Set your hearts to the task, your wills to the deed,
spend your money, and make the whole thing a
great and triumphant success. Ladies and gentlemen,
may your purses to-day be like this bazaar,
which I have now the honor to declare open!"
An excellent example of what an address to
workingmen should be, was delivered by Miss
Corelli, at Stratford-on-Avon on January 6th, 1901.
The lecture was entitled, "The Secret of Happiness."
After some preliminary observations on the
birth of the New Century, Miss Corelli said:
"The twentieth century finds us all on the same
old search, asking the same old question: How to
be happy? Some of the distinguished persons who
have written in the newspapers on this subject declare
we have lost the art of being happy in the old
simple ways, and that all the brightness and mirth
which used to make our England 'Merry England'
have gone forever. I think there is some little truth
in these statements, and the reason is not very far
distant. We think too much of ourselves and too
little of our neighbors. There is nothing so depressing
as a constant contemplation of one's self,
and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's
opinion comes from consulting one's own personal
convenience. It is just as if a man were asked to
look at a beautiful garden full of flowers, and, instead
of accepting the invitation, sat down with
the Röntgen rays to look at his own bones. His
bones concern no one but himself, and are a dull
entertainment at best. To be truly happy we must
set ourselves on one side, and think of all the good
we can do, all the love we can show to our neigh-
