Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
Little Bobbie S
Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

TASKED Pa last mite what Media
shun ment, The teacher sed that
eeSa of us shud look up a WORD q
tell her about II in the next dav a;
skool & the word she gaiv me was
Meditashun, only she dident spell il
rite on the slip. she spelled it Medi-
Eation.
Well, Pa sed that is a pritty hard
word TO give a boy Of yure age.
am not SO sure that you're mother wud
know the word II you asked her to
explain It.
Indeed, sed Ma. Well Bobbie, let
fure father explain It if he is so wise,
A. after he has got the word
ell bungled up l win tet you rite.
Meditashun, ssd Pa, Is thought. II
Rneens the process Of setting down
Kumware & rejecting on the queer
Things in this life, such as hobble
plnlrts & the Lame Duck dance witch
New York soCity has taken up. 1t
meens thinking, deep thinking.
That is what l thought. 1 told Pa,
4 herd q old farmer saying last mite
wen he was setting In front of the
grocery store that he was meditating.
OF course, Pa sed thare Is different
brands of meditating. Now that old
farmer wasent meditating enuf TO
make his he'd AXE. ! have often
notised a villager setting on a barrel
an a grocery store & looking at a ripe
punkin. He will look at that punkin
for a hour e. look wise. Anybody
wud think he was lost in thought, Pa
sed, but II he ever had a thought he
wud fall off the barrel That medi-
tating simply meens that the man Is
TOO law TO go home & do the chores,
sed Pa. That isent the kind of medi-
tating that Newton did & Socrates q
the other wise guys. Thay thought,
e. fhay thought deep.
Can YOU mediate ] asked Pa.
oh. certingly, sed Pa. Meditatius
ssent a hard job for trained mind.
IT is iest lite morning exercise for a
man like me. only weak or unframed
minds find trubbel meditating, & they
newer try Il much. anyway.
woman newer RELY meditateS
Pa sed. A woman mite start, but she
wuddent git far. If she started to
meditating on the number Of planets
IN the universe, she wud finish by
meditatlnR on the number Of yards
In a tailored suite. winners minds
is so nimbie a alert Ia Seu, lhdt lhey
can not keep the road. Thay bound
here &, there like SO many frightened
rabbits while the master mind Of a
man viii talk up a subject & follow
1t thru to a logical conclusion Do !
maik myself cleer to you, Bobbie?
Not vary, ! toald Pa. I think Ma
is lest as smart as you are wen II
Gums TO thinking, & / think she
spends moar OF her time thinkirr
She helped me to think out ten prob
iems last mite wen you was at the
lodge. & then had a piece OF her mind
left 10 give you wen YOU calm hoam
singing Wen the Harvest Days arc
over, Jessie Deer.
did sing a littel last mite, sed Pa
but that was recreashun for me, aftc'
q hard day OF meditashun. There Il
nothing that freshens up mediator
as much as singing, Pa sed, AttH
he has sung a few simpel ballads Of
mite he can start rite out medltatine
the next morning jest as II he waseni
tired the day beefoar.
That is a vary careful eNplanashun
sed Ma, but wen you were singing
last mite I was doing sum deep med
stating myself II you sing next time
YOU cum hoam from lodge, you VIII
have to change lodges. Mediate ~
that a while, sen Ma.