The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-22

'NtIl MS every tHtISN Wnllt ne IlNtS.
81 am not particular whether my
husband lives very long or not-pro.
viding he builds up a capital during
his lifetime that will bring me income
ly or to attract the attention of some
, worthy successor.
A Pipe Dream.
II used to think that life was given
to us for the satisfaction that we
could get from it-ior the JOY and the
pleasure that we could give to others
and in that way to ourselves | once
thought that men worked and wor-
ricd and fused for ten hours a day
in order that they might enjoy the
other fourteen, and | once considered
that "A pretty fair division Occasion
ally you will see man now who sits
IN his Office for eight hours Of each
day and who then shuts up that Office
tight, locks the door. walks away and
never thinks of it again until the
next morning. And in the meantime
he goes out among his fellow beings,
the creatures who were put on earth
for our enjoyment rather than any
thing else, and he grects them cor.
daily and IS glad and makes them
glad, too. that he and they are alive
together. He will sit down after
supper in the coZy corner of his home,
the home that has been built to suit
his one.time vision, and he will read
his magazine and smoke his pipe and
laugh a little now and then and play
little with the children who are
delighted to have him home and he
will feel repaid for the work that he
has done and the trouble that he has
had. And the next day he will go
down town, looking still fresh and
young and alert, filled with optimist-
ic hope and thoughts upon the bright
minute of it all day long. And that
man, when he is sixty or seventy or
even eighty years old, will go out
upon the lawn and enjoy the little
! flowers that nod their pretty heads in
the dew of a springtime morning; he
will stop for a minute on the street
to watch a game of marbles among
the urchins of the alley; he will lis
ten to the songs of the birds that fill
the air with cheer and he will feel
kindly toward all the world and glad
enough that he has been given a
chance to stay in it. And when, at
last, his course has been fully run
and he is taken from this earth, his
circle of the folk that knew him
while he lived, will forever think of
him as one of the grand old men
of their experience. There are such
men as that but they're like jewels
in their rarity and in the good that
they do for the world.
But none of those for me-" she
went on, suddenly catching her wan.
dering words and shooting new and
keener spirit into the sentences that
| followed.
None For Her.
There would be too much quiet
ness and peace and sameness about
it all. / want a husband who will
start out in the world with an idea
that he loves me and wants to do
things for my sake; who will devise
methods for the giving of pleasure
to me and who will, in the end, be-
come so absorbed in those devices
that he shall practically forget that
| am on earth at all, except as a
creature of burden-an individual to
whom he is prisoner and one who
must be supported 365 days out of
the year, with another day added for
leap year.
81 want someone who will care
nothing about my friends-who will
run away when they come to see me
and who will never bother me 10y
wanting to go to visit them. want