The sun., 1919-07-13

informants. "how full the cash boxes
are in some of the small shops. And
you'd be surprised too at the ignorance
OF some of the shopkeepers. Why, my wife
said that in doing some work for suf-
frage she ran across an old man whose
opinion she asked, who said, so the
women want the vote / never heard OF
that before >"
This same committing citizen said
kthere were old women in the town who
had never been ten blocks from their
{ wn homes in their lives and who uIdn' I
know the names of more than three or
four streets. He admitted that such ig-
norance was rare, bus insisted that II
was present none the less
He told me that in some Of the bust
ress buildings there were offices of con-
Germs whose small beginnings would I'M
6outtedly be very shortly left far behind
them; that there were eleven doctors
and lawyers In the town and that the
schools and churches, the library and
the theatre were places in which to test
the favor OF the town and find what an
admiXture OF Ideas there was.
AS for politics. ne said. there Is n
lot of activity. The only danger Is that
In any town made up OF large numbers
of commuters whose interests are IN the
great city few men interested in
! lc cal politics can literally pocket an cleo
ton and walk away with it, That han
pens sometimes. Then of course there
are crooked politicians and bold citi-
zens who denounce them in the To-
cal papers. and feuds that cause n lot
! OF bitterness. There Is also a large
membership in what ] call the camou-
| ilage corps"
What do you mean?" asked
Fear Constructive Criticism.
oh" he said, "the citizens who don't
want to know anything disagreed BILE
I about the town they live in. The citi-
| Gems who get up indignation meetings
/ over criticism OF the conditions of the
1 back streets, or Of the manners and
/ morals OF the young people, or the
methods of the pollcel or of anything
at all that happens in the town. They
| can always tell you why 1t isn't decent
! 20 sift the charges against a public char
acter. They are panic stricken in the
face of diSagreeable truth, so they
protect the town they live In from a rep
utation for honesty. A great lot, they
are -
The very thought Of them as de.
scribed made me feel belligerent and
excessively Independent. Arabella and
are absolutely proof against 80 small
| thing as diaRreeable truth. In fact
] think We rather like them, 1,eaust
/ they mean action.
I thought over what my fellow com.
| muter had to say about our town SC
deeply that very nearly forgot a lot
OF Arabella's errsnds during the week
for which failure Robert had much mute
criticism to make.
lie wanted carpenters tools. which
| finally bought him, and a horizontal bar
which he has since put up out of doors
and on which he and Bella do terrifying
| feats.
| When ] think of them two harum-
scArum young ones in city apartment,
can't help wondering what blindness
could have afflicted us that we should
have keps them there so long.
Even Toby Has Improved.
And Toby is such a different baby
now that he is In the fresh air nearly
all day. He is developing u miraculou,
vivacity that sets the carriage vibrating
TO an alarming degree, especially wher
no one IL near him.
must be of now and direct the
breaking Of the ground for our vegetable
garden or Arabella will think have
forsaken my responsibilities In that line
entirely. haven't. heaven knows. Wher
II takes % little coaxing 70 persuade tn.