Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-12

the rest what darned fools they
are.
God gives a man but one brain,
but one body, but one set of emo
lions. lie gives him to live but
onCe and to die but once THAT is,
unless you believe in reincarnation,
or TRANSPORTATION of souls; in
which case you may be able to take
encores. Though, inasmuch as you
don't know it, what good does it
do you?) God also has decreed
that things in this life (given that
they be desirablel are appreciated
only because they are infrequent or
difficult to obtain.
Hence a man can not appreciate
q day off unless he have day on.
Pie loses its allure when eaten
three times a day Love grows pale
and drab when similarly partaken
of If you never ride, it is but
arduous 10 walk If you never
walk. it pleasures you not to ride.
And if day by day you soak your
stomach full of rich food. it soon
becomes peeved and, as they say
in parlance theatrical, walks out
on you. If you have a new suit, or
frock, every day, dress soon means
nothing. If you have a new love
every day, love soon means equally
as much If you motor every
morning, and yacht every afternoon
and dine every night. and go to the
opera or theatre every evening, mo-
tors and yachts and dinners and
operas and theatres soon become
as meaninglessly mad as an idiots
dream. Which is why Marie An
toinette used TO like to pretend that
she was a milkmaid Incident
ally, it's a good thing we haven't
the cows ideas anent the matter
They would probably have been
unfit for publication.
God has also decreed that in this
life there is no such thing as stand
ing still. Not anything human re-
mains long in statu quo. We either
progress or we retrogress. We
either grow better or we grow
worse
Ambition and necessity make
for progress. Inherited wealth,
which stultifes the first and elm
mates the second, makes for retro
gression. 1t takes from life the Big
Things. Whereof little things rise
to replace them. Clothes replace
charity. Gowns replace growth.
Roughe replaces religion Emotion
replaces education. Wine replaces
wisdom. Jewels replace justice.
Dissipation replaces duty. Auto
mobiles replace ambition. Yachts
replace usefulness. Gastritis re-
places generosity. Food replaces
faith. And manners replace mod
esty
When man begins to play with
hts stomach. II means that the stpm-
ach has become more important
than the man, When woman be-
gins to play sixty-forty between
clothes and nudity, with the odds
in favor OF the latter. II begins to
become a question moot whether
you want your children TO play with
her children. Though the chances
are that her children were acct
dents in the first place. For chill
dren are duties. And duties are
one of the first things that the
happy recipients of inherited. or
easy fortunes discard.
Whereby We find, on mheriting
wealth, that all the great and gorg-
eous happiness we anticipate be
come sort Of blinded whirl OF In
sensste sensations. much like loop
ing the loop IN a chariot of fire.
Nothing means anything much.
Most things mean less And when
you come to. you find you've made
eight huAdred kinds Of a darned
fool OF Yourself: that YOU feel sick
peevish and quarrelsome: that
nothing looks good 10 YOU And
that all your friends are the most
tedious, tiresome and treacherous
lot of sap-headed nlncompoops the
world ever produced Incidentally.
they think the same OF you, and
many Of EN-,
Continued tomorFoy1