Show S ii 1 THE TRAGEDY S H OF BEING BE ING A I M MAN A N BY Br FRk FRANCIS CIS L L. GARSIDE Is born with but one friend and Hi HE after a lifetime of ot trying to tomake tomako make mako more doesn't have that man many when hen ho dies Th The first ho learns after aCter patty patty- cake IB is that mothers mother's kin are superior to fathers father's In hh hi boyhood days das if It his complexIon complex- complex Ion and clothes and pleasure suit his mother he Is missing the time fun that Is rl rightfully due him He finds as much Joy In drowning kittens a as hl his sisters find in hunting violets and Is called heartless and soulless soulless soul soul- less when lie he Indulges in It when ho he I goes away aay on a visit the kitten has its Us chance to grow up tip I If It lie hc heis Is given Biven a n. red wagon agon all nit his own his mother and sisters find fault I every time they see It because of at the scratches on Il it His Dirty Hands If It he catches a fish and tak takes s It home with pride to his jils mother sh she sees his clothes soiled before sho simo sees the fish Ish and nn any attempt to love her when she aha Is dressed up and he is proud of ot her Is Ismet Ismet ismet met b by a a. scream about his dirt dirty hands All his Ms amusements lose their fascination fascination fasci fasci- nation if IC he has an any ones one's permission to Indulge In them and no one can convince con con- ymca vince him that the tho time will ever eyer come when he will think more of or a a. a girl gill than of ot a a. dog If It ho he i Is hungry huns and opens the leo Ice box door his mother rin and scream and run for lor cloths to wipe u up what he j is going to spill the only time his sister sees an any need in tho the world for him Is 1 when she stands under a walnut tree and from the time ho plays plas marbles under the tho street light until he Is old Find and toothless ho he has to account to 10 some woman why he didn't come home earlier When hen ho he Is a grown man and thoughtlessly tells a girl he enjoys enjoys' be being being be- be ing with her he lie wakes up to find himself himself him him- self seit engaged and in ina a a. brief period ho hears henrs the we wedding march tho the women think is so sweet and it rings in his ears like a l If ho he doesn't hold the baby he Is a a. brute and if fC he ho holds it and it cries his wife looks at him as If he had hall pinched it his children are dissatisfied with him because he lie doesn't keep a candy store stoic and when he goes home homo at night to forget torget the worries of at the day he ho hears so man many new worries that he heIs heIs heIs Is glad to get set back to his work next n morning 0 rn I n g glie lIe Ho discovers early In his married life that he hc says sas the tho wrong thing and after atter l Ms his ls daughters have been In school a few that he it years ears he lie also discovers says the wrong way When hen a child chilli In the family dies thera there are those who accuse him of ot coldness but in a short time his friends remark that he is looking old To be nn Tin ideal husband he must go heme on purpose to kiss his hig wife the meals are anI only an incident and if lC he lie heIs lieIs 1 Is a ag polite In serving a a. meal as his wife we demands he starves to death I Little Sympathy Most of or his troubles are caused by byan byan byan an Imagination too active or a liver that is not active enough and all his life lire from his boyhood days lIas up he has hasto hasto hasto to tie a mighty ht bl big rag around a Ii mighty little sore to get any mpa th thy All hl he gets ets out of Christmas Is the bills to pa pay all the tIme glorious Easter time means menns to him is that he has his old pants pressed and after the thc children children chil chil- dren are grown and his wife doesn't have to stay ta at home evenings to put them to bed h he is left len alono alone so much that he feels as friendly to to any anyone one who is kind to him as 1 if he were a alost alost alost lost pup If It h hp he tells tens his wife of ot an increase in his wages wage site she doesn't cOI congratulate I him she gets ets a far away look in her eyes ees as if It calculating how many yards yard it will take for Cor a new w dress and If It ho tells her thc they must economIze she Is reminded of ot his hi cigars All the time broker in the house I. I Is li put pul In a room room called his den and he helas has l-as so little room In any of or the closets for Cor his hla clothes that Blue Blue Bille Beard be becomes comes his hits Ideal of a really great man He at least had closets in which he ho had room to hang things I 1 If he does something note noteworthy worth and the world applauds his wife's s relatives rela rela- tives tivis look wl wise e and 80 say nothing Eer Every time he pulls his hits money out of at his pocket he lie misses a dollar ollar an and In Inthe inthe the same wn way as he grows rows older every ery time he counts count his friends he finds he heIs heIs heIs Is one short and h he never knows how he lie lo lost t either cither of them When He Shops If It In a loving but bewildering spirit h lie ic enters a dry goods gools store to buy his wife a a. present all the appreciation he gets IB Is her desire to know what on onearth onearth onearth earth possessed him to buy a thing thinS like THAT and here Isn't at any time anything any an- thing of ot such little importance around the home a as the underwear of or the man nian who lives ls there He suffers and fights and his reward rewards t Is s that the figure of Peace Is represented represented b by a a. woman he never ne satisfies his hla wife because he lacks Jacks appreciation of what she calls cans ART There is II no noone noone noone one to see that he lie has worked so hard and endured so much that the artistic I temperament in him has been smashed as flat as if It a a. rock crusher had hat rolled over o It lie never gets ctR cre credit lt If It as as' a bo boy he Is good to his mother e cr every one says sas He ought to be She Is his MOTHER 10 T In R If It kind to his Itis wife the they say He lie ought to be Isn't sh she o his WIFE An And If tr good to his children ever every ono one says Why ho shouldn't he lie be Isn't ho their FATHER And should he on his deathbed talk of ot seeing seE the pearly gates there would be a suspicion that he didn't see them that he talked that way to fool his wife to the last 4 |