Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-15

one could have persuaded us that ii
would ever pail upon us, our summer
haven by the sea. 1t seemed to us
when We first found it, that we never
could get enough of strolling along
it's sands, of walking among its cliffs,
of watching the changing lights of its
foam crests, the restless. neverceasing
tossings of its pillows, the breaking
of it's wavelets on the shore; of lis
tening to all the voices in the eternal
monotone of the sea. 1t was a joy
almost beyond an earthly JOY to live
where sucn breezes blew, to open wide
our eyes and ears and drink in all we
could of the wonders that We're there
to be seen and heard
Ht people there were so much nicer
than the busy people at home, with
all their cares and crosses. They had
nothing to do, any of them, but seek
pleasure for themselves and look
had no schools or tasks or rules of
any kind to attend to, and it was re-
freshing to see just what Dame Nature
intended the children to be where
there was plenty of room for them to
grow without crowding any one else.
1t was delight to watch the sun and
the wind go partners in the business
of smoothing away the footprints that
time and care had left on grown-up
faces. 1t was SO good to be out OF
harness ourselves and turned out to
pasture at large But there came a
day when we got enough of it all,
even of that: when our thoughts turn
ed farther in shore and We sighed
for a sight from mountain top. The
ocean had had it's day.
Just a little fortnight ago it was
that we thought it would be bliss to
stay always where we We're and look
up to the mountains towering thous
ands of feet toward heaven; to see
them lift their purple heads above
the morning mists; to see the sun.
light move down and down and shift
the scenes in the valleys below: TO
see the mountains wrap around their
shoulders a mantle of clouds, and still
raise their stately heads to the blue
of the infinite above; to view the
majesty Of their silent strength as
wind and storm and lightning spent
themselves in vain against their rock
bound sides; to watch the shadows
creep over the valleys and up. slowly
up, among the trees and the rocks
and turn all the greens and purples
to brown and then to black, and, SO,
wipe out all the landscape at last-all
but the mighty ebon forms standing
eternal sentinel against the sky. We
said to ourselves that it would be an
easy thing to live great lives II we
could live always here among natures
giants; an easy thing to lift ourselves
above the petty cares and temptations
of earth If we could always climb
bodily so much nearer to heaven.
But the other night something came
down from the mountain tops. came
stealing down as we slept. came
creeping to our bedsides and interfer-
ing with our dreams. Then those OF
us who were too busy dreaming to
wake went out in our dreams to look
for the open polar sea, got all among
1cebergs somewhere or got put in colo
storage somewhere else. And those
of us who woke piled on all the cover
OF every sort within reach. and lay
under it. shivering, till morning. and
wishing it were more. When morn
ing came We dived down to the bot
tom of our trunks and brought up,
dear me, last winters musty f1annels
and last winters worse-for-wear and
worse for packing suits or parts or
suits. When we appeared In the
breakfast room we were in very incon
gruous-looking toilets, some OF us, and
when the air In a breakfast room is
impregnated with smell OF moth
balls, why somehow the breakfasters
lose little piece of their appetites,
even among the mountains. And when
Won know your blouse is tumbled or
when you have cloth Jacket perched
atop OF an airy summer suit. why, then