I do not hesitate to write freely that we are engaged in the +pursuit of happiness, even though shallow minds might take +exceptions on the ground of selfishness. This is not so, as to a +properly constituted mind happiness includes seeing others happy, +and the greatest satisfaction comes from making them so. I will +therefore let the Declaration of Independence stand for the present +without amendment.</p> +<p>Let us begin by postulating a great degree of happiness for +friend Harris, who has a dear little wife, a small house, and +twenty-five hundred per year. He will have no vacations and several +children; and though we see him full of happiness now, and envy his +good luck and all, yet we foresee that in twenty years, even though +his salary is doubled, he will have been enabled to lay by nothing, +and will have a little heart-burning at the thought that he cannot +give his three daughters the ball dresses and jewels they see among +their boon companions.</p> +<p>Thompy, who has four thousand now, is not quite as happy as +Harris, and complains a good deal of being poor. He is hard-working +and progressive, and will doubtless double his salary; while Perry +who is getting ten thousand, part as income from property and part +as trustee of something or other, is the poorest man I know. He has +desires, tastes, and expensive habits which would make fifteen +thousand a year look small to him, and can’t get along +without entertainments and personal expenses on a considerably +higher plane than he can now afford.</p> +<p>Where will you land? As you are heading now, you will never be +an earner—it is more likely that you will be a +spender—of money. You have been accustomed to lots of things +you could not afford on ten thousand a year. Of course, you can cut +down to that figure; but where will it land you when you are +married and have three daughters to send into society? You will be +worse off than Harris or Thompy in spite of the fact that you have +twice as much as one and just as much as the other.</p> +<p>Here is a curious fact I noticed when in college. I was asked by +the manager of the crew to collect subscriptions for him, and I +undertook the job in the dormitory in which I lived. I often found +that the richest men were the poorest. They never had money with +them, and, while they promised large amounts, they seldom paid; +while the men of moderate means seemed to be the ones who would +readily promise reasonable amounts, and then draw a check for it +the first time you asked them. I am stating these facts for the +purpose of drawing some conclusions; and I think you will agree +with me, particularly when I have proved them up by testing them +from the other side.</p> +<p>The obvious conclusion sounds almost like a +platitude,—that it is not the amount of money one has that +increases one’s happiness, but the use it is put to and the +attitude of mind you have toward your income and the life you can +lead with it.</p> +<p>Let us now apply this to your particular case, and draw some +more conclusions.</p> +<p><em>A priori</em>, you would be dissatisfied because you will be +unable to do the things you have been accustomed to doing, and your +attitude will be that of a man who has to deny himself things he +thinks he wants. You will then cut down the rate of expenditure to +within your income, as you have a certain modicum of sense in +regard to matters of this kind,—not acquired, but +inherited,—and permit yourself to spend freely up to your +limits. Observe the result:—</p> +<p>When at the end of ten years you are married, you will find +there is no increase in income, and you will have a lot of +expensive tastes for things which you have come to look upon as +necessary; and the increased expenses of a household will make you +give up all sorts of personal comforts. This will make you feel +poor, much poorer than Harris, for instance. As your children +appear, they will in turn rob you of more of the things you have +been accustomed to. You will have to keep a family horse and a +pony, and give up trotters and boats.</p> +<p>I am not detailing these tragedies with the idea of painting a +gloomy future, but merely to illustrate a point of view,—a +habit of mind. I might say.</p> +<p>It becomes evident, then, that, in order to bring your mind to +the point of view that will make you happy, it would be well to +study the case of Harris, the happiest man you know. Perhaps you +could manage to do artificially, as it were, what nature or +circumstances has done for him. He had no prospects, but good +health, good heart, and good mind. He was perfectly delighted when +he found he could earn twenty-five hundred dollars a year, a larger +sum than he had ever had; and he saved some and spent some in new +ways until he found, when he married, that his living expenses +consumed it all. His wife, expecting little, was pleased with all +she got; and, altogether, they seemed to get, in a large measure, +the objects for which we strove and fought the war of 1776.</p> +<p>From the start you were differently placed. You became +accustomed to gratifying your desires: you had little purpose in +your actions; and, accordingly, you have now the habit of looking +on each wish, whether of long standing or momentary, as something +you might as well gratify.</p> +<p>My second conclusion I will jump to now, without filling in the +intermediate steps leading up to it; namely, that, to attain +happiness, it is necessary to cultivate the custom of restraining +your impulse to gratify your every desire.</p> +<p>To illustrate this, I will carry out my threat of proving it up +from the other side. You have often in your yachting experiences +seen the yachts belonging to the Goulds, Vanderbilts, and other men +of great wealth. These men feel it necessary to own ships almost as +large and expensive to operate as ocean steamers. They build houses +that cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they give +balls that would ruin men of moderate wealth, while their weddings +are likely to cost in the neighborhood of a million dollars in +decorations, gifts, and expenses. The deduction from this is that +the ability of man to spend is only limited by the length of his +purse, and a man’s desire to spend has no such limits.</p> +<p>The conclusion to be drawn from this is that you have got to +curb your desires unless you are unusual in one of two respects, +either in your money-getting ability or in your lack of imagination +for inventing new desires. In any case <em>you</em> can eliminate +these possibilities. Now, admitting that at some point you have got +to curb your desires, why not do it at a point near Harris’s, +which will leave you in a more comfortable frame of mind in regard +to your money matters, rather than Perry’s, who does not have +all he wants, and is discontented, or Vanderbilt, who would +consider himself ruined if he had to live on ten thousand a +year?</p> +<p>I know that you may think that you cannot come to Harris’s +point of view, as your points of view have always been horizontally +opposite, he looking up to a sum upon which you look down. But +never mind. I am suggesting that we do reach that point, +nevertheless, or, if not that point, that we shall use our +intellects, and, with a view to expediency, select a point it would +be wise to reach.</p> +<p>I assert that we have now an intellectual problem before us. The +question is what scale of expenditure we shall use and what +proportion of our desires, etc., shall we curb.</p> +<p>The usual hand-to-mouth method is to go ahead, do what we want +until we are “up against it” and have to economize, and +then for a while do without some of the more important things which +we find we cannot afford, having already spent our money on things +of lesser importance. This is the lazy man’s way, the one who +does not care to do his thinking, and chooses to let circumstances +make his course rather than wisdom.</p> +<p>The system seems to have some points of merit, and it is +whispered that even Uncle Sam has sometimes let his affairs be +managed on this plan, but that need not enter into this case; for +you and I are both of us intelligent beings, observers after a +fashion, and we intend to plan things out a bit and see what we can +do with them, and perhaps see what stuff this luck that people talk +about is made of.</p> +<p>Let us see where we now stand. We have found that it is the +attitude toward your income, and the scale of living your income +permits, that must be regulated; that your desires, if all were +granted, will soon grow to a point far out of reach of your purse, +no matter how rich you get; and, therefore, that the intellectual +problem is before us of picking out a scale of living somewhere +well within your present income and endeavoring to attain an +attitude of mind toward living on that scale which will make you +happy rather than discontented.</p> +<p>I know that you are thinking that I have forgotten the personal +equation, that I am arguing as if all people were of the same +temperament, forgetting that under given conditions one person +would be happy and another would not, and that you, with your +varied interests and contented disposition, would always find +things to make you happy, even if you had to give up many of the +luxuries which you now enjoy. This is true, but you must please +note that I have not intimated that you couldn’t; and, in +fact, the point of what I say rests on the assumption that you +could. Moreover, in regard to other people, you will notice that +this letter is not addressed to them; and, if any of them should +happen to see it, they can put on the garment if it fits, or they +can leave it alone,—it is all one to me.</p> +<p>But how can we bring this about? how tell what things you have +been used to keep and what to give up? how keen a desire it is well +to quell, and which ones? To reach this point, it is necessary to +digress again in order to find the element of the magic touchstone +which will tell us whether the thing we are looking at is made of +gold or some baser metal.</p> +<p>You must first have a look at our objective points, and try to +analyze these a little bit. Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of +Happiness. These are somewhat intermingled, as we consider liberty +an essence of happiness. We also want health, and all that conduces +thereto, particularly cleanliness and exercise. We want a fair +amount of amusement and a good amount of work. We want the sense of +being useful and the sense of being respected. This people will +accord us if we are striving to accomplish some of the innumerable +things which people want to have done. There is, of course, a +higher field for man’s energy,—that of striving for +things which mankind ought to want for and doesn’t; the +position of the martyr or reformer, who works for the welfare of +the people and receives ill-treatment for it, like Christ. But, +while we all of us hope we would not be found wanting, were the +demand made, we cannot help joining with Kipling in the wish +“which I ’ope it won’t ’appen to +me.”</p> +<p>Accordingly, while I am not blind to disagreeable but necessary +possibilities, you will see that, if I digress to satisfy each one +of them, I shall never reach the point, which no doubt in your mind +by this time is the end; and so you must not pick flaws if I make +statements which cover the probable, but not all the possible, +contingencies.</p> +<p>We have found, then, that we want employment which will somehow +add to the welfare of the human race; and is not this well worth +doing? If you make something of that nature your object, and keep +it fully before your mind, how much better off you will be than if +you have continually in mind your own amusement, your own comfort! +If you have your amusement as your life object, you will soon +become a bored man, whom nothing will amuse. If you have comfort, +you will be the discontented man who is never comfortable; for you +soon fix in your mind the ideal combination of temperature, +garment, palate, belly, and entertainment, and, seldom being able +to get them all at once, you will seldom quite reach your +ideal.</p> +<p>You might remark that I have made the statement that employment +in something useful is the element of happiness; but I have not +proved it by reasoning, nor have I led up to it by any line of +argument. Let it rest at that. I shall let your intelligence and +experience supply the proof that a definite object of employment +with something in view of interest and benefit to the human race +is, if not an essence of happiness, perhaps the easiest way to +obtain the elements of happiness; namely, an object for yourself, a +sense of usefulness, and the respect of your associates.</p> +<p>In addition to this, you must not be unpleasant to the senses. +You must be morally and physically clean. You must have good +manners, which is mostly being courteous and sympathetic and doing +sundry social things according to the social code which happens to +be then in vogue. You must learn, though it bores you as much as +your Latin composition did, the proper way to dress at various +functions and to answer people’s invitations and generally do +the correct thing.</p> +<p>It won’t take long to learn these things; and you need not +remember them, as, if you once have in mind that there is a correct +way of doing things, you can always find out the particular one at +issue by asking.</p> +<p>It seems to me that I can best illustrate my point by comparing +you to a tool, of which there are two ends,—the handle and +the working or cutting end.</p> +<p>It is your business for your first thirty years of existence to +make as good a tool of yourself as you can, and your business for +the rest of your life to do as much work as possible; that is, let +the tool be used after it is made. Thus, then, let us divide your +experiences and acquirements into the handle and the edge of your +tool. The handle,—your manners, education on general topics, +such as history, literature, art, etc., your habits of cleanliness, +promptness, etc., and your physical ability, health, etc.</p> +<p>Your edge is your special fitness for work; that is, your +education, experiences, aptness, power of concentration, and +accomplishment.</p> +<p>Now I am going to ask you to keep this division clearly in mind, +as I think you will find in it many of the elements of the +touchstone for which we are looking.</p> +<p>I know the thought will have occurred to you that you do not +know what you will take up, and are in no position to tell what +things will go to make up the right sort of an edge; yet you will +observe that you are, of course, in the same position as other +pieces of unshaped wood and steel, and for your first ten years +nothing is done except to shape you up gradually, teaching you to +speak and read, and generally getting house broken. During your +teens you are going to college, learning how to meet with and talk +to men, to be a gentleman and develop your muscles. Incidentally, +you pick up a little knowledge of what the world has been +doing.</p> +<p>Most of this you will forget; but, if you are wise, you will +have drawn a few conclusions and made some observations, one of +which is that it was mighty good of those old chaps who have been +workers in the past to have cleared such good roads for us in every +direction, so that a fellow could almost begin where they left off, +when his handle is polished and he starts cutting.</p> +<p>An important thing at this period is to get the handle evenly +balanced,—turned correct on centres, as they say; that is, +not to get too far out of the normal in any particular, such as +dress, promptness, profanity, or length of hair.</p> +<p>So much for the rounding of the handle; and now about the tool. +At first, by watching, handling, and careful work, you must begin +to show the quality and amount of metal you possess. Find out, as +it were, by tentative trials whether it is capable of good edge or +not. In other words, you want to find your bent and your abilities. +To this end, if you are naturally good at mathematics and have a +scientific and inquiring turn of mind, as you have, it is well to +give it vent. Do not fear, for instance, to spend your time and +earnings on electrical apparatus or studies and experiments in +physical science. If you have a fondness and desire for teaching or +philosophy or accounting or trade, try to find out the essential +requisites of the particular one which interests you, and follow up +and acquire all the attainments which may be found useful. If you +wish to enter politics or the lecture field, learn to speak and +collect and classify your ideas when you are speaking and before +people.</p> +<p>Let me summarize briefly the points that I have just +covered.</p> +<p>You are now working for a definite object. You have money enough +to do more than you want to do at present; but, if you learn habits +expensive enough to spend the whole of it, you are going to be hard +up when your expenses increase, as they will if you marry or assume +greater responsibilities. Therefore, it is necessary for you to +practise self-denial and deny yourself wisely. We have seen that +self-denial of some sort is necessary to everybody who have not +fixed their habits, and by that I mean fixed their habits to such +an extent that no change in their circumstances will induce them to +lead a more expensive life. It becomes obvious that those who have +fixed their habits on economical and praiseworthy lines will not +only be the wealthiest, but will be the people who enjoy the most +freedom. It is to them that wealth is a real blessing; and it is +they who make their wealth a blessing to others, always keeping in +mind the personal equation.</p> +<p>It is therefore up to you to choose habits and fix them, so they +will bring about the best result, and thus conduce to your +happiness, the merit of your actions, and the use of your money. +How, then, among all the opportunities which arise shall you +choose, how tell which ones of the luxuries to which you have been +accustomed you shall discard?</p> +<p>We have several times spoken of the touchstone we were seeking, +one that will tell what actions are good and what bad, which +desires to fulfil and which to deny. We have now reached something +pretty close to our definition. Gratify those which contribute +toward the success of the object you have in mind: deny yourself +those which are detrimental to it, and which do not tend directly +or indirectly toward its accomplishment.</p> +<p>We wish to attain the attitude of mind of a Stoic toward the +first class of desires, and that of a spendthrift almost toward the +second. For example, keep your personal comfort well in bounds, and +train yourself to disregard it entirely; otherwise, you may say +farewell to freedom.</p> +<p>Be temperate in eating your food, drinking cold water, taking +exposure, in your hours and in general. For example, it is not a +good plan to have too much of anything which you like particularly. +It immediately dulls the sense of pleasure in that thing, and, +raising the level of your likes to a degree that makes you dislike +some other thing, perhaps, which you liked before, thus working a +loss rather than a gain. Therefore, temperance, which is synonymous +of moderation, in my use of the word, is the wisest thing you can +practise. But be intemperate in the pursuit of your object. Let no +expense be too large to equip yourself physically or mentally for +your life’s work, as, for example, to assure regular +exercise, to cure any physical imperfection or disease, or for the +furtherance of any desire for investigation on natural or +scientific subjects or points of interest allied to the thing which +you are seeking to attain. There is no need of moderation in labor, +exposure, or discomfort. Thus you will eventually reach your ends, +and may obtain results at which people will stand amazed, believing +them to be beyond the range of possibilities, as they will not know +that for years a systematic preparation has been going on to +prepare yourself for this result.</p> +<p>As a boy, your desires have been limited by your opportunities. +You have had certain kinds of recreation provided for you which you +have enjoyed. Your expenditure of money has been limited by your +purse, which will have been small if your parents were wise; and +your expenditure of time will have been limited by the hours you +have been unable to take from study, which will also have been +small.</p> +<p>At college your opportunities will have broadened, and you begin +to have something similar to the elective system. You can choose +more freely how to spend your time. Your development to this point, +I have already said, may be called the rounding of the handle; and +your education will be normal if you have average application, +intelligence, and memory. During college your future course will +begin to shape itself, but before you fix upon your definite object +there is likely to be a period at which you can be tempted into the +greatest dissipation. By dissipation I do not mean the accepted +term, but the scientific use of the word; namely, the useless +expenditure of energy in futile pursuits. It is the opposite of +concentration, which means directing energy upon your object. To +make myself clearer, I will define energy as also meaning, in +addition to your labor, your money, as money is the accumulated +energy of your ancestors, just as coal is the accumulated energy of +sunshine.</p> +<p>You must remember also that there is a certain amount of +allowance to be made for some rather indefinite objects, which are +none the less important, and which, for want of a better name, I +shall call the Discard. Among these can be named the education of +the imagination, having a good time generally, foolishness, +mysticism, good fellowship, æsthetics, humanity, and +humanities in general. The fact that many a man has thrown himself +away by putting all his time into these things, and lived solely +for good fellowship, for foolishness, or for imagination without +attainment, is no reason why you should not partake in a small +measure of these qualities, which is like the wheel grease on the +axle or the clown in the circus. It is apt to be even more +important yet, as it may prove to be the road to friendship, +societies, society, and love. Moreover, you should not forget that, +in the pursuit of your object, you must provide a material +recreation for yourself,—literature, music, art, billiards, +anything; something that will give you (and others, if possible) +pleasure and diversion, and render your happiness independent of +your work, if for any reason you are prevented from devoting your +life to it.</p> +<p>We are now prepared to go over some of your pursuits with our +touchstone, and see which ones we can recommend and which we +cannot, which of the desires with which you are confronted or may +be confronted are worth while or worth the expenditure of +energy.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Food?</p> +<p>You should make no stipulation about your food, except that it +be wholesome. The pleasantness of its taste in your mouth should +have little weight with you. If you confine yourself to just that +food which you like, and get so that your comfort depends on it, +you will deliver over your freedom just as though you delivered +yourself to be bound hand and foot in a dungeon. When the time +comes that you must cut down your expenditure and live less +“well,” you become unhappy, as you have taught yourself +to look upon all food with the idea that it should give you +pleasure rather than sustenance.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Yachting?</p> +<p>By all means. It gives judgment, coolness, and readiness to face +and overcome danger, muscle, ozone, handiness of hands, steadiness +of eye, experience, and a sense of the depth and expanse of the +ocean. By all means, yachting, but not for the purpose of show, as +giving orders before other people, of taking dilatory trips in fair +weather only, and lounging in an easy-chair on the deck of some +yacht while others take the responsibility and do the work. While +going to the expense of keeping a boat, you should so mould your +life as to use it constantly. If you keep a boat on the off chance +of wanting it every other week or just for the sense of having it +ready, you will make it an annoyance to yourself rather than a +pleasure. But here caution is recommended; and you should only keep +a yacht if you can do so well within your means, and thoroughly +understanding that some day you may have to give it up, and that +you must not think that a hardship.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Clothes?</p> +<p>Yes, but within bounds. You can always afford to pay more for +clothes than they are worth, and pay more attention to them also +than they are worth; but here again temperance is recommended.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Horses?</p> +<p>Yes; that is, enough to learn to ride, to master your horse, +develop your muscle and <em>abandon</em> and poise, but not enough +to watch jockeys carrying your colors or your coachman before you +carrying your reins. Learn to ride, learn to drive; but that does +not mean necessarily that you had better bring a pony back with +you.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Theatres?</p> +<p>Use theatres sparingly. They are perfect gluttons for time, and +use up money. But of these the more important is time, and they +make desperate inroads into the next day. So be temperate in +theatres. Put part in for education and part for the discard.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Books?</p> +<p>By all means. Spare no money on them. Be a spendthrift for +books. We can always afford them; but pay for the printed matter, +and not for the covers. If you choose books wisely and know what is +in them and where to get at them when you want them, you can for a +very small expense have a mine of information and recreation at +your elbow, which could make you the best educated of men.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Clubs?</p> +<p>Freely. It mostly goes to the discard; but you can afford that, +provided you are careful not to have too great a waste of time. +There are more opportunities lost inside of club walls than are +gained.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Cards?</p> +<p>There is no gain in gambling beyond the opportunity of watching +the human character, and, incidentally to develop it; but it is +time lost, and unworthily lost. The end does not justify the means. +You had better play and read and sleep rather than gamble.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Wine?</p> +<p>Yes and no. Always in moderation. Do not acquire the habit of +drinking. It is useless; and, after all that is said in favor of it +by our mutual friend, Omar, and others, I can never see that a man +is worse off for never having been drunk, and I am even Puritanical +enough to think that he is better off, and, moreover, he has more +self-respect, to say nothing of the respect of others. Nobody ever +loses caste by refusing to drink. It is a difficult thing to do +sometimes; but you know the old adage, that any man can lead a +horse to water, but a hundred cannot make him drink. It is a pity +that men should be inferior to horses in that respect. You will +think that this is becoming a temperance lecture. Perhaps it is; +but never mind, it does not call for total abstinence.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Tobacco?</p> +<p>I can see no advantage to be gained by tobacco; and you will +find that it administers to your comfort, and that is the only +advantage that it has. This in itself is a very damaging kind of an +advantage, as, without advancing your object, it endangers your +freedom, as all comforts do.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Athletic Prowess?</p> +<p>By all means cultivate this and in every form possible, but even +here have an eye to moderation. Do not develop your heart and lungs +to such an extent that, when you have taken up a more sedentary +life later, they will suffer a reaction. Almost all the great +athletes suffer a few years’ discomfort while adjusting +themselves to a less athletic existence than was theirs in college. +Therefore, be moderate and specialize in this, so that in after +life you may do what you are best fitted for, and in the attainment +of athletic success make a test case of your proficiency of +attainment. Do not fear to be prodigal of energy concentrated on +the right thing.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Furniture?</p> +<p>In fixing up your room, your house, or personal surroundings, +have good, comfortable furniture for rest and for work, but not for +show. Be simple, even to the extent of being severe. The fewer +things you have, the better off you are. Shun all other possessions +as the devil would holy water. Have nothing that is not for a +definite purpose and that you do not actually use. The criterion to +be applied to these is not what you can find use for, but what you +cannot get along without. A traveller who knows his business can +travel on very slender baggage, and be perfectly comfortable and +clean. Consider yourself a traveller through this world, and study +to cut down your baggage. Thus you will avoid dissipation, and keep +your freedom.</p> +<p class="sectionTitle">Pictures?</p> +<p>Yes. Do not be afraid to cultivate the artistic. It is a card +thrown to the discard, but one which you cannot regret. Do not have +too many. A jumble of pictures is not what you want, but a few good +ones. Only beware lest a craze for expensive pictures overtake you, +which would interfere with your more definite object. If, however, +your career lies in the line of the artistic, the purchase and +collection of fine pictures come well within the golden things +passed by our touchstone. Many men get a craze after the +futile,—a hobby it is usually called; and they will dissipate +great amounts of energy in collecting such things as +postage-stamps, post-marks, or some other object of little use, and +at great expense of time and money.</p> +<p>If you allow such things to distract your attention from your +object, you may lose it entirely, just as you lose sight of +something in the hands of a conjurer who has succeeded in directing +your attention to something of momentary interest. In this +connection it is well to say that the habit of spending must be +avoided. Let a large expenditure be a circumstance. You can afford, +however, to spend money on charities even to the point of +dissipation. It is a cultivation of the heart. It might prove a +career; and so, before your object is chosen, you approach it, as a +possibility, afterward, as a card for the discard, in either case +creditable.</p> +<p>There are other classes of desires which appeal to the sensuous +and sensual nature of man. Among these can be reckoned a taste for +opium or morphine, a taste for women, or for those kinds of +literature and drama which appeal to the sensuous nature. All these +desires are like drunkenness, in that no one is the better off for +gratifying them. Arguments of all sorts will be brought forward by +men who have yielded to these desires; but, while convincing the +one who is eager to be convinced, they are all of the negative +sort,—they try to prove there is no reason why they should +not. Our touchstone will not pass any such arguments: there must be +positive reason why you should do a thing, otherwise do not do +it.</p> +<p>This may seem Puritanical, but let’s be Puritans to a +certain extent. Play no games that are not distinctly winning +games. There is a winning game to be played. Why, then, play a game +which is neither a winning nor a losing game? It never gave me any +pleasure to gamble with a machine or with cards, because I know +these to be losing games. The plan of the game is always laid out +so that the balance of chance is slightly against the player, +sometimes considerably against the player, else why should the game +be started?</p> +<p>We are left better off in no respect after all these desires are +gratified. We are poorer in money, in pocket, in self-respect, and +often in virtue.</p> +<p>We could go on so indefinitely through the list of all sorts of +desires, but I have only touched upon a few of the more crucial +ones to show how the touchstone should be applied; and even then +results are crude, and would be of little help to you in fixing on +a low scale of expenditure. They may, however, give you some ideas +which will seem to guide you when you come to meet the problems for +yourself.</p> +<p>And now we come back to the original question, whether you +really want a pony. There are several really good ones in the +stable that you can use. You are to be away a large part of the +year, and you have never made half the use which you might have of +your opportunities to ride.</p> +<p>I am, nevertheless, enclosing a check for the amount necessary +to purchase your pony, because at your age I took a trip through +the Rocky Mountains, which awakened in me a new desire for riding. +It has proved my greatest ally in the severe strains to which the +pursuit of my object has subjected me to, and because your +ancestors have always kept their iron constitutions into extreme +old age by almost daily rides, and because the sense of ownership +of a horse may awaken in you the love and knowledge of the animal, +and may accomplish a similar happy result.</p> +<p class="signature">Yours very truly,</p> +<p class="name"><span class="sc">Uncle Josh</span>.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A JOLLY BY JOSH***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 17499-h.txt or 17499-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/4/9/17499">http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/9/17499</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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