New-York tribune., 1922-12-19
The Lantern
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Nearly any CLEVER person can get
~ an idea that will "sell." Pro
dueing something really useful to
tho community is something else
again.
What VIC call our conscience Is
TOO often merely the prejudice OF
our grandfsthers.
"Firures never lie" said the
doctor 10 the dropsical patient
What has become Of the old-fash-
,oned prohIbitionlst who used 10 say
that prOhlbitive laws would save
the country morally!
eBlood is thicker than water re-
marked the lnhuenza germ as he
erawled out Of tho gutter and
,umped into a human lung.
Wives are more powerful than
husbands. A wife can make a hus-
hsnd wear rubbers in winter
u-,ather. but a husband can't make
n vile cover her throat and chest
Va hate 10 say n good word for
prohibition, but honesty eompels II
from as. II seems 20 Us that
the murder cases reported during
Inc last two years have boon more
Frotesduely Interesting than fof yen
years previously.
Progress in the theakr seems to
consist largely In going back 20
shakespeare. In another 300 years
we may catch up with the Eliza
bethans.
Unless you disregard your neigh
bor's ideals and try 10 make him
live up 20 yours you need not nat
ter yourself that you are really a
reformer.
We have always thought that
Archy the Cocllroach pretended
seorn and contempt for the human
race merely out Of Jealousy. II tho
truth were known, the human world
il really ns enlightened as the in
sect world.
Nature doesn't care what man
wants. But II he perseveres IN
striving for it she may eventually
give kim what he needs.
The Old Soak says in his own
defense that he never set out de-
liberately 20 get soused in his life.
But we are afraid the old reprooate
would be disappointed il an accident
didn't happen 10 him now and them
IL may have escaped statement
that to-day we have a new god. ~
is called the Subeonscious Mind and
is worshiped without being under
stood.
Let US not make the mistake OF
detesting the teetotaler. He IS
person who knows his own inwSrds,
physical and metaphysical, and what
thev won't stand. His only error is
in assuming 10 dictate what your
inwards and my inwsrds can agree
ably get away with.
And you always know where 10
find the teetotaler. But neither the
sentimentality nor the anger Of a
drunken friend is a fixed quantity.
They swim UP from depths in
his ego which are not eustomarily
and soberly in contact with life.
What. in the name OF Heaven,
are we 90 do with the affection OF
the weak? II we bcorn and diEre-
gard It wo are cold-bloodcd devils.
And II we regard IL too much II
drags us down. II we attempt 20
regulate It for the other person,
with a nice balance between regard
and disregard, we find ourselves liy-
ing that other persons life, with no
time 10 live our own.
Life would be simpler II our
stories did not begin before our
birth and (pesdbly) persist after
our death.
Perhaps ghosts como back, but, II
50, one wonders why.
All PHILOSOPHERS are more or less
orderly progresses up to the same
point Of bafiloment.
There is free will in the universe,
but not enough free will 70 enable
anything that is In IL TO get out
Of Il.
IL q saint wandered through he'll
he would not be perturbed except
through pity. But the most ter
rIble thing would be for a damned
soul 20 walk through Paradise. Per-
haps, after they become calloused
10 hell, that Is reserved for them.
II a girl begins 10 advise a bach
elor about his neckties the business