The moral of this is: husbands and wives, live together, get together, stay together, play together, save together, grow together, share together. Travel the same road; don't take different paths. MENTAL PLEASURES The Rarest, Sweetest Pleasures in the World There are two principal pleasures man seeks; one is material pleasures and that takes in about ninety-nine per cent of the human family. The other, the one per cent, seeks mental pleasures, and this little group is the one that gets the real, lasting, satisfying and improving pleasures. Material pleasures are eating, displaying, possessing, and society. Material pleasures generate in the human the desire for fluff, feathers, and four-flushing. Material pleasures accentuate the desire to possess things, and in the strife for possession hearts are broken, fortunes wasted, nerves shattered and finer sentiments calloused. The homes where material pleasures abound are the ones where worry, neurasthenia and nervous prostration abound. Material pleasures are merely stimulants for the time being, and there always comes the intermittent reflexes of gloom and depression. The desire to show off, to excite envy in others, is always present at the homes where material pleasures are the rule. Material pleasures call for crowds. Mental pleasures are best enjoyed in solitude. The material pleasure seeker lives a life of convention, engagements, routine, action, strain and high tension. The person who is so fortunate as to appreciate and follow mental pleasures, is serene, natural, happy and content. A cozy room, loved ones around, music, books, love and social conversation, those are mental pleasures; those are best. He who can pick up a book, and read things worth while, gets satisfaction unknown to those whose life is banquets, theaters, dances, automobiles, parties, bridge, clubs and society doings. The lover of books and home can enjoy the play, because he only goes to plays worth while, and he doesn't overdo it. The confirmed theater-goer is a pessimist; he roasts nearly every play, and he is universally bored. Get the home reading habit. Don't over-do it. Call on friends, go to a good picture show once in a while; to good concerts; to good plays, but do not make this going out in the evening plan a habit. Let it be merely a dessert, or a rarity; like candy and ice cream, proper and enjoyable when taken in moderation. When you get started reading worth-while books on science, on history, on geography, on travel, on natural history, you will get into an inexhaustible field of pleasure and satisfaction. Any time you can pick up your book and be happy. Waits in railway stations will be opportunities; trips on trains will be pleasant; evenings alone will be enjoyable, if you can get into a book you like. Mental pleasures are best. Material pleasures are merely passing pleasures. PANAMA The Man Who Found It and the Man Who Used It