Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Most topics that you would discuss are sad and'' tiresome things to <ue; for we are tired and prone to balk at all the. endless streams of talk. We long for silence, quiet, pegee, and wish the eloquence would cease. How sweet and restful It would seem if every bore and every theme could be by might of law suppressed! Oh, That would soothe our souls distressed. We’re tired of war and politics, of Huns and all their Hunnish tricks, of problems large and problems small, of Russian freaks and Prussian gall, pf doves of peace and fists of steel, and all the things of which bores spiel? Oh, for a glen or bosky dell, where we remotq from talk might dwell! Oh, for some hollow in the ground, where Windy Jlms are never found! Some hermitage among the trees, where one might live on bark and peas, and never meet a noisy bore who’d thrash the moldy topics o’er! We’d think our thoughts and read our books in sylvan glades, by babbling brooks, where wordless songs- by birds are sung, and never hear a human tongue. For we are weary, heartsick gents; we’re tired of stale old arguments; oh, for some cavern in the west, where talkworn delegates migflt rest!