Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The war is done, and we get back to peace time’s old accustomed track. We’re sitting up and taking note of things that lately seemed remote. Once more I hear the auto fan explain as loudly as he can how he went up huge hills on high, and didn’t have his motor die. His spiel seems revelant and sane, which would have been in wartime vain. Once more the dames, when cooped indoors, are talking of-the dry goods stores and of the lovely lids they’ve -seen, all decked with doodads red and green. And they allude to Mrs. Brown, who’s bought thu smoothest coat in town, while her poor hueband strives to make his stand off something less a fake. And once again the ill health bores describe their ailments and their sores. A little time, while battles raged, their chronic sorrows were not staged, but now they’ve all come back again, to rasp the ears of patient men. I see the old ways coming b&ck, and as of old the gossips clack; the private quarrels we forgot, we’re resurrecting, smoking hot; the statesmen spring their clly smiles, and band out bunk in forty styles. I wonder if we’ll ever sigh for good old wartime days gone by, when there were themes of Which to speak, and keep on speaking for a week?