Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-18
TERRIBLE EFFECT
OF E|FFEL TOWER
ON THE NERVES
Analysis Of Sentiments
When It Is Found That
Even a Worlds Wonder
Is Overplayed Strongly
Some Towers" Of Our
Own.
(Contributed.)

II left Paris and France, too, on ac-
count of the Eiffel tower" This Is the
first sentence in Guy de Maupassant's
Ia Vie Errante," and peculiarly sat
isfying sentence 1t is. One is glad that
somebody had the sense to leave Paris
on account Of that too stupendous tow
or. Some of us who have seen the Elf
fel tower only in the movies, have felt
that we might have left Paris and
France, too, on account of it," And
those of us who have been fated to see
the same picture of the Eiffel tower a
second time were actually inclined to
leave the theater in which it was
shown. There is, perhaps, nothing in
particular the matter with the tower
except that there is too much of it. We
can not, with patience, endure too
much of anything. There are people,
no doubt, who can stay in Paris with
the Eiffel tower and think nothing of it.
That picture, however, has left the i'm
preston of a gigantic skeleton of a
worm, twisting itself higher and high.
er, crawling up on nothing through the
air, reaching up as though to look
down upon everything in the world and
making everything it looked upon
Is easy to understand why the French
man left Paris and France, too, on &C
count of it.
OUR OWN TOWERS"
We can understand because we have
Eiffel towers of our own; at least, there
are things of which we have too much
and which remind us somehow of that
tremendous tower. There are the
things we have crowded about US,
high walled buildings and narrow al
leys, noise and dirt and streets and
streets and streets. Sometimes we
would leave these things if we could,
leave them for the unsown fields and
uncut woods and unknown streams, and
then proceed to build them all up about
us again wherever we went. People,
Just people in general, are like Eiffel
towers sometimes. There are too many
of them, and they will not be forgotten.
People in particular are Eiffel towers,
too-those people that are so efficient
and so righteous and SO satisfied that
they climb higher and higher and make
the rest of us feel smaller and smaller.
Business is an Eiffel tower sometimes,
big business and little business, bust
ness downtown and business at home.
We would run away from all idea of
business If we could. Habits are Eiffel
towers, and some of us get almost as
tired of good habits as of bad ones.
WORST OF ALL-OURSELVE
The worst and highest and most an
noying Eiffel tower of all is, probably
just our own selves. 1t is always the
same old tower. sometimes seeming
considerably bigger than at other
times, but forever getting in the way
of our views, persisting in looking
down on other folks, insisting upon
reaching and reaching and trying to
climb higher and higher. 1t is diff
cult to get or give any real enjoyment
out of things with that Eiffel tower OF
self monopolizing the landscape. He
was, indeed, fortunate Frenchman
who had only to leave Paris and
France, too, in order to get rid of the
Eiffel tower, although 1t is likely
enough that he may have carried many
another more wearisome tower along
with him wherever he went.