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The Man of the Simple Life Is Coming Here 4- 4 THE WASHINGTON TIMES SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11 1904 r I I f THE MAN OF THE SIMPLE LIFE IS COMING HERE they become useless and dangerous The only true distinction is superior worth Charles Wagner Whom If you would have social rank duly re A speotrd you must begin by being worthy Simple Preacher Who Commends- of the rank that Is your own otherwise Roosevelt you help to bring It Into hatred and Pfe Won Increasing contempt It is unhappily too true that to Visit America respect Is diminishing among us and it Attention certainly is not toni a lack of lines drawn around those who wish to he re ¬ H spected The root of the evil is in the President Said I Preach mistaken idea that high station exempts Some Brief Extracts hIm who holds it from observing the Your Book to My common obligations of life As we rise we boIlers that we free ourselves from From His Homely the law forgetting that the spirit of Countrymen obedience and humility should grow with Philosophy our possessions and power One of the chief puerilities of our time is the love of advertisement To Author anAlsatianTrans emerge from obscurity to be In the pub- ¬ Contends for a Breaking lic eye to make ones self talked of planted in Later Life some people are so consumed with this Away From desire that wo are justified in declaring Modern them attacked with an itch for pub- ¬ Into Paris licity In their eyes obscurity is the Complexities height of Ignominy so they do their great bjst to keep their names Ih every ROM the metropolis and mouth In their obscure position they subject of home tell little about the sovereign sea of modern civiliza- look upon themselves as lost like ship- effect of a favorite flower in the win- F tIon from the worlds heart of wrecked sailors whom a night of tempest dow or the charm of an oid armchair where grandfather ¬ sophistication complex has cast on some lonely rock and who the uecd to sit offer from Paris the have recourse to cries volleys fire all ing his wrinkled hands to the kisses ¬ city there has como a plea for a re the signals imaginable to let it be of chubby children Poor moderns al- ¬ turn to the simple life known they arc there ways moving or remodeling We who Says the author ot this appeal from transforming our cities our Iconoclasm houses our customs As the sIck man wasted by fever and creeds have Not content with setting off cruCore no longer whereon to lay our heads let consumed with thirst dreams In his and innocent rockets many to make us not add to the pathos and emptiness sleep of P fresh stream wherein he themselves heard at any cost have gone of our changeful existence by abandon- ¬ bathes or of a clear fountain from groat to tho length of perfidy and evon crime ing the life of the home Let us light which he drinks In draughts so The incendiary Erostratus has made again the flame put out on our hearths amid the confused restlessness of mod ¬ numerous disciples How many men of make sanctuaries for ourselves warm ern life our wearied minds dream of today have become notorious having nests where the children may grow Into simplicity- tar I destroyed something of mark pulled THE MAN WHO COMMENDED THE BOOK mon whore love may find privacy old A return to the sjrilple life Is no new THE MAN WHO WROTE THE BOOK repose down or tried to pull downsome mans President Roosevelt Has to Voice His age prayer an altar and the adjuration to the highstrung people of Rev Charles Wagner the Author of The Simple Life and Pioneer of a high reputation signaled their passage Not Hesitated Appreciation of It and Its fatherland a cult modern civilization As In ¬ far back I by meanness or- Author spirit of simplicity says Homely Philosophy short a scandal a I The Wag deed as the old Roman civilization the an atrocity ner in summing up Is a great ma¬ remedy was urged upon the blase mem- ¬ To this Insatiable deslro to live in the the latest fashion cnd rid themselves forgot this life they would call oack gician It softens asperities bridges ber of an artificial society who had their spirit Our ways are not their content I leave completely out of tho eye of the world Wagner attributes the chasms draws together ways ways In question of useless property at dirt aheap his wandering thought and say hands and wandered far from the If nature but the tourneys end remains those who lack the necessaries gradual disappearance of the old idea of ob- tem hearts The forms which It In message Is more pole of life Instead of filling tlielr houses with another sense Do not forget takes But Charles Wagners truth the same It Is always the One cannot with justice count the life of the home Jects yourberIn the world are Infinite in number plea for the simple life The guides seaman whether he In the of which soy Remember they gar appointment ait the club the play but than a star that the number malcontents those from Many young people he says when rush new never does it seem to us more admir¬ he gives Is the bread he feeds cruise under sail or on a steamship- whom hunger cold and misery wring them vith quite furnishings the races The home then Becomes a bx ad they marry listen to the voice of the as yet no r- of one able than when It shows Itself across upon To make headway toward this end with complaints Upward from a certain in ¬ that have meaning Wait sort halfway house where conies world Their parents have given them am wrong these things are often sym- ¬ to rest a little between two prolonged the fatal barriers of position interest- Provides Remedy for Evil the means at ou command this is the come fee or salary life becomes possi ¬ the example of or prejudice overcoming greatest yesterday Is a modest lfe but the bols as it were of a facile and super¬ absences It isnt a good place to stay the The philosophy of Wagner is pervaded essential thing today as and ble below that It impossible We new generation thinks It its obstacles permitting whom every It Is by frequent deviations from our have seen men commit because affirm ficial existence In their midst one As it has no soul it does not speak to those by too wide doctrine and suicide rights to existence liberty by re- ¬ thing seems to separate to a faith for route we have confused and com-¬ their means a and bro the a certain heady vapor of mun yours Time to eat and sleep and then understand by creed that had fallen under certain pudiating ways in eyes patri- ¬ one esteem a benevolence untrammeled plicated our life minimum They preferred to disappear its too danlty They recall the life outside the off again Otherwise you become as another one another love out the evils the artificial archal So young folks ef- ¬ another This Is the true social In pointing of many sepa- ¬ these make turmoil the rush dull as a hermit goes sam time suggests tho Too hampering futilities rather than retrench Observe that this to set up lavishly In Cement that Into the building f a life he at the rate us from ideal of the true the minimum cause of despair forts themselves And were one sometimes disposed to Words can do little Justice to the people remedy long writings are that the their sought His Just and the good that should warm would have been sufficient for others addressed to the people of France but and animate our hearts AH this brUsh- of loss exacting needs and enviable to o apt are they to the conditions of the wood under pretext of sheltering us and men whose tastes are modest And tho present day we Americans seem to hear our happiness has ended by shutting out fact that those who make the most the counseling of a Moses arisen In our our sun When shall we havo the outcry are always those who should find OF A WEEK ADRIFT AT SEA midst courage to meet the delusive temptations the best reasons for contentment proves Wag- ¬ Theodore Roosevelt has written of our complex and unprofitable life unquestionably that happiness Is not al ¬ S ner in terms of highest appreciation of with the sages challenge Out of my lied to the number c our needs EXPERIENCES the value and timeliness ot his prajjy light Has drurkeness inventive as it is of OF NORGE SURVIVORS for simplicity The author of The From the cradle to the grave in his now drinks found the means of auench I said to needs as pleasures con- ¬ ing Strenuous Lifo has the author in his in his thirst Not at all It might rather p IX dajsiatfeettin an Ovorcrowded hours so i guess we can spare some I proP 5e to see them aain where- into the sixth day I shall never know of The Slmnle Life 1 preach your ception of tho world and of himself the be called tho art of making thirst In- ¬ provisions upon he punched head tastily When open boat and four dsys without I the mans the sixth day dawned three book to my countrymen man of modern times struggles through- extinguishable Frank libertlnagc doe We had only a keg of water and a until he bellowed for mercy men struck work saying they ooold not Is maze food or water says the New Now pick up that oar and g to manage another Pasteur Wagner Charles Wagner a of endless complication Nothing It deaden the sting of tho senses No bag of ships biscuit but the urwettlsh- work as usual from of simple any longer thought It envenoms ordered the mate The man asked them if they were married men an Alsatian a hamlet the is neither It converts natural desire York World This is the brief record fetfew gave them twothirds of our sup- ¬ swung away without a word No matter they would not work Bur- ¬ nor action pleasure even Vosses between the rich fields of not not dying Into a morbid obsession and makes It of our terrible experience after the ply leaving us rattier lightly
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