Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-16

should have considered it high at tnat'
And vet this man was growing be-
cause the market had gone on quar-
ter of a cent when he was getting loc.
for the whole hog including the curl
on the hogs tail.
Take the weather: A great many
people growl about the weather. we
ought to be glad to have any weather
at all. The reason why people russ
about the weather is because they
haven't ANYTHING else to grumble
about One should adopt con-
ciliatory attitude toward the weather
When the weather is hot. ! am not
when the weather is cold. l am freez-
ing. That is the way to agree with
the weather. When the rain is pour
ing down and everybody is going
around like a toad under toadstool
and the rain is dripping. and clothes
wet. it is an insult to ones intelli-
eence to meet a man and be informed
that lit is a little might moist to-
day"
The wind of woe leaps like loosened
tigers Real trouble bites like acid.
Some need trouble to measure up to
the exigencies of life. There are SO
many worthless people who are always
complaining and make themselves dis
agreeable. who actually have nothing
to grumble about.
Race prejudice is the meanest vice
which pervades society. Not like
God. A man cannot decide his an
hot Nm
all history the Jew has always been
despised.
Many people do not like red-headed
people, (the Bishop is redheadedD but
a man cannot help being ed-headed.
not nearly so easily as he can prevent
himself from being bald-headed.
Many people cannot prevent being
bald headed. when they have their
hair dragged out of their heads by
their wives. for domestic purposes.
Shylock was not a wise man. He
was angry with the crowd. No man
should make faces at a crowd be-
cause the crowd has more faces than
he.
Here is a bald headed man riding
down street on bicycle and quite a
lot of his bald head appears out from
beneath his straw hat and is observed
by some kids playing in the road and
the children cry. Pump her along.
old bald head. and the man on the
bicycle turns about and cries out to
the boys that they should be whaled"
and. eff he was their father. they
would be whaled." and the boys invite
the bald-headed man to be their faith
er. and the man becomes more angry
still and he drives his wheel up to
curb and dismounts. and he chases
these boys. Does he catch them and
whale them? Not in this life. does he
ever catch these kids.
Now he did wrong in becoming
angry. He should have remained
calm and undisturbed and gone home
sweet and nice to his family. AS it
is. his wife asks him what the trouble
is and he is wrought up with his rage
and he growls about the saucy boys.
whereas. if he had gone home. sweet
and nice. to his family. his wife would
have come forth with a smile on her
countenance and welcomed him and
kissed him on his bald head
The man with the crown of thorns
smiled in his agony Shylock was
murderous because of Venetian preju-
dices against the Jew We can't af-
ford to avenge grievances. Even a
nagging minister is Of no use and
never can keep his job. Keep sweet
and at peace with the whole world.
Shylock mistook Venice for the
whole earth, just as we all speak OF
"our town. or our set or "our
Coterie" or our club" Oh, the intense
Stiffness and foolishness of those peo-
pie in society! Segregating them
selves from the common herd and
looking down upon the other fellow as
if of superior flesh and blood.
l never Joined a club. My club is
the club of all the people of the world
the great club of the human race.
Shylock should have moved out of
Venice. 1t is indecent to rap a town
in which you live; in which you OBJ
tain your bread and butter. II con-
ditions are not suitable. why skedaddle
from that town. The world is big.
somewhere one can always succeed.
1t is silly and disfiguring to a mans
soul to be whining because he is not
appreciated by his fellow men. The
world in the long run generally paws
man all he earns and treats him as
well as he deserves.
once in while some man hates all
women because one woman has been
sensible enough to refuse him. Some
times girl becomes insufferable, pep
perry vinegary. and lemony because
she is Tilted by some man, and when
she thus becomes, no other man ever
wants that girl. Whereas the man
could have found thousands of women
tnat would have had him in spite of
his unworthiness and after a woman
gets a man she always finds what
worthless creature he is. and after
man gets woman he always discov-
ers a multitude of faults to which he
was oilnd during the sweetness OF
tnose charming counting days.