Show howe about better amusements our failing minds bernard shaw by ED HOWE A it Is said abroad americans A A are the greatest t idlers filters in the world it has finally been agreed unions among ours ourselves elies we have been working too long hours and that in future we must play more arid and now the question comes up for discussion what shall we do with our additional idle time how find new enjoyment enjoyments enjoy ments in our shiftlessness why not try some new amusements why not rub up op our knowledge of finance and less frequently become the victims of shar pers why not athletic clubs to chase outlaws now a real menace to our homes and speaking of homes again w why by not beautify them more and add comforts heretofore lacking why not clubs of citizens to improve our public affairs naif half of us are dumb as to the real value of print why not read more and with greater discretion why not pay more attention to the joys and benefits of good health most of us as gobble our food like pigs and lacking their digestion and shorter years have become so quarrelsome inefficient and dumpy that one quarter of the population Is now howling for public relief with most of the rest of us ns looking on shamelessly and thinking it truty may be a good idea for everybody 0 0 a do races inevitably run out Is it hopeless to struggle for their improvement and continuance it deems to we me I 1 am able to note a cad deterioration since the civil war compare congress now with congress of 75 years ngo ago and how shabbily 1933 comes ofal there a man of ability in the present congress or cabinet or sup supreme reme court to compare with dozens who might be named within ten years of 1858 the deterioration of races Is it intellectual we are healthier now than ever before we have improved our lamps and our buggies but have shamefully neglected our minds it may well occur to every man that he Is doing well enough physically but that his mind Is falling failing 0 0 0 bernard shaw has his opinion of mankind and expresses it publicly instead of privately as most other men do for this he Is cordially hated a although everybody knows his opinions of humanity are sound at least sounder than the opinions of other writing men my relations with bernard shaw are ara excellent I 1 do not know him or wish to know him and never write him I 1 hear bear he Is polite enough to those who have hare good reason to call on or write him during a recent journey at sea shaw went on deck early one morning and found an old man leaning indifferently over the rail how does it come shaw asked asked that you are the only man on the ship who has not annoyed me because I 1 do not want to know you or talk to you the man answered ever hear bear of me shaw asked again 1 I know all about you the man replied 1 I have read nearly everything said about you or you have written you are one of my heroes I 1 admire you because of your impudence in saying what you think of everybody and everything I 1 think the same things and am afraid to say them you save me the trouble I 1 beg you to proceed with your walk filerius Sile SlIer rius fus said in his memoirs in all my life I 1 have known but one really intelligent and fair woman As every other man rain will probably say he has bas known at least one ene such woman there must be a good many of them a 0 thousands have known the true philosophy of life and been so whipped by mob men that now no one dares be sensible all men are more intelligent than their actions indicate foolish tradition and fool ish continuous quarreling about lt it have bare made fools of us ns all 0 a 0 considering the rough manner in which all men are forever trying to muss up all women some women look very well a it Is well known that most men of discernment have poor opinion of the people en masse because of their low average in intelligence morals polite ness and fairness because of their insistence si on ruining every civilization the better men have attempted it li Is often said the english have no sense of humor A AD n englishman relates re rainbow ates that a child on f lest seeing seeing a asked what Is it ad ver another englishman Is reported as saying the only time a horse scares nowadays Is when he sees another horse american I 1 quote two if oe vie mt As A popular a con funny men eddie r an nr tor for ile he an the enemy in the world orld but all his friends hate him edn aydn A bachelor is man who never made the same mil a take once of course all this is flifle but 1 perhaps it 1 Is less than papers daperl the se serious w portions Dort loDS or of the tiresome reso da ew how often the bores write nn rarely the angels with how good news take pen in hand 0 19 33 bell SY dacate awu tr gerics e |