Evening star., 1932-04-04

This Is the advantage the passenger
in any sort of vehicle has.
Motion stimulates his seeing. his hear
ing his powers of perception.
The fact that he passes. takes him
away from some object which strikes
his fancy, and he makes mental note
to look for 1t on the morrow
Thus his fancy is perpetually on ehe
stretch
Here, for instance, is a tradesman's
shop. small affair with a sort of deck
improvised on the tin roof
| A low parapet stretches around it.
| Rearing its forepaWs on this, very
ragged specimen of bulldog peers out
at the passing show.
| The traveller looks in at the dog and
the dog looks out at the traveller.
| What a queer looking dog" the
| human being says to himself.
| There is no record of what the dog
says.
| The next morning the man looks for
| the dog, and, sure enough, there it is
| its dirty paws on the parapet, its bright
| eyes peering into the passing stream Of
! traffic
| One morning the dog is not there.
| Has anything happened to him?
! The passenger turns around in his
seat, as his means of transport speeds
on, and vainly looks back to see if he
can catch glimpse of the dog.
The old lady in the seat behind growls
something under her breath, which is
| just as well.
The passenger, not liking her ap-
pearance or growls, turns back.
He had much rather see the dog any
day. And the next morning he does.
The bulldog is back at his old stand
paws on parapet bright eyes looking
out over the rolling wheels.
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Unconciously, the passenger divides
his daily trip into stages, as they did
in the stage coach days. To travel
post, in the old days, was to have re-
lays of horses placed at certain inter-
walls. From the Latin, post" meaning
that which is placed. Thus a post is
a piece of timber placed in the ground;
a military post is where men are
placedD
Without thinking about it particu-
larly, the traveller breaks up his trip
into several parts, say from the starting
point to certain big apartment house,
from there to certain public building,
from that building to a bridge, from
that bridge to a corner farther down.
town, and from that corner TO his des-
tination
Each of these stages has its land
marks. In one it is the bulldog, let us
say. In another, the particular build
ing which marks its termination. The
passenger may have fancy for this
type Of architecture 1t is always a
pleasure to see good specimen.
The homes along the way are noted,
too. This one looks well in its new
coat of paint. This one is getting new
sod, which it needed very much. Con-
gratulations, folks.
THE people, oh, the people, are the
show"
So Pope sang. who never rode on
street car or bus. or in a private auto
mobile; so he hit it very well, did
he not?
The people along the route as the
people in the London of Pope's day,
remain the most fascinating part Of the
journey, If one is interested in his fell
low human beings.
Now one must be capable of being
irritated by people to be truly inter
ested in them, as a group. 1t may be
stated that he In whom the milk of
human kindness so wells that he never
has any fault to find with mankind
is not such a sincere lover of his species
as he who realizes their faults and loves
them despite them. The daily trip
downtown in the morning gives the OBJ
server both the good and bad of the
race, more OF the former than the lat
ter, largely because, he may suspect.
most of the passengers have had a
warm and comfortable breakfast.