New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-26

We'll nv dear SAID Aunt Miranda. -: you ash
me. shall advise you 20 use your own Judgment.
but you are evidently determined rot to u1aks uss
OF that vaIuabls faculty. Why DO say that? For
the pIainest possible reason You are inclined 70
a certain course because everybody does f. anu
u that's the way you think OF It. how DO
anything with you? IN not everybody; Tar from
H. IN Just thu ether thing. believe In making
that old bugbear everybody. prove his own case
Why does everybody 90 1T That's the only ques-
ton that concerns ne! II everybody can prove
that ne has sense on his stde-that some
thing than mere tradition Is controlling his
course-Iu give IN 70 him; not otherwise Bless
you wouldn't have the washing and ironing
done on Monday and Tuesday IL had good rea-
for doing them other days Why Monday.
should Ike TO known Why not Monday? Well.
like your counter question n having my laundry
work done Monday at present. for that very
reason. 7 asked myself. why not Mondayf and
since 7 discovered Immediate objection to that
day 7 went on IN the cid groove When thero is
objection III change. but, you see. don't care
TO change for the mere sake OF changing. Only
insist upon better reason for my actions than
that everlasting old argument Everybody does it.
We'll no. I don't agree with you that It consti-
tuJes good argument in itself II may Some
things have been decided. 7 grant You. BY the
united common OF humankind, and those
things are likely 70 stand, no matter how formal
and conventional they may appear to be. I'm
not GUarrelltng with the formal and conventional
L believe in lots OF Old-faShiOned rules. old ways
rhs
like OF course I do Anything FOR that's cor
some horse sense back OF It Somewhere. even II
tnpetuoUs folks can't see IT, But why should
fool things because everybody does them or has
done them? 7 don't II they've done 'eru since
The world began. and in previous existence
Take that Fourth OF July business, for example
and its the worst example I know Of IL comes in
well lust now. for / haven't got over IL vet
and I can't get IT, I can get down
right mad any day in the year merely think
ing OF the Fourth and OF course I'm specially mad
minds me that l can't get over IL. Talk about
human sacrifices and those misguided Jews spoken
OF by the prophets who made their children 90
through the fire in honor OF MOlOCh I'd Ike fo
know Il they were any worse than the enlightened
Christian parents who turn their boys loose with
toy pistols. and I'LL up the hospitals with sillv
little victims who don't know any better! And
look at the poor tnvalids all the country
'butchered to make a Roman holiday ia as lief
least nervous exaspsration' as our wash LADY.
calls II. from senseless orgy OF noise. All useless
noises ought 10 be made unlawful I saw To Be
sure. we'd have the air blue with controversy then
as TO which noises We're useless and which ware
not But suppose that tho besotred Dararts
who bestow toy pistols their mora lea yAlu-
able orsprfng would Acknowledges that the uotDo
they make Is useless But they keep rtgas an. -.
cause everybody does IT I've heard them
downright blasphemy. Makes my hear. bIsed to-
my country. How do parents expect tho rsxf IN
Grafton 20 have any sense II they don't hand down
any, III give you my opinion OF parents some 4ny
Grunbie. do IT. Never you mind as iouR - 7
don't SruTnnIe over lot and my pseppnnl
r~rafod of tx