SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1923 Tal-IE MIC141GAN DAILY PAGE FIVIE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1923 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVIII I NEWEL BEBOUT 1EATEN If heaven be considered a state of happiness, it is then relative and not absolute; for happiness is a success-' "5,, "S'' stands for Stort and for Swan. Btht are tiving S's' running on legs; for they have S shaped fignres mader by ltu I:, neck and body. They swallow me between gigantic covers. They grind my mind into imperti- nent facts; and devour me sa- vagely. IBooks eat me up because they hate me! But why do they hate me? Is it because I snub them, because I merely give them a glance when they deserve to be read? clear-nature's shining mirror reflect- ing beauty. Cold, barren tree limbs long drench- ed with rain are alive-alive with bril- liant green things-leaves or maybe wor~ms. Cocons--lumps of dark, black, coat soot are touched by a magic wand. Now they are butterflies, vivid yel- lows and blues. ful struggling in which one's desires I 1OORS find satisfaction. Thus heaven is a Books eat me up because they hate state of strife, of war. me S1ecurity May be found for your valuable docu- ments by using our Safety Deposit Vault. The service will please you. Farmers & Mechanics Bank 101-105 SOUTH MAIN 330 SOUTH STATE } tri 1 l I l 1 1 i ! 1 1 a ' 4 Mi 1 1+ I R eSpOnSl- A fault most commonly graduates is a lack of respo bilipromises and appointments assume the responsibilities t A promise is a sacred thin1 implicitly. You have res you live up to them largely be increased ten-fold when now to train yourself to as, If you promise to have a th if you have to set up all nig from your room-mate, pay1 to. It is not only a matter of cc associates will appreciate, from so many hundreds of lax. You, too, will find just fulfilling your obligations. Shortly you will find your an invaluable asset. The man of your word in every to spend valuable time afte learning to assume responsil The Ann Arbor THE STRONGEST BANK TWO OFFICES: MAIN at HUR( P erhaps! QUESTION Vf men were born free would they VE POINTS form no conception of good and evil as Fragments of truth perceived long as they were free as Spinoza through a cloud of tiny fact particles: says, or is good beyond selfishness? this is the life picture of the prac- tical man. And contrary to this is the pano- OF A CERTAIN LYNX ramsa which lies before the poet who At dusk one evening I sat on a rail from his pinnacle of philosophical fence near where a cow-path wound rontemplation peers down into the into a forest. There was no wind to depths of actuality but fails to see the stir things up; and the umbrella-trees facts which are hidden because over- and Osage-oranges appeared distor- shadowed with more monstrous real- tioned in the shadowed light. Fur- ities. thermore all brooks and streams were Better by far than these men is the rery far away; and this combined with glass-eyed fool who knows neither the peculiar absence o singing birds falsity nor the opposite of falsity be- made the hour silent and quite still. cause he sees nothing at all. Not even owls were there, nor cawing hawks, nor spiders: so I felt lonely PRIMAVERA and in no mean way dejected. All I Gray, oppressive snow clouds, som- could possibly do was now and then bre, dull are chased away over the to whistle a strain from a Wagnerian horizon-now the sky is splendidly opera lest melancholy hover close upon me; but as the minutes passed this, too, was appalling, so I stopped. Perhaps my eyes blinked occasionally with a weariness; but truly I do not think this was so, for I was merely found with young college still-and lonely. nsibility. They fail to keep All at once, however, 1 was startled to perceive a silver coated lynx leis- . They are unprepared to ruely walking toward me down the cow-path with a queer-shaped book hey under take. under his arm. He advanced with careless steps and was noiseless; but every moment drew closer. Now it is not conventional for silver lynx g and should be lived up to to walk upright on two feet; nor is it their regular custom to bear great ponsibilities here, doubtless tomes at their sides. It is no wonder that I was amused by this lynx, and y, but nevertheless they will seriously perplexed. . Especially was I aghast at the n you start to work. Time strangeness of the shape of the book. sume them. The lynx came near me slowly. When immediately by my side, he crossed his slender legs and sat upon them; and then he opened the fantastically shaped book and melodiously read iesis at a certain time, do it, aloud: ht. If you borrow a dollar "Gipsies are not brunette girls with orange silk skirts bound to trim him back when you promise waists with lavender girdles; nor do they travel to foreign countries in canvas covered wagons drawn by mules. Gipsies are exceptional things. They are poor men's thoughts which escape their toiling ommon decency which your bodies to roam the clover fields of heaven. Follow the gipsies! but it will distinguish you "The moon is not a satellite whirl- ing around the earth; for them it others, who are somewhat would be a silly joke. The moon is a great round pie which God takes cause for pride in promptly a bite out of ever so often. Con- template the moon!" l 3 "Snowflakes are tiny fairy palaces; and bachelor-buttons are sneaking gnomes in disguise. Dew is sprinkled on grass-blades from slug-drawn reputation for responsibility water tanks. And music-charmed snakes are writhing spirits of a world will know you as a dance. Crane-flies are made out of way. You will not need green tooth-picks. Life is a play and the world Is a trick. Man Is r you get out of college in a jack-in-the-box. Think about man!" bilties.Then the lynx, whose reading was marvelously smooth, closed the ex- otically shaped book, rose and hur- ried back to the forest. And night came and darkened everything. Ureus Exit Triolet r Savings Bank Iintended an Ode And it turned to a Sonnet It began a ha mode IN WASHTENAW COUNTY I intended an Ode But Rose crossed the road ON-707 NORTH UNIVERSITY In her latest new bonnet I intended an Ode And it turned to a Sonnet! -By Henry Austin Dobso A