The Dawson journal., 1885-09-24
WE COULD GO BACK.
ny Kate THORN.

..zssa. BY KATE THORN.
There are people who are al
xays wanting to live their lives
over.
They are full of regrets.
They are always sorry for some
thing. Perpetual lamentatior
over what is passed is their bless
ed state. ~
Now, suppose we could go back.
Suppose you, good man, could
90 back, and be- q baby once more
What would it profit? You would
probably, be just as much of a
nuisance as you were in your ba-
byhood No. l. You would kick
jug3 as much, scream just as loud
ly, get just as much sour milk in
to your stomach to pour out on
the nurses clean aprons, as you
did then! And you would wrestle
Just as much with collie and wind,
Group and castor Oil, and measles
and catnip tea, and bread and mo-
lasses, and green apples, and pa
pas whiskers, and Aunt Mary's
cap boarders, and peppermint can
dy, and losenges, as you did at
first.
And you would make just as
many attempts to swallow cents,
and marbles, and get kernels of
corn in. your ears, and fish-hooks
in your nose, just about as you
used to do.
You would, when you got big
ger, take the same loving interest
in the neighboring watermelon
fields, and in the early apples,
and the choice pears, just as you
dld when you were a boy before.
You would, probably, be spank
ed about the same number of
times, and you would, doubtless,
deserve a good many more spank
ngs than you received. Most of
US do. Along the path Of youth
lie the same pitfalls which have
been there since Adam. There
has been no new. highway built,
that we know of. Trials and
t'mptations, joys and sorrows,sins
and Christian graces are scattered
all the way along. Experience is
the only teacher. We never take
the advice CT our elders. We
Scorn to profit by what they have
endured. We call them old fo-
gles, when they would show US a
chart of life, and elect to find out
the sunken rocks and lee shores
for ourselves.
If you could be a young man
again, perhaps you think you
Toul' do differently. You would
marry Sally Jones instead of Betsy
brown; but how do you know but
o., oally would be just as disagreed
Die In the long run as you have
found Betsyp
Husbands mold, to great ex-
'ent' the dispositions of their
wives. A man who is always
lault-hnding viii sour the temper
VI the sweetest woman that ever
lived. Somebody says that a wc-
"an should always meet her hus-
Oand with smile, but he neglects
10 add that husband should dc
IN equal part of the smiling. Il
'' dull music for a woman to keep
up the smiling business in the
lace OF man who comes into the
uouSe like boiled-down thunder.
siOud' and walks around like 6
1uli-grown cyclone, slamminQ
SOOrS' ard wanting to know "why
.ne duse dinner isn't ready?"
- No. you don't know it for a faot
'nat von if you could be young again
fou ib would do better. lacking
is a' experience you have gained, i
woni nti1posslble to say what yor
Ser; UGla d9 it you would try the ex.
Sou might do worse.
c,r 20 don't fret about it. Dom
hSSt hS over split milk. Don't regret
Is SS so you have lived your life. 4
sbo,Sp oUpa over, anyway, and it is toe
[s So % spend in .repinings.
that orace up, and be thankfu
it Is II is no worse with you thar
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