Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-07-23
L AM WONDERING
(By SilaS ThOrla)


Never in my uneventful life have
ever seen man so gree.iily fond
of oysters as my father. No, not
the little, trifiing footie cove oys-
ters, those large xxx Baltimore Sc
.lects, put up in square cans, quart
size, kept on ice. He couldn't wait
until mother would cook them IN
milk-he would have to swallow a
few raw Such pork, | never did
see. Did you ever dissect one?
Well, don't do it. You'll wonder.
And, by the way, we are wondering
if they ever erected a monument to
the brave guy who had the courage
to eat the first oyster.
This matter of wonder and curl
osity dates away back when his
tory was dealing with but two per-
sons living alone in garden, suf-
f1ciently watered and stocked to
satisfy all human needs.
|'Eve, with all the fruits of Eden
blest, monkeyed with one and lost
the rest" When curiosity is aroused
and when we are filled with wonder,
it is then we begin to philosophize.
Even the lower animals seem to
have a sense of curiosity. 1t is said
that "cLriosity killed the cat. with
its reDuted nine lives we are Won
dering We can readily see how IL
got the mouse or rGther the mice
there were two of them, Jacky and
Jimmie. They were curious over the
mechanism of the old-fashioned
trap-chockers. they were called.
Jac.1y says to Jimmie, you watch
here on top and I'll go in the hole
and tickle that wire and We'll see
what it does" Something then hap
pened Jimmie turned a double SOM
,ersalt: Jackie didn't come out and
Jimmie wondered.
Ager, who contributed to Solo
mons Book of Proverbs was quer-
eried lie said, ''There be three
things which are too wonderful for
me, yea. four which | know not
The way OF an eagle in the air; the
way of a serpent upon rock; the
way of ship in the midst of the
sea; and the way of man with
maid. Now, we have been able to
clear up the first three, but no
philosopher has ever found a sol
~ution TO the fourth We still won
der.
Down through every epoch. Mother
Earth has given US something to
make us wonder. She is fall of
hidden treasure. If you We're in the
Euphrates river basin you might be
able to observe what you would
like to take TO be a low hill or
a mound. but dig into it, or level it,
perhaps you would unearth the
foundation of the first skyscraper
Grower of BabeD begun. but never
finished Archeologists' spades are
DuSy mere anu tiiCIC t'AiSo' - iAi7
acres of antiquity.
But why cross the Atlantic or
sail the Mediterranean TO find
things over which to wonder? We
have mystery right at our door
the state Of Ohio Centuries ago
race of people piled up walls and
mounds of earth, and earthen
effigies, and we know the history
of Egypt and Mesopotamia better
than theirs.
There is nothing much more in
teresting than digging in the earth
to bring TO light lost or hidden trea-
sure. A man who will look upon a
hoe in the corn field with distain,
will dig and shovel like Trojan
if he thought there was an old cop
per cent in the ash pile.
Two or three feet beneath the
surface of the ground where the
writer is sitting, is the path over
which his mother trod as little
bare-footed girl, going to and from
her work nearly century ago