Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

-la' spring most things are fresh -_-i new —except 'old* guns like" me and you. New leaves aro. on the ancient ■ trees-, .'new stingers on ths ■bgna&le bees;- ■new birds with; antfceaes .gre^t"'thifi > ';dawn;-' ; new dandelions star' the lawn; all things ■? •- :>thin-J gray excep: the eggs I bought today. The nearhOTE duckling tjoldly swims; the ' s' * /.round on . wabbly . limbs, re ?-e the lambkins at their play, lie. rollkin. lifts a feeble neigh: the young of all the species bring their atmosphere of youth to spring, and anything: that’s, old and hoar, that savors of the days of yore, seen* ou: of place, of little worth, and oqrht to vanish from the earth But I see nothing that is old, ex- • - rhaf story you just told. The w-srld—iteelL looks bright and new, that' in';'the:..winter. pained the view. Its* dismal . hues 'of gray and' dun hare changed to green beneath the sun; it is as cheerful, bright and .gay,, as though ? "’twere fashioned • - ■t _a -.. Old thing* are hidden, and '-he younu their banners everywhere have: ffikßfg- There’s nothing ancient, bearded, hoar, except the trailer the store. .