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Mf\NUSCRII'TS 57supreme job of man; his most important job is to live fully andunselfishly. Maybe the "working slave" would strive for a moremeaningful life if he would take time to examine the rich life of anidler, and realize that an idler does not die with his stomach linedwith ulcers!What is Beauty?Marthella Louise DavisTilE WEi\l-:V LJ\BORER, trudging homeward from a day of toil tofind his own small cottage, his waiting wife, his h~ppy children,and a warm fire, knows in his heart what beauty 15.The bitter, disillusioned cynic, chancing on the faith of a smallchild, finds once more that beauty does exist.Young lovers, discovering for themselves the wonders and mys-teries of first love, will swear that they know what beauty is.The child, gazing into the face of his mother and finding love andtenderness there, instinctively feels beauty.The visitor to a great cathedral stands awed and silent 111 thepresence of beauty.The sailor feels beauty at the sight of a graceful ship, at thesmell of the sea, at the sound of the rolling waves.The farmer sees beauty in the well-ordered fields and crops thatcomprise his existence.j\. E. Housman found beauty in a bough of cherry blossoms.Hobert Frost found it in a snowy woods on a winter's evening.Beethoven found beauty in moonlight; Debussy discovered it in thesea; Michelangelo saw beauty in the life of Christ.\Vhat, then, is beauty? From these experiences we can knowthat beauty is that which gives pleasure to the senses; exalts themind or spirit; and that which displays physical, moral, or spiritualloveliness,What a prosaic definition that is! How can such a quality bedefincd in these dull, common words? For my part I will use for adefinition of beauty, the lines by the philosopher, Kahlil Gibran,"Beauty is Iife when li fe unveils her holy face. It is eternity gazingat itself in a mirror."

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