Arizona republican., 1910-07-09
REWRITING TO TYPE.

At some period in the life of nearly every man there comes to him a call to revert to the type of his ancestors. Usually it is a keen inward feeling, about like the yearning for food he feels at the noon hour, says the Chi- cago News. Some do not heed the de sire at all, while others jump at any chance to do little reverting. At such times a mans behavior de pends entirely upon the distance he goes up the line of his ancestors. If
 he stops at the Stone Age, CT some where near it, he will be found camp ing out. His face will becOvered by a
 stubby growth of beard and he will sit in the sun all day with . fishing pole in his hands. The back of his neck will be blistered. but he will be laboring under the delusion that he is
 having a good time.
 When first man rcverts he is like ly to go back to a still earli 1T period He may imagine that he is dressed in goat skins and dextrously welding a large club. Possibly he tries to boss his wife around, but he seldom makes the mistake a second time.
 A few of us do not revert at all
 
 to do so. We feel the desire all right. but we remember that the rent will be due the first of the month. There comes to mind that dark scowl of the grocer the last time we bought prunes and had them charged. We can see that the butcher is weighing more and more his hand each time we get meat of him. and yet we dare not remind him in the bitterly scarcastic tone we should like to use that we are not cannibals.
 Nobody can prevent us. however. from going back in imagination to the glorious days of our ancestors. In imagination we may revert to the time of Adam and sit around comfortably in the Garden of Eden. Adam didn't have to hammer typewriter. He had not on his shoulders the respOnsibili- ty of keeping d lot of section hands moving or of having d daily row with the foreman of the shop. Adam didn't sit on a high stool and keep books. All he had to do was to roll around on the soft grass and repulse the serpent every time that offensive creature be- came too familiar.
 If the boss is out we may sit in his swivel chair and think what a cinch Adam had. We can even lean pack and place our feet on the boss rolltop desk. When he comes in and asks cut tingly if that is all we have to do. of course that clutters up our imagination for the time being.
 It is not necessary. however to go back as far as Adams day 70 have d good time Think of living along with the cave dwellers of an early period. They didn't clean house once in hundred years. We might want to sweep out little Oftener than they did. but it's certain that there would be no rugs to beat. In that early time they wouldn't have known what to do with prayer rug or a camel's hair hall runner.
 Every time I revert in imagination 1 like to go back to that time. I think of myself as large man with bulging muscles armed with a knOtty club | weighing about ten pounds I should | like to have all the rights and privi- l leges I could secure with the club or l by hurling stones, and I should prac- 1 tice both arts until I became perfect | inthem.
 Sometimes l think I should like to ! walk out of that early period into the | present time. bringing the club with | me. I should like to have the privi- lege of trying to straighten put d few affairs of the present, but I fear there are not enough ambulances in the city to haul away the maimed and injured.
 I should not go along the streets batting persons promiscuOuslv just to see them crumple up and fall. should hit only those who deserve if. and know l should become very tired ere had completed the task.
 l was about to say that d large ma jority of us would welcome a man with q club from that early age If he had signed a contract to strike only those who deserve hit, but on second though I am not sure. It is possible that such man coming into the city It one end would see only cripples go- ing out at the other. Nearly all those having good use of their limbs would be out of sight Very few of us would run to meet him.