Show 4 I A Crowd Gathered I IDLE DLE curiosity is a disease says Bundesen t health commissioner of Chicago He claims r hat the chronic on looker-on is a victim of spec Such a person says Bundesen olmay 4 may now nov and then make a suggestion sug or an observation but usually he is quiet After the I show 1 or game he goes home hom sits down an and tails calls it a day The chronic eyewitness is j usually s ally se in his his' habits habit He JIe thinks t of his stomach than of his health He would much rather be a a. t bystander and nd let the theother i other fellow do it In a way its it's too bad that our national game is baseball Children get beneficial exercise from it But for most grownups baseball is a theatrical performance The spectators sit back and watch the same as at t tata movie The game entertains them but it does not benefit their health Golf does and it its it's fine for Americas America's health that golf js s I growing in popularity Bi in its its' most prot pro pro- t form is evident in the crowds that I gather to watch diggers excavating for sewers I and and pipes The watchers stand stand in a n half t trance r nce as if expecting to see buried treasure treasur l dug up Maybe they do The psychology of idle dl curiosity has never been fully fathomed A A. woman faints on a crowded sidewalk Now fainting is not noL not not-an r an n uncommon event Npr Nor is there anything especially important or or interesting about it Yet people fight to get jup lIP up for fr a close look Police have difficulty p I them back Even if they know that I s. s i. i the Khe fainting is not out of jh the ordinary they I I crowd around round Few men are ever ver too busy to stare 1 A man once bet that he could I i t excited crowd of people in five minutes at Qt one of the most congested street street intersections in New York City He won n. n AI Ay All he had to do was stop on the sidewalk and look into the sky with a ta startled t i expression Nearby pedestrians also stopped 1 They wanted to see what interested him il Presto a mob mob and and police reserves had to be 2 called Life Jfe must be dull the yay way so many of us are afraid well we'll miss something Stand I. I aside de a horse has just fallen in the street |