Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
OBSERVER IN rAcrvuL CATCHES
Humor. Sentiment and Pointed Clean
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- The school girls of today are the
housewives of tomorrow, and their edu-
cation is one-sided and incomplete if it
does not include practical knowledge
of her lifework.
=. There is not hing that will make a
fellow so well satisfied with farm life
as TO spend a weel or ten DAYS in some
| big city. OF course it's lots OF fun to
visit the shows and parks, but il
whole lot more fun to get back to the
old farm. The idea of farmer spend
/ ing few days in large city every
year is strongly favored-but don't for
get ''Missus and the children" 1t
gives change OF mental diet which is
very satisfying.
We have to labor in the sun, among
| the noxious tares and weeds; the wage
seems paltry when it's won, and all too
little for our needs; but let US to that
/ labor bend, and ever strive to do our
best, and Mother Nature, in the end,
will give her weary children rest. Our
eyes are often wet with tears, when we
| have borne the hooking word; our
hearts are often filled with fears, and
all the pain of hopes deferred; but let
us on our journey went, and we shall
find the Goldee Fleece; for Mother Ma
ture, in the end, will give her weary
chi dren peace. There is balm for
every smart, there is a cure for every
care; solace for the aching heart,
that is the consort of despair; the shades
of night will soon descend, when they
| who toll will cease to weep; and Mother
Nature, in the end, will give her weary
children sleep.
What has become of the old time
enthusiasm that used to manifest itself
on almost any old occasion? 1t is not
so very ''old time" either for it seems
to have died out within very few
years Time was when speaker would
be greeted with very warm applause
whenever he made good point, but
now they either never make good
point or the audience does not think il
worth the applause A man may talk
for an hour now and never raise a rip
pie in his audience, and one wonders
why. If the speaker was blind he
would have no reason to think there
was anyone in the room. The base ball
clubs used to cheer one another but
now it is entirely ignored and each side
tries to get the other side ratified
What is the matter? Have we out
grown the age of enthusing? A man
will envolve a scheme and grow quite
enthused over it, but when he tries to
talk it to some one he will find that
unless there is dollar behind it that
man will look tired, bored, Indifferent.
1t is but short time ago that when
the preacher made fine point in his
sermon that hearty and fervent Amen
would go up from the congregation, but
now if a man should happen to say
'Amen" right out loud in meeting a
committee would be sent to him with a
bottle of vermifuge. One wonders why
| the great change has taken place. 1t
must be thatpeople have schoolol them
selves against it and viii not allow
their feelings vent because perhaps
they may not think it popular.
] The writer remembers attending a
revival meeting in Virginia during the
war, the meeting being held by the
black people. Enthusiasm and excite
ment was running wild and one old wo-
man as large as couple of feather beds
was swaying and rolling from side to
side and finally sprang to her feet and
! SHOulCus 1iOAy lldAiGiSlJdHs biS9s NC
Lawd, | is so happy ! must holler er
bustp'
Even now, although nearly half a
century has passed. it seems a blessing
that she ''holered;" it showed that she
had volcano Of pent up enthusiasm
and it must be given expression.
Enthusiasm is a natural part of man
kind, and in TACT of all animal nature,
in some of course more than others;
but the squirrel, the kitten and puppy
are all full of it as well as the average
child, and it will grow in us if we would
let it.
But we are growing as stoical as In
dians, and if we keep on we will be
obliged to pay some one dollar to
make us laugh.
Too many have chased the phantom
dollar until they have lost all interest
or care for anything else; and even
their religion has been sacrificed to
the golden calf and "our devotion
dies. " 1t is too bad, but fact never
theless.
Common Error
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