Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When one’s been lying sick in bed, with plaster casts upon his head, and poultices upon his feet, recovery seems, oh, so sweet! The doctors, round my couch of straw, have plied the squirtgun and the saw; for weary days, that endless seemed, I tied myself in knots and screamed, for every ache that has a name held wassil in my stricken frame, and many aches not classified whizzed through my sinews and my hide. At last I fell into asleep, an dld-time slumber, rich and deep, and when I woke my form was free from every brand of agony. Tis at a crucial time like this, when full of convalescent bliss, a fellow feels how great is health—far greater than the whole world’s wealth. And he can clearly realize how dippy, batty and unwise, it is to sacrifice that boon, -to gain another •picavpne. A million men, you may observe, are straining every bone and nerve, year after year, to add one more gun-metal dollar to their store. SoriPfc day they’ll be where I have beeti, with poultices from feet to chin,. and when they lie in solitude, and o’er their years of folly brood, they’ll say, as I am saying yet, that health’s the one and only ■ Wt-