Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

DARMER ASRAEL HOPKINS has the best pas
ture Cow could ask for. ought to know, be-
L cause, being Cow I'm Judge of pastures
There's plenty of grass,-young, fresh, green grass
that lust goes to the spot where Cows appetite
sand there are trees to stand under while you
switch flies or chew cud; there's brook through
one corner with just enough weeds and scum on
south end there's stump fence where sassafras and
all kinds of berry bushes grow among the roots
Now what could Cow want more than this!
Why whenever l thought about it, and remem-
bered that was producing the best quality of milk
that could be produced; and that was admired,
l may almost say reverenced, by all the other
Cows and that my tact and social experiences pro-
NOTED peace and happiness in the pasture (when-
ever | saw two Cows quarreng, l joined in right
away and helped one defeat the other) -whenever
all these blessings before my mind, got SO sat
isfied and happy and contented that was perfectly
miserable You see, l knew that this was de-
graded and downtrodden world, and to find myself
cursed with content in it was terrible blow Well
l brooded about how had no right to be happy and
pleased and to have things go 50 smoothly. till it
seemed as if l couldn't endure my life any longer
IT got pretty bad when day thing happened
1 which made me feel l wasn't fortunate as
l had feared, and that l needn't have been so con-
tented after all. For days l had noticed that
two women who l did not belong to the
family of Farmer Hopkins spent every morning IN
the shade of the stump fence They looked SO dis
Contented and advanced 50 admirably respondent
with their life that l envied them and drew near
to see if | could absorb some crumbs of wisdom
from their conversation.
| did They were talking about thing they
called the Higher Life, and they seemed to think
it was the one thing worth living for l judged
that they thought we should elevate ourselves by
getting way down to high basis where we didn't
have ANYTHING; that the only way to go on being
truly civilized get rid of civilization, to dis
pense with the things civilization had given us;
that the Higher Life process of elimination. as
it were; and that thing valuable only when
we didn't have it,-that the fewer the better, as
you may say.
These people referred to Whiteface, the Spotted
Heifer, and all the rest of us as Lowing Kline and
this phrase appealed to particularly beautl-
full and effective l hadn't been used to being
called anything poetic than Cow, or affec-
a more exalted more spiritual aspect, even in my
eyes, the classic phrase fell on my ears. |
felt that l belonged in poem in what they called
The Embamed Solitude of the Meadow. AS
Lowing Kline, l part of Art, a contribution
to Music / could aspire to place in that Higher
Life these women had talked about l didn't ex-
actly understand it; but then am always open to
argument, always reasonable Dear Hereford Ill.
says that mind as logical mine is almost
feminine.
/ went away from that stump fence enlightened
and exalted, you may say, above my ordinary
Cowhood, happy in that there were still plenty of
things to be miserable about, and strove to share
my Joy with Whteface.
.'Whiteface" said 1, do you know that you
a Lowing Kline? You are!"
Whteface looked at me earnestly, and l saw that
she was misnterpreting the expression OF my coun-
tenance.