Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-27

CT ages With every emotion
We would be glad. however. to sea
these young hearts at oar place should
they seem 20 Dc drawn toward each
other Our lstehstring Is always hang
ing outward and waving IN ths breeze.
especially for the young. Loves young
dream Is not interfered with al our house.
We also try 10 adjust ourselves 70 the
mental caliber ofsehose who are our
guests Wefalk brightly OF art, science,
literature. politics, religion or crime,
and readily strike the gait OF those who
arc under our roof. We aim to please
In every way. and though we can be as
simple as Simple Simpson the Sockiess
We often give our guests OF an evening
such strong, rich mental food that they
suffer all night with intellectual heart
burn.
But. alas, fear that both the letter
from Oregon and that from Baltimore
are merely idle attempts To enlist me IN
a cause in which there is no real earnest
ness. Somehow at night, as l look up
into the quiet sky aud try TO count the
stars through the roof and endeavor 10
believe that all men are good, even
architects. and / ask fer strength so that
may DO ever what is right, no matter
how disagreeable il Is. and that may
never break over the rule established
years ago not 70 DO anything whatever
that my mother would disapproye of,
sometimes even going SO far as 10 tele-
graph her before taking glass Of wine,
unless am very, very thirsty indeed
sometimes while l lie thus that Is. while
thus he) in the nighttime, with my hot
temples bathed in the cool moonlight
like the temples Of Jerusalem, it comes
over me that possibly these people are
conversing with me through their hats!
Oh, can il be that I, who, while other
men are putting their arms lovingly
about the taper waist OF the beloved
voter. go about myself from house q
house comforting the disfranchised wife
and sister and daughter, sometimes f)i
days and days-I who would protect even
3 poor cur from its prosecutors Che who
has never had dog instinct, or beer
tainted with the blood of the dog family
in any way, let him cast the first stone!)-
tina. l, say, should be thus monkeyed
with by distant strangers who propose Il
elevate society aud scandAiize the stage
gives me dull neck paih which it il
lard to describe.
Perhaps this prune grower Is widow
er. II so he may be in earnest. for il
has been truly said that the life of {
widower is like that of a baby-the frs
six months he does nothing but weep
the second he begins 10 sit up, lool
around and take notice. and it is might,
hard TO get him through the second year
But let US pass on.
Twas in New York for . week no
long ago on metropolitan business-col
lecting some Of my unearned incremen
and took occasion TO visit the chiropo
dist. He was a very busy man, and ha
outside the door on the street one O
those large, CHASTITY marble feet as ;
sign, and clambering over it are ranl
growths of hardy Indian corns, will
here and there the bulb Of bunion
Closing my eyes till / got past it, wen
up stairs 10 the ingrowing nail parlors
and was waited on by one Of those polite
highly refined people who lead the con
versation away so that one almost for
gets that he has hole in his sock which
he had forgotten.
The day was rainy, and hastily payin:
my bill put on my new gray mackin
tosh in the hall and went down the stree
to where was going to nave two hun
dred dollar battle scene painted while
waited. All the way down / met peopl
who seemed to recognize me by my wei
known features, and it is indeed a com
fort TO know that one is known. Cal
see now why it is that peoplecommit TIN
most hideous and sickening crimes 81
that they may be noted and recognized
Abthe art works it was so too. Peopl,
got through their business and still
seemed reluctant about going away.