Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY

(By Walt Mason.)

I'm always glad when Sundry comes, and our old town no longer hums with all the Jargon of me mart, the bargaining that breaks my heart. On Sunday morning 1 ear meet my friends and neighbors on the street, and they won’t try to se.i me prunes, or real estate or panta loons. And by no agent I’ll be lured upstairs to have my life insured. No auto salesman on my track, I freely walk to church and back; 1 hear the pastor’s helpful views, in my new suit and polished shoes; the worshipers have left behind, for one brief day, the beastly grind, and when the parson’s discourse ends, I mingle freely with my friends, and no one tries * to sell me socks oi whiskers dye,' or patent locks. No salesman interrupts the hymn, to boost his duplex wooden limb. 1 walk back home in cheerful mood, my spirit full of gratitude teathere’s one day in every week when wheels of commerce cease to creak. I do not hide behind a tree when some investment sharp I see. I do not have to dodge or spurn the agent for a patent churn.