The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-02
WHAT'S THE USE or PEOPLE PRETtNO|NG2
Why Do Men Fill Their Stomachs When They Want to
Have Good Time ?-And Yet Even the Cody
Are Not Averse to Full Meal.
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Man is a curious beast.

~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Man is a curious beast
When he wants to celebrate" he
proceeds to "cross the bar"
What occult connection there is be-
tween welcoming the New Year, in in
stance, and "whooping 1t up" to the
tune of unlimited champagne and the
hot pursuit of the merry cocktail. is
one of the things that causes annual
wonder.
On New Years eve hitherto entire
ly respectable. IL occasionally lapsing
gentlemen, will dance jigs on the table
and offer osculatory affection to any
within hail
Dispatches from the gay metropolis
tell of revelries by night-of dancing
In the middle Of Broadway-of pro-
gressive kissing by heady college boys
and other madnesses.
II man wants to be happy he can
think OF nothing better than to fill
his stomach.
An exalted ideal to be sure-and tru-
ly masculine.
After all is said and done, it is hard
to maintain a high level of spirituali-
ty. Man is material-so is woman.
We cannot live on art alone.
Nor yet religion.
Even the clergy eat
Some of 'em maybe drink and 9TH
ers are perchance merry.
The writer remembers a brace OF
evangelists who once sojourned at her
home while conducting revival
meeting"
These people denounced 1.-The world g
people"
They lambasted those who tricked
themselves out in gay attire. They
excoriated those who hankered after
"the leeks and onions" Whenever
they talked about the leeks and onions
their eyes shone. One could almost
smell an onion and see leek peeping
around the corner.
Their discourse, indeed, inspired a
desire to run home and set the pot
boiling at once. They had a sort of
juicy. alluring, loving way of holding
up the degenerate leek and the de-
PRAYED onion before the Mortified
and gloating gaze of the congrega-
ton that reminded one of nothing
more than free lunch advertisement
in our special issue.
The writer, being infantile and un.
sophisticated, feared bodily injury and
assault upon the persons of her elders
when she beheld them offering these
holy ones beefsteak, mashed potatoes,
cabbage and custard pie.
She expected to see them coldly re-
fuse 1t and ask for crust of bread
and q draft from the kitchen pump.
Imagine her amazement to see them
consenting to large and generous help
ings of beef and gravy. the while they
crunched and masticated with undis-
guised enjoyment.
The writer could not believe her
own childish eyes.
She had been deeply affected by
the evangelistic ministrations-had.
indeed, resolved to swear off on leeks
and onions and lead a righteous life,
but her faith wavered when she be-
held the rapid disappearance of the
beefsteak and the custard pie.
Later, when sent with a message to
the chamber of the lady evangelist
and discovering this godly woman try
ing on her mothers new hat, the while
she viewed herself with admiration in
q handglass-her belief in sojourning
evangelists suffered such severe
jolt it was permanently dislocated.
The component parts of the various
hers" in the preceding paragraph will
readily arrange themselves into uni
fled whole when pedagogically ap-
piled.
Anyway it made what is sometimes
termed an "undying impression" upon
the infant.
1t destroyed a beautiful illusion
belief in the consistency Of the pur-
veyors of morals.
What might not have happened II
she had not beheld the denouncers of
leeks and onions wallowing in beef
steak and pie and admiring them
selves in the looking glass in borrow
ed plumage.
None may know.
Perhaps she might have gone out