Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-14

Col. Claude Lowther-what a per-
fectly darling name for the hero of a
perfect darling ~story-isn't it, girls?
Can't you just see him sitting On his
horse all ready for his morning cam
ter, perfectly groomed, dressed to the
last degree, blue-eyed, f%air-haired, rosy
checked, a regular Ouida guardsman in
an English novel?
Wrong again-he isn't a hero at all
not of a novel, anyhow. He's just
a hopeful sort of person who's going
to try to substitute brains for birth
and do it in the House of Lords in
England.
"Of course, we must have aristocracy
of some Sort says Colonel Lowther.
We've had the aristocracy of birth
for generatiOns-now, let's give brains
a chance"
Bold man-Colonel Lowther-I don't
know but that he is a hero after all.
He wants to abolish lords and dukes
and marquises and earls, as far as the
next generation is concerned.
If a man writes a good book, pro-
duces a fine play, makes a valuable
invention, leads an army to victory
give him a title Or a dozen titles if
YOU like, but see that those titles stop
when he dies-that's Colonel Lowther's
idea.
The General Rule
Rather practical, isn't it?
But dear me, just think of expecting
a man to be a man, himself-and not
just his fathers son-in England.
I'm afraid Colonel Lowther is
doomed to disappointment-he'd bet
ter come over to America and watch
his idea at work.
Strange things, how few of the sons
of great men are great.
| sat in the gallery at a very mag
nficent dinner in New York not SO
many years Ago.. Lawyers, doctors,
men of affairs, journalists, artists.
statesmen-about 600 of them from
all over the c~ountry-and we, who sat
in the gallery, amused ourselves by
checking off on the lists of guests the
men who belonged to distinguished or
even notably well-to-do families, and
of the 600 guests, there were only two
whose fathers had ever used a salad
fork or heard of a valet in all their
lives.
And of these two. only one was born
in a big city, and he was sent away
from it and made to rough it in a
cattle camp when he was nothing but
a boy.
His name, by the way, was Roose-
welt.
Beauty. wit. charm. n - all
these things you can hand down to
your son or hand onto your daughter.
But when it comes to brains, there
never seems to be enough to furnish
more than one in a family.
Oh, yes. there are exceptions, of
but the general rule is-one
great man to a name.
Women follow the rule, too.
Joe Jefferson belonged to an old
theatrical family. but he was the only !
genius in it. Booth, Barrymore, Drew
acting seems to be inherited
but take painters or writer's or states
men or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. touches the
goal and Son steps back into the side
lines.
Queer how nature manages these
Every professional woman l know
has a daughter who doesn't want to
10 a thing but keec house, and every
housekeeping mother / know who has
daughter at all, has one who's deter
mined to be q lawyer or a doctor or d
Iournalist-or die.
That Would Never Do
We think we're are clever-we mod
really. when you come to
hink about it, we aren't so awfully stu
lid. either-not with the photograph
md the radio and the airship and all
he rest of the miracles to our credit
but when it m TO the good old
of nature, We don't seem to be
lble to get a step further than our
Observation-Disclosures.
Maybe it is just as well-we might
step entirely off the earth and that
would never do-for the earth.
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