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Show A appalling most Page Seventeen 1920 NOVEMBER, and pathetic eyes the before brought been has case of the public during the last few days. Mr. Herbert Midgley, one of our most venerated students, was charged and convicted of non-support. The plaintiff being no other than his wife, one of the most benevolent daughters of Zion, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Midgley, daughter of President Guy C. Wilson of this institution. The attorney for the plaintiff brought out the fact that Mr. Midgley had not turned a hand toward the supporting of his family during the past ten years of his married life. Evidence which corroborated the proof against the defendant is that he was arrested, indicted, and convicted of vagrancy but a week before his non-support trial. Mrs. Midgely is in a very destitute condition and would appreciate the financial She is willing to take in washing to help feed her aid of the public. starving kittens. Spaée will not permit the continuance of this discussion. This Honorable court is now adjourned until it meets again. PHILOSOPHY. Say Mr. Longfellow, if you’ve just returned trom your tailors with disgust in your heart at the length of you, just “count your many blessings’—forget the dark side of the cloud for there’s a patch of the “silver | lining.” What if a fellow is tall! Think how much more of the country he sees than his shorter neighbor who only measures up to his vest pocket. If you want to be convinced, Slim Jim, just listen to the smothered remarks about you when the next game comes off or when the next man gets Then, too, it’s so easy to see you in a knocked down on Main street. crowd if one should be hunting you. And if a large house caught on fire it would be simple to become a real hero by reaching up to the high windows and hauling out those in the upper stories. In the case of war, you could be so easily seen above the trenches that the enemy would be sure to fire at you; and you would | be heroicly saving the lives of so many of the short fellows. If you should be skating and the ice should break, the chances are that you would not drown, it would take such deep water to cover your Also head. we have discovered why handy to be able to lath a ceiling bother with a wabbly ladder. Maybe it is your tallness, Jim, or shingle certainly are a whole lot nearer to heaven. hetter able “preach.” to see the “silver lining’ than a roof you that helps It is so are carpenters. all tall men without having to be so good, to for you I guess you are a whole lot I am, so please —Reed excuse Moss. Father—“When I was but a small boy, I was left an orphan.” Case—“‘What did you do with it?” the |