THE STICK HABIT.
Why carry a stick ? On the face of it, there are few habits more absurd. A stick does-not help you along (unless you are a wounded soldier, or suffer from some infirmity). It handicaps your hand for any other purpose, it frequently prevents you from carrying the more useful umbrella, it costs money, in its modest way, and any actor will tell you that, if you sport a stick, it will render you awkward —a stick, in fact —when you are not carrying it. Americans think very little of sticks. They smile at us for our habit,, and usually prefer to leave the hand free for a newspaper, a cigar, or raising the hat. But the stick has its virtue, and its virtue is a psychological one. A stick gives yoxi a sense of independence, the kind of independence you get from wearing your hat slightly on the tilt. The German Emperor once said that an extra foot to the lance made a fighting man all the more redoubtable. So, the stick. Nevertheless, it is a poor man that depends on his stick for dignity.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2641, 22 September 1919, Page 7
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188THE STICK HABIT. Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2641, 22 September 1919, Page 7
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