Saving Grace Of A Hobby

It KevivcH Hope and Entlmsiasm and Makea LJfe VVorth Living. "A priceless thing is a hobby. The daily tasks by which hosts of women support life are favorless, barren, almost hopeless. To such ones a hobby may offer the dearest hopes of ultímate !reedom from the unwelcome daily task. [t will at any rate serve to entertain and give point and flavor to an otherwise blank existence, " is tha position ;aken by Carrie E. Garrett discussing 'Woman's Dreams and Hobbies" in The Wonjan's Home Companion. 'Hobbies hav Üie power to concéntrate and absorb the écattered energies which might otherwise be expended ín purposeless fiirtations, building snperfluous bonnets, reading cheap sensations, gossiping away precious moments, picking out our friends' foibles, dissecting our own emotions and wishing vaguely for everything which is attainable. If the hobby did no thing el se but prevsnt these frivolities, it would be a boon to humanity. "Man found out the valne of hobbies long ago. Almost every man who is good for anythiug has a purpose whih he thinks is quite the most magnificeut one which a rúan could pursue, It is no matter whether it is lawmaking, pillmaking or shoemaking, he pursues it with absorbing enthusiasm and strives to make the best laws or pills or shoes (as the case may be) to be found anywhere. "Woman has found that it is not enough to merely look pretty ; that love cannot be her 'whole existence' (the poet to the contrary notwithstaudmg), and that even with the richest plenitude of gowns, jewels and enjoyments life still needs a purpose. If it is at all a respectable purpose and pursued with general zeal, it cannot fail to thrive and increase and bear fruit. "