Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — The Ephemeral. [ARTICLE]

The Ephemeral.

- Man loves the thing that doesn't last He lives on the ephemeral. His newspaper, with Its passing quips and rapidly fading scenarios, Is his daily Bible reading. The death of an aotor, who will be forgotten the week after his burial, moves a people profoundly. Thousands alt up all night to read a book that they “scrap” the next day. Man does not seek truth, but variety; he seeks sensation, not permanency. His health lies In his inconsistencies. For to be ephemeral it human; but to be eterupl to to be dead.