LIVING AND EXISTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 24 (Supplement)

LIVING AND EXISTING.

Half the people who are : miserable » Half tne nnbauiyv because of the - this world are unhappy T > desire Bn jSy'by day< they dothe, same little •" ♦T 1 ; n< ra and by: the time, they.reach .forty thev are probably more or less automata, ; cogwheels in the huge, harsh mechanism of C °occasionally: some tense : struggle to '• escape from the unruffled waters produces '» splash • then the newsTiarers detail the extraordinary and unreascji«vble actionsiw • our fellow "creatures. Boys who have everything :-thev could desire run awjv to S gfrls well cared for run away and . marry * husbands who are' outwardly per- - tectly happy seek ; escape in violent or-r-Sf respectable wives astomsh there • friends by: adventures leading to divorce , men forsake sheltered towns and villages lor a hard, rough life in the back of be r -°After a few years in. stormy seas they fine for calm waters. "They, are always Panting •to live 'in the house . over the - ; fay." say their friends. / v . vu n Happy are < the men . and women - r (an enjoy a modicum of an ?, e ■.a ixcitement and? then return to i." I ®.. , ' ■ Neither the .rich nor the ,poor, ne«tner - ' Jic ;idle nor K. the busy, are , -. hiserabfc.' It' is those wlioserpower or :" * idaotsbility is so strong that they,- fo£ife | Jiemselves to remain on;, the ; . smooth . s v - tajers, turning life into • unhappy" people of modern ■lg life into existence, narqe tural instincts into i unhappy people of moder