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Show FRIVOLITY MAKES FOR SANITY Antidote for Disposition Toward Crankiness, Says Writer. Which Is worno to' bo too solout or too frivolous? I have no doubt about tho matter myself, so far as ln dlvlaunls nro concerned, though nil ex tremlsts aro bores. Tho perpetually live!), feather-brained, pleasure-crazed creaturo Is almost. If not quite, ns Ir rltatlng us the deadly serious Individual, Indi-vidual, lloth types are heavily represented repre-sented Just now in hotels; hut npro pos of the accusation recently lodged ngnlnst Hint as a nation we arc becoming becom-ing too frivolous, one cannot help say-lug say-lug t lut t wo are 11 great dent livelier than wo were a few years ago, and fot this relief assuredly we have causo to bo thankful. ' In consequence we nro accused ot having become too frivolous. It seems lo mo that wo have Just got matters nicely balanced. This Is nn ago when wo aro prepared to he cranks on tho slightest provocation, Pcoplo crnve for mUslons, they wallow In philanthropy, philan-thropy, they pounce with avidity on now religions, they will plungo Into politics or write attacks on women, society, the degeneracy of tho age, p apyfhlng olso that given thorn an opportunity op-portunity ot airing, what thoy call jholr views. 80 surely. If dcslpero In looo wore not occasionally to be permitted per-mitted to us. It Is fearful to think what 'v should boeomo. Our frivolity Is tha 'antidote to the twentieth .ur.r disposition dis-position toward crankln . It -.onlly keeps us snno. I.on ' Vorld. |