Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-03-12
OUR CRAZE AFTER THINGS.
Editor Democrat:

ltEaM& &-U.A#E lF@aM ErGsae rh#Ed
1t is a great blessing chat nc one
man or even one set OF men can have
control over everything in this world.
The word thing is susceptible of
quite a number Of definitions. 1t is
of extensive Specification, and in COM
mon parlance may intend all matters
of substance in controdustinction to
person. In a deed it will be made to
include everything in the way of chat
tells, but a tract of land or real estate
of any kind will not pass by use of the
words. thing, things or everything"
Since the days of the dawn of creation
people have been wanting and long
ing after things Go into most any
well fitted up room or house and O
what a conglomeration-freboard or
mantel, center table, every available
nook and corner chucked and loaded
with things" Come in at night and
try to- walk through your room with
no light, bruise your shin against the
couch, stagger in another direction
and half break your neck falling over
chairs, knock down the card table, dig
your pate into the corner of the bu-
reau or piano, utter a few words not
to be found in the Sunday school les
son and cry out "thing!-tarnatious
taings!" We have a female fortune
teller in our city at this very moment.
who for fifty cents, will tell you ali
| about things" and how you may get
them and the manner in which they
are to come to you and what youvshan
dc as you go about on the streets, in
! order to bring about the magic charm
glorious thing" in your pathway il
you but exercise Alright in the cut of
| the eye, the movement of the foot, the
MARBLE of the head, the swing of the
/ hands, the calculations of the should.
ers, the goo-goo of the eyes and il
short the general up-to-date tango
tangle. Do all these performances
ard you shall have and perform
things disgusting and n%auseating.
things u~nbecoming, things to be
ashamed of, things to make the better
clement look with contempt, things un-
holy, things leading away from God.
goodness and heaven.
1t was the same craze after things
that originated the idea of Eve par
taking the forbidden fruit. Leans
magical craze after the mythical
Mandrake. read in Genesis, which
same weed has caused silly people all
aroun the Mediterranean sea. where
the same grows, to play the fool ever
since. Be as light-headed as you can
about things and after all, the
chances are that you will never have
the glory of being clad in soft raj
ment'' and dwelling in kings houses,
even after all the reputation you may
build up for mean selfishness.
So long as any man or woman IS
busy with the useful affairs of life the
mania for things" will not take hold
| ana COISuLlC IAC1n5 LII my " -
neither what the German writer's call
Optimists or Pessimists and you will
not hear so much of the whine that
stthe laws of man are few and evil.
Man Ices not have a lasting control
over the things of this life. neither
| do he have the control over the
bringing of himself into existence, but
my doctrine is that both Nature AMI
God, if there be any difference in the
two, prefers my veal, rather than my
wee, and most sincerely advise every
friend on earth to take the same yieW'
let his religious belief be what it may.
| Mans existence is a great thing lit
is the thing of things" and If be-
comes his duty to God and his fellow
creature to remedy this unjust con
dition.
Finally, my friends, let us believe
firmly thar every mar and woman
we're intended to be a representative
sent from the Creator, inc that each
has faith in his w and the others
destiny, in a righteous adjustment OF
all things n the uselessness OF
unfair dealings in our life-relation.
Let n of us have to say with Byron.
Count Ger the joys thine hours have
Count Ger the days fromEanguish free,
And know whatever thoit hast been.
,I1s something better not TO be-
This writer takes issue with Mr..
Byron, and believes it Is a most glori-
fous thing to "be."
with kindly thoughts till next
THoS. J. RiCKMAN, Asheville, NC,