Show Evening Cli ChItChat Chat 87 m T UT U CAMERON OA HEN I die please tell teU iii my u. u friends to wean weal red white am and 1 W WHEN blue to feast feat sing sins dance danco an and make merry If I any love hove ane iii me melet melet e let them bo ho glad not sad because be be- cau cause e if they consider my happiness happiness hap hap- better than their own L they should realize that my soul unus must t have gone to a higher and better beter plane where it i would not be content if i It I knew knee y t that my friends s on earth were weeping l S because u of re my promotion A ri A philosopher fl plieD pher i V Yes Yel Ive I've Ive used med that quotation before But in a a different connection Last time tim a I used it i. i it i was to point a few remarks remark S on the abominableness of that soul harrowing harrowing har liar rowing device deice for making unhappy people people peo peo- pIe as much more unhappy as possible the ordinary funeral service Today oday I 1 use it to help me mom In in attacking S a custom that Is first cousin to that de device device de- de vice and that is the wearing of ot mournIng mourn mourn- ing log What would you think of ot a woman who 0 walked about the streets saying saving to ever every everyone everyone y yone one whom she met I 1 have had a crushIng crushIng crush crush- Ing sorrow I am nm desperately unhappy You would surely say she was as extreme extremely selfish to continually flaunt faunt her grief i In Inthe Inthe 0 the face of ot a world orld that had troubles trouble a enough of ot Us its own wouldn't you jou Now why should virtually doing the th 0 same thing by wearing mourning be considered considered con eon steered any less les selfish And then aside from the selfishness c of ot If such a parade of ot sorrow think of ot Its vu garity Of course coune some seine of the best poe peo people a pIe wear weal the heaviest mourning and to for tor Pr that reason we have come to think of ot if the wearing of mourning as lather rather a an aristocratic and refined custom but don dont don't you think if It i didn't have havo the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate nate sanction sancton of fashion and anol of usage If i r in short such a custom were suggested d das 1 as a new thing today we should be quick k to call such of ot a parade grief griet vulgar vulgar and common And then think of th the inconsistency y of ot such a custom for a 1 Christian Christan iJo How iv with wih an any show allow of reason can cn a Christian Christian Chris Chris- I- I tian dross Iress in black because the one sh she a 5 loves has been translated to a happier r rhome home She has her own ow loss to grieve grievo 0 for tor to b but any alY real Christian Christan U i w who ho truly loved her lien friend must eleve belies Ue e that her own loss los Is as nothing to the theother's others other's gain gin and be he glad even if it Mu she cannot be happy V If I one Is to be logical about i It sure surely y yit the red white and blue in my fin first it t paragraph that doubtless offended an and d dI shocked some of ot you rou would be more ap- ap ar I- I than tan black s ct for this the dead Is I suppose tb the ie PI plea pica on which rc this abominable b custom h n got Itself I established in our midst midst Tb The he na a woman wears mourning Is by that Lt tact fact safely safelY excluded from tal taking any di di- di version But Is th that a result to be do de- de 61 aired elred V V Dont Don't g t you think you are In insulting your our dead to believe beleve that they would be gratified ned fled to see ee you ou ou husbanding and cherishIng cherishing cherish cherish- ing lug your our grief secluding yourself from society morbidly running away from AnythIng anything any Any- thing that could cheer you jou ou Instead of healthily seeking it I Isn't Int the respect that keeps a shrine In the heart before Which it lays a sacrifice sac sac- of kind words and good deeds a afar afar far liner finer tribute than the tho respect that rb I shows Itself merely r in a rit stilted ft custom cus cus- tom tone Take it home to yourself What would you wish if i you were to die If It I you ou saw those whom you loved Ing you'd long to comfort them of ot course Then surely You'd ou wish them all al the rt the most cheerful clothes and surrounding could give equal Why considerateness not credit your dear ones with wih |