Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-23
HomiIy on the Demiurse

WE DON'T know just what the demiurse
is. although we have several times asked
the man who runs the Quiz. We used 10
think it was the campaign to have all liquors
diluted with 80 per cent water But our
present idea is that it is the innate push OF
tho universe, which exhibits itself most feel
ingly just at this time of year. If you see
horse paving the ground. he knows not why,
that's the dcmurgc. If YOU see man
writing Il poem when he might just as well
say it in prose. that the dcmurGc. Nher-
ever and whenever YOU find it. the demlurGe
means trouble. Somr day thorc will be
society formed for SupprcSSing it.
The dcmiurgc is most strikingly observed
at this season in the one characteristic out
burst OF the average man. Sap begins to
pirourttp in his veins and hr .ccls an inrom-
prrhonsibr desire to deck his form with
colors and fabrics that will Civ" expression to
his vcrnal mood Such pcrilous doctrines as
You only live once may Gc heard on his
Inns. and he will be seen nOSing the windows
of habcrdashcrs. particularly those whose
windows are placarded MUST NACATE:
ASTOUNDING SACRIFICES. (Those signs
themselves are dcmiurgic in orign.) he
rcappears Wit, bundles which are later re-
opcncd in the office. His peacock instinct
will lead him to show striped lilac shirts ana
salmon hucd scarfS to the StcLograph pher. ask
ing her what she thinks of them. lie doesn't
give fig for her opinion this is merely the
dcmiurge speaking within him. bidding nm
for the love of mike to Swank little III TINS
| his pitrouS path of earthly hnnliation.
f,nl- hp II
| compulSivc energy. the source of which none
| understands The tides show it. the bursting
| trees the wall and yammCr of cats at night
! College students exhibit it in an amazing
! degree.
You can count on unexpected happenings
| about this date. Destiny always starts
something's The whole planet trrmblcs with
! the desire to Justify herself in her own eyes.
| Just II, the average man riots through coun
! tors of shirts and tics. so docs this d"murgr
| dispIuy fantastic gestures. 1t seeks to cX-
press itself in new and magnificent ways.
| Probably that was why. in this d"nlurGic
season. 80 years ago today, Shakespeare
was born.
This being Shak"spcarc's birthday, it
seems to us appropriate to point out how
some of his well known sayings lend them
self to II patriotic cipher:
Vaour is the chicfrst virtue.
I am a great eater of beef
| conscience does make towards of us all.
Though look old, yet am strong and lusty.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.
Rosemary. that's for remembrance.
YVur mind is tossing on the ocean.
Of me have men about me that are fat.
n. what a fall was thors my countrymen.
All that gIstens is not gold.
Nights candles are burnt out.
TO alter the antique saw, the Kaiser is AZ
old man and has had many troubles, most o
which actually happened,
lanes Uunckcr, writing in the New Norl
Times. gives us the credit for having discov.
cred the Edgar Allan Poe house up OF
Brandywine street. We adore basking il
such prismatc paragraphs as Mr.. IIuneke
writes, but as far as we are concerned all tn,
credit belongs to Fred Myers. 1t was he VIII,
told us about the Poe house. Incidentally
we hope that Freds garden is doing well ou
in Marathon. We have heard that Fred ha
been urging Bill Sites to shoe his hens witt
carpet slippers what the ladies call mules)
II appears that Bills mems are under con
stunt 6elusion that there is some Kind o
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