Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — PHLOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHLOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I always liked to talk with girls, both married ahd unwed, for they were quick to note the pearls of wisdom that I shed. And' if I told an anecdote, full of, amusing chaff, there’d come from every female throat the gladdest sort of laugh. Anon f’d read a sonnet fine that I had lately writ, and women liked this stunt of mine so well they’d throw a fit. But now I tell my pomes; the girls have knitting on the brain, in all our native homes. They’re knitting, knitting, all the day, and when I spring my spiel, I

hear some- busy woman say, “This sock is mostly heel."’ To entertain the knitting dames. I quote an er ic rich: and. interrupting, one exclaims. “Gee. whiz! I've dropped a stitch!” 1 tell of springs o>: ancient lore, from which I've often drunk, and says the woman by the door. “This yarn's extremely punk. The idle things of idle times have gone their divers ways: who cares a hoot for quips or rhymes, in these fierce wartime days? In vain the tall stuffed prophet stands, with skill to charm the bird?: the girls have knitting on their hands, and have no time for words.