Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES r. TRACEWELL.

Look at those lines
1t did not seem possible 10 you that
there could ever be more snap put into
body designing How would any manu-
facturer ever be able to put out a better
looking automobile?
The satisfaction of the average man
with what he has Is encouraging,
although certain temperamentS may AT
times and under certain conditions find
IL slightly amusing
It is we'll for most of lis that We can
be pleased with our own appearance.
and our own folks, and our own house,
and our own car, and our own radio,
If II were not for this ability there
would be more dissatisfaction than
there is. and Heaven knows there is
enough already In the midst of salts
faction there is dissatisfaction? In the
midst of dissatisfaction there is any
considerable amount of this satisfaction
we praise?
YeSl
The two exist side by side. since salts
faction Is primarily personal. diSsatis-
faction impersonal
Some of the ugiest wights alive smirk
at themselves In mirrors with intense
satisfaction Those outstanding ears.
they imagine. give them a forceful look
II their nose is large, 1t resembles
Caesars
The best sort of dissatisfaction is that
which is impersonal. running from the
mind Of the beholdcr to conditions
which strike him as wrong. whether
they apply to himself or to others.
Mostly these conditions react on
all DE-
the beholder. he looks upon them as
an abstract problem not in the same
way In which he regards the purchase
of new car.
This is why the bounding incor-
rigible optimist is a dead loss He will
never see anything wrong II his child
throws a dog down the steps. why the
little dear didn't mean to hurt It, Now
the little dear did mean to hurt II. too
The same attitude results in the soft
soaping OF misery. To revert to our flu
ture scientists inspecting the spotted
legs OF one Gearshift: IF one of them
should chance to be an optimist. he
would unhesitatingly say "Oh. he lust
spotted himself like that for fun" The
saner brother scientist would not he
satisfied with such a deduction He
would realize that nobody. not even the
PREHISTORIC InQlanS as tfleV tnen would
be-. ever painted themselves for fun
And what a triumphant hour 1t would
be for this investigator when he could
stand on a platform. before great
society and declare:
Gentlemen. / have now solved the
mystery of the strange red spots. MY
conclusion is that they we're put there
in an effort to stop the ravages Of
some sort of bite. Parasitic insects were
rife in those days, and these may have
been mosquitoes. fieas or other less
we'll known creatures. personally in
cline toward the flea theory care
full examination OF the skin shows un-
mistakable evidence that these bites
were inflicted BY Ctenocephalus CAMS.
which was finally eradicated from the
world in 2678 AID The discovery of
these rare bites marks milestone in
the rehabilitation Of the early history
of insecticides I call upon you. gentle
men. to picture this miserable speci-
men Of humanity. as he was besieged
by what was called then. in the YER
nacular. fieas No doubt his associates
laughed at him. but 1t was no Joke. To
relapse again into the strange. crude
speech of that era. In despair he sought
out the bottle of antiseptic. then In
the vogue. and applied It's colorful fluid
To his bites. And then the lava wiped
a civilization out. Think OF the tragedy
OF IT, gentlemen"