Evening star., 1925-12-06

A woman seated
behind, who was
at the show for business reasons, and
who wouldn't be caught dead doing
so repulsive a thing, felt a sort or
homesick stabbing at her heart, for
the sharing of the gum slabs meant
comradeship. and whole lot OF other
things that stand for loyalty and love
And no matter how perfect citl-
zen you may be. or how entirely gem
teel in your scorn Of chewing gum, II
YOU live in solitary place called
Lonesome Land-never mind about
>the map-you somehow feel that COM
radeship is the splendidest thing in all
the world.
Ask any woman who lives there.
Or any man.
A WOMAN had finished up rush
"A days work and was reveling in
a kimono and two magazines when
in buzzed a caller, primed with home
troubles-all on account of Jim hus-
band, who, incidentally, IS as good as
they come-eXcept that he hasn't
much money.
The kimono woman rose to the oc-
casion, knowing that sympathy comes
in handy, whether deserved or not.
And when the flood was about over
she tinkered around with Buddha
from one of those beautiful looking,
1asteless waters that come in a box.
While she was doing 1t the weePy
one. interested in refreshments hut
still harping on her woes with weary
ing insistence, kept on and on:
You know what Il good time |
used to have before l was married,
Miss Ann-with Momma and, Poppa
giving me everything heart could call
think nf m hQvin1 a
live in a chip of a six-room house.
just because Jim says the boys believe
in buying a home-when we might
be enjoying an apartment. I don't
know of anybody-anybody that ever
had to come down as I have"
What about the Kaiser. who own
ed all Germany. inside and out. and
has to be cooped up at Doorn?'
"Oh, l mean any blameless per-
"All right; come over here'-and
the hostess took ncr guest to a Win
dow and introduced her to a tiny
terrapin-its sleek head and wrin-
kledy claws sprawled out on wooden
bridge sloping into the water-that
had been a paper cutter to begin with
Here's victim that has lost more
than you and the Kaiser put to-
gether. and moro blameless than
either Look at him, will you. Out
OF the Potomac into a bowl.
1.-THE horrid little thing. Where did
you get it?"
Bought it from a boy who was
twirling it around on a string as If It
were a junebug.
II wouldn't have it around--stupid
thing. isn't it?"
Maybe yes, and maybe no. but I'm
going to give it the benefit Of the
doubt and take it down to the wharf
first chance I get. in case 1t remem-
bers the Potomac"
Jim caught a skillpot in the pines
last Spring when we motored down to
see his folks in St. Marys County.
Poor little chap; 1t does look patient,
doesn't 1t? Say, I'll tell Jimmie and
he can come by in the car and We'll
all go down to the wharf together
I'll have another CUP
And when the tea party was over
and the caller had gone home to
make friends with her Jim-all most
young married folks want, anyhow, is
Just a chance to flare up and settle
down again-allowing no third rarty
sticks a pin in the situation - the
woman confided to the terrapin. still
sprawIed on the bridge that was
paper cutter:
"If it be true that he who teaches
a good lesson is worthy of endless
reward. you may one day go swim
ming in the waters of eternal life
Confucius said 1t for YOU. And Con-
5ucius does not lie
* u: x
once on a time a young doctor,
" disappointed in love, left his
l home secretly and became monk.
From the first, his zeal was of an
intensity that startled the great order
he had joined sleeping on bare bricks
of his cell. depriving himself of proper
food, and preaching. in church,
monastery and on public squares. his
one lifelong text: Reform; not COM
mercialized reform. as we know 1t,
with pay envelope attached.
AS the years passed the monk. with
feryor ever more inflamed. became a
torch Of eloquence that fired the peo.
pie with a burning desire to follow
his inspired teachings. At one course
Of his experience in Florence the
degenerate who ruled the city was
driven out of his corrupt ease and
for nearly three years the monk was
a virtual dictator, ruling with an iron
austerity, tempered with such tender
mercy for the helpless that all OF
Italy was called on to admire the sue
cess of his work. Then higher powers
began a system Of persecution that
brought about the end.
There are writers who tell us that
the Dominican monk had become
politician, with mad thirst for
supremacy and that his object was
the papal chair. but this canard has
been shattered by other and more au-
thoritative chroniclers. who had
superior view from which to judge.
What seems to be really true Is that
the deposed tyrant sent his subordi-
10 II ltc
trust, that they found the usual per-
centage of weaklings. ready to cry
out because the monk had touched
their pocket nerve in directing chill
dren and devotees to search their
houses and bring to him all works or
frivolous art and evil Iiterature-with
a. bonfire as a result. Later on. he
decreed q second hunt for vanities.
with the same fiery ending. and as
human nature is about the same at all
times. naturally some of the followers
might have felt like-well:
You know how you would feel if
little Johnnie and great-grandma were
to rummage around, cribbing big sis
ter's vanity box and silk stockings
and SC on, to say nothing OF your own
georgette, with beads. that you
bought especially for big club meet
inss. and which even pop had to admit
YOU looked 'all to the good ln-eVery-
thing, in fact, that appealed to
Johnny's depredacious marauding and
eranny's old-aSe envy of doodads-
we'll. that's the way some of the peo-
pie began to feel.
and, also. you know how the COM
mon people act when 1.-The people
rule"-
You have read, say. of that
French revolution. when sudden power