Evening star., 1925-03-15
Howe About
Beautiful Nonsense; Protecting the Dunn
bells; Fools and Fights.
BY z. ". HOVE,
"The Sage Of Potato Hill"

T ONCE knew a man who was old,
Ill and crippled. Suddenly he
married a woman as unfit as
l. himself. / was SO displeased that
word of my displeasure got
about. l heard some one hobbling
into my Office 1t was the bride. Il
understand" she said, you did not
like our marriage. 1 suppose you
have observed that we didn't hesi-
Good morning" And then she hob
bled out before l was able to say a
word 1t is that way with all my
more intense likes and dislikes.
X x X
The silliest thing ! have ever seen
in print was found lately in one of
the oldest and best known American
magazines. 1 have read the passage
many times, thinking that possibly
there is beauty in 1t and that 1T has
escaped me, but always 1 come to the
same conclusion-it is the silliest
| thing have ever read. The writer, a
woman, says:
Last night in reading 1 came upon
this quotation from Blake: Every
kindness to another is a little death
in the Divine Image How marvel
Gus. How infinitely beautiful. These
words make my whole being stand
still in a wonder of delight and wor-
ship. L set down here my ardent
gratitude to William Blake for hav-
ing conceived anything so marvellous
with beauty and insight. When they
came to him I think his whole being
! must have been standing on tiptoe
reaching up to q higher shelf OF
thought than any of us shorter peo-
pie could reach for ourselves. l an
infinitely grateful to him for havin e
been able TO reach his high thought
and to have handed 1t down to US dis
titled into these lovely words. TIL.
words infected me with wild rap
| ture. They made me want to ruI
about and shout with joy. How in.
| toxicating words may be. The love.
| illness of these words of Blake con
| tinues to prick me with fresh de
| light"
If I am mistaken, and this stuff
| is beautiful, lam unfortunate. 1t an
gers me that I find such writing in
| ma gazine costing me s5 a year. 1 dC
| not understand the quotation from
| Blake: and his admirer has furthel
| complicated 1t.
| l wish H. L. Mencken and Carl Val
| Doren, noted literary critics. woul,
| oblige me by giving an opinion of th'
awful mess quoted above. 1t is lit
|
| II any meaning? Has an editor
right to buy such stuff and dignity i
| in thirteen pages?
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! Daddy should hesitate a long tim
| before engaging in a row with nam
ma. He will find all the women, mos
| of the men, the courts, public opinion
the newspapers and the funny mel
in the shows pretty generally agains
| him.
Look at that Michigan congress
! man who had trouble with his lady
| She is not only abusing her HUSBAND
to general applause, but when sh
| tells a tough story on the men h
| associated with a cheer goes up.
| And many of these stories are evi
| IDENTIFY made up, like jokes in a show
Meanwhile the husband has surel
| lost his job, and, when the courts ge
| around to the question of alimony, h
will lose his money.
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A man hears so few kind thing
! about himself that a compliment
liable to upset him. / once met
| man and thought him good lookinl
| In a printed reference to him later
| so referred to him. 1t was a mistake
he Immediately began acting foolish
and continued in it until now he is 1
, an asylum.
Every row, great or small, is an al
tempt of fairly sensible men to kee
the fools straight. This was true G
the recent big row. the war, and 1t
true of every little row in til
| humblest community. There ar
| plenty of sensible men to run tn
| world properly, but the fools are a.