SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1924 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAG1E ttfOVaIN
THE BAR SINSTER which be will probably loathe; thatshould be given a fair chance to quit on my knees to recover the pieces with
(Contnued from Page One) he has has born into him certain in- while the quitting is good. I often him,
will not turn out a dashing, princely stincts that he must repress or he will feel indignant with the world on this "Heavens," T thought, "to think of
ap, do nca smoke cigarettes race- be carted off to the gallows; that he account. I should like to say: a career that can be ruined by the fall
fiuly? od'ecar a tuxeto with savior will be expected to attend banquets "Plague take it, I never asked to come of a soup plate. Two such tragedies
fare Becase am lhokdengate n and perhaps give speeches, that ie is to this circus anyway. My ticket was and this man would be disgraced.
rai ,oe armtss the delicate anod loing to lie spanked for reasons he bought when I was too yotng to know Three and he would be given notice.
cill never understand; that he is go- any better." Four and he would be begging on the
ing some day to bump his head and By Jove, I can hear the brat yelling street corner. A destiny hanging on
E BABY give it an awful bang; that he will already. le has probably managed to the swing of a door or a grease-spot
A baby bo was forn next door to- one day have the mumps and the choke on his thumib or swallow a on the floor. I shivered and was glad
d 51 think it should be explained tooth-ache; that after all these trials,, button-hook. Well-all I can say is, I was not a waiter. In fact, although
to him that he has arrived into a very' he will fall ill and die for all his pains. hei i hest get used to it. the man served the table next to mine,
il-fashion ed world; that ie will be Then he should e given hisschoice'*Ismanaged o slip a dollar bill over to
ex ed to choose s 'me life-ng taik whether he will sticktit or not: he him before leaving.
CONTEMPORARY MOMENTS _
_As I read this noble work twhich has PLAYS
movedi m sot sstely that it has almost
rewdart witin moy soul, t iwonsler, (Conht it from isge Two)
itionser aout the author. lie must be and ;owerful trageies as ".Anna
C ongeni*al workanndiBreathingthisnversIminu"ndThe Hairy Ape"is pre-
r(f1 re e tfld f trosbivsul I cry isioninedfrmslaeewo
Is he perhaps smokinga black igar paring a rroduction of his latest work,
or ol e y graduates o nng nger"na-nil or <as Al d Chilluns Gct Aings," a play
c ! lllog ghis stamp collection or uvr deling with the marriage of a white
reling with the cok, or brushing his woman to a negro-and a play, by the
In deciding upon one's life-work there is one teeth, or only snoring blissfully in way, which is destined to create a riot
very important consideration every far-seeing man betIfetit eson anotheconttoent i te ser isatne.
will make. He will select a field where the edu- h~?,H ie naohrcnieti hr vrwsoe
cation gained through his college career will not and the difference in time makes the The danger of the argument, of
be wasted. List more probable. course, is only too obvious: the con-
An ideal future is offered by the Fire, Marine stant possibility of creating a man of
and Casualty Insurance business. - -straw, and of building up the idea that
Insurance is close to the interests of every busi TLHE WAITER any one element is the touchstone to
ness. It is close to the interests of the officials of
every business. It is a matter which will bring rie other ening I dined raller in great drama. The fact remains, how-
y'su into immediate contact with big men and sdisretely, at an expensive restaurant over, that from this sense of the primi-
big affairs. sere the waiters were as formal and live, which is called immorality for
The Insurance Company of North America i distant as so many arch-dukes. I felt want of a broader term, the most vig-
a national, historical institution - founded in veymc fado hm rusadpwrathsdvlpd
1792-with over a century and a quarter of well very sissei afraid of thesi, particularly orous and power art has developed,
earned prestige. Conservative policies and de- as I had the lionor and responsibility and almost without exception the lack
pendable service have been responsible for the of a young lady's company. I must of such sophistication has produced
growth and for the constructive activities of the take'Cre otto hurt their'ftoligs, I only trite and unimportant results,
Company in the development of the entire
insurance profession. thought. And when itsis all said, the point seems
All of a sudden, one of the most so childfully obvious; yet the fact also
Insurance Company of princely of them dropped a piate of remains that the most scholarly
North Am erica soup on the floor. His haughty man- gentlemen everywhere-Mr. Matthews,
PHILADELPHIA1er was gone -he tlushed, stammeredt Mr. Sherman, .Ir, Phelps - bitterly
IAd HiA and his lips trembled with emotion. contest this very idea... iBut in
and the
Indennity insurance Company of North America a Looking at me guiltily, he murmured: the meantime the dramatists them-
,rrpract-Ilyeveryformof insurance except life. "Sir haven'tdosme that in five years selves are proving the point against
of service .'them.
I smiled sympathetically and tried
to look helpful without getting down THE IRONIC HUMANIST
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ly decent bits of verse. The Ironic
Humanist, mentally thumbing his nose,
offers a timid suggestion that perhaps
the Holy Spirit temporarily gained the
advantage and inspired in Byron's
breast the purity of Hebrew Melodies
- and parts of Chide Harold. The al-A
student, sans even a moment's hesit-
ancy, gladly agrees.
_ cal n' Ice CreamThe all-A lad, of course, can
forgiven, for he is a pathetic figure,
doomed to struggle along through ex-
istencet oo t h dosy .Lars a ye ar, instead of living in the
i isur t p ea e1ouU - comfort and decency reserved for men
with a "gentleman's grade."
The really sad part of the whole
«20n S UT'affair, however, is the injurious effect
Stop in anytm e and try it. U N I V FR S I T Y of the University on the gentlemen.
l Most of them are, wisely, little affect-
ed by their studies, but now and
again some poor lad is beguiled away
from Economics and Conversational
Spanish, which lead straight to five
thousand a year, and dooms himself
to pass his life in poverty, all in re-
turn for the consolation afforded by
Order your Sunday Alattiew Arnold or John Ruskin. Of
course, such a perverted sense of
values argues in the student embac-
Cream n ow.T« e ing them an inherent weakness. But
r m t is the Ironic Humanist's part to
_will deliver it before ave men from themselves in order
that this earth may be a better and
dinner. happier place to live in.
This is the Ironic Humanist's mis-
sion, and on the campus his particular
meat is the alert young boy who is
fool enough to go after culture. Lucki-
ly the class is not large; but it will
keep the Humanist busy enough for
some time to come, if indeed he is not
cast out by the very students he sym-
pathises with and seeks to defend.
_1 "No hero to me is the man who, by
easy shedding of his blood, purchases
his fame; my hero is he who, without
death, can win praise." ("Epigrams,'
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