Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-01
AN EXPONENT Of
THE SIMPLE LIFE
Marshall Choate
Crouch Speaks on
Popular Topic.
AN INTERESTING LECTURE
Entertains Large Audience
By His Droll Humor and
Epigrams.

Inc simple Lille ana COnla9tUn OF
Hurry" was the subject of an inter
esting and instructive lecture deliv
cred by Marshall Choate Crouch. last
evening at the assembly hall of the
high school. 1t was the last of {
series Of five entertainments given
here this season under the auspices
Of the Midland l4yceum Bureau.
Mr.. Crouch is an ardent exponent
Of the so-called simple life. The
keynote of his preachment was tt
slacken the maddenng speed which
robs life of it's genuine pleasures ant
take a journey back to the old los
days when people were unaffected by
worldly things. His discourse con
tanned many wholesome thoughts
couched in attractive language ant
delivered in a delightful manner. L
was interspersed with drol humol
and apt illustration which added to
its charm and forcefulness The audi
ence was an appreciative one and the
entire lecture was listened to with
attention.
Time to Call a Halt.
"We have shortened the pendulum
of life and are living at lightning
speed plead with you to lengtner
the pendulum and pattern your lives
after your grandfa thers," said Mr.
Crouch. Following are excerpts from
the lecture:
I'VE are living in the age of horse
less carriages, boneless hams and
smokeless powder. We have wireless:
telegraphy, dustless floors, chainless
bicycles and girlless telephones, and
now race suicide cranks have predict
ed a childless world. But amid the
confusion caused by these countless
innovations, there need be no feal
but that the American boy and Cir
will arrive at about the same rate II
not little faster.
Start going once and We have t(
keep on going some more We have
to do 4 10 keep Up With thu proces
sion. The hurly burly, world is going
and we don't like to leg behind. We
go tearing about these days as if the
world were going to arrive at the ter
minal station next day
Church-Goers Now and Half Cen
tury Ago.
Fifty years ago a church cOngre
cation would sit on hard benches fol
two or three hours listening with calm
complacency to the village preacher
but with the modern unrest there
must be an operate choir and up
holstered chairs to hold the assembly
quietly while the minister talks 8
bare twenty minutes.
"ln the old school readers very
interesting little story is told of the
boys reward, who united the knot
to save the string. The boy today
who wouldn't cut the knot would lose
his job.
What is simplicity? Is it simply
long hair and a cabin in the woods.
Does it consist of hermit life. plain
dress and sober face? Does poverty
denote simplicity? No, these outward
characteristics too often mislead us
The garb does not tell
Our long haired friend may be the
proprietor of patent medicine show
and the whole of his life may be ar
tificial and insincere. The recluse ir
the woods may emerge once in {
while and entertain wayfarers with
six shooters and hearty greetings Of
hands up.
"Abe" Lincoln Led the Simple Life.
Simplicity is OH the inside. NJ
particular dress marks its presence
and you find it as often in a palace as
you do in hut. Simplicity is deter
mined in our thinking and doing
Queen Victoria on her throne an(
Florence Nightengale on the battle
field were both loyal and quite sim
pie.
Horace Greeley affected simple
ity. Abraham Lincoln had it. Greele,
would wear one trouser tucked in hi
boot and the other outside. When /
friend noticed the disarrangement ant
fixed it for him. the fixing didn't las
long. Horace wanted one trouser les
inside and one outside.
"a New York society woman o
wealth had a great banquet hall bull
in the shape of an egg to entertain
an Easter party. A man of the same
trend of mind entertained monke,
at dinner-and it is said that tht
monkey felt perfectly at home.
"These examples of prolifgate ant
spectacular pursuit of pleasure are o
course the exception and should no
lead us to charge the rich with beint
the authors of such eccentric and idi
otic performances. Our rich people
as a class are too busy to be foolish.
Friendship Of President Mckinley ane
mark" Hanna.
Friendship is one of the things
that we cannot afford to exclude from
this life" cautioned Mr.. Crouch. He
referred to the friendship that existed
between the late lamented President
Mckinley and Marcus A. Hanna
Never in our country's history has
fine friendship been developed in the
political world as 1t was exemplified
by these two great heroes of party
Who can say but that as the assas
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