The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-24
Just as / Am.
Thanks and Other Thing,

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Thanks! Many thanks!" How
often we hear the expression. And
as a rule it is always from the heart.
It means more than ''Glad to see
YOU 81 am SO pleased you camev'
You can't always tell just what those
EXPLANATIONS of delight mean. For
instance Mrs. Makeum Weary calls
on Mrs. Newthing Deary some after
noon when Mrs. Dearly is just about
ready to go over to Mrs. Allthere
Smiths and Mrs. Dearly smothers her
disappointment by several exclama-
tions Of positive delight at the happy
arrival. Just before Mrs. Weary's
arrival Mrs. Dearly is heard to re-
mark, 'sThere comes Mrs. Weary.
Oh, horrors" This is the social DR..
Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde act so much in
vogue. However, it's human nature.
The women are not to blame any more
than the men, only the men go at it
in a different manner. The phone
rings and Mr.. Blowthem Brisk desires
to know if Mr.. Twopercentoff Inten-
days is in and the pretty typewriter
or the two-story clerk or secretary
who is we'll trained informs Mr.. Brisk
in very sorrowful voice that Mr..
lntendays is not in ''just now, "hangs
up the vocal sausage machine and Mr..
Intendays says to himself "a little
rest for a few moments Just human
nature, that's all.
III admit that many lady takes
a seat offered her in street car by a
gentleman, with ''Thanks," in about
the same manner that man saws
"Thanks" when some fellow pays him
bill that he has owed him for a long
time.
This reminds me. I was riding in a
street car one time when a thin.
pinched, puckered looking fellow who
shaved notes for living, and hated
to breathe because it took so much of
his time, occupied a seat in the car,
and he tried to work off Canadian
dime on the conductor. There was a.
very pleasant looking fellow seated
next to him, and he looked as if he
would willingly share all he had with
the world. A broad-guaged colored
woman came in and failed to find room
enough to sit down. But the pleasant
looking man was equal to the occa-
sion. He wanted to telescope the
puckered-up fellow as we'll as give the
colored woman a seat, so he vacated
his seat, and the colored lady dropped
into it like a big bale of cotton. She
seemed to spread out just like a hen
brooding her big family of chicks and
the puckered individual totally disap-
peared behind her great fat sides.
There was a terrific wriggling by the
small piece of humanity for few
moments and the puckered-up passen-
ger emerged from out the gloom and
tore toward the rear of the car with a
look of disgust on his face. = -
"De Lawd, 0, NASSAU exclaimed
the colored woman, II nebber sup
posed I fetched him in wild me!'' =
This is not an age exactly of spirit
of thanks. It's an age of steel spelled
both ways. The Creator placed lot
of..resources over the earth when the
planet started to spin and Rockefeller
& Co. have watered everything in
sight to such an extent that unless
there is stop put to the whole affair
there will have to be another ark for
the deluge. The student of political
economy who burns the midnight in
candescent while the meter does the
rest tells us that in the dim and dis
tant horizon there are a few faky
specs that will develop in time into
funnel-shaped clouds that will suck
dry as bone all this sprinkling-pot
business of modern times and that the
watered-stock era will be thing of
the past. With Rockefeller it cannot
be said that he, has grown grey in the
service for he has literally grown
bald. Some are so mean as to saw
that he has even extracted all the
oil from the roots of his hair to swell
his assets.
But [ am wandering from my text.
Let US be thankful, truly thankful it
is no worse. The government is at
work on process to extract all the
water out of industrial stocks to use
in the great scheme to irrigate the
arid plains of the west and in the
process of freezing out the aquatic
captains OF industry there will be an
ice crop large enough to last the
nation long time. Then let US give
thanks now that right and justice will
eventually triumph. It may be that
the monuments to the dead past will
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