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Show NATURE NEVER IN A HUF.RY Taking Lesson From Wise Old Moth, er, Man Will Lesrn to Curb His Foohsh Impatience. V.. --..iMo-i:n,.j Impatient at the sb.-.w - of v.,r! I i:i:proYo;:K'!:'.. We si-e ih cruel' i-'S of a irreat war. cruelties cruel-ties l.e;.o:-d U !i..-f. and we are sick at hear: to Think the world Is not lu a m 1 ovoinhjh' to ahollsh war. We see ijimratice leading to poverty and -wretchedness and we wonder that education ed-ucation is not made universal at once. We see pr e elitahle sickness producing produc-ing e.isahiilty and suffering and vie are hopehs at the slow dissemination of modern medical knowledge and pre- ' ventive measures. j j And then It is borne In on us that Nature never is in a hurry. Out in I I Colorado the Rocky mountains turn ' ! a tumbling sea of peaks toward the' sky. Standing on the summit of Pike's or Long's and looking off of that chaos of rock one naturally thinks some frightful convulsion of Nature threw up these mighty peaks. P.ut that thought is1 wrong. Geologists Geolo-gists have learned that the mountain ranges were slowly and Imperceptibly carved out by the action of rain and snow and frost and ice. First the highlands slowly emerged from the ocean. Then the rains and streams and glaciers made gullies and left the peaks. An observer returning at century cen-tury intervals probably would have seen plight change. But eventually the work was done and the mountains made. That is the way Nature operates. Man can afford to curb his impatience. Kansas City Star. |