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Show NOT FOR ME 1 P By Berton Braley. He dldn t like his father and he didn't like his mother. He couldn't stand his s'ster and he loathed his elder brother. HBl Ho thought hi-, playmates vulgar and his neighbors stupid fools Who lived by silly standards and by puritanic rules. He felt the whole community was out Jjw to chain and bind htm. LBH And a.s soon as he was old enough he left It all behind him He left that simple village life which he had soundly hated, HBl And thought that In the city he would LBH he appret lated. JBl So in the great metropolis ho started HJ his careering. HBl But presently he found himself con- JBl tlnually sneering HBf At all the "narrow-minded folks" JBl among whom he meandered; JBl there wasn't anyone he met who jVJ scorned to fit his standard. He talked about a something which ho called 'The Greater Free- HBl But people seemed too occupied to follow fol-low where he'd lead 'cm. HBl lAnd yet he wouldn't tolerate or view HBl with any charity HBl iThe worries of th multitude, whatever what-ever they might be; HBl "Alas," he cried, ' this narrow world is out of step with me!" HBn A most unpleasant person with an ego overbearing, i For whom no normal mortal could conceivably be caring And yet you are expected to be highly HBb sympathetic With all of his reactions and his HBb grouches energetic. HBfl Well, i for one. asseverate that I re- HBfl fuse to grovel HBb Before this peevish "Hero" of tho HjVJ "Realistic Novel!" (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) |