Show Ol I. I The ie W World o as You Make It I I By Winifred i e Black 11 It ROGER FI FINNAN AN was arrested MR V I for tor vagrancy In iii Chicago the theother theother other da day U lold He-lold the judge that he had been a tramp for thirty years rears No said Mr Finnan when tho the Judge questioned him hini No 1 I dont don't like to tramp Id I'd like to settle down somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where but I cant can't find a place on earth to suit stilt mo Its It's too dr dry some places and andI I too wet others Somo Some towns town are too lively for a fellow lik like mo me and some are too dull Some places cost too much and some aro are too loo cheap I do wish I could find a place I r like Poor Pooi discouraged Mr r Finnan of or I Chicago What a mess he Is js In to lo be bo sure lIe He carries his world around with him and wherever h ho he goes there it is ison Is- Is Is-I Is on oil his back his back hla miserable disgruntled restless unhappy world and he thinks he has found it along the railroad ties lies I I Dear me mo said a woman I know the theother theother other oilier da day Ive promised my little girl I to lo visit her school this week and It does bore me so Crl frightfully Im I'm a perfect per per- feet mart martyr r to lo m my children anyway Oh said another woman I know I 1 can hardly wait walt for tor Frida Friday to come I m going up tip to lo school to hear Betsy speak a piece picco And AmI tho the little Johnson bo boy is going to sing something and intI the they are so ex excited excited ex- ex cited l about it the they hi can hardly live JIve Im I'm always alas so glad of or an exCUse to lo go o there and see all those lively little tykes tykes- It makes me mo good humored for weeks Only when the they sing slag I always have ha to cr cry somehow no matter matler what tho they sing about about about-a a kitten or a n. tree or 01 My Iy Countr Country Coun- Coun tr try Iry of ot Thee Theres There's something so 50 o strange In their voices so hopeful so to courageous so 80 Innocent I Just sit there and cr cry away awny and have o a beautiful tIme time All In the point of or view you S CO Now ow the other woman finds that everything ev ev- ev- ev bores her but bridge and antI the th theatre tr a and 8 supper pp X parties nr i alive nan thing she doesn't really really- live 11 In the world at all all nU- the real world She Sha lives J In a n queer little painted stuffed cushioned box made mado of or her funny little likes and dislikes and odd little prejudices and absurd little ambitions ambitions am- am and tears fears and hopes all an about clothes and Invitations and theatre parties and who's who a who antI and what's what and antI when is when an antI and sho cant can't canteen don en peep through a crack and see the great greal splendid Joyous natural world swinging along out there I i ln In tho the sunshIne sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine singing at the tho top of ot Its voice She's bored all the time bored to to death Wh Why shouldn't she be bo What is there hero to keep her from b being bored Not one ono bit of simpi honest homiest sentiment not ono one little natural childlike un- un m- m pulse I declare when I r got get so I dont don't want to pull the blue grass out of or its sheath and bite one end of ot It jo see ce ee If It Its It's as sweet as ns it used to be bej ben 0 en I get set ao so I cant can't see full of ot red apples with with-l out to steal a tL t few w and eat them thorn right then then and autI there when ben I Iso get getso so I can n SEO seon a puppy chase is own tall tail and Ti d not laub I want some one to sten up behind mo me and chloroform me then and thero there No place to suit Bult you poor dr Ir Finnan Fin i nan of ot Chicago I wonder if It you evet suited an any yourself |