How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

the evidence that is presented by both. Try to make your social contacts and interests complement your occupational or professional interests. If you are a school teacher, you may well afford to interest yourself in international politics or some artistic movement. If you are a physician, it cannot hurt you to interest yourself in artists and business men. If you are a lawyer, it will extend your usefulness to know the latest pedagogical theories. Groups which devote themselves to cultural and social ends exist in every town, and those who are cut off from the greater urban centres are no longer entirely isolated because of the pervasive influence of wireless. It is well to remember that the more languages you know, the more times you multiply your humanity, and those who are really constrained by force of circumstance from making further human contacts can always make new contacts with foreign cultures and past ages by learning a new language. There may be some readers to whom even these elementary steps seem difficult. We urge them to spend their sleepless nights in thinking about giving someone _not a member of their immediate families—some little pleasure. After some thought they will, in all probability, find ways and means to carry some of their thoughts into practice. I once advised a successful and very egoistic business man who could find no time to concern himself with the affairs and woes of his fellow-men during his business day to go down to the main waiting room of a great railway terminus and look for someone to help, someone to carry a heavy valise for, someone to encourage with a smile or a cheery word. I forbade him to leave the station until he had found an opportunity to be of some service to another human being. Largely in a spirit of supercilious condescension and patronage he obeyed, and his opportunity for social service came on the very first evening he made the experiment. A poor woman from the country had come to Town to meet her daughter. She had lost the slip with her daughter’s address, and was too shy and too timid to