Evening star., 1925-03-28
THIS AND THAT
by CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.e

NIT 1t, butF the truth is mighty and
Will prevail Silence sometimes. is
| better than the truth. 1t must be ad-
mitted, but not in this case. ~.
Pitiless publicly will. do wonders
| In this instance, ,toward preventing
any other adventuresonYe wight from
undertaking something, which he is
not going to carry through. ~
| X X X y;
Personally; I believel in carrying
through what some starts out to do
| except a set walking program.
The first week, doing IA mile a day
l sailed along fine: The, second week
| doing two miles a day, Il gave 1t up
The third week was to have seen
| three miles per day, the fourth, four
miles each day. Alas, alack,
The second week got off to a bad
start, to use the lingo of the race
| horse fans. 1t was raining cats and
| dogs" as the saying is. CAS- a cat
| fancler, may / remark that the wis
| dom of the peoples has thus given
the cat the premier position. 1t never
rains dogs and cats. The cats always
| lead.)
Walking in the rain is pictured as
| the favorfte outdoor sport of the Eng
lish people, being held responsible for
the fresh compilations prevalent in
| u.
A gentle drizzle is one thing, q
| downpour another. The latter makes
| a walk something of an obstacle
race, at least for those of us who
have lost the old pioneer spirit. AT
| that, don't imagine even the
pioneers cared for rains and SHOWS
very much, except in so far as the
former helped the crops.
When l walk please let the sun
shine,
Well, that rainy afternoon put an
awful crtmp in my program. / tried
TO get enthusiastic about the beating
rain, and the nice squshy feeling in
my left shoe, but somehow failed q
| muster up much.
When / got home, as far as / could
see. my complexion was not a bit bet
ter than when l started out. Besides
some OF that fresh metallic paint put
| on the roof in the morning had
washed off onto the back porch.
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Golfng and gardening, then, are
the only exercises left to me. "Set-
| tlng-up' exercises, which must be
| done standing up. despite their name,
are impossible to q bright and airy
| spirit. / never heard of any one
doing them more than a week.
| oAS h0S q 5uopICIOu lIldl one "OuiQ
| have to work in a garden at least IL
hours day to get any real exercise
out OF it. 1t is a contemplat tive sort
| of endeayor, though, and has a charm
all it's own. This chronicler already
is gardener In a small way-a very
| small way-and expects later to tell
some garden adventures.
Golfing. as I have stated before, has
| the decided advantage of being a
sport that has interest attached to it.
| Or, rather, 1t makes walking inter-
| esting. In other words, q man will
walk on a golf course where he
| would not otherwise do 1t.
Never having played any golf-ex-
| cept in my dream-I do not hesitate
| to say that 1t is like chess, in one
thing, at least. If you cannot play 1t
reasonably well 1t hurts you. 1 won
der If feeling that you have done
your best satisfies? Especially II
your best is pretty rotten?
One must have to make a mighty
| resolve before he takes up golf that
he will try to play his best, and only
his best, all the time, so help him.
| 1t must be the most miserable feel
| ing in the world to be the worst
player.
Rather than become the champion
golf dub, yours truly will stick to
| the innocent recreation of gardening,
| and play golf, only in his Dreams
with hard boiled eggs.