Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-11-06
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What's in a Name?

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Observation-Disclosures ond 6piderhn3sy
disy 55p po9m992s t; ssaSeseia pecu9asB Gdisadvah-
lt9algsea, One heRETYss Of FSsc9e9Ygppdr9lSo and
saints striving to consume pHe,o an
other in n body, angels and mar
pies; but 0ftt1mes, quite the contrary
v~befng curse Htnese Two warning
temperaments become a mans Ulti-
nate plegfngg ETn TqfS HaeS' Of
yEJ9I'fT Iasss 4sfd 9Sfl ( J / a
fugSana eafpet e9hb$gE al pf which
has a dignifed soBdr6us sound.
This The would not have confessed
even Unto the trusted if battered ear
Of the Egyptian Sphynx. Y There was,
however, tho ddmoh-aagel lsparring for
points in Georges soul. hThediflculty
Knight be set forth in this manner:
} On one sideI stood Inherent common
sense on the. pther,[a boundless, ro-
.tseate imagination which was like
wise iphefentr4a kind Of duixote mag
nation of suitable modern pattern.
This alter ego terrified him whenever
it, raised it's strangely beautiful head
and shouldered aside his guardian
angel flor that's what common sense
is, argue to what end you wild and
pleadedIin that luminous rhetoric un-
AderItheospeA of which our old friend
Sancho often fell asleep.
ASfa as they calledEhim IbehiRdIthe
counters, was but twenty7eight, and if
he was vice-presfdeht in his late ia
tAer's shoes he didn't Tabhle ground
in them to any great extent. In a
crowd ReIfWas IInet1notiiceable; he
didn't stand head and shoulders abeEa
his fellow-men, nor would he, have
mistaken B5S(neafsfgheed per-
sons, the myopes, for the Vatican's
Apollo in ithea f1esha HE twas OF 9me-
dunn height; beardIessJ 3slender, but
tough and wiry and enduring. You
may seeYhis prototypes on the streets
q dozen times a day. and you may
also pass him without turning round
for a second vieWis Kouhgrmem Aibel
P. A. must be intimately known to
beuadmiFed;myatt diAzRetmtiroMzyou
aFm aeHess bislneek, Afst=off His
hair was brown an~delese4y clipped
about a head that would have gained
the attention Of the p~hfenoIogist, if
not fhat offhe~casual ~pass6aFby. His
Ibnmpsl in=tde ~pA9aseo1ogy OF that
science, we're geedSohes. For theresf,
he observedthe@ oTld through d pair
-otNndly, 4REsrBlaa eyes. { " /
Young gfr4s~nyoEe~throdgh igno-
rance or Shines, seeing nothing beI
yond what the eyes ssees seldom give
hima second INSPECTION; for he did
not know how to make himself at
tFaetfT9, and was sm9ortally1 afraid Of
the opposite, or opposing sex. HE
.could builyrag al shefK out Of his cam
els saddle-bagsg but petticoats land
lace p~arasols and small Oxfords had
the same effect upon him that the
prodding stick of a small boy has
upon a retiring turtle. But many a
Worldly-wise womang drawing out with
TACT and Kindness the. truly beautiful
thoughts Of this young mans soul,
sadly demanded of fate why a sweet,
clean boy like this one had not been
sent to her lin her you'll. You see,
the worldly-Wise woman knows that
it is invariably the lay-figure and not
Prince Charming that ia woman mar
ries,. and that matrimony is. blind
man'sTbuff in gr0Wn+ups.-4 lLJOo
Many of us, layrthe blame . our
parents. We shift the burden of won
dering why we have this fault and
lack that grace to the shoulders of
our immediate forbears. We go to
the Office each morning denyingethat
we have any responsibility; We let
the boss do the worrying. But George
never went prospecting in his soul for
any such dross philosophy. He was
grateful for having had SO beautiful
a mother; proud of having had so
honest a sire; and if either of them
had endued him with false weights he
did his best TO even up the balance.
The mother had been as romantic
as any heroine out of Mrs. Radcliff's
novels, while. the father had owned
to as much romance as one generally
fnds9t in a. Thorough business man,
Which is practically none1at all. The
very name itself is a bulwark against
the intrustons (of romance! Ope-can
not lift the Imagination to- the pros
peotf of opictuFing5 aJones in iTdf1es
and highboots, pinkiRg.a vaFletfin the
mfdriff. It smells Of sugaf-barrels and
cotton-bales, of steamships andO rail-
roads, Of stolid routine in the Office
and of placid concern over the daily
news under theyevening 1amp@ 9W
Mrs. Jones, lovely, .lettered yet not
worldly, had dreamed of her boy,
bayed and decorated, marrying the
most distinguished woman in all Eu-
rope, Whoever she might be. MI.
Jones' had had no dreams at all, and
had put the boy to work in the ship
ping department a little while after
the college threshold had been crossed,
outward bound. The mother. while
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