30 Years on a Pillar Headlines in American newspapers are still confined, to a great extent, to the tree-sitting proclivities. The endurance of the foible bears investigation The urge to get up on high and just sit century mannerism. Fifteen con turies ago the St. Simeon Stylites held the same sort of endurance tests in the name of religion. Simeon, a monk of Syria, was famed for his excessive austerities. built a pillar six fect high and became the first pillar hermit. Not istled with his six feet pillar he built newer and higher ones. The last one was sixty feet high and atop that he perched for thirty years. Rain, snow, hail, or bli made not the slightest eaves of the present interpretation. From the pinnacle he preached and les flocked! from far and near to hear his exalted words. And on his aloof perch he died in the year. 459. His favourite pupil, Daniel, imitated him and for thirty three years he lived on a pede Constantinople. In the century, however, the church decided to put a stop to the stylist nonsense, and when Wulfaicus put up a pillar near Treves and announced that he intended to spend the'rest of his life upon it the Bishops in the vicinity gently dissuaded him by tearing down his nest. It is hardly to be recommended that America cut down all of its trees to dissuade the youthful sitters therein but, nevertheless, if the present fad ap-Proximates fanaticism some des attempt should be made to nip it the bud.
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