The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-06


hammed packed his grip and Went TO-
the mountain! n 4
Mohammed was good and frugal
man. He made two simple meals day
of barley bread and water, diet which
a. believed TO have been the original
of an American army ration In CUBA
He mended his own clothes and gave
other evidence of being man OF the
naonIe and not a plutocrat. His man
ner of life, as we are informed by the
experts tends to develop the philoso-
phic spirit. Accordingly, as we may
readily believe. when Mohammed TOOK
q fancy 10 the mountain and found the |
mountain was not likely to come TO
him. he forthwith went to the noun
tain The point is that he wanted the
mountain very bad and nothing should
stand in the way of his desire.
OF such is the true spirit of the phil
osopher. Furthermore, there is occa-
sional gratifying evidence that IL sur
| ives a better diet than Mohammed
used to enjoy and higher state OF
! civilization than developed his pro-
phetic soul. For instance, here are Mr.
and Mrs. o. III. p. Belmont OF New
port-in the summer. They and their
particular friends longed to ride on the
merry GO round. yearned to see the
show IN the dance hall, and, generally
speaking, had an irresistible itching Tor
| the festivals of our excursion resorts
that are every day and night open 10
the rest Of us for few bits.
OF course, they couldn't get aboard
an excursion boat and visit any OF the
places up the bay on a round trip ticket
! and 25 cents to see the show. But they
were not dismayed by that. They coule
, | bring the festivities down to Newport
: | or such part of them as were possipi'
/ of ready Transportation, which includes
2 | about everything but snootihs-the
chutes and the toboggan slide. Th'
E | living horses and the steam organ. tn
e performers in the open air show, tn
4 gypsy fortune tellers, the frankfor
: sausage man. the pink popcorn an
n peanut vender and much else were no
n difficult of transportation to Newpor
a lin bulk. and to Newport they wer
I transported to satisfy the craving o
h Mr.. and Mrs. O. II. p Belmont an
: their particular friends.
In this case, of course. the episode
n Mohammed and the mountain was re
lversed Mr.. and Mrs. Belmont 'couldn
: go to the shore resort show. but the
e could bring the short resort show
n them. And they did. They had tn
stuff to move the show they couldn
's go to them just as Mohammed ha
al his legs to take him to the mountai
a that wouldn't come to him. The SAN
ID philosophic spirit that teaches US MOI
re than one way to skin cat was demon
A. strated equally in both historic II
stances.
is To be sure, there was a good deal
satisfaction lost in both cases.
couldn't have been quite the same thii
40 to the prophet to go to the mounta
as II would have been IL the mourta
- had come prancing up to him. And
Is by no means the same thing to bril-
:, aI shore resort performance down
=. Newport as IL is to go 10 the shore
-. sort 10 see II. II is said to have cost
number OF thousands Of dollars for I
"A satisfying of Mr.. and Mrs. Belmon
-, craving. But for dollar. more or ie
per head, they could have had the II
thing in shore resort delight. going
). beneath its own vine and fig tree,
r. that would have been lots more fun.
But perversity is strong in hum
-. nature. We itch most TO do those thir
on, ""
that are not easily accomplished
"A prefer to do things in different
.oo from what laws and customs prescri
II mountains made practice 81 go
,eo, to anybody and everybody that WI
-. tied for them to come, Mohammed, II
Iy. would never have ordered
-, chosen mountain to come to him.
would have desired to go to the mo
tain ,ust to do something different.
w Now another genius comes forw
with a secret process for turning pl'
ordinary rocks into precious stoi
In -, A..