Evening star., 1920-02-29


torn down to make room for
government building. He MAS un-
like tho average youngster for the
reason that every daybreak through
out one winter he had a bath at the
rivers edge. many times breakin. tho
ice. and every evening he studied to
At himself for special branch Of
work.
1t was a difficult study. and he used
to say that he never could have mas
tered II under the circumstances ex-
cept for gentle old scholar who
lived in the house and who Helped
him faithfully throughout his siege
OF preparation.
Nearly every evening the boy would
bring his work to the old gentlemans
room--a real chilly ROOM sometimes
latrobes. you know-and once in
while he would wrap n blanket around
his teachers shoulders and tell him
that he really must have dressing
gown--which they considered little
joke. seeing that each was right poor
and dressing gowns cost money. The
bath robe, we know, was born later
One day the young man got the APP
polntment he had been working for, and
went off
And for some time he seemed to have
forgotten the older man in his own sue
oess. The ladies' and gentlemen In the
house--boarding house days. you re-
member. when people had to be ladies
and gentlemen because men and women
had not yet arrived-commented on the
ineratitude of the young man. all except
the old gentleman who loved the boy
and believed in him All the same. he
missed him nightly. and one night
when 1t was especially chilly he wished
and wished-that he would come in
and put a blanket around his
And the wish came true, the same
as fairy tale. for the young man
popped right IN. But he didn't touch
blanket for the reas that he had
brought a most beautiful warm dressing
gown with tassels and quilted lining and
everything-which he had bought with
the very first money he could save.
The old gentleman went to heaven
long time ago. But his pupil died
only the other day
His name was Peary
4 NICE Official over at the museum
told silver-knobbed woman last
Sunday that the visitors had already
numbered 1000. with more sursing in.
1t was Sunday school worth at
tending-granting that Pope is right
In his assertion that the noblest study
of mankind Is man--and tho people.
considered as class. were OF the
type OF any other school-dilisent or
dull. according to whether they were
there for tho sake OF knowledge or
merely dragged into 1T by whoever
brought them along.
For one case. tho siiv4r-knob woman
has been digging into buried civiliza-
tions for ten years and who had beg
ged to be taken to the movies In
stead. But she had to know
something about stalactites and sta
Ia gmitss-prise offered il you can
tell the difference offhand--so he con-
sented to tag alonE-provtdsd they
went to two shows later on-Sunday
night, at that!
On the way to the stalactites they
came to those Erotesque little North
American Indian gods with open fold
ing doors in their tummies. showing
smaller gods within.
The sight OF them induced the man
to chip in with an idea. ana as an
idea Is always worth conslderins,
here goes, though. of course. others
may have had 1T before him; you
never can tell. What he said was:
"1f It be true that the religion Of a
people grows out of Its needs here
is an illustration. Our prehistoric
red brother had to fight the poverty
Of the wild and bitter west. and for
that reason creature con,forts-call
it a square meal-became his hi highest
standard Of good. and the happy
hunting ground his heaven, which ac-
counts for the bodily location of his
gods. On tho other hand. pagan
Rome. with higher civilization and
wealth, had leisure to cultivate the
brain to such an extent that the head
Of Jove became the seat OF wisdom.
Th"t lets You into why Minerva, god