Show I i IT The Golden Me Mean n r By DR OR FRANK CRANE It is called the tho Golden Mean because gold is about about the rarest and most precious of or metals ls and the right mean nuan is rarer and more precious than elt cither citer er the ex cx- cx N Things arc are not not usually white or black generally the they are arc gra gray Hardly anything is pure In n a state of r nature Nature seems to lovo alloys Wo 0 encounter the perfect villain the bad man only in fiction and there thero also we find those who ho are arc paragons of ot virtue In real life lite they arc are generally mixed rost Most people are like what Peter Cartwright said he was like liko when a woman asked him if it ho he was wholly sanctified Well YeU he s said aid in streaks Really most people People ace see alike on prohibition Few Pew people seem to want total prohibition nobody wants complete license to sell alcohol opium or cocaine Everybody Is looking for the Golden Mean ean I sometimes suspect that the theological distinction distinction distinction tion in the next life where all allgood good people go go to heaven and all bad people go to hell is hardly in the nature of oC things Few of us deserve either an Unmixed unmixed unmixed un un- mixed heaven or an unmixed hell Some people talk too much but If It you Jou keep leep perfectly per per- quiet the world will suspect you ou J There are no white races nor black races The white people are arc a sort o of modified pink and the black people a sort of ot modified chocolate Your husband is not perfect nor your our wife If you are looking for tor one one- with no faults you'd oud better not get married Nobody wants to be he too tall nor t too tao o A Golden Mean 1 of t five feet teet or so suits st of ot ofus us lrA t Save your mone money Look out for tor a t rainy da day Donot Io vo not be he a wastrel But remember that J If you OU are arc too will call caU wad wads wads' tight they you OU a tight Life LICe Is not ens easy It takes takes' your our best judgment to keep keel constantly in In- Inthe the middle o of the d. d Copyright 1928 1925 McClUre cC re Syndicate |