| Show I BYI i iAN AN EDITORIAL B BY II I FLORENCE DAVIES I i I THINGS OUR OUn GOLDEN GOLDIN CALF LF Talk TaUt about sermons in stones hy Is by sometimes theres there's a whole I volume of sermons In a a single I And so Im I'm going away and let lether lether lether her get a dh orce said caid the younger of the tho men ss whom horn hom I passed on the street treet the othet dab da met another guy glY with Ith a acht and an automobile and an aeroplane and e e and Im Ini not goIng to hU buck huCic k her So that was as it was as It She had Ole gone aftel Mammon and he sn sa-sn t going gomS to fight her What a way to put It II He IIi wasn't going to fight tight Her IIer he said One have thought it was WS the theother theother other man mon he lie sn t Going to fight ou would ha base hae e expected him to tosa toCa sa Ca ho t going to fight ht Him er lie ho was as that other guy wIth his acht and his automobile and his aeroplane which ou took with a grain of silt s But evident e evidently ly Iy the injured didn't cx- cx ex E exactly blame bamo this other other guy lIe to 1 that all was air In lose o 10 e and war or maybe worldly world orld ly Iy possessIons was os more than match for him I But as a matter of ot fact It really ss t either cither of ot thc n that he h hid td to fish tigh I was as the auto auto- automobile mobile I and the lacht acht and every csery- thing It was just things that I against the him him the things thing his man had met a guy It ss with 11 a II acht and an automobile and every evory- everything everything I thing It was the es c everything the tho thing thing-i tho the fast car the speed the dinner partle partie and the I bouquets and all the rest of the things things things that men I with money can buy That 1 is what this chivalrous chap who ho was s going to step out and let Her have o her way ny say had to II tight fIght not him him 01 ot her her Just stop and argue arlue it out for forI I yourself Was as It her that he hei I had to tight fight the real her that hp used to know the girl sirl herself I whom he had 10 loved od and married and who once loved him 1 Of courso I course not If n it had been ben the I same Ramo old pirl irl hp he h wouldn't have had hod to fight her for tor she would I has ha hae e wanted him as once she sho dId I It was as this new woman who couldn't resist things thing the things that money will buy Neither was as It the tho other man that he ho had to fight How much ot of a chance would this other other guy have base had shorn of his motor car and speed boat and his ble hl gay dinners and gifts of jewels or Suppose he heI had been poor poorer than her I husband and could never ne have given her anI thing but a little ride I in a borrowed tin lizzie or a 0 rim rim- sim simple pIe tittle ittle moonstone ring No the theman theman theman I man who was as going to give up wouldn't have base had to fight tight him hIm Yes Ye it Wit was vat things he was possessions fighting possessions that so often possess their possessors master their will willi and paralyze their sens sense of the alues values the things of o the world before which we wo all alt bow down and as a certain mistaken and misguided once bowed I down and worshipped the golden I calf calf Maybe j the calf m nt really golden ou know BUT It was symbolic Today the calf calt may may- gO gOs s rolling wheels or sail rail on gently curling waves And there are girls aplenty who n seem to con con- consider con consider sider rider the car first and the theman theman theman man second in choosing either a I lover a friend or a life partner |
