Try Everything Once

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Though not strictly etiquette, the following is an excerpt from an advice article originally from The Rotarian (The Rotary Club's Magazine) and reprinted in Readers Digest in 1939.  

"The happiest people are those who touch life at the greatest number of points.  People who suffer are those who have only one interest of which fate robs them"....

With too many of us, growing up is a matter of narrowing down interests. Children are at first interested in everything.  As the ability to concentrate develops they begin to eliminate those parts of the world which do not serve their immediate purpose....If a person has narrowed his world constantly from childhood, the only way he can retrieve his lost liberty of living is to adopt and follow persistently the precept:  try everything once -- everything, that is, which adapts itself reasonably to human use......

People complain that they haven't money to see the pyramids, or time to study music or spend the winter in Florida. What they fail to realize is that one person's routine is another's high adventure...

Here are some of the things I recently suggested to a housewife for her first experiment: try skating with your children; try needlepoint -- stores give free lessons; try reading Dickens; try listening to good music -- buy some new records;  try meeting your husband in town every Friday night and seeing a show -- I've heard him suggest that; try creating a new dish each week, without a recipe.  I suggested ten things to try; she liked seven of the new experiences so much that she is keeping on with them.

From: Reader's Digest, April 1939