Evening star., 1924-12-21

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IL unusual equipment-educa-
tion, intelligence, informa-
i ks tion, experience. Therefore,
he occasionally says an un-
usual thing. He recently wrote:
II do not believe there has ever
been a man who has lived steadfastly,
continuously and completely in pur-
suit of great ends. Simple people
like to believe there are great men IN
the world who are altogether above
the tangle of drive and impulse We
are all vain, amenable to fattery,
stirred by physical impulses, by the
competitive instinct end jealousy, by
anger at opposition. liable to fatigue,
| irritation and uncomfortable and some
times quite unaccountable fluctuations
Of motive
This flask Of genius occurs In a
long article of commonplace stuff-a
little better than the rule, but I have
quoted all OF value IT contains.
All writer's are piffie writer's. The
best of them occasionally say a good
thing, but the new and clever things
said In all writing IN a year might
be condensed into dozen pages. !
can get all there is in an eight-page
Sunday paper in a few minutes. A
bright. valuable thing here and there
and all the rest mere waste.
1t is inevitable. There IS only a
little to know, and we know IT. All
writing and talking is mere pitching
of old hay.
Bernard Shaw possibly says a new
thing once month, being the smart
est man in the game. Fl. G.. Wells
says new thing once in two months
Others do not ring the bell SO often.
Some OF them say a good thing once
a year; most of them never do. can
name dozen writer's who are popu-
lar and receive great incomes who
have never, written q line worth re-
membering.
books, for the occasional good thin gs
said by the frst-raterz. and the
! chance OF a hack writer running into
| good old thing and quoting It
The most valuable writing Is de-
voted to information. There is q
great mine of this. valuable and en-
| tertaintng. Those who write 1t SIM
ply are moro valuable to the world
| than those who express opinions.
Opinions! How tired / am Of them
| They are SO old, 80 valueless, SO un-
| fair.
When a man ha. an old and
| troublesome dependent on his hands
! you frequently hear him express the
| opinion that the subject of his care
i won't live long. This IS the hope
| that keeps him as kind and patient
| as he i..
! We hear SO much Of the manner il
/ which rough men offend gentle WON
! en- Possibly II has never occurred
| TO such women that their perfection
! frequently distresses rough men.
| me candidly of the affairs OF lffe-s
! habit much more common among men
| than among women. I recall his con-
! fession that his wife's perfection in
| suits him almost every day. She Is
| the best behaved human creature
| ever knew" he said. with apparent
I earnestness, while I am naturally
careless and have a good many rough
! habits. When I do the best / can
| frequently see a look come into hel
! eyes indicating that / have failed e
! meet her notion of propriety, and hel
| look of disapproval hurts me as mucf
| as would open censure. I litter W
! the table when eat my meals; three
! times day she offends me in tha
| she does not Once she was detained
away from home by the illness of hel
mother and almost enjoyed tn.
| privilege Of living naturally anc
| without constant reproof. A mar
! servant looked after me, and as he
! was also careless, enjoyed the re-
| lief from always trying and always
| failing. II the house wasn't in exact
/ order I didn't observe II, and didn'i