Evening star., 1925-03-08
Howe About
The Sermon and the Circus; Booze;
December and June Love.
BY E. ". HOVE,
THE Sage of Potato HiU.n

who was generally admired. He wents
away one day, and returned with a
brfde-a pretty and amiable girl who.
at once captured all of us. Altogether,
they were about the incest young
couple I ever knew, and l knew them
pretty well. The young man was.
promising in business, and soon was
called to larger responsibilities. r
did not see them from that day until
the LIST of December, 1924. On my
way to Florida, I had a considerable
walt in st. Louis, and, knowing my
old friend was president of a big con-
Germ there, went to see him. We
lunched with them at hotel-ar
rather mournful pleasure. 1t seemed
a pity that such handsome young peo-
pie should become old. They are
grandparents now, and still handsome
in an elderly way: still fond of each
other: still notably nice people, but,
years seemed particular pity in
their case. suppose my looks.
shocked them, too, but I have slowly
become accustomed to my present
condition, and II does not seem so
surprising.
At a recent general election, a great
proportion of the best people OPP.
posed Socialism. Right or wrong,
every really important State in the
Union decided against Lenin, La Fol
lette, Brookhart, Macdonald, Wheeler,
Bryan, and every brand Of Socialism.
The farmers who own the best land
were against it; so were all the great
manufacturers, bankers, engineers
transportation chiefs. The best work.
ingmen refused to follow their lead
ers into the Socialist camp. Is 1t
possible that the great majority of
q r., l. <,.I la In
this country are wrong, and the So
cialist leaders right? Are seven
tenths of the best people we have
devoted to injustice and opposed to
liberty? If you accept the Socialist,
doctrine, you must proceed from the
premises that the best people in the
country have no sense of fairness, and
wish to rob the poor. 20
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/ have just received a letter from
an intelligent man who lately made /,
a trip through the West. or one
famous Western town he says:
Everywhere / went it was booze
booze, booze. had to stop going +
visiting because too much booze was
served. One gets tired, weary and
discouraged with all the hospitalitgo
offered along with liquor" This in 4
| the West; the East is worse. d
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When an old man marries young
woman and has great trouble Gas ise
| usually the case), a woman always
| says: =
II am glad of it. He deserves it.
| He should have known better"
When a handsome young man Of
25 meets a girl of about his own age, !,
| and there is an explosion, the women
do not say:
I'm glad of il. She deserves it,
! She should have known better" Z
I think an old man who marries a
| young wife, and is terribly punished,
! is entitled to the same sympathy we
| give a baby who overturns a kettle
| of hot water on its head. -,,
So is the young girl who engages
in contest with a young man, and
| is beaten.
| Old men are worsted in marrying
young women because the cards are
| stacked against them. The old Mo
| hammedans had young wives. and
claimed 1t kept them young, but the
| cards were not stacked against them,
When man loses in a contest with
a woman, 1t Is because the men. meet
| ing as legislature, have dealt the,
i women the best hand. .-f
(Copyright, 1881