WHAT IS HAPPINESS ?

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3449, 28 April 1936, Page 6

WHAT IS HAPPINESS ?

NOT MEASURED BY INCOME

Living on a limited income entailing strict economy from day to day. Can there be any happiness in it ? asks an overseas writer.

We are all so desirous of comfort, so anxious to have what we vaguely term "enough money" that we lose much of the real happiness of life by waiting for it. The idea that happiness is possible on a small income seems out of the question; the very true saying that money does not bring felicity is ridiculed, and receives the retort: "I'd like to have a fortune just to try" The truth is that happiness is attainable from a small income just as well as from a large one; but success or failure all depends on one's point of view.

A poor person, seeing a rich one buy a gorgeous gown, thinks that that

means happiness indeed; but she forgets that the splendid apparel is so common to the richer persons that it gives no more pleasure, most probably less, than the new frock which she, the poorer sister, has made for herself out of material bought at bargain price at the end-of-season sale. Many a rich person is far more fatigued after a day's pleasure than is the home-maker by the daily round of housework.

Every grade of society has its own pleasures; it is a fallacy to think that a higher grade means more happiness. A cheerful outlook and a capacity for enjoying the simple things of life bring that happiness which is a compound of peace, patience, and goodwill, by which the simplest lives are often the happiest and most contented.

CHILL BLUSTERING WINDS, OR DRIVING RAIN. —Collins.

When winter comes once more, it's best to be on the safe side with a bottle of Baxter's Lung Preserver. You can't beat "Baxter's," for coughs and colds. "Baxter's" is a warming soothing compound that quickly eases the worst colds. Takes the tickle from throat and chest, and clears away phlegm and congestion as nothing else can.