The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-08-26

account for it. Some have coniectured
hastily that all southerners In town
HE themselves to cafes at nightfall.
This applause Of the '.reber' air in a
northern city does puzzle a little. but
it is not insolvable. The war with
Spain, many years generous mint and
watermelon crops, few long shot
winners at the New Orleans race track
and the brilliant banquets given by the
indiana and Kansas citizens who COM
pose the North Carolina society have
made the south rather s.fad'' in Man
haitian. Your manicure will lisp softly
that your left forefnger reminds her
so much of a gentleman's in Rich
mond, Va. Oh, certainly! But many
lady has to work nOw-the war, you
know,
When "DiXie" was being played a
dark haired young man sprang up
from somewhere with a Mosby guer-
rilla yell and waved frantically hts
soft brimmed hat. Then he straved
through the smoke, dropped into the
vacant chair at our table and pulled
out cigarettes.
The evening was at the period when
reserve is thawed. One Of us men
toned three Wurzburgers to the wait
er. The dark haired young man ac-
knoWledged his inclusion in the order
by smile and nod I fastened to
ask him a question because l wanted
to try out a theory 1 had.
"Would you mind telling me-" be-
gan, whether you are FROM
The fist Of E. Rushmore Coglan
banged the table, and was Jared into
silence.
Excuse me-" said he, ''but that's a
question I never like to hear asked.
What does it matter where a man is
from? Is it fair to judge man by his
postoftice address? Why, I've seen
Kentuckians who hated whisky, Vir-
gin1ans who weren't descended from
Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't
written a novel, Mexicans who didn't
wear velvet trousers with silver dol
lars sewed along the seams, funny
Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold
FLOODED southerners, narrow minded
westerners and New Workers. who
were too busy to stop for an hour on
the street to watch one armed gro
GERS clerk do up cranberries in paper
bags. Let a man be a man and don't
handicap him with the label of any
section"
Pardon me- said, "but my curios-
ity was not altogether an idle one.
know the south, and when the band
plays Dixie I like to observe I have
formed the belief that the man who
applauds that air with special violence
and ostensible sectional loyalty is in.
variably a native of either Secaucus,
N. j., or the district between Murray
Hill lyceum and the Harlem river, New
York. I was about to put my opinion to
the test by inquiring of this gen
tleman when you interrupted with
your own-larger theory, I must con-
fess."
And now the dark haired young man
spoke to me, and it became evident
that his mind also moved along it's
own set Of grooves.
II should like to be periwinkle,"
said he mysteriously, con the top Of a
valley and sing too-ralloo-ralloo''
This was clearly too obscure, so 1
turned again to Coglan.
1--WE been around the world twelve
times" said he II know an Eskimo
in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati
for his neckties, and I saw a goat
herder in Uruguay who won prize in
Battle Greek breakfast food puzzle
competition. pay rent on a room in
Cairo, Egypt. and another in Yoko-
hama all the year around I've got
slippers waiting for me in a tea house
in Shanghai, and I don't have to tell
'em how to cook my eggs in Rio janet
no or Seattle. It's a mighty little
world. What's the use of Dragging
about being from the north, or the
south, or the old manor house in the
| dale, or Euclid avenue, Cleveland, or
Pixies peak. or Fairfax county, Va, or
Hooligan's fats, or any place? It'll
be better world when we quit being
fools about some widowed town or
ISA uNACo VI S"du1p Aduu just UcCduS0
we happened to be born there
"You appear to be a genuine cosmop-
olite," I said admiringly but it
also seems that you would decry pa
| triotism.'
"a relic of the stone age" declared
Coglan warmly. eve are all brothers
-Chinamen, Englishmen, Zulus, Pata-
gonians and the people in the bend of
the kaw river. Some day all this
petty pride in ones city or state or
section or country will be wiped out
and We'll all be citizens Of the world,
as we ought to be-"
But While you are wandering in
foreign lands" persisted, "do not
your thoughts revert to some spot
some dear and''-
mary spot" interrupted E. R.
CoSlap eippantly. '"rhe terrestrial,
g1opular, planetary hunk Of matter
slightly fattened at the poles and
known as the earth is my abode. I've
met good many object bound citi-
zens of this country abroad I've seen
! mon from Chiooro cif IN ror1o1o T.,