| Show the old settler written from salt lake city 0 my dear san Jua Juaner ners 3 As a little littke boy with an inordinate appetite for green apples I 1 believe that the one and most dreadful disease of the human body was the bellyache belly ache it was a surprise to learn that the body is s susceptible to a long wear weary string of diseases and still moro more of a surprise that the mind a as well as the body is the victim of numerous complaints the greatest surprise of all however was that the most common disease ailease of the mind and the disease which is the forerunner of most other diseases is also what is known in common english as bellyache belly ache men meet with a little adversity and they get out of poise take the wrong slant plant on things and begin to be warped in their judgment they cant see things clearly the wheels in their brains get off center and it dv develops into all kinds of mental d diseases Is eases they become what we call disgruntled the milk of human kindness turns to clabber and it takes an expert in psycho analysis to suggest a mental disorder with name sufficiently forturn to page sixteen the old settler 0 continued from page 1 in sound to comport with the dreadfulness of their complaint i they become obsessed of the notion that their f friends the government ern ment or the world in general has conspired against them they have a list of bitter complaints to make complaints which they have told so often they have convinced themselves their grievances are real sometimes they assume to be reformers but their criticisms are impracticable if not impo impossible they are just chronic bellyachers bellyache rs and soreheads foreheads sore heads and can be depended on to kick against every worthy cause and every faithful friend after a short acquaintance time rime confirms their grievances against society and when society avoids them they soured and wretched drawing apart into miserable seclusion soc lusion yet yei there should be with old age a charm made strong with the years for years I 1 have taken joy in remembering my valued friend A C nelson state superintendent of schools he was dying with cancer but it was a rare privilege to be around him when death came to him at an unexpected moment it found him with his family around him singing the I 1 songs and radiating the spirit of I 1 cheer that he always ered I 1 remember his telling in feeling words that among the hundreds of sentiments written for him by the admiring school children of utah the thing that pleased him most was written by a little girl who said dear mr nelson keep sweet after he told it he stopped and smiled and a tear appeared in his kind gray eye ALBERT R LYMAN |
