Evening star., 1918-04-07
The OTHER ANGLE
Bohemians and People.
BY KIRK MILLER.

Gettin' so a gent can't lead a bohe-
mian life any more without getting
tangled up in the police acoustics.
No matter where we go. from the
aurora borealis to the Fiji Islands, the
police and the poor are always with us
and a bird with individual ideas about
| twisty piece O. rag and a goatskin bevo
bag.
The North American Indians never
had any disputes with the board of
clothes senselesship before C. Columbus
borrowed that pewter quarter from
Queen Isabella and came over to settle
America. The red men got crimson in
lea didn't need any settling. as they
didn't owe cent on the islands
But Columbus showed them a movie
of Douglas Fairbanks and the Indian
! knftteresses went democratic like the
rest OF us have since and sold the moe
casins right loose from their bunions to
buy their way into s o'clock perform
ance.
Ever since Columbus civilized the
original North Americans with the per-
suasion of Daniel Boone. Gen. Custer
and Jack Mosby, Charlie Chaplin has
been trying to uncivilize us aborinfnal
North Americans, and he's going to sue
ceed unless the kaiser beats him to it.
| nels were no disgrace and postage
stamps didn't stick to your vest, a
| man who fiat-footed around disguised
like an Indian was merely called un-
civilized. Now he's called a bohemian.
The principal difference is in spelling
ana spelling Is merely matter of opin-
ion. Easily,
There's no doubt but that these be
intricate times for the bohemian fish
who let's his name grow long and his
meals grow short. In Chicago they've
separated all the free lunch counters
makes bohemians living along the
loop very unbohemianish, and gives the
boys with the flowing ties and hungry
expression many bunions on their dis
positions.
In Hyattsville and adjoining real es-
tate they've trapped a compulsory
work law which threatens to make
park benches very unfashfonabIe
among the lettering set. In Mount
Rainier. Lanham and Riverdale the
squirrels in the parks are going to
have little competition for the nuts
next fall, as the former bohemians
who used to park their shoulder
lands recreation parlors are soon to be
parking their broken arches in some
nice steam-heated, form-fitting, non
Reliable trench.
The cord of wood that disinherited the
camers warts, however, was uncorked
in Washington this week when they de-
cided to open up campaign of Amer
tcanization to prevent illiteracy.
In the future ignorance will not be
bliss where only one grew before and
q cradle general must know his A B C's
and the nesting habits of a gasoline
engine before he cuts his baby teeth, or
he will be considered a nat failure from
a nursery birds eye.
OF course. he still stands a robust
chance of becoming corporation law
yer or the inventor of safety razor
that will cut something besides your
chin, but as for ever amounting to any
thing. he's at the foot of the box office
line.
If we've all got to grow up with an
education. horn-rimmed glasses and
belts on our coats they might as well
adopt a machine and turn US out like
they do fivvers and things. It's Begin
ming to look as if we're to lose our in
dividuality and be race of mimics like
Darwin warned US we are. Then there
will be no distinction in being dumb.
having bad eyesight. a thirst and not
undergoing a bath every Saturday pm.
If they'd just insist on curing the
street cars Of straps and making the
gum machines tell your exact weight.
we wouldn't mind growing up with
something besides acoustics under our
golf caps.
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