Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When I was young I viewed the snow with dancing eyes and heart aglow. It meant that I could slide and coast, with all the happy schoolboy host, and mould*, the snow into a sphere and soak somt> old gent in the ear. The falling of the sparkling snow meant joy and laughter long ago. I, being young, was not aware, of sorrow in the world, or care, aqd all 1 wished, beneath the sun, was just to have all kinds of fun. But now I’m old I view the snow, and think of suffering and woe. I sit in comfort by the fire, and punch the sawdust from my lyre; but others, by an empty grate, are shivering and cussing fate: and little ‘kids, too thinly clad, are trudging through the snowy grad; and poor old men feel rheumatiz through all their joints and tendons whiz. And there are widows- -needing duds. There’s so much grief, there’s so much dearth, whenever snow enshrouds the earth! But there’s a little one can do, to make the wintry day less blue. I'll send some plunder to the poor, to those who suffer and endure!