The Washington critic., 1890-01-27
THE GROHLER.

! am good deal rushed-growlers are
apt TO be, you know--but will take time
TO say that ain glad live IN this world.
If bad been born into a world that was
just right--well, might better never have
been born at all. For should be perfectly
miserable II there were nothing to growl at.
Folks say l'ma meanold skeezix lie that the
way you spell IL p, and that am never
happy. That's all folks know about IL. /
am always happy, except when everything
is going all right; and that isn't very often
! like reformers-those professional re
formers who go about poking their poscs
INTO other peoples Affairs and shopping out
The weaknesses of their fellows. These re-
formers are meat for me- They rake up al
sorts of things for me to growl at, and they
when they are not doing that they are don
ing something that warrants me In growln,
at tbtm Only yesterday one OF them-f
reformcr of national importance, whose
name is-no, ! won't name him =
] would name him and pitch
into him like sixty II he weren'i
so important and so rich and all that-if he|
were only a poor, obscure fellow who
couldn't kick back, a chap who had been
oppressed by misfortune and crushed down.
TO despair, would hop upon him with
both feet, perhaps with all fours--but. as
was saying, only yesterday this reformerI
was walking down the Avenue carrying hfs
big cane under his arm and jabbing it into
the face Of everybody who got IN the way
making public catastrophe OF himself as
he went rushing along, looking for some-l
thing to reform.
| like these hand organs that our visiting
brethren drag around on wheels. They
make me so delightfully."- miserable. was
growing about them the other day 10 a
friend--no, an acquaintance; / have no
friends--and he said didn't know good
music when heard IT, That's it, that's
exactly II. don't know good music when
hear IL; know 1t only when ] don't hear
it. What's the use of knowing good music
when you hear it? You might as well know
good health or good weather when you
have 1t. Why, bless me, when am per-
fectly well never think Of my health, and
when the weather is exactly right don't
know 1t; don't pay any attention to It.
That is why ! say am glad to live in this
world, where there is SO much to complain 4
about and gruDt over. am In no hurry t0A
reach NirvaDa, that place where everythiu
is exactly as 1t should be and everybody is
state of Inconsistencies OF it. want to be<
about among folks who are alive and kick
Ing, and want to do my share of the living
and-kicking.
That brings me to what am driving at.
i don't want TO be greedy about this matter
| don't care to do all the growing. ! wish
everybody who is miserable about anything
would give me lift, | should be happy to
hear from all sorts of readers of the
CRITIC (don't you think that is better
name than the "Capital?> II you don't
why, you can kick about that II you like)--
from everybody who has a reason for flud-
ing fault with things as they are. should
be glad 10 receive two or three hun
dred kickatOry letters every day In
the week, and If ] do maybe I'll print
'em. Don't tire yourselves out at it. That
is to say, don't attempt to kick everything
over at one prolonged crack. just give
quick, sharp kick and have IL over with, so
that the rest of MS can have chance, and
we may make life worth living all round.
At any rate, we GROWERS ought to stand
by each other