ENJOYING LIFE.
(By WALT MASON.) It is good to save some plunder, save a part of all we earn, so that when we’re old as thunder we may have some coin to burn. Oh, it makes, a man disgusted when his age is eighty-nine, and he finds himself so busted that he cannot buy a shine. But to save like some blamed miser I consider vain and wrong; blowing in some coin is wiser, for a man is dead so long. This old world’s a thing of beauty, but it soon will pass away, so when we have done our duty, we shduld go ahead and play. When we’ve earned' our daily wages we should be for pleasure strong"; for the prophets and the sages say the dead are dead so long. Let’s be happy, while we’re living, happy in no selfish way, hut a friendly handout giving to the more unlucky jay; let’s do something for the heathen, make their lives one grand sweet song, and be happy while ws’ro breathin’, for we’ll all he dead so long. Let’s support all worthy causes, help when ills demand a cure, and be smiling Santa Clauses, when we go among the poor; let us merrily skiedaddl® with the transient human throng: Death is ever in the saddle, and we’ll all be dead so long.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12712, 6 August 1919, Page 4
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223ENJOYING LIFE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12712, 6 August 1919, Page 4
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