Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

—Ts Iro trtd wield "the• pen of Pope, or talk like forty Bryans, I’d hand out-„much impassioned dope concerning dandelions. Man strives and strives to have a lawn the town will be applauding; at twilight hour, at noon,, at dawn, you see him sowing, sodding. He has about a ton of seed of blue grass and white clover, and then that dandelion weed just spreads itself

all .over, And all those weeds soul deject; he tries to kill and burn them; and then in many a dialect he learns to blank and dern them. He hires about a thousand boys to slay them where they’re blowing; for every one a youth destroys, ten million will be growing. And so for years he struggles on, still hoping, still pursuing, still; dreaming of a handsome lawn,then sees there’s nothing doing. And' then at last he falls Worn grace, he ceases all his trying; the dandelions take the place, the grass is brown and dying. And people, as they journey by, observe, and mutter glumly: “That shiftless fellow doesn’t "try to make his place look comely!”