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Show Uncle Tyson's Plight Calls for Sympathy "Uncle Timrod Tyson Is in a pitiful pickle," stated Hostetter Smith. "He Is ordinarily a free and aggressive ar-guer ar-guer on any and every subject that happens to interest or infuriate him, but just now he is afflicted with asthma so badly that he can hardly breathe, let alone argue. And when he thinks how the accursed plutocrats are rubbing rub-bing it in on the rest of us, how the movies are destroying the youth of the land, how rotten politics is, or are, as the case may be, and the urgent need for somebody to do something about something, and do it now, he finds himself him-self unable to do much more than gasp like a freshly caught fish. "His predicament reminds me of that of a little nephew of mine to whom larger boys fed a quantity of , soap and then persuaded him to drink considerable water, causing him to froth at the mouth like a geyser erupting." erupt-ing." Kansas City Star. |