Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-26


would be if We could have our 'fath-
ers. We would be right in the midst
of the millennium. Ever heaven wculd
almost lose its attractive radiance For
God has given man so inventive an i'm
agination and so richly endowed him
with a capacity for enjoyment that the
earth would be too beatific a place to
dream CT flying to that world we know
not certainly of. All we want is just
our "rathers." The world would then
be complete. Hate greed, envy would
step out the back door, defeated. And
the back yard would bloom as the front
with the rcses Of love, with lavender
and rosemary, and with purple hearts
ease. Trusts, monopolies, combines.
would be dissolved by the alchemy OF
a Geep-rooted, universal brotherhood
Wee and hunger and grinding neces
sity would vanish into thin air, and in
their place should reign peaceful
plentitude and t. every one Should be
allotted his portion of rest Medical
quiet should descend like heavenly
balm upon straining nerves. Faded,
hollow eyes hould grow bright, cheeks
should grow round and babies should
never cry.
And there is another rather" /
think of every morning. 1t is directed
against that fallacious copy-book max
i'm that 1T is the early bird that catch
es the worm If | had my way that
should be blotted out of the bright
lexicon of youth. Yes. If any one
wanted to sleep away the morning
hours, why, he could. Mother Nature
knows more about the requirements of
the body than any maker of epigrams.
would rather have my "rathers'
than to have my ships come in laden
with ingots of gold and of silver For
the power of money is too material. too
crcumscribed, too tinklng cymbal
but if a kindly breeze would watt me
hither my ''rathers' | would soon have
the world in Eden, one where the
snake did never enter. and where love
and honor, and neral worth would out.
rank all accumulations of houses and
land, of government bonds or railroad
stock.
II | had my "rathers" every day
should be a deep dream of peace. jar
ring jangles should never be known.
Civic and domestic polity should stand
stanch and serene. The ship # state
should always ride with her sails
crowded with the billowing breeze of
prosperous ease. And the home should
cover the entire gamut of right living
which is what God intended it to do
And the internal machinery of the
hCme, how smoothly it shculd run.
Everything should werk out as beau
tifully as a geometrical theorem. The
days should not be punctuated by such
perplexities as fires going out with the
thermometer IA below zero. The
! grapes on the sideboard would not
turn to little pebbles, neither would
ones dearest vase split wide open be-
cause the water in it froze hard as a
mere banal ralners, referable to the
weather man, who has dealt us out
sc'.ne days that have made us rather
, wish We were down around India's cor
! a strand, on basking under t:ee bamboo
tree with the Zulu from Monta Bulu.
| But then it is Cur experience tnat f0s-
ters cur "rathers." The little Eskimo
who lectured for US one winter laughed
at our notion Ct q burning he'll. If |
should tell my counrymen that" size
said, they would try t. so there as
tast IS they could" It is car point OF
view that cclors life
Ii had MY "rathers," there are a
/ thousand useless domestic details
from which women should be emanci-
! pated. ""ouldn't it be funny" said
the little black-eyed daughter, If
dresses just grew, and we could sc out
on The front porch and pick new enc
off the crimson rambler?" This struck
her little broWn-eyed sister as rath er
amusing. 'Eculdn't it, thought she
giggled. But being a practical little