Evening star., 1932-11-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dark comes earlier now, and light
later.
A trite statement, perhaps, but one
which means a great deal to all those
who find the seasonable changes inter-
esting.
Not every one can be amused so
easily.
Many men and women today require
the most elaborate articles to intrigue
their fancies.
Usually their amusements are thor
oughly expensive: at the same time they
hold little genuine, permanent salts
faction.
He has a great advantage in the
ceaseleSs struggle to avoid boredom
who enjoys the simple but complex, the
common but mysterious, natural dis
| plays free to all
Sundown comes earlier and sunup
comes later now, in relation to the
usual habits of mankind.
Times of reporting for work do not
change because Of the seasons, even
in cities where the so-called daylight
saving" is put into effect.
Daylight saving never fooled any one
yet, not even the chickens.
In Summer many men get up and go
to work in the light, even though they
leave their homes very early.
In Winter they arise in darkness,
eat breakfast by electric light, and
leave their homes while the first glin-
mers of daylight are appearing.
The time by the clock is just the
same in both cases, but the appearance
of the landscape, including the home
and garden, is quite different.
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Thus Nature takes a hand in the
affairs of men; she brings changes Of
landscapes to those who live by time
pieces, whether they realize 1t or not.
She unrolls panorama for them,
whether they look at it or not. She is
large, she contains multitudes of pic
lures, not being like niggardly artists
who paint one a year, and even that
with trepidation.
There is a fresh picture in Nature
every morning, but few people get up
early enough to see 1t in the proper
light" Getting up early" seems to
be a mystery to many city folks, who
simply do not go to bed early enough
to enable them to want to arise In time
for the best of natural shows.
John Nance Garner has no difhculty
in getting up early, one may wager,
because he goes to bed every night at
o'clock, and hence wants to arise at
first light.
There are thousands Of persons in
his class in this respect, hundreds Of
them living in the large cities. Mostly
they are people from the States, prob
ably from small towns where 1t was the
custom to go to bed with the chick
ems" as the saying has 1t.
Many city people invariably make 1t
q rule to go to sleep early, whenever
possible, although they likewise make
1t rule to say nothing about 1t.
The truth Is that human beings, In
the mass, are ruled, not by their own
likes and dislikeS, so much as by mass
opinions. One of these is that it is
old-fashioned to go to bed before II
o'clock or midnight
No doubt there are scores Of sleepy
persons, who ought to be in bed by
or 10 o'clock, who nevertheless yawn
away two more hours every evening
simply because it is the national habit
Of certain other city folks.
The wise person simply makes his
own rules Of conduct, in this life, and
adhereS to them whenever it Is pos
sible for him to do so without harm to
others.
Only benefit will come to him, he
knows, from his faithful adherence to
sane laws of living. Here every one
must be his own judge and jury.
There are three topics the wise man
never discusses promiscuously. They
are religion, politics, and his own per-
sonal habits. These are sacred things,
and not to be banded about.