in times of hilarity have an idea that in getting out with the crowd to visit a carnival we shall obtain the greatest amount of joy while most of us in more serious moments think that true happiness comes only by doing good besides these ways people have many other ideas about how and where one can gain pleasure in this life examples from the three mentioned though will serve to show which is the true happiness the happiness of the heart the happiness that is intended for us by our father in heaven the people of some of the european countries take great delight in their carnivals especially at new year's they dress up in about all the different costumes used by our circus clowns and go out to take in the carnival which consists of moving picture shows merry-go-rounds of different kinds trained per forming shooting galleries with their miniature wild animals going back and forth in little flag forests and fowls suspended by rods flying throuh the air and palaces of strength where ex cellent athletes go through different feats of strength and wrestlers meet all comers the people at these carnivals have a very boisterous time throwing confetti playing tricks on one another and enjoying themselves in the different places of amusement until long after midnight everybody seems to enjoy themselves but when they do go home and go to bed they wake up the next morning with the pleasures gone not to return again until they repeat it the next year the masquerade ball of the french people furnishes the example of pleasure by the liquor route the couples dressed up and masked in various pretty costumes go to the ball with the intention of staying there until it is out about 5 o clock the next morning and having a time about one-third of the ball room is reserved for dancing and the remaining is covered with wine tables the time spent in each part of the hall is in about the same proportion also for they dance a waltz two-step quadrille or polka and then have about twice the length of time required for a dance for an intermission in which to get their refreshments they repeat this throughout the night and as the beverages are of the fermented kind one can easily imagine the condition of the couples about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning at these hours it begins to get more difficult for them to dance at the end of an intermission than it was at the close of a previous dance they are happy now they no longer care who sees them and some of the girls take off their masks now is the time for the unprejudiced judge to give his decision of this kind of happiness one glance is all that is necessary and he turns away too disgusted almost to give his opinion happiness i what a contrast between those kinds mentioned and the happiness of the soul ! all that one needs in order to judge for ones self is to go into a little loeale in the same city from which the other examples are taken and there see in that little room with low ceiling and lighted lamp even in the after noon the expressions of happiness on the faces of the few simple souls who have been trying to help somebody along in this world and who are listening to a missionary who points out to them that true happiness comes only when they have made someone happy — when they have done their duty whether the skies are dark or fair men kind or unkind — and when they have accom plished that which our father in heaven has planned for them to do w f d 08