The Pensacola journal., 1908-12-20
THE FRAILTY. OF MAN
By w. B. Barron


10 the people over whom he had been
called to ruie-that when the eulprit
was brought before him he, should
remember the fraiIty of man. the Don
exhibited the wisest sanity of any
fool that ever tifsed alliance, and un-.
masked an intellect that mounted the.
hide bound lcraniums Of his day. leS.
ting the light through the cracks to
tliumine the density of a lot of punky
fonvolutions called the brain
The frsities of man came with
him when ne hit this planet. They
didn't get stuck to him like sand spurs
along the wayside of life. They came
carefully packed IN his grip. He had
been QUILTED by his progenitors with
an assortment of -untamed proclivi-
ties to bump a civilized sociology that
puts up walls with checkerboard doors
to cage them in.
Away OF in no mans land, before
the confines of this spnereoid are
reached, the journey here begins.
There may be society there, or there
may not-the wireless has never cir
Quilted the route. This only we
know, barbarian knocks for admis-
sion, and is taken in stranded on all
fours. and bewildered by the exhibit
ton OF a new. world before him. His
progenitors gave MIN his outfit, and
the job to wear 1t until he got well
enough acquainted with his new hab-
nat TO know how to shed it. Maybe
he will. or maybe he win not. Socie-
~ has got an eye upon him, and
hlinks at him from around the
corner. His irnperfections and frail-
ties trail behind him perceived by the
crowd on the front seats wearing bar
nacles upon their, hearts and icicles
upon their souls To falter brings
the shiIlelah of parental ire, or the
social stare to wilt him, and per-
cnance the sentence of the law to
align me curvature of his conceit.
At Threshold With Club.
One or the commonplace exper-
fences is that every man expects the
other fellow's progenitors to hand
down the bunch OF forbidden sins that
got astray in the apple orchard of
Eden. Society, therefore, stands at
the threshold of life with a stuffed
club to convince the new born sinner
that entrance therein comes by an IN
production through its persuasive in
huence- 1t may be that he will find
tne road oiled. SO that he may not
easily stumble, for Love stands guard
ian to bar the way to his defections.
the sink holes and mire. that society
permits as traps, may impede the way
upon the checkerboard of life until the
fatal fall before the juggernaut of So
cial ostracisin and>revenge.
A perfect human nature has never
been found crossing the frontier of
life. After getting into the borders
OF thte mundane existence, man may
sned HIS defects here and there as a
sand fiddler casts of his shell, for he |
finds the imperfections of his nature /
to tote, AMI his neck |
gets creaky dodging a double row of |
brass buttons, or the flounces and /
ribbons of social contempt
When Love Gets Cracked.
IL is said that lovers only have ever
found perfect human biped, but it |
Is well known, however. that this |
quality of human perfection oxidates
and willis wnen love gets cracked by
the Jolts and jars of commonplace
ruts
We blame men for their defects,
tho we all carry the same foul smell
ing assortments of imperfections, for
no man can stand the calcium car
bide under test. The holier-than the
variety cocks one eye ON
u.
and takes a spasm over the trailty of |
man. and rots on MS compost. exhibit |
ing his god-1ike egoism TO ab imagined |
admiring world
Charity for another's failings is yet
an undiscovered virtue, for the aver
age man stands ready with his boot
TO furnish motive power for the err
ing one going down grade.
The complexion of physic invention
to square with this deceit has never |
tnrned its cunning.
Some men are endowed with will |
power so strong that by care and edu- |
cation they can starve their defects |
out, but men of this class are prone |
to frogetfulness, and are conceited |
enough to believe their outfit CT char |
scter snowy white. They never dis |
cover they are color blind.
have never known but one man |
to admit his imperfections A great |
journalist once said he had been |
tempted to commit all the crimes pre-
scribed by law. except murder, con-
Tossing his frailties that others might |
not be deceived by theirs. Here was |
an instance of courage handed out to |
his fellow men. for the snan who tries |
to find himself has the warfare against |
his imperfections half won, and the |
man who never gets frightened by his
frai1ties may conquer them, but the |
man who stakes them out as scare /
crows hikes out for shelter and throws |
stones over in the other mans back
yard.
God Helps the Man.
The social feeling OF time is cold /
and stony. God help the man who
trips, for creeds were made to catch /
his soul. Whatever it may be thatch-
I'd with the social steam roller will get
that. Society satiates its nav with |
revenge. Mercy is the CLINT of sun
light that sometimes breaks thru the
social gloom to remind US that some
where, within the realm of time. our /
'railties are known and sorTowed o'er-
rhat Love will yet pilot the soul :
,cross the orbit of its sphere. and /
cad with gentle hands beyond the
lire and murky confines Of the social
attitudes of our day into the promised