Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When soft and balmy is .lhe air. the wintry chill forgotten, man doffs his heavy underwear, for 'flimsy things of cotton. His wife' ,and grandma both implore that Ire will not be reckless; but he replies; “The winter’s, o’er, and wearjing wool is feckless.’’ The weather I bureau seems to note when man 'does things so silly, and then sets j out* to get his goat, by sending 'weather chilly. The man ; who. would not heed his frau, or grandma’s wild entreaties, finds chills and fever in him now, from whisk-,, ers to his And so he straightway goes to bed, a. victim of pneumonia; perchance he dies, and o’er his head we plant a large begonia. I stand beside the boneyard fence and see where scores are sleeping, who rushed the season, without sense, and left their uncles weeping. Until the' breath of summer stirs the maples 'and the willows, I always wear my heavy furs, and pad myself with Until in yonder picnic grove we see the summer camper, I pack around a heating stove, and open wide the damper.