Judge — July 20, 1907 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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6 AMONG THE RADISHES.” We fell upon an article with this title ina daily paper much given to militancy. used. We kept on pausing. In we read no further, “A radish is a very simple little vegetable,” began the article. We live in a world which has gone wrong and everybody is noisily try- fag to get it right again. And it's no sim- ple mater. Problems are all about us. There is the problem of marriage and the problem: of divorce. The double-headed pronlem of too many children and too few. I's a problem why those who ought to have a great many of them have none, and those who ought to have none have a great many, It's a problem why those who have money have it, and why those who haven't any haven't. We have our industrial problems, corporation and trust problems, railroad problems, labor prob- lems. President Roosevelt is a problem ; Harriman is a problem ; Rockefeller is a problem ; Bryan isa problem ; everybody isa problem. Everything is ‘a problem. Was there ever a time so full of prob- lems? In other words, we humans at this stage of the game seem to be baffled by a maze of perplexities. Bamboozle- ment and befuddlement are writ large over the times. No paths are straight, nothing is simple any more. Nothing ? “A radish is a very simple little vege- table.” Ah! how restful. Whata solace totired wits and jangled nerves. ‘+ it will grow almost anywhere.” You don’t have to set up a Public Utilities Commission to regulate the radish. You don’t have to jerk the constitution seven ways from Joppa to control the radish. No Hague conference dreams away the summer ing up international checks on You don't even have to chase all over twelve states, climb the back- yard fence, pry open the cellar-door, and turn down’ the quilts on twenty-four beds in search of the radish in order to serve it with a federal subpoena. It grows anywhere, does the radish, “but prefers a lignt, loamy soil." How good it all seems. What a modest lit- tle preference. No palace, no chateau for a tandem matrimonial venture; no plutocratic solitariness of predatory mag- nificence. Just a little light, loamy soil is all the radish asks. What a reproof toa generation that’s going mad in the scram- ble for things it ought not to have, and which goes madder still after it gets them. “If it grows quickly the root is firm and crisp; if it grows slowly the root is pithy and unfit.? A whole philosophy, a compend of morals and a pragmatic for the conduct of life in a radish root. The radish that wears out two-thirds of its life trying to learn how to live the other third, that grows by slow and painful Processes, becomes pithy and unfit; other words, gouty, cynical, stomachless, Passionless, with cauterized emotions, fla~ Vorless and fatuous, I's the quick-growing radish that has | our strenuous times. crispness, quality and joy. The radish is no co-ed., figuring on marriage at thirty- six. The radish does not take life so seriously that all seriousness goes out of life. You don't catch a radish—not a} good radish—postponing the business of living until it has no business to live. «Radishes are eaten with just a little! salt.” Just a bit of seasoning, a mere} dash of zest, relish, piquancy, peptonizes and energizes the rai The. radish finds the joy of life in living. People, as arule, don't. “Go to the ant, thou slug- gard,” said the old school-book moralist, quoting an ancient and revered text. Go to the radish-patch, say we. Learn a thing or two from this “simple little vegetable "—the sole surviving exemplar of a healthful and normal simplicity in A REWARD. if Teacher—“ Don't you know what you | come to school for ?” Foknny—" Sure! Me father said if 1 came every day he'd buy me a billygoat.” —Chicago News. | A SMALL SECRET. COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE TASTE OF HIS CUSTOMERS. Two men were discussing the various food products now being supplied in such variety and abundance. | One, a grocer, said, "I frequently try a package or so of any certain article be- fore offering it to my trade, and in that way sometimes form a different idea than my customers have. “For instance, I thought I would try some Postum Food Coffee, to see what reason there was for such a call for it. At breakfast I didn’t like it, and supper proved the same, so I naturally concluded that my taste was different from that of the customers: who bought it right along. * A day or two after, [ waited on a lady who was buying a 25-cent package and told her I couldn't understand how one could fancy the taste of Postum. ~«T know just what is the matter,’ she said; ‘you put the coffee-boiler on the stove for just fifteen minutes, and ten minutes of that time it simmered, and perhaps five minutes it boiled ; now if you will have it left to boil full fifteen minutes after it commences to boil, you will find a delicious Java-like beverage, rich in food value of gluten and phosphates, so choice that you will never abandon it, particu larly when you see the great gain in health.’ Well, I took another trial and sure enough I joined the Postum army for good, and life’seems worth living since | have gotten rid of my old-time stomach and kidney troubles.” Postum is no sort of medicine, but pure uid food, and this, together with a relief from ‘coffee, worked the change. 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