South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-31

Quires an accounting. Two ser
wants have put their talents out At
usury and gained 100 per cent.
Good. The Improbable one Sim
Fly digs up the talent deposited
with him and hands Il out on de-
mand. A pattern OF behavior for
trust companies and banks, surely,
In one version we read that he had
wrapped Il IN "a napkin and laid
Il way But the commentator in
forms rs that the talent mentioned
was composed OF $50 ounces OF sill
yer. about 5000 worth. So the
chronicler who mentioned the nap
kin. had either 20 reduce the
amount OF the deposit or do a lot
OF explaining about the size Of the
napery used In those days There
fore in his version we note that ne
used the word pound" instead II
talent"
be laid away-and carried away
In q napkin. as any hotel or restau-
rant man VIII tell you.
But let Us get away from our
mutton.
When the returned noblemau
finds that the one-talented servant
the original fund entrusted 20 him
he Is az angry as a multi millionaire
would be II some one should hide
under his bed and make a noise
like an assessment. He orders the
Improbable servant cast into outer
darkness. after first taking away
his talent and giving II 10 the 100
per cent hnancier. and breathing
strange saws. saying: From him
that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath" Which
is the same as 70 say: Nothing
from nothing leaves nothing"
And now closer draw the threads
Of parable precept alleEory. and
narrative. leading nowhere II YOU
will. or else weaving themselves
into the little fiction story about
Cliff MCGOWAN and his one talent.
There IS but "A definition TO follow:
and then the homely actors triI on.
Talent: A gift. endowment or
faculty; some peculiar ability
power, or accomplishment, natural
or acquired. a metaphor borrow
cd from the parable IN Matt. XIV.
1880
In New York city today there are
(estimated) 125, 900 living creatures
training for the stage. This does
not include seals, pigs. dogs. ele-
plants, prize fighters, Carmens,
mind-readers or Japanese wrest-
lers. The bulk Of the are in the
ranks IF the Four Million. out of
this number will survive a thousand.
Nine hundred OF these will have
attained their fulness OF fame when
they shall obviously indicate with
. g
ure In naShhght photograph OF a
stage tout ensemble with the proud
commentary, That's me"
Eighty in the pinkest Of (InaleJ
Louis XIV court costumes, snail
welcome the queen Of the (mythic1D
Pawpaw Isles IN a few well-memOr-
lied words, turning tip[ilted nose
upon the nine hundred.
Ten. in tiny lace caps. shall dust
Ibsen furniture for six minutes aft
CT the RISING Of the curtain.
Nine shall attain the circuits
besieging with muscle. skill eye
hand, voice, wit. brain. heel and toe
TIE ultimate high walls Of stardom
One shall inherit Broadway. Sic
VENT gloria mundi
Clin McGOwn and Mac MaCGO-
van were cousins Tney lived on
Singing. dancing. limitations, trick
bicycle riding, boxing, German AVID
Irish dialect comedy. and a little
sls!ght-Of- HAND and balancing Of
wheat Straws and wheelbarrows on
The ends OF their Chins came as easy
TO them as II Is for you to fix vow
rat Sc 1t won't show or 10 dodge a
curditor through the swinging doors
OF a well lighted Cafe-aCcOrding AS
you may belong TO the one or the
other division OF the greatest presti-
digiators-the people They were
slim, pale, COnsummately self pos
sessed youths, whose finS5 nails
were always irreproachably (and
clothes seams reProachfully) shiny.
! Their conversation was in sentence
so short that they made kiplinE's
seem as long rs court citations.
Having the temperament, they did
/ no work. Any afternoon YOU could
/ find them on Eighth av. either in
/ front f Spinelli's barber shop. Mike
/ Dugan'S place, or the Limerick no
/ tel, rubbing their fOrefnger nails
/ with dingy silk handkerchiefs. ~
\ any time, II you had happened to
/ be standing. undeCisive, near "A pool
\ table. and Cliff ana Mac had, casual
! ~, IS II were, drawn near, mention
/ ing something, dtSintere Stedly, about
J a game, well, indeed, would il have
! been for you had you gone your
J way. unrespO1sive. Which asser-
ton. carefully considered, is a study
| in tense. punctuation, and advice [,
/ strangers.
OF all kinships IL is likely that the
] closest * that of cousin. Between
cousins there exist the ties of race
! name. and fHvor-tte5 thicker thar
water, and yet not cOagulatcd with
| the Jealous precipitations Of b-oth-
( erhoOd or the enjOlning obligations
| uf the matrimonial yoke. You car
bcStcw upon a cousin almost the in.
. forest and affection that YOU would
/ give TO a stranger: you need nOt
| feel toward him the contempt and
| ambarras Sment that YOU have fOl
| one Of your fathers Sons-it is the
| closer claU-feeling that sometime.
| makes the branch Of a tree stronger
tlun its trunk.
Thus we're the two McGCwan'
bonded. They enjoyed q quiet cele
! brity IN their district, which was (:
strip west OF Eighth av. with tn,
| pump for its pivot. Their talent!
| were praised IN a hundred points
their friendship w5s famed even IL
I 4 neighbcrhoCd where men IA,
been known 10 fcht of the wives %
! tnplr friends-when domestic on
| sfauCht was long being made upOr