Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 4 | Quoted

--Quoted-:- By Hartford Curtis (Copyright, 1M1 t.New York Ev. alng World). Press Publishing Co.) "How sweet It would be to treat men and things, for in hour, for just what they are I" David Henry Thoreau. This distinguished Ksw England scholar with a French twist to his name, who Uvsd a hundred year ago, waa th author of Innumerable oftquoted wise sayings, aphorism and maxima. . It would Indeed be "sweet" to meet and treat men as they are, once In a while, and not a they would Ilk you te think they era If such a condition obtained diplomacy would aoon become a lost art, business would ceass to be business busi-ness and flattery would be at a discount. Thoreau has been described as a scholar-gypsy, poet, naturalist and transcendentsllst. He la ths author of "A Week on the Concord and Merrlmac Rivers," It bslng a diary of a voyage be took with bis broth- In lit. This book and "WaldenA are, perhaps, his best known prod- V uct. H has, however, many vol-, umr pf essay to hi credit. Including Includ-ing a monograph on Sir Walter Raleigh. Ral-eigh. Kmerson, Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne . were his friends. Thoreau waa a lover of nature and solitude and was ths first exemplsr of the simple life. For two years W he lived aa a recluse In the Ne-f Hampshire woode In a shsck built with his own handa It waa here, "to fare only the essentlsl fsct of life." that he did soms of hi best 1 1 1 erary work.