Show ott A about abou t vanishing wild life VARNER plantation V TEX thanks to wise legislation the wild fowl are coming back to this gulf country true the flocks may never again be what they were yet with continued conservation therell there again be gunning for one and all but when I 1 think back on the ducks I 1 saw down here 10 years ago in countless c 0 hosts im reminded of what 7 charley russell the cowboy artist said to the lady tourist who asked him whether the old tim e r s exaggerated when they described the size of the vanished buffalo herds i said charley 1 I get up to this mon irv bryin S cobb tana country until after the buffaloes started thinning out but I 1 remember once I 1 was night herding when the fall drift got between me and camp and I 1 sat by and watched em pass not having anything else to do I 1 started counting em including calves I 1 counted up to and right then was when I 1 got discouraged and quit because I 1 happened to look over the ridge and here came the main drove becoming a head man L E ET T an unshorn dandruff fancier claim hes divine and if nobody else agrees with his diagnosis the police will jug him as a common nuisance and the jail warden will forcibly trim his whiskers for him or anyhow have them searched but if enough folks dhove tried all the old religions and are looking for a new one decide he is the genuine article then pretty soon we have a multitude testifying to the omnipotence of their idol let another man think he is a reincarnation of julius caesar or alexander the great and if few or none feel the same way about it hes headed for the insane asylum but if a majority which is a large body of persons entirely surrounded surrounded by delusions agrees with him that he is what he says he is he becomes a dictator and rules over the land until common sense is restored if at all let the writer of a daily column begin to think his judgments are perfect and his utterances are infallible but hold on the use of getting personal grandmas grandeas Grand mas tos logs WE E LAUGH at our grandmothers who believed that for a lady to ve be properly dressed she should have a little something on anyway maybe those mid vict victorian orian ladies sort of overdid overbid the thing bustles bustled that made them look like half sis to the dromedary skirts so tight they hobbled like refugees Z from a chain gang corsets laced lace d in until breathing was almost a lost art boned collars so high they seemed to be peeping over an alley fence still wearing five or six starched petticoats the little woman was safe from jack the pincher unless he borrowed some pliers and later when for z a L season ba essed blessed simplicity ruled the styles her figure expressed the queenly grace that comes from long chaste lines probably the dears never figured it out just the natural cunning of their sex told them the flowing robes which gave majesty and dignity to kings on the throne and judges on the bench and prel ates at the altar and shapely wom en folk how old fashioned those times seem today when every dancing floor is a striptease strip tease exhibit and every bathing beach a nudist show and a debutante posing for snapshots feels ashes cheating her public unless she proves both knees still are there 0 0 S reading dickens IVE been reading dickens again again A this means again and again I 1 take pickwick papers once a year just as some folks take hay fever only I 1 enjoy my attack dickens may have done caricatures but he had human models to go by he drew grotesques but his grotesques had less highly col ored duplicates in real life and readers recognized them and treasured them as symbols of authentic types the list is almost endless s sam weller sairy gamp daniel quila uriah keep heep mrs mr micawber Mic awber mr Peck sniff oh a dozen more what writer since dickens has been able to perpetuate one tenth so many characters there is with his penrod and his alice adams there was mark twain with his huck finn and colonel mulberry sellers there lately has been n sinclair lewis with two picturesque creations to wit babbitt and sinclair lewis IRVIN S COBB copyright service |