Word: vagabondism
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...Vagabond's favorite literary characters is Dr. Johnson, and it grieves him to confess that he is forced to admit a flaw in his greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those...
Finally, those who chose well their courses will soon reap the profits of their foresight, for after another seven days comes the last appearance this year of that popular favorite Reading Period. Whatever that may mean to the individual, the Vagabond hopes it concords with his own pious wish that even if there are thirty-one days in May, it can't produce as much rain as April did with only thirty...
...wind", says the age-old proverb, "which blows nobody good," and the Vagabond was once again struck with the truth of the words when, in the course of his daily perigrinations he came upon a most diverting bit of comment. Curiously enough, it was dated FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Washington, Stipulation No. 339; and was in brief an agreement to prohibit the printing of fraudulent advertising...
...indeed, it would seem at first glance, a subject pregnant with merriment. But the Vagabond, true to his nature, attacked the material--and found it with few exceptions pure gold, a few nuggets of which he will give his readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...