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Andy CrUn~h on tGe Beautiful.

| If Won want 10 be bored to death Just come
| 20 nnr house carly some evening ana start
Morandy on the beantllui.ii hi she dom wear lar
done Shell begin al the daisies ana Keep on
till she gets to the stars, and she VIII use eve
| " blessed adjective IN the DSgeSt oift,ioi,;trH
who can see nothing beautiful in the fragile
daisy that smiles upon the bright May
morning, or the myriads Of celestial bodieS
that move in eternal silence ana uncOnleSSeu
inauesty, hasn't got any soul ana eXpecl
she is rather right. And according 10 her
way Of figuring guess she must nave more
! soul than anything else. ike uaiSieS very
well, only they are too Outrageousiy llttle,and
the stars don't look like they are much bigger.
The only objection I've got TO the stellar most,
rs Mo:andy calls 1t. Is that the last one OF
,hcm have got about the same features ana
! cant tell one stellar from another, eXcepl
the moon. Jim says it strikes him about the
same way: they are all SO much alike tlat
they get monotonous, and for his part nc had
rather look at q good mule any day.
Morandy thinks any body who would pre-,
fer Il mule to the starry heavens, is in DAD
liX indeed, and III admit that 1t Is n powerful
ume down. My ma says she ain't got any ob
sections to the stars, but she thinks 1t would
he better if people would let thcin atone ana
learn how 10 keep house-this Is Hex al
MOrandy.
Moramdy says this is the most beautiful
time of the year. when "Spring, gentle
spring" rei9nS supreme ana tiic luteniy rose
and the modest violet are breathing out thelr
look very we'll nature is dressed up in her
sunday clothes which are made mostly ONT
Df green, with various kinds OF trimming
fhc crows and the jays win tne rest oi di tne
but it strikes me that the warbilnS OF inc
rows and jays can't come under the mead OF
the beautiful. a graet deal has been written
about Spring being the most glorious, llme o.
The year, when everything is thrilling with
new lie: it may be true, but L always ieei
like II piece of douGh-ail lank and limber-
ND then things are Eettlns niseraTS o'ips Segps
worse Till cold weather. TO sleep after dln-
uer is as beautiful a thing as have found III
nature and my love for it is unbounded. III Il
beautiful indeed, and beats "quccnly roses
ana modest violets' all to death-!fyou don,l
believe ii, just try it. The Spring Is goou
lime for those that are not married but are
.rying TO be; fell in love two springs mar nano
Jim fell in love one Spring and thapS the rea
son he aia't single today. like. the Deautiiui
very well and think il Is right pretty, oul
there is no use in running it Into the grounu'
ike Morandy does. And there's TWO Slues u
the question anyway.
Nature gets or good many things that
irs beautiful and Il good many more that are
The uppoSilc, for instance, feas and cyclones
There is something attractive about tho tall
nine that stretches his arms out against The
:liy and pillows his head among the CLOUDS
nut if there is anything real down lovely
bout tie ball-headed buzzard that roosts in
Il, haven't heard OF IL; and II there Is any
tiins TO make n bare-fooled boy twine his
heart around Il bull-nettle, it escapes my no.
tice, and goodness knows, I've walked on
them and sat down on them often enough 10
have found it out. The odor of the rose and
violet may tc perfume from the lost Eden
nut | have grave doubts about the jimSoh
weed and gourd vine ever hearing of, let alone
growing in IT..
AS for people, they are not all beautiful, ei :
her. I've SecI some that looked like angels
sent among us and some that looked like
hey were anything else-especillly among
the men I've seen some that were as hard as
nricks with the grace Of q COW and the, eX-
preston of a billy-goat. Did you ever look
into the eyes Of goat? II you have not, the
next time you meet one, stop him.
Every body has their own ideas of what is
beautiiul-Some like the stars, while jim likes
apple dumping. AS for myself they both do
very well-in fact thirk an app,e-dumbIing
is one Of the best things l ever ate. My nla
says that things that are useful, and people
that are useful, is what she wants around her,
and no GOOlery.
As for Morandy, she says, the whole uni.
verse is one place of beauty for men and an
gels 10 admire. But think the prcticst sight
in this world, is for a man 10 be i'll bed and
see the san rise with It's face washed and
bright with smiles, and the longer he can lie
| ;here the pretticr it is. If you don't believe
his try it IN the morning.