The Brinkley argus., 1906-04-27
1 HOLLY GROVE DEPARTMENT
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 some big brained, strong minded men of great learning who failed of the highest usefulness, because they lived in too high an atmosphere for the or dinary plodding masses of the people. So you see that these men are dis tanced n the practical work of life by the men of smaller caliber, who attend well 10 the little things and who are familiar with life as it is day in and day out the year around The man who despises common things is fool and lacks common sense; because most of the things in the world are common things. We have known men who were loaded to the nuzzle with Greek and Latin. who couldn't harness a horse or even tell the differ ence between "splt beans and coffee. They seem to have contempt for the farmer, the blacksmith, the carpenter and the common things of life; but when they get out in the hot battle of life they find the farmer boy who walk ed several miles 10 school barefooted and with sorry clothes. while they at tended the same school as well dress ed and well fed boys, and, perhaps the farmer boy never advanced beyond common fractions in his old School Arithmetic, yet is on the read to rich es, while the has been dude" is leaning day by day against the sides of the houses to conceal the patches on the seats of his brooches.
 Greek and Latin and all of these classical things are grand and would not discourage in any degree the ne- cessity of classical learning; but the man who depends on his classics and his dignity to the exclusion Of close attention to common things lacks common sense and will at last be a classical pauper.
 The man or woman without com i mon sense will eventually fail in any , undertaking that would be of interest to the world All men who have left their impress on the world $ great life, have been those who possessed com mon sense.
 Common sense in men and women doesn't lead them to drink and gamble and despise the religious people of our land It doesn't lead young man tc think he knows more than his father because he can parse a sentence in grammar and his father cant. His father may not know grammar from a city girl $ hat but the fact that he is able 10 give his son better opportuni- ties than he himself had, is evidence , that he is a success.
 When a young man, who is able to dress well and attend college, sneers at another young man who dresses poor ly and plods his toilsome way amidst obseurity and poverty, he lacks com mon sense. Lincoln was once a gawky rail splitter and James A. Gar field once drove canal mule. N What we have to say in this article about young men applies with equal force to the young ladies IL is not common sense for girl 10 burn her hair with curls. It shows that she thinks her hair made a mistake in growing on her head, II is sight to make the angels weep to see a girl with her hair burned and her cheeks painted, her feet pnched with shoes two sizes too small. her voice twisted into unnaturalness, eye brows dyed till when all is done she is only an artificial lump of idiotic self praise. She lacks common sense. She will sheer at the strong hearted, brave. manly boy that is struggling with pow erty and misfortune and marry some spider legged dude, whose only earthly possessions are bag of Bull Durham tobacco, one tight fitting suit of clothes and pair of eye glasses.
 Common sense loves the true and hates the false. It loves honesty of heart and nobility of purpose and shakes hands with the man in poverty and besses the woman in rags,
 Common sense knows how 10 be graceful in the mansion of the rich and how to preserve a manly bearing in