Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1904-07-28
Week Of July 2s-Ausust 3.
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LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

Summer is pre-eminently the travel
ling season From time immemorial
the summer Of the year has been the
great generator of ideas. Men meet to
exchange views, to enlighten each
other, and to get new, fresh. buoyant
ideas which they can turn over and
over in their minds during the rest of
the year. II has oft been said: There
Is nothing new under the sun" The
twentieth century has its expositions,
it's conferences. and its summer re-
sorts. while the previous centuries had
their stupendous fairs, pilgrimages and
changes Of abode. Though perhaps diff
ferent in size and management, the
great fairs of the east. in the past,
bore the same relation to past civiliza-
ton as our expositions do to the TWEEN.
tieth century civilization. Each acts
as a csearing house of ideas. EACH
can attribute its success or failure to
the presence or absence of the same
things. Each succeeds where the
members enter into the greater rela-
tonship which is Afforded; in other
words, If all live up to the possibili-
ties of the life. Each fails if there is
a lack of this.
The success of our great expeditions
does not depend on the accumulation
Of millions of dollars of surplus, for
that in reality would be but little more
than the changing OF money from one
pocket to the other. II is wealth Of
ideas, not material wealth. which we
hope TO be the outcome Of our exposi-
tons.
But there is a broader application
for this whole idea. Most of us do
gain great deal from expositions.
when we can go to them. We are
primed for them, and assimilate in a
way that is surprising. Yet IL avails
us little IL We hold that attitude only
during the exposition. We are then
like those who coming to the grounds
see the sign Exposition" and imme-
diately lift the veil they have been
wearing and prepare TO get something
from the place where il is advertised
'for sale" at fifty cents admission.
They ask questions, and in a way and
with result that is wonderful to be-
hold. They pass out of the gate. drop
their veil again and are practically
dead to the world. passing by chances
Of obtaining knowledge far superior
TO that gained just previously. There
Is no doubt but what they have gone
ahead. but they have put aside good
chances for even greater progress.
One dear old professor has said:
There Is so much knowledge in the
world and II Is SO well distributed that
not one Of us can look with disdain
upon another. since each can learn
something from every person he
meets" Every word OF this is true.
The man who leads a simple life can
teach simplicity TO the strenuous man
Of the world, and can learn something
from him in turn. II we follow out
this possibility for development we in.
evitably gain in two ways. We make
a kind Of pool Of all knowledge and
learn just how to get to this knowI.
edge, and secondly. we begin to appre-
ciate our fellow man and find ont that
he is not such bad fellow, after all.
Are they right who say that the
great bane Of this world is ignorance?
II would seem 30 when we see innu.
merable good projects fail wholly and
entirely because Of the fact that they
were unappreciated. when a true
knowledge Of them meant apprecia-
ton.
Travel. when carried on in the right
spirit, is q great broadener. OF course
there are many who travel because it's
the hight thing to do. They really