Evening journal., 1913-11-18

Simons.
"You are Young Sim Simons," said
the speaker. who will be our Judges.
who Will stand before our bars, who
VIII be In our pulpits, who will be
the president Of every great corpor-
alton, who will be in our legislative
hall, but the boy of today? Young Sim
Simons and Old Sim Simons are pass
ing away and don't take anything with
them when they 60 Our railroads.
our books our banks. everything is
left behind for Old Sim Simons is
gone and Young Sim Simons is Sim
Simons."
Mr.. Handy said he proposed to talk
about the students day and so had
taken another Mother Goose rhyme a
little different from the one that
Horatio Seymour used. IL was the
familiar melody:
Il sing a song of six pence, a pocket
full Of rye.
-Four and twenty blackbirds baking
in pie;
When the pie was opened the birds
began TO sing,
Wasn't that pretty dish to set before
the King?
The King was In the counting house,
counting out his money;
The Queen was in the parlor eating
bread and honey;
Ihe maid was in the garden hanging
up the clothes,
Along came a black bird and bit on
her nose"
Mr. Handy took the melody line by
line and built his speech upon it.
sing song of six pence, a pock ct
ful of rye. This line sets forts the
Subject Of the song Money and food
said Mr.. Handy, "are what men strive
for that means success, 80 il is a song
about what the men strive for"
-Four and twenty blackbirds, baking
in pie, are the four and twenty hours
of the day II sings Of you, of your life,
of everything which you are TO have in
fife declared Mr. Handy "God gives
you time out. You must work during
that time for yourself
And when the pie is opened and the
birds began TO sing were likened unto
the early hours of the day, which like
real birds in the early morning make all
the world happy with their song.
Wasn't that a pretty dish to set be-
fore the kingT Surely this is a pretty
dish TO set before king" said Mr..
Handy. 1T is the cr'v dish that can be
set before any peasant or any king No
man has anything else to give except
his hours his time. his day. Out of his
hours you must make all that can be
set before you; your happiness, your
achievements, your fortune and your
name, for when you talk about what a
man is in this world you must count his
good name as his greatest asset.
"'1he King is counting out his gold.
This ref RS to the gold n hours of sun
shine. His gold is his achievements for
humanity He had. better count his !
gold while the golden hours last, for it
is then or never
Take Pleasure Early.
And the Queen said Mr.. Handy, l
must take her pleasure in her day.T
All pleasures must have their day. 1t
is a great mista' to postpone pleasure
to some future time Take it now or
never. Don't postpone pleasure until
old age.
Not only the king is counting out his
gold and the queen eating her bread and /
honey, but the maid, the domestic of
toll. had her part IN the song The |
drudgery of life must be accomplished. |
There is no useful work which is be-
meath our doing
"For along comes the blackbird which
nips OIL her nose. do not refer so
much to the final hour which closes your
day. That hour shall surely come. But
whet il comes soon or late, II you
have done wisely with the hours which
have been given to you. you may well
afford to welcome the closing hour.
"The hour of disaster to which the
old song referred may come at any