. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. up 120 THE STORY OF CORSE PAYTON. her baby and goes home. She has spent a pleas-ant and profitable afternoon. She has forgottenfor a time her many anxious worries. Filledwith new thoughts which inspire new ambitionsand new interest in life she goes back to herwork and her family. That evening the hus-band and father is greetedwith a cheerful, happy smile;and the evening meal is en-livened with a descriptionof the play and players, in-stead of being made drearyby a fretful recital of thedays petty home annoy-ances. And if the work which
. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. up 120 THE STORY OF CORSE PAYTON. her baby and goes home. She has spent a pleas-ant and profitable afternoon. She has forgottenfor a time her many anxious worries. Filledwith new thoughts which inspire new ambitionsand new interest in life she goes back to herwork and her family. That evening the hus-band and father is greetedwith a cheerful, happy smile;and the evening meal is en-livened with a descriptionof the play and players, in-stead of being made drearyby a fretful recital of thedays petty home annoy-ances. And if the work whichinduces this happy state of affairs be not philan-thropic then the dictionary fails in its definitionof that word. Amusement is just as important to life as are theten commandments, and has just as much to dowith mans spiritual growth. The one who wouldabolish amusements is the one who would strip. THE SONG OF PROSPERITY. 121 the earth of its flowers and shut out the sunshine. One of the greatest needs to-day of the bigcrowded metropolis is more wholesome amuse-ments for the masses who have only lean pocket-books out of which to pay for their pleasure. All honor, then I say, to Corse Payton, who ishelping to fill this need; and may his theaterstill go on singing The Song of Prosperity.
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