Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I studied music for a time, I hoped to be a concert star. Friends said my singing was a crime, and talked of feathers and of tar. I I saw I’d never make a hit, the spark of genius was denied; and so I had the sense to quit—to this I point with honest pride. I thought I’d be a painter, too, when I wms young and full of dreams; I turned Out paintings quite a few, and people said, “They’re surely screams.” 1 saw at last I’d never sit with Titian and the other great, and so I had the sense .to quit; with pride this fact I here relate, t see so many every day, who blithely choose the wrong career, and plug along their misfit way, month, after month, year after year! This youth, who should be herding swine, is poring over Euclid’s rules; that one would be a great divine, who should be busy shoeing mules. They do not seem to realize they’ve tackled jobs that do not fit; they toil and toil and do not rise, and, haven't sense enough to quit. }

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