Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The man who toils the long hours through goes home at close of day; he is so sore in every thew, so weary, all he hopes to do is just to hit the hay. He says to Ma and Old Dog Shep, when he has reached his chair, “My work has robbed me of my pep; I wouldn’t take another step, to be a millionaire. Just hand me here the daily Sheet, so I may scan the news, and then to slumber deep and sweet I’ll drag my aching, swollen feet, now sticking in my shoes.” He reads a while and then he cries, “Great Scott, Maria Jane! The way we soak those Prussian guys! The fur of Kaiser Wilhelm flies! and me my hat and cane! I’ll have to go and see the boys, and talk the war o’er, and make a glad, triumphant noise; a batch of news like this destroys that feeling tired and sore. I may be home by 10 o’clock, I may be home by one; 'twill take quite a while to talk about the way our soldiers knock the sawdust from the Hum.” And then with blithe and springy stride he chases down the street, to talk with neighbors, far and wide, of how the tail goes with the hide when Yank and German meet. The kind of news we’ve had of late is better far than pills, to brace the worn and weary skate and make him keep his smile on straight, and banish all his ills.