The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-03
ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

A fat man down IN Texas fell dead
the other day from what is some
times strangely called heart failure"
The fact of his falling dead, nor
that he lived in Texas, nor yet that he
was fat, was remarkable enough to
cause comment. Many people die in
Texas. Some even move there from
Richmond, Indiana. While others
come back.
And superfluity of fat men is to be
found in any community.
The extraordinary aspect Of the
sudden, and, it would seem, most I'M
timely snatching away Of this excel
lent citizen, was it's immediate cause,
his demise occurring while engaged in
violent alteration with a neighbor
whose children had been throwing
stones at his, the decedent's offspring.
Does this point a moral?
And, if so, would just what be left
to question? Whether it is dangerous
dren no matter what innocent villainy
they may playfully commit; or wheth-
er one, if ornamented with superflu-
GUS flesh, should avoid undue excite
ment; or whether, living in Texas, all
things should be borne with fOrtitude
including the neighbours children, can
not be said.
1t remains, however, that many PEG.
pie work themselves into horrible pas
sions over neighborhood doings. Back
fence amenities have been the theme
of jokesmiths for decades.
1t is mainly because we live too
close together. Propinquity inspires
curiosity, sometimes mild, sometimes
not. Rural neighborhoOds, to be sure
are frequently rent with petty dissen'
sions. But it is not because the next
door neighbours are seen peepins
through a crack in the division fence
when you are engaged in the harmless
pastime of renovating your last win
ter's hat for possible heavy use in the
immediate future.
BY the way, what is immediate flu
ture?"
We often hear of it's twin sister the
near future"
Since it is impossible that future
can exist or it would not be the flu
ture, a screw seemingly needs to be
frightened somewhere in the common
or garden, use of the language.
This might be referred to an Indian
apolis paper which is now in the
throes of an interesting linguistic bal
= Of l.
YOU and me-" and like you and L."
TO return to the man who fell deaC
in Texas.
Everyone pays too much attention tc
everything. And mainly to what 9th
er people do or do not do. A whole
lot of people are engaged in wonder
ing what other people think and sa.
about them, when the other people
are entirely wrapped up in thinking
about themselves, or what quite othel
persons may be thinking about wha
they do.
The don't worry sign should b.
hung out.
Sad as it may be to the ordinary in
| dividual who is an egOtiSt-Were al
cyclists, if we weren't we'd have to g
and live in a cellar because nobod.
much would pay any attention to us
very few other persons are much con
cerned with what he does.
Have you not, on occasion, felt i'm
PEELED to explain something to some
one whom you thing you may have OF
Tended by an unintentional word o
act and found, to your chagrin, tina
the person couldn't remember to wha
you referred and you were forced t
the humiliating necessity of retailing
the whole incident-how you sal
and they said and some one else wa
just crossing the street, you know, AM
| looked the other way for an instant
never imagining-and so on.
It's only when we die that we fin
out how unimportant We are and the
it's too late.
Never explain says the bard O
East Aurora. Your friends don't nee
it and your enemies won't believe 70
anyway"
Let people think what they will an
pass Oh.