Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

! as protracted as the issue under dis
cussion. called for a vote in a master.
full manner, only to have the whole
question settled by compromise, when
all hands agreed that the escort and
it's size should be left to the executive
committee for future decision. Ger
tainly plain case of much ado about
nothing,
The gambling habit Of tossing a
coin might be used in all such cases
tons, with resulting good to the per
son or persons in doubt.
Doubt, in so far as it leads to needed
consideration of puzzling questions. is
! good. but when it merely complicates
decisions that had better he made in.
stantly, or almost SO. doubt becomes
a monster of horrid mien, which to
he hated needs but to be seen. to para.
phrase Pope.
! Proper doubts bid the doubter stop,
look and listen. but the absurd indie
cision that inflicts certain proportion
Of humanity is bird Of a different
feather.
Indecision. queerly enough, bothers
itself mostly with the trivial, the UNI
| important questions met in EVERYDAY
living, which do not amount to much
in themselves, but which together go
to make up a large slice of the days
happenings and thoughts.
Thus many man who dismisses
Welghty problems, and rightly enough,
as being too heavy for him, turns his
attention to long drawn-out considera.
tons of unimportant questions.
Even experienced dinors-out Gnd
themselves puzzled by menu card
unexpectedly thrust in front of their
faces by the fellow in the dress suit.
| Suddenly confronted with the choice
of. alas, more foodstuffs than all the
men in Chrtstendom could require,
they fall into sore puzzlement. being
unable to decide between half a
| chicken on the one plate and filet of
sole on the other. To make no more
of this complication than is necessary.
there is an interchangeable array of veg
| etables desserts. drinks and whatnots.
! the chief aim of which seems to he
not to serve as food but simply to hard
| beSet with doubt the already doubtful
diner.
The result Of this little comedy is
that one generally bears the glare of
the waiter on the back of his neck as
! long as he can, then yells out, "Oh.
! gimme cornbeef hash" and sighs with
! AtiiVt, even luOuSn ne knows That
corned beef hash is the very last thing
| In the world that he wanted.
| There ought to be another law to
the effect that walters, after the cere-
| monlous presentation Of the bill of
fare, be required to retire to a Sc
Guided spot for at least five minutes
in order to give the diner time for due
consideration. They can make a man
wait long enough ordinarily.
| X *
Life at all turns is beset with SINH
lar unimportant dec.sions-molehills
out OF which we make mountains.
The trouble largely lies in the fact
| that there is seemingly never one
best thing, but there usually are two
| perfectly good things, or three or
four of them, each about as good as
the other, between which the per.
picked citizen must make his choice.
Reckless personages of the hasty
| type thus come to pose as men of
decision, as. indeed. they are, al
though the rest of us may affect to
look down upon their SNAP judg-
ments." They at least choose some
thing and do 1t Immediately, making
little ado about either something or
nothing. Their freedom from worry
= is its own reward.