The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16
A Day Dream.


I believe l very. much admire Miss
Helen Gould. We have all read of so
many good and kind things she has done,
that 1t would be hard to keep from lik-
ing her. OF course, she does not spend
her great fortune just as we would II
1t were ours, but we have been raised in
quite different environment from Miss
Gould; believe she does the best she
knows how to do; she Is surely an i'm
provement over the many simpering So
ciety girls who take no interest in any
thing but their own pleasure.
have built many an air castle think
ing Of what l would do il some one
should suddenly leave me $15,0O0,000 (al-
though l know that day dreams are not
healthy or at all conducive to hard work,
still yield once in awhile). Fifteen mil
lion dollars Is always the sum l possess
in my minds eye; you see desire to be
very rich, so that can do great deal Of
good with my money, not merely
wealthy, which might tempt me to be
selfish, since there would not be enough
money for me to spend for others, but
as | said, fabulously rich. Yes, have
imagined many and many time of the
wonderful things l would do with my
money. In the first stages Of my wild
imaginings always hired carriage the
moment heard of my immense fortune
and drove Immediately to the finest
candy store in town and bought pounds
and pounds of candy and had them sent
in beautiful boxes to all my friends.
| did not buy all of my candy at one
store; no, indeed. The principle of
equal rights to all, special privileges to
none" had been so thoroughly instilled
in my mind that even in a day dream l
drove around to all Of the stores and
distributed my patronage among them.
Then I would buy presents for them,
oh, such pretty rings and opera glasses,
and ever so many nice things that would
make my friends think how nice and
thoughtful l was to remember them in
my exalted state. When l grew tired OF
that began to think Of the many poor
little children had heard about so often,
and of the tired mammas, OF the papas
on the point of suicide because Of no
work to do. And then grew angry with
myself to think l had wasted time in
sending candy and pretty presents to
people who did not need them any more
instead Of going Immediately with food
for these poor starving ones. began
my air castle all over again, and this
time drove to a grocery store and or
dered everything l could think Of that
poor hungry stomach could want, then
drove hurriedly to a coal office and or
dered coal to be sent down to an enor-
nous hall there was in the town where
l was going to have as many poor people
as | could find go, where they would re-
ceive a good supper and get warm. My,
bat my thoughts flew fast, Hour by
hour went by, and still l was feeding the
poor, in my mind. Oh, how wish 1t
had been in reality. hardly stopped to
eat anything myself, felt so guilty when
I saw their great need, to think had
ever thought of going to candy store
first.
OF course, knew that feeding the poor
lis only temporary way to help the poor,
so nv thoughts roamed on and on until
II had founded colonies, cooperative col
onies, for as many persons as wished to
Ijoin them. / had one in Colorado, one
near the city OF Chicago another in the
vicinity of New York, still others just
outside of Washington, Boston and many
other cities. In fact, l had chain of
them from the East to the West and
from the North to the South. They were
SO near each other that they could ex-
change their products and thereby be
Independent of competition. Oh, 1t was
rosy dream, in which all poor unfortu-
mates could be helped to independence,
where ignorance and prejudice were BAN
ished from the land. ] wish that even
n sunaIl mart NJ n might cOFna tFuN