The Princeton union., 1904-11-10
Just as / Am.

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have me, not what I mi ght want to be,
not what I might be if some one would
have me, but just as am, and what
I am. Did you ever notice how the
world is becoming veneered and put
tied and plugged, and all that sort O.
thing? People are not themselves,
only at home where the masks and
the paint are removed for short
time, and O., my! Much of the world
is getting so that all it cares for is
vaudeville, vanity and victory, and the
cost of the victory cuts no figure. The
sacrifice is not to be considered. The
spirit OF the age is young man, get
there" and they are getting thereto
the mud baths and springs, to the
specialists, the fortune tellers, the
treatment by Injunction, suggestion,
or whatever you call it, and the un-
dertaker-all getting there long before
they are due. Some of our railroads
consider their employees old when they
reach forty and retire them with re-
communication with a string attached.
A fast age, sure. It's step the pace
or set down by the roadside and wait
Let's wait, you say? Oh, no. Father
Time comes along with drag net and
will not permit. Keep moving, but
be ''Just as I am
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Frankness seldom makes short cuts
to publicity. Occasionally you can
find it at home, but you are never in
vited to ''smile'' or have something.
There may be a good dinner about
ready and the odor from the culinary
bureau may be very tempting, but
Frankness lacks genial hospitality,
and you go away feeling that the
world has more exits than entrances.
Frankness, the real old man himself,
seems to keep shy Of the directory
man. But then, young man, don t
feel lonesome about such a. little thing
as this: There are worse things than
this on this side of the jumping off
place. Come around some day when
it's raining and the world outside
seems hard to get next and we'll talk
it over. -.
You always hear 'em knocking
the poor mother-in-law a very much
wronged and abused individual. She
isn't half as bad as they try to make
out. Say she is three-eights as bad:
anyway: and even then there is still a
little to her credit. will admit that
as before-and-after individual there
is nothing that will equal her; but I
have been Intimately acquainted with
a good many mothers-in- law-and. I'm
not Mormon elder or youngster,
either-for some time, and I must say
a whole lot are good enough for any
man that is foolish enough to get
married.
Glad the election is over? Well
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say [ was. You wouldn't believe it.
but it's an improved fact the kind OF
facts you run across in politics some
times, over in our neighbOrhoOd we
had an old thermometer that has faith
fully registered the degrees of heat
and cold for many long years, and
never once got out of order The
weather might boil but it remained
intact, and the bulb might get detach-
ed occasionally and go way down, but
it always came back in July. A crowd
of politicians got to discussing. politi-
cal issues just when things were get
ting pretty hot and it got so warm in
that vicinity that the thermometer, it
just evaporated. A travelling man at
hotel in Coon Creek ordered NUT
ton chops for breakfast just few
days before election, and the waiter
disappeared like a kid from the ros-
trum after it had said it's little speech.
She was absent some time: the travel
ing man didn't have calendar so he
couldn't tell exactly. But she finally
returned and informed the starved
travelling man that the chops were not
done yet. He finally told her to chop
it out of the order and bring him some
ham and eggs. Glad the election is
over? Everybody is.
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was down to the city the other day.
'down river' they say here, and I
saw a fellow with bull-frog voice, a
pair OF patent-leather shoes and a
sweater peeking into pawn shop
with a wistful look. Ifelt sorry for
him and asked a man about him
and he informed me that he was
spell-binder who had lost his pawn
ticket. l struck up an acquaintance
with the spell-binder and ascertained
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