Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| ought to go live elsewhere as, no
| doubt. he will. He Is fit for treason,
stratagem and spoils, and ought to be
wrapped in linsey-wOolsey. in order
to protect his sensitive membranes
from the harsh blasts of this happy
world.
How can one do anything without
making racket about it? Is not life
movement. and is not movement noise?
Recall the ponderous trolley that
grinds it's way up and down the
avenue. Have in mind the hefty five
ton truck that causes the vases to
sway on the mantel and the cracks
to appear in the plaster
Nothing that is done is done with
out noise. When we dance we do 1t
to the accompaniment Of five or six
gay young men deity beating out an
African drum melody on various in
struments. When we feel happy we
sit down at the piano-player and pump
it with vim and spirit. keeping our
finger on the loud" button all the
while. 1--WE want the neighbors to
know we have one)
Your true Gayvillan doesn't mind
the noise at all. Why. he hadn't
noticed it. No. it didn't keep him
awake. What. those 20 youngsters
initiating High School Cadets at 10
pm. hadn't annoyed him?
No, not a bit Of 1t. He was study
ing learned subject. too. and ought
to have been annoyed If any one
was. AS matter of fact. the grand
stand was supposed to be right in
front of his house, and the winning
company marched and counter
marched there.
Yes. he had been sensible of slight
G hor hut
it did not interrupt the flow Of a
single thought. The we'll trained
mind is not annoyed by such things
especially the we'll trained Gayvilla
mind.
What you need. my dear sir, is to
read Power of WILL There are
some exercises therein that will make
you immune to such things. What.
Even from the man who insisted on
laying bricks at am! Yes, yes.
x x
You labor. my dear sir, under the
old fashioned idea, happily relegated
to oblivion, that peace and quiet
ought to reign in a residence section
at night. The police. of course, have
the same Anticipated notion, but we
will overlook that They have the
rules and regulations on their side,
and the law. and large clubs, and all
that sort of thing, so we will not
argue with them.
What we will attempt to do is
simply to relieve your mind of the
absurd idea that peace and quiet
ought to prevail after 10 pm. say
Do you not know, my dear, dear sir.
that Gayvilla never even thinks Of
going to bed until midnight?
At that hour we begin to consider
the matter. But there Is no hurry,
no hurry whatever Art is long. and
life is short, and we want to get as
much of both as legitimately pos
sible.
There is another old-fogy idea, we
realize. about burning the candle at
both ends.
But what jolly light it gives,
Who, having a candle capable of
being burned at both ends. would be
satisfied with one light? Consider us,
We who judge so harshly, and realize
that we are healthy, happy, hearty.
We have plenty Of pep"
We digest our food we'll When we
finally go to bed we sleep. Why,
we do not find any noise whatever go
ing on when we go to bed We
have outstayed the last radio and the
jolly party singing, Just a Song at
Twilight" "a ami.
We love the merry, clanking milk
man. Let him rouse us II he can.
We live in gay Gayvilla, and are in
IenSely American.