Show I COLONEL JOHN JOHNS NERDS CONVERSATIONS ON I DOMESTIC PROBLEMS By r CASPER n S YOST r L Dangers of the Elevated Nose i Zat at u hats the matter with em emm emT demanded the colonel colo l T m Iy c if Aint l t 11 1 people Aint they honest D n t they th behave themselves about as 5 v yell II i a as any of y your our ur friends Dont DontY Ih Y papa 78 yes y Interrupted InterruPt his very nic nice people nl nd i have haw no fault to find Ond with them nut jut ut and Mr turned up er r pretty little nose DOH and gazed silently it tt t th lh the fire Uh I h 11 huh grunted the colonel 1 I ir Thy They The just aint in your your youris la is to your way o lookin t it But honey I twist my t u H up urt that way y If It I was you ou UK ale wrinkles quicker than anything n i 1 tl tt a world orid and the worst kind o 0 ow ir w r too You know theres wrin Kl ids s an n wrinkles crinkles Some wrinkles light un up in lh plainest face tace with beauty Yes DO a fact An then theres p n nl that make the most beautiful a ae f P Fk K ugly Youre seine r tint that kind wh when n you OU turn up your 1 K in jn that way Uh huh I thought hat u make you drop It Ar now urt ure makin some o 0 the kind that diN i to beauty the wrinkles that come m smiles Y yc 1 indeed my dear the turned Ij I por n e if is i a dangerous thing It not noty 1 y mikes mik s ugly wrinkles on the th face facet id Lt t it makes ugly wrinkles on the thet ther t 1 r Never thought about that did didN didI u N I reckon kon not but its true n II I 1 never ner saw aw w a human brain but they say its all covered cored over wrinkles an the scientific fellows have a lot of theories about em But 1 Ive 10 ve got a no tion Uon that there caused by the same thoughts and an emotions that puts the lines on the countenance Any how if an elevated nose donE dont make Its mark on the outside of the brain It does on the inside an It amounts to the same ame For the movements of the face that go so to make up what we call tall expression on are fire more than the sign of the of th the mind When you curl up your proboscis s cis ets like you ou did a bit ago a sign that you was yourself a little better maybe a whole lot better than the people we was WA about Now tone ione I want to tell teU you OU that that a pretty risky attitude for any an body to take I believe in a man think In well U of or himself or a well of herself but when you begin to tomake tomake tomake make comparisons between yourself an another another another other folks folka to the disadvantage of or theother the theother other folks youre oure bettin on dangerous ground For two reasons raisons re In the first place youre an opinion of ot yourself our elf that aint warranted by the facts Youre settin set tin yourself up on a pedestal full Cull o 0 cracks and one of these the e line fine days da S crumble to pieces an down drop like a load o 0 brick For or whenever wh ever a man or a wom woman woman woman an raises ral es himself in his mind above his fellows hes gettin ready read for a fall If he dont topple over of himself some body 11 pull pUll out the props from under him mm and then the people hes been down on will look down on him and laugh Just laugh the sec second second second ond reason reaBOn why the nose is bad business It spoils you ou and then it spoils your friends For the habit habitor of or thought that expresses itself In the nose is fatal to the kind of that everybody ought to have h I and Its fatal to friendship I You see e honey an elevated nose is isa I Ia a good deal like ike one o 0 these blunderbusses it hits a whole lot of people that you aim at and whoever it hits it hurts hurls Nobody can tell where its going to strike an anso anso anso so they the get the habit of dodgin when whenever whenever hen ever It comes around Theres a good many folks you can scold old an abuse an take it an keep on bein friends But just let em get the Uie notion that youre oure sneering at em and Its all off Most all of us have an andea andea dea idea that were about as good as the next one and makes us madder than titan a nose an the greater reat r difference between us WI in wealth or so tO social social cial station the madder we get about It If youre coin to get t the best there the theIs is out of or the Ute world and out of the peo people people people in it youve got to meet me t folks on the level You go up to the top of a skyscraper an look out but out th the window down at the men an women In Inthe Inthe Inthe the street below an they all look mighty small not moren half halt as big bigas bigas as you are al But when you go down In Inthe Inthe the elevator an get set out on the pave pavement pa pavement ment you find they average up about the same size as 88 your self seU Its all a matter of ot the point of view and the nose nOfle gives giver you OU a wrong per perspective perspective sp It gives you false notions of your own Importance and your own po position position positron I while everybody else can cnn fc see that youre oure just jest on one o the common run runo o 0 folks an have no right to feel your yourself yourself our self better than they the are An PO so you ou get out o touch and out o 0 sympathy with the rest o the world around you ou ouan an then you begin to sour Just Justas as certain as that God made little ap apples apples apples ples A sneer in the brain is a sign of fermentation an fermentation you ou know comes mighty close to bein rot rotten rotten rotten ten Now o then gettin geltin right down to brass tacks ta ks ae as a the fellow says sa the only reason youve got sot for your our nose at the people we was about is that they the dont run In your our set Well Yell what if i they the dont Is your set let the standard by which all others have haye to be measured I reckon not It takes all aU kinds o 0 people to make a world as youve heard before fore an some o the best ones in it make the least show You cant tell u U by at the people you ou meet on the street how many of theIRs beneath you OU an how many man above you You cant tell by b at a womans wom ns clothes or the money mone got in bank whether youve oue got ot a right to look down on her or got a right to look down on you ou You cant tell by b hearing b a woman quote Ibsen IbB n whether bett better r or worse than you It It aint money mone or clothes or blood Mood or culture that counts count when It comes to up men an women The only yardstick good anywhere on earth and In any society la is I character common or un uncommon uncommon uncommon common to rich and poor an your our washerwoman may have as much of it I and be as mUch entitled to your re respect reaped respect aped as the president of or your our club One of the two greatest men I ever had the honor to know was a professor of Eng English English English lish in to the state university the other was a ditch digger who spell his Iris own name But even when you size up people to the standard of your club dub dubit It aint safe to turn up your our nose for I Ir i r this is a mighty world an the folks up today may be down to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow an art the ones down to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow may ma be up at the top o 0 the heap next week If It youre going to judge people by that standard youve got no right to object if It they the measure you OU by b the same rule an its mighty I 1 imagine to find the folks youve b been en up your our nose at In a position p to elevate their noses at you But say MY little girl Its bed bedtime bedtime bedtime time an here Ive been an the whole evenin Dont you ou feel teel bad about It though honey hone Your old daddy thinks youre oure the finest ever over but he dont want you to find it out Good night Copyright 1909 1 by b C S Yost |