Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN [ARTICLE]

UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN

(By Walt M ason) “My husband.’’ sighed the weeping wife. “litis: made a ruin of my life. He does not seem to yearn or long for Higher Things, like Art and Son. The sordid things to him appeal; he’d rather have a good square meal, than sit with me through dreamful days, reviling Robert Browning’:' lays. \ noble painting on the wall makes no appeal to him at all; with scorn he’d pass the picture by, and say he’d rather have a pie. Because the bread is always hard, because his porterhouse is charred, because the coffee’s weak and thin, he’ll make a most unseemly din. He can’t be made to realize that noble odes beat oyster fries, that Ibsen’s pen, surcharged with ink, surpasses sausage in the link, that Handel’s grand harmonic burst beats Schweitzer cheese or liverwiirst. So here. I sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore.’’