| Show howe about education lonely old men shiftless people 0 bels bel syndicate service by ED HOWE TT T IS often said the people must bo be 1 come e educated d before reform can be expected this Is accepted as meaning every man must be so BO completely educated tn in our modern way as to be able to tench teach in college education thus becomes so great greata a task we iare ara discouraged IW contemplating it our estimate of an education Is wrong after a man is thirty if not naturally a dunce an intelligent reading of wells outline of history story combined with his own experience will educate him those intending to teach should attend technical schools as do doctors lawyers painters engineers gi etc there are dozens of short summaries of everything one nee needs as to L know now a new one was added last fall and writers are favoring that style of writing lately these s summaries not only educate a reader but entertain him better than will detective stories or novels I 1 know an old fellow whose children are arb all married and gone and who does not sleep well weil he does well enough during the day but anyone i passing his house late at night may see lights turning burning the servants are kind but he will not impose on them so lie he Is alone and wide awake a good deal at night and night Is especially lonely lately he employed a woman of sixty to assist him from 11 p m until people are moving on the streets again she has a soothing way about herand he gets to sleep oftener during his dangerous hours it he awakens he finds her asleep in her chair at the foot of his bed but she awakens easily anil and again she reads to him or they talk during these hard times many good women are seeking employment and the crop of lonely old men Is large why not 4 0 0 I 1 regret shiftlessness but have admired shiftless people the man and wife I 1 hang around most are the most shiftless people I 1 have ever known but both are good fellows and tremendously smart they have long had in their employ an old colored servant they now owe so much they cant pay her and thus get rid of her by discharge the black woman needs an operation and they are trying to find a doctor who will perform it on credit they have had her teeth fixed four times and still owe for it IL americans are judged abar by what american books magazines and newspapers say by speeches delivered at meetings of various social clubs and political organizations all these are unnatural and foreigners do not know us our publicity agents have given us a character we do not deserve what the average american thinks and believes Is not known even in his own country the american attends moving picture plays not because he Is much interested in the vulgar people who make mahe them but because they cost only twenty five cents and occasionally have a good neww news reel or comedy I 1 lately attended a moving picture theater and only six others were there never bea before ore have I 1 seen vi a show presented to an audience of seven and it was the best theater in town showing the best available picture plays american people are not ns as crazy about the disreputable crowd it at hollywood as Is believed abroad 0 I 1 may be mistaken in what viha t I 1 think I 1 know in my eightieth year but I 1 am more certain of it than ever before and I 1 have less time left in which to change my mind at eighty I 1 am not fraid afraid of the future I 1 have been treated with reasonable justice all my conscious life and expect as much of the future no one can convince me there Is a devil after dea death t h to torture me for eating drinking loving hating bating trading venturing I 1 have lived a long time and thought as clearly and fairly as I 1 could and have heard not a word from h a reliable source to make maize me fear a devil to torture me after I 1 am dead A million ghost dancers have howled dismally at me throughout life iffe without frightening I 1 n g me they might as well cease dancing the truth Is not what they say it Is there Is more mercy than they claim I 1 have a son I 1 think Is quite wise rather able in taking leare of himself the other day he was at home and a suspicious man kept calling him by telephone I 1 knew th the suspicious man and what he wanted a big favor to work my son I 1 warned him and the young man m an replied aba t s all right dont worry ill work wor khim him right back there are so many who try to work you I 1 warn you to acquire the ability of my son or be ruined I 1 have not looked it up but am informed that the british encyclopedia lists fourteen of goetges Go ethes mistresses distresses mi stresses the fact that all nations of the world joined in ceremonies to honor goethe on the hundredth anniversary of his birth seems to indicate that such in 1 discretions are finally forgotten still sinner men mea should remember this great charity was not shown goethe until his hundredth anniversary probably when alive he found gossip as ann annoying as do day I 1 |
