Show I I tx Walks I I THE SPORTING ATTITUDE By DOROTHY DIX I Copyright 1322 by the Wheeler neeler Syndicate Inc Ine An old man looking back across the lon long stretch of ot more than eighty years ea said to me I h I have eaten n what was set before me and raked naked no questions Could any philosophy be broader or more comprehensive than that I Could any attitude towards life lite be braver than that Isn't It t the ver very quintessence of the sporting spirit to take fate tate as It com comes s. s without whining I when things go sro badly without boasting when things thin go r n n w well i All of ot us would like to be born with I the traditional gold old spoon in Sn our mouths and to have life to a II perpetual banquet at which every everT dish was a masterpiece pf of the culinary art prepared pro pro- pared b by a a. chef chet SETS PO J POVERTY Unfortunately the dish diah that fate tate sets ets before most moat of ot us In youth Is poverty garnished by self lieU and flavored with hard work and whether we get Joy and strength and health out of the I eating of that or whether it sours upon our stomachs and gives us the bilious dyspepsia that we call socialism and chy anarchy depends altogether on the spirit which we bring to th the meat meal We Ve can make It either a I feast or a famine We e can rail at the destiny that cast our lines In hard places We Wt can rage I because others have automobiles while I we have t to walk We can be filled I with envy y or r those I w who are nb better t e ee oft off We e can can- turn the whole life lite Into worm wormwood I sand wood and rs gall that so embitters theve the they ve very y breath rive draw that we are read ready to curse God and die dlo Or we WEI can eat what is set before us and ask no questions We- We 0 can ac accept accept accept ac- ac our portion of poverty and find in it much of sweetness and goodness much that nourishes soul and bOd body Or if it we cra e a finer fare we can still eat with gratitude the humble Umble food tood that gives us the huskiness and the spiritual that enables us to climb the ladder of success For there Is no education education education edu edu- cation like the education that poverty gives There Is no spur to ambition like the desire for better things than on one was born to It IB is the men like Andrew Anrew Carnegie and Rockefeller and Schwab and a n. hundred others you might name who ate and mush and milk In their who feast feaston I on turtle soup Koup and vintage wines in their middle age SHATTERED How inu much h of scandal and divorce and nd domestic misery might be ba prevent prevent- prevented ed how many children might be saved sav-e-d from being half orphaned and how many homes home might be kept to together It only husbands and wives woud make makeup up their minds to eat what was Beet et et I before them at th the domestic table and ask no q questions Ve Of course e ever every young oung couple that gets married believes that for tor the next I I forty or fifty years yearn they will live on angels angel's food tood The Tho husband thinks that marriage is going to be ba nothing but a alove alove love Jove Idyll with a woman who is going to remain perpetually t young arts arU r beautiful beau beau- beautiful fc and lae eager to please r s him and etu full i of Joy and gaiety galeto The wife thinks that marriage e willbe will willbe be one glad sweet song with a romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic lover Jover who is always telling her how beautiful and wonderful she Is la n. n n and who brings brinG's her hr violets and feeds teeds r her on candy ands and spends ends r his l time trying try try- g ing to amuse and pease please fe fer lh her The Tho man finds find out that even the most mOlt lovey-dovey lovey sweetheart Is la converted by marriage into a a. prickly creature all feelings and nerves and temper lIe He also ascertains that matrimony isan Is Isan Isan an expensive luxury that takes all and anda anda a little more than a man can earn STRANGE The woman finds out that marriage changes her husband from a a. handsome matinee hero Into t an unappetising h I lee stranger who is often u unshaven am and unshorn and whose principal Indoor sport Is knocking her She also finds that marriage has brought her sickness and suffering and sacrifices of which she has never dreamed So tho the man Is disillusioned with the woman oman and the woman Is db disgruntled with the man and an they try to find consolations con con- for their disappointment on shady ter pathways and tho result is aed disaster seen te ter for everybody b concerned e How liow I much better rt nl If they would eat ut what was set before them and ask no questions If It the they would make the best of each other and the situation and try to forget that hey they ever had a a. sweet tooth or thought that marriage would be bo all pit pie All AU of us make mistakes as we go through the world We e are blind and stupid and we blun blunder lr Into pitfalls Weare We Ye Weare are foolish and n 1 credulous and easily hoodwinked We are aro carel careless ss and inexpert In Inexpert Inexpert In- In expert in our work worle Some Home of ue use have hae Intelligence enough to acknowledge our mistakes and profit proUt by them and to accept criticism gratefully gratefully grate grate- fully tUlly and learn from It Others never acknowledge their errors error They al always always always al- al ways blame others for their failures and spend their time bewailing the victims vIe vic tims Urns they have been to circumstance T I CROW CHOW AM ANI JdIE IT II It takes courage and wisdom and breadth of view to eat crow and ard ask no questions but the men and women who can do It ft shall one da day sit bit in n the seats of the mighty ht Hardest of ot all ail and truest test of or character char char- acter Is It to eat what Is set before you and ask no questions when fate tate spreads the banquet table Then It Is that some become pompous and chest chesty and swell headed that they forget torget the friends of other days das who gave them handouts when they lacked tho the price of a n. meal it Is Ja then that they become arrogant and boastful of their achievements achievements achievements achieve achieve- ments and when the they tell a n. weary world all 1111 about their limousines s and palaces and French chefs and what sort of ot sauce they always have ha on their nl nightingale tongues But others eat their feast at of success s In n silence and humble gratitude for what they have been permitted to do I with the same calm acceptance of good goo l fortune that they give gf to bad Happy Happ those T brave rave souls who at th the end of ot life Ufa can say I have neither I whined nor boasted I have eaten what was set before me and have ask asked no questions |