Show r Evening Chit Cna I BY RUTH EUTH CAMERON CAMEO n I. I L. L lived J pointed cJ out the Mn lad lady with whom I wn waa rivinG iriving M You didn't know him Why hy hy he lie was a n. real prominent man When h h. h died he had the tho greatest fu fit fit- n ral I J ever vcr saw The lowers flowers were soie OIl thing There hem must have hl been bent three thrle or four our hundred dollars dollars' worth It was WI n a grand crand funeral I wouldn't Im have missed It for anything With I suppressed a 0 smile And nd even en a n SIKH sight Even E Into th the nile valley of ot the shadow we iso carr carry the ceremony the tho ostentation and th the money attitude of oC jh the Jho world 1 think our our fashionable weddings to which wo bid bid not those f few whom wo we reull really love hove and who lovo o us us and to tu whom uch such n an n occasion really belongs hut but all the curious gaping crowd crowl of or our tance who come corne as th they would go 0 to a n pIa play or on any other spectacle arc are bad ball enough but to tu have funerals on the samo lamo plane is even on worse Yes Hurry harry had a u terrible tune lime to fo getaway get d away from his lila business OU you know its it's their v very r busiest season but season but I told him we simply had to lo RO go to oil Mr Its Il's funeral What would Mrs R. R think It If wo we didn't a woman said tome tom the other day What hat an Insult to the dead dcarl man to toI carr carry formality and p punctiliousness and ceremony even on to the tue edge of or his grave I I have written before of or the cruelty and tind uselessness of oC the a. average funeral harrowinG feelings already harrowed 1 almost al almost al- al most past endurance nod find doing oln no Otto one any possible good Today I protest especially a against ln l l Us its formality and ceremony the ceremony habit of oC re regarding rt- rt garding It Il oa as a n function which must be 1 b by all the acquaintances aCQuaintance of or th the dead titan than and hl his tn 1 I do not believe In the old l Idea e that s w-c w honor the dead that way If we wo really want to do him honor I think we can do Jo It tar tai better b by trying to bo ho a bit kinder a bit more forbearing a bit hit less baa to our fellowmen wherever er wo wit think of or him hint I should like mea to see ee funeral funera I services completely complete abolished and a simple commitment com cont- service left a as the tho only burial ceremony but If It thorn thero are to be funerals let Jet them thorn be attended only by br a manN mana close friends who come conic spontaneously and not nOl b by obligation An unknown poet has expressed Just m my feelings s on tIlls this subject I onder tonder If It they are yours When hen I am deaI head dead I would not have o the tho rude rudo and gaping crowd Around inc ino gather and mid lamentations loud Tell of or m my virtues and with vain rc regret ret Bemoan my my loss los and leaving me forget o ef Rut Hut I would have the few of or kindly l heart Who ho when It misfortune came so nobl nobly did clid their part And oft ort by thoughtful leeds deeds their love lo expressed These would I have p no more no rio less When hen I am tIt dead J |