Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1914 — Walt Mason Sums Up His Joys And Sorrows in Following Jingle. [ARTICLE]

Walt Mason Sums Up His Joys And Sorrows in Following Jingle.

The man who trains with Barleycorn is loaded down with sorrow; today he’s seedy and forlorn, he’ll be the same tomorrow. There is no sympathy for him, however great his troubles; his nose is red, his eyes are dim, from drinking stuff that bubbles. He may of his misfortunes sob, but little boots or shoes it; he is the last to get a job, he is the first to lose it. The sober boys save up their stamps, their money in a jar keep, while Boozer, with his bloodshot lamps is cringing to a barkeep. His head is full of racking aches, his thirst demands an ocean, and when he sleeps he dreams of snakes that reach from here to Goshen. He has no use for wholesome grub, the kind that warms and tickles: he’d rather stand around a tub and reach for slaw and pickles. He loafs with other red-nosed boys and thinks a flagon bliss is, and all the sane and wholesome joys the poor old boozer misses. An, armchair. ia.Hic lngl£ noog, the fireside’s satisfaction, a" quiet evening with a book, for him have no attraction. A place among the guzzling crowd to him is bliss and bounty; and finally a paupfer’s shroud, and planting by the county.