In Our Town - Contents - PAGE I. SCRIBES A ND PHARISEES . - 7 4..
.. - 3 11. THE Y OUNGP RINCE . . . . . 20 111. THE SOCIETY EDITOR .
. ., 28 IV. AS A BREATH I NTO THE WIND . 40 V. THE C OMING OF THE
LEISUR C E L ASS-72 VI. THE BOLTON GIRLS - rOSITION . 82. VII. BY
THE ROD OF HIS WRATH . 92 VIII. A BUNDLE O F MYRRH t 120 IX. OUR L
OATHE B D U T ESTEEMEDC ON- TEMPORARY . . . . . . .,135 X. A
QUESTION OF CLIMATE . . . 148 XI. THE C ASTING OU T OF JIMMY MYERS
160 XII. A BABBLED OF GREENF IELD S . I 74 XIII. A PILGRIM IN THE
WILDERNES . S 195 XIV. THE PASSING OF PRISCILLWA IN THROP . . . . .
. . . 217 XV. ANDY ET A FOO L . -. . . 241 XVI. A KANSAS CHILDE R
OLAND . . 255 XVII. THET REMO S L TO O P . . . . 297 XVIII. SOWN IN
OUR WEAKNEQ . . 339 XIX. THIRT Y . . . . 3 6 2 IN OUR TOWN Scribes
and Pharisees W 0 URS is a little town in that part of the country
called the West by those who live east of the Alleghanies, and
referred to lovingly as back East by those who dwell west of the
Rockies. It is a country town where, as the song goes, you know
everybody and they all know you, and the country newspaper office
is the social clearing-house. When a man has published a paper in a
country community f6r many years, he knows his town and its people,
their strength and their weakness, their joys and their sorrows,
their failings and their prosperity--or if he does not know these
things, he is on the road to failure, for this knowledge must be
the spirit of his paper. The country editor and his reporters
sooner or later pass upon everything that interests their town. In
our little newspaper office we are all re porters, and we know many
intimate things 4 In Our Town about our people that we do notprint.
We know, for instance, which wives will not let their husbands
endorse other mens notes at the banks. We know about the row the
Baptists are having to get rid of the bass singer in their choir,
who has sung at funerals for thirty years, until it has reached a
point where all gqod Baptists dread death on account of his
lugubrious profundo. Perhaps we should take this tragedy to heart,
but we know that the Methodists are having the same trouble with
their soprano, who flats -and has flatted for ten years, and is too
proud to quit the choir under fire as she calls it and we remember
what a time the Congregationalists had getting rid of their tenor.
So that choir troubles are to us only a part of the grist that
keeps the mill going. As the merest incident of the daily grind, it
came to the office that the bank cashier, whose retirement we
announced with half a column of regret, was caught 3 500 short,
after twenty years of faithful service, and that his wife sold the
homestead to make his shortage good. We know the week that the
widower sets out, and we hear with remarkable accuracy just when he
In Our Town has been refused by this particular widow or that, and,
when he begins on a school-teacher, the whole office has candy and
cigar and mince pie bets on the result, with the odds on the
widower five to one. We know the woman who is always sent for when
a baby comes to town, and who has laid more good people of the
community in their shrouds than all the undertakers. We know the
politician who gets five dollars a day for his 6 6 services at the
polls, the man who takes three dollars and the man who will work
for the good of the cause in the precious hope of a blessed reward
at somefuture counv convention. To know these things is, not a
matter of pride it is not a source of annoyance or shame it is part
of the business...
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
