The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-04-01
BY EDGAR LIFT


about the question of the thigh cost OF
living" he will have his mind altered
confirmed or disturbed when he pays
~ cents for two ancient eggs and q
cup OF sterilized coffee. But perhaps
providence arranges these things for
idiots. SO that we may have excite
ment on our travels, just as in olden
times Sixteen-string Jack and Jonath-
an Wild were necessary adjuncts to
Z ieasurable coach travelling. and train
bandits belong to exhibiting Western
.urneys. Anyhow, the above price al
depot lunch room started this thing
and here goes for all there is in it.
You don't have to go to Europe to
see things" IL the sensitive plate Of
the mind is kept clean you can &C
around the corner and see plenty
Life is the same everywhere. If one
has the reasonable spirit he can find
material for enjoyment in village
the same as in big city. He car
color anything so that small or lares
place will take on the atmosphere q
foreign parth. The way to live rea
onably is to hold the objective beforI
you, tone it up, or down, with the su9
jectiye, and never submit to that ter
rible giant of morbidness who slab
his thousands and imprisons his viz
TINS in the dark cells of melancholt
Now we are in dining car. &
come Mr.. and Mrs. Newlywed and tltt
baby. Mr.. NewlyWed has on greer
socks and red shoes Mrs Newlywet
, has on lilac hose and white shoes
They are correct in every arrange
ment of dress-ties, comb of hair add
department In a few moments the
eternal question of the high cost b
living rears its gaunt face.
BY the way, they had great discus
sions and fights over this matter when
they built the pyramids thousands Io
years ago. There was a sharp rise IiB
the price of 1eek, garlic and oniohs
Well. it took tons of them to feed ths
100000 men who worked on the ton1bs
of the Pharaohs for twenty years
They actually had strike and Their
was much talk Of the privilege
classes" Some had to live on oniem
and garlic, while the plutocrats FEDS
ed upon the luscious melon of the Nh
valley
The NewIyweds paid 1886 for tier
dinner, half of which they didn't ea
and much of which they tried to pDR
into Snpokums capacious mouth. RE
baby is all mouth and lungs and wha
he cries in anger, you imagine therp )
COW on the track and the engine 3
altricking to her to move on.
mir. Newlywed takes piece of bred
and says TO the baby: Now, wata
papa eat. Sect Now Snookums cal
And when Snookums smears 5 is
face with butter. then mamma crie:
Oh, isn't he just too sweet"
And they look around at all Of S
for applause and encores Of courp.
we all know perfectly we'll that 10
such child was ever. ever born Inc
Snookums, and that earthquakes and
: cyclones fought each other forele
front seats to witness his first tpoa.
!. And we look on in wonder at thezda.
matte manager of the menagerie ,ANio
Is able TO teach child to eat u
object lessons. Sometimes it looks he
Mr. Newlywed would make a splendd
dog trainer, or superintendent Of he
monkey department in zoologial
garden.
Providence takes care of 1oas
Everything flows down to them. 4
family with just oceans of moneyfs
forever having rich uncles and 2em-
ster aunts dying and leaving liz
swags. while the poor devil no soccer
saves few hundred dollars throuh
toll and strict economy than an ne
machinery of life begins to throw ut
hooks to get it away from him. II
the social order can't get it one ay
1t will another, sometimes throuebte. !
eidents, loss of work, doctors. BIS. !
Z pitfalls, street improvements, spaal
taxes and so on.
1t is not true that a fool and lis |
money are soon parted. Money fkvs
to fools. Fools keep it. Wise zen |
spend it. The biggest fools on ath |
are those who havn't got thingmt
money. If they think that naaey |
alone is the Eureka and Eldoradeof |
life they are up against con gme
of sthe smoothest kind You dnt
have to go to Europe to SCI. fat.
Sometimes it looks as if all the ail.
osophies and all the religionsh Hre
invented as kind of paregofEor
soothing strip for poor men. lat
old rascal. Seneca, wrote upon ID Old
table. with the wealth of SpanishsjE
yer mines and the treasures Of Raon +
tin mines in his wallet and told psple
what a blessing poverty is. The DE,
giver!
Poverty is never a blessing. With
may be a curse TO some personsbe.|
cause they ares curse to theInsaes
and to others, rich or poor. Ralth
may be~a curse, but poverty is wer
blessing. To be poor. and old,ack
and lonely. and deserted by thosegou
once blessed and tenderly caredor.
to be cursed with some baleful dhase
and no money; to be down froaes.
cess of alcohol and moneylesand
friendless, and to be told by ann.
start police judge to get out of own
and go In the hedges and hay SEEKS
and try to sleep with a million aen.
mouthed nerves clamoring for i'm
. ulants! What an awful cryf ishat
of King Lear out in the storm: oh
We poor houseless, homeless wireless !,
In this same dining car comstwo
girls who have the appearance tha.
Ing the product of a money-Riac
father and fool mother Theysn,t
be over Is. They each drink st,e
of beer. Their faces soon flush The
eyes become 'swimmy' or 'leau,bo
common effect of alcohol. /. hosr ar
diluted They each eat a S1.5Nteal
They mess over rich and exRsive
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