DON’T BE LUKEWARM.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4593, 27 August 1923, Page 2

DON’T BE LUKEWARM.

(By

Dr. Frank Crane.)

Of all insufferable bores upon th's earth the one I hate most is the person who does not care. The being who talks all the time the game of whist! is goinig on, and who comes to once in a while to ask what is trumps, is a good type of this kind of pestiferous insect.

In every rapge of human interest the man who doesn’t care is open to suspicion. Whoever would just as soon eat one thing as another gives signs of a lack of taste in higher matters, as Lamb said. The young man who marries just to be married, and is not. driven to the step by an irresistible mania, I cannot abide. The superior individual who belongs to your church just because one should belong to some church- gives honest and militant believers the shivers. The man who drops in to see you, not because lie hankers for your society, ; JUt because he has nothing else to do —you would much rather he had kept away. This affectation of indifference is the nastiest characteristic of the English speaking people. No one moves us with such an intense conviction that he needs kicking so much as the immobile-faced youth with a monocle to whom all human concerns are a poor show, which he seems to hasc seen many times'before, and is waiting with ill-concealed suffering until it is over.

Give me a discriminating eater, a thirsty drinker, a hard fighter, a keen player, a sound sleeper, an intense worker, a rollicking dancer, and a hot lover every time. Lukewarm folk make you ashamed of being alive.