Evening star., 1927-10-19

| first frost.btten earth. with the edges
Of white against the brown, it's disrep.
utable but picturesque edging, with
old houses that long ago outlived their
| usefulness. and now are but sheds or
! less. yet manage TO infuse into the
! spectator something OF the ardor felt
by connoisseurs as they view the in
dubitably genuine Mona Lisa.
There Is a beauty and a charm in
such scene not felt by the sensitive
! in streets of bathroom smueness
where curb and trees have been set
out by hard-working surveyors, sight.
ing from point to point. determined
| that the chief shall not come along
later and detect the slightest error in
| their calculations.
Even L'Enfant. with his engineer n
! brain, who promulgated a startlinglv
accurate and fine plan for the Fedora
City, felt the need for some deviation
| from the straight lines of his bisect.
| ing streets, so cut the avenues in at
angles, and scattered round and
! square public parks at intervals
| City administration Is best served
! by such parallelism. This is exactly
| why, however, it is a relief to walk
| into the country and come upon roads
that wind and dip, that seem plainly
doubt as to exactly where they are
going. One is not conscious, upon such
| roads, of the firm guiding hand OF a
city council, but feels upon his own
resources, responsive to his own will
and mind.
Winding roads give the Pedestrian
one would not say the automobiles
the feeling that something is left to
his own initiative. This may be
false impression, it is true, since the
curve may be a necessary part of the
road and not just placed there to
please him, but at the same time the
impression left is that the makers
were indifferent to the ending, that
they rather relished the curves them.
selves, and hoped that in the fullness
Of time, you would come along this
way and enjoy it. too.
Curving paths through the woods
such as one finds in Rock Creek
Park. or even in the Zoo, bring
sophisticated persons down to the
level OF the humble COW, whose brain
is at the other remove from that Of
the modern intellectual.
They say that most OF the winding
paths OF today were originated by
Colonial cows that insisted on going
from place to place in their own
peculiar way.
Cow paths, according to those ia
miliar with the creatures, are made
by some occult ability of the COW.
Once trampled into being, such paths
may be obliterated later. only to be
created anew by the cows in exactly
the same path as before.
Just how the cow achieves this un-
erring accuracy in it's erratic path lis
not explainable in terms Of modern
science. Perhaps good Bossy is
something of a philosopher, who be-
lieves explicitly in the desirablity Of
the curve, as opposed to the Grass
expediency of the straight line. LET
the lion," says she, run as straight
as an arrow to his prey; / will take
my time at my wandering and go
home by path of my own"
This. after all, is sublime piiloso.
ply. Is it not? Man must get home
by A path of his own. not so much
through the ready made cuts Of
others. Ii the straight ways Of others
lead not to the desired haven, the
only thing for man to do is to start
along path of his own and stick to
1t. no matter how winding it may be-
until he comes out into the clearing
at la