Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-09

There were palms on pedestals and
fat leather chairs, along with orchestra
tinklings and pink-candfe glmpses
from beyond Men. women and uni
forms went with the scenery. which, IN
turn, belonged to the lobby of a big
hotel. At one point a couple OF
lounges were placed back to back "A
woman whose escort was sending a
wire waited on one and the other was
sprawled over by two lumpy men VINO
needed Hoovering. and who talked
about like this:
IT see by the papers that they are
calling for cavalry at Cawmbry. Some
thing wrong there Those tanks can
do all that horses could do and more
mo difference in the world: Give me
an automobile every time the morse
has had his day
And while they settled it the woman
at their back worked herself into a
fever of Silent protest. For you know
there Is difference.
It is the difference between blood and
gasoline. A tank is fine, but it cannot
give its life for mans flag, for It mas no
life, It is only a machine that chugs.
1t can blow up or skid itself to Smash,
but it cannot suffer because to suffer one
nothing that has lived pan ever die. it
may bet may be-that the horse
heaven, created by appreciative humor,
is real thing. And why not?
Dobbins humble brother, the, ass,
helped to save the Child from Herod' s
knife. and another carried the Christ over
Jerusalem's palm-strewed why. From
crusader to circuit rider the horse has
borne Christianity to earth corners that
could never have been plodded by man.
He has suffered the famines and thirsts
of every missionary who ever rode him,
and has died the martyrs death with no
hope of martyrs reward. And since his
sinless body. burdened by man and book.
bore the added toll of travel. what right
have we to presume that He who marked
the sparrow's fall will apotheosize the
evangelist and disregard the beast?
Today's automobile will be back num-
Der as soon as a later model can sizzie out
Of some inventors brain. But the horse
is as immortal as the hero he carries to
fame. Ask Dobbin. And, even granting
that his day is over, it has been pretty
long one: 1t began with the white steed
that brought death into the world that
time Abel was killed, and 1t stretched out
to, say, the Matanzas mule. And that
means the history of the world.
What sort of a silly show would the
centaur have made if he had been half
chine part of him going? And to skip
from mythology's shade to the light of
the Bible. how could an automobile have
Balaam as Balaam was reproved
by the ass?
At best, all that history can do for an
is to give it a spotlight flash
on the sporting page for clipping sec
ond from the racing record-Wlth extra
headlines if the chauffeur gets Killed on
the run. After that a car strikes the
downgrade- bargain-s sale class and finishes
on the scrap heap. 1t takes horse to die
Shake up Times Kaleidoscope and
see what the horse has done: II was
Caesars bay charger that helped to
\, 1n0U Voc
was Norman Williams war horse that
helped him to do his conquering. And
IL 1t had not been for Bucephaius now
do you suppose Alexander could nave
Joan of Domremy was burned at the
stake and her horse was killed in bat
tie, but they come down the ages to-
eether: And look at Bavieca! That
ago; and he will keep on living as long
as his master. the Cid, which means
forever Consider the Black Prince
putting John of France on the most
the kingdom, so that the captive might
enter London as a royal guest, that
the people might not know him for
horse representing the
difference between friend and foe!
And look at that other milk-white
steed that carried Lady Godiva through
the deserted streets of Covfngton.
stepping lightly to escape the ma
eyes of Tom!
Could everybody's dear Don Quixote
have given us the fun of seeing him
charge windmiHs if it had not been
For Rosanante? BLESS her old skin and
homes. And can't you tell how King
Richard believed in horses when he
offered to swop his kingdom for a
mount?
It was Paul Revere's horse that
helned 70 Are the shot that was heard
around the world. And If the gem
erals horse had not been handy no
body would ever be able to recite by
request the epic entitled "Sheridan's
Ride" =.
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