The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-27
a LAZY. LABoR.sAvINa ACE

! Bob Enrdette in the Burlington HawAeye.
| So into the midnight train ne climbed,
| and the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road bore US away down into the land of
the sunshine. While the porter was
making up our berihs, the TAT pasSen-
gers thoughts were evidently running
on Whit DR. Yundeu SAID about walk
ing, that IA wise providence had given =
horse four legs, so that he might walk
all he wished, but the same overrui!ns
wisdom had given a man bat two, and
had fixed them so thsy could bend in
two directions and thus lit "a carriage
seat perfectly.
at is u lazy, laborsaving age" tie
tall, thin passenger said. Man is try
ing to solve the problem of living and
growing rich without labor or eXeriion
tits an age of labor-saying machinery
And yet, the sad passenger put in.
there never was an age Of greater or
more inccssant activity
People burn gas said the tall, thin
passenger, disregarIllBg tie others state
ment, because they are too lazy 10
snuff a candle or Eli lamp"
Yes said the passenger with the
sandy goatee, 'and they light ii with
electricity to save the trouble Of.
scratching a match"
And II was lazy man" said the man
on the wood box, that sat around cold
winter mornings, AID shivered and shud-
dered, and wished he knowed some way
of putting enough coal in the stove to
last all day, that finally invented the
base burner. No active man would ever
have thought of such thing"
Men used to take a Fair amount Of ex-
ercise," said the tall, thin passenger,
"when they had to walk from their homes
to their places of business but then
some easc-lOving genius built a street
car, and now any man who walks three
blocks with nickel in his pocket will
not be recognized in good society"
And if he Will not wait in the cold
half an hour for the car" said the man
with the sample cases, ''he is turned out
of church,
And even them said the passenger
with the sandy gOatee, men took a little
air and exercise on the street cars, when
their business compelled them 10 90 from
their own office 10 other business houses.
But then Edison invented the telephone,
and now man goes down 10 his office
IN the morning, CLUES himself To a chair
and is there when the street cars come
along TO take him to supper If he didn't
need them to walk upstairs with, man in |
this lazy age might trade of his legs for |
another pair of hands"
That need not keep him back" said |
the sad passenger, because when he !
wants to go upstairs he gently but firmly /
glides into the elevator
The far passenger looked at the sneak |
er with pleased look of approval My |
son." he said, nodding his head, you |
aremighty right, he does
Surely, it must be as the passengers
decided, the race is degeneraiing, phys |
lcally. We take all our exercise profes- |
sIonally, IS the japanese hire people to |
do their dancing for them We play |
base ball with salaried mines. we rorT |
with men who can pull for us without
taking US away from the couniing-room |
when we want TO walk some robust fell |
low takes our money and makes 600 miles |
ia five days for US We are degenerate /
race, and have fallen away from tile |
high standard of physical virtue main |
tanned by our fathers. Ard yet, as | lie |
here IN the pleasant palace car of our |
friend Pullman, with the jointless blsn- I
ket folded about me in unyielding pleats. I
and the miniature pillow slipping down
my back.I draw the curtain little aside 1
and look out at the snowy landscape and 1
the giitteTing starlight, and stretch my /
self out and snuggle myself up in every
excess Of comfort, and as / think Of our I
rugged, manly, virtuous, stalwaTt fathers. I
Pleading over this same road from Louis T
vile 10 GAINESVILLE, in slow-noTing {
stages and numbering va CONS, close my I
eyes IN degenerate content. liad say, IN i
sleepy accents:
Dear fathers, virtnoHs men of iron /
frame, if that mode of travel suited you. 1
stick to Il. This SORT of thing is good |
enough for me-"