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REVIEW
THE
ffUJIC TIRADE
V O L . LI. N o . 11. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Sept. 10, 1910
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S dollar chasing extracting humor from the American people?
Formerly we were great lovers of humor—great story tellers, great jokers—and now it is
rather infrequent that you hear hearty, natural laughs, either on cars, in cafes, or in hotel lob-
bies.
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, Is our strenuous life—our race for dollars—encouraging the hurry habit so that we have no
taste or inclination for humor?
We have become so accustomed to the hurry habit that we can hardly slow down for anything.
The ghost of worry and anxiety seems everywhere present. Jt is even seen during vacation
time, and men are oftentimes so serious that they never get half the relaxation from worry which
they should when they have supposedly dropped business cares.
Now, what is it all about?
The mad race doesn't pay. It is simply a mistake and every man should clear the cobwebs
from his mind by dropping business cares when he leaves the office or wareroom.
When a man goes home gloomy he invariably ruins the peace of his home when he insists
upon talking over his troubles, and he makes everybody heavy hearted.
Why not cut it out and have an evening filled with bright, cheerful music?
Physicians are employing music more and more in the hospitals and homes because of its won-
derful healing properties, and there is nothing like music to cheer up and enliven the home and drive
away melancholy.
Life should not become so strenuous that we have only time left when away from business to
talk over various problems, cares, worries and perplexities.
It does not pay to do this!
When a man leaves his business he should separate himself from cares and worries, and not
permit them to harass or annoy him during the evening.
If he does, ten to one they will disturb his slumbers, and when he reaches his office on the fol-
lowing morning he is not in good form to battle with fresh problems which are bound to arise daily.
Take everything in turn, but when once out of your business establishment leave its cares and
perplexities behind.
The late John G. Carlisle, former Secretary of the Treasury, former Speaker of the House of
Representatives and a noted American, after a day of harassing care used to read some cheap ro-
mance during the evening.
He said he did not care how ridiculous the story was; it eased his mind from the strain which
had been placed upon it during the day, thus enabling him to obtain some rest.
• That's one way! Of course, there are others.
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