Milford chronicle., 1906-01-05


INC we would hage to change time II
i've stead Of being seventy, sixty, fifty o
Isl forty years Of age we would have L
me become ten, twenty or thirty years o
IN age. What does that mean? Why /
in means when we call back our father,
te and mothers and sisters and brother,
Ou and run around again as curly head
W ed child we would have to give up our
II wives and husbands and children and
" grandchildren. Would you like to do
d that: OF course if you were little
d girl Of eleven years of age you could
II not have husband and lot Of ba-
u Dies as you have now. OF course if
q you We're schoolboy you could not
B nave a couple of other SchOolboyS run
I hlhg around and calling you papa"
ana asking you what they should do
Were you happier when you were
young than you are now? | doubt il.
doubt if the opportunity of being or
dered around by your teachers and by
/ your parents and by your older broth /
ers aId sisters were laid alongside Of
your present opportunities you would
say, Give me back my youth"
thihk that you would say: Let me
stay as l am. l would prefer to be
man rather than boy or Il wife ana
mother rather than a little child be-
ing put to sleep in umdle bed"
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Would We Change Our Friends9
We loved and stiH do love our fa-
tAerS and mothers ami sisters and
brothers. But do we not also love and .
cling to our wives and husbands ana +
children: We seem to grow bigger ,,
baby about thcm every day When we Il
60 away from nome now we long to get !;
back. just as Il little child cries for its =.
mother. How would YOU like to 20 Il
back to childhood aud live ten. twenty i,
lr thirty years before you had the -.
pleasures Of domestic life that YOU r.,
iaye now: Are you sure that YOU o.
Would lind a wife as well adapted TO ol
'ou as She who is now your Communion -
nd helper: You know how faithfully MI
he Las clu@% to YOU She is like san 90
ns. She k.oWs how to bend before fr,
ne angry tornadoe>: but, like the sap no
nS She never loses her anchorage. a.,
hen tie storm Of anger subsidies She ~
shts herself ana compels you TO do obi
le same. l do not believe there is G.
lother woman in all the world who is +ho
ore fitted to be the companion Of ~,
'ur life than she has been. If | were oo,a
III l would not ask to 20 back to bea
lldhood and risk losing her. 1t was 1ast
ri enough in the beginning TO win so,,,
r. All her school friends were amaz- H.
TO see her choose you when. from n oI,o,
Tldly standpoint so many suitors bnsl
u laid siege to her heart and hand ain,
heh the babies, How could we give ,,otI,
I'm up, eN en- for a little while? n,.o.
e read Of a little girl who. with her mo
ther. was watching a knife grinder br,ti
rpeuug some scissors. Her father mn,
-e hearSislted and deaf. turned 70 so,,,I
boy and said: My son, here is ca
e money. Ask the organ grinder ond
'lay another tune" With that the ,,o,,
, H., w. 'uS"' MS SISTER turned Chris
, rro '.eu, res Iather we will" Thu
n she turned and gave the organ last s
ler another pair Of scissors to q son
pen ana the nearsghted and deaf ten f,
ir turned Smilingly away. think nast
ne had made his children haDpv watch
'eas III fact it was the daughter Years
had made the father happy. So whom
we grow oder our children have sound,
~ u covering up our weaknesses. dirge
10 not know why it is but we are kneD
Ihs more and more dependent up- the he
lem every day. All, yes. those cemete
ana girls of ours, how much they 4 q
us. The hair may be gray up- call. "
II heads, the hand may be fee 1QOO a,
)ut we would not have raven 1904 a
ana stout limbs if we had to be Tbev -
ited from them even for a wear. if va II
went back to childhood days Rut ne
we improve our lot? Could we midnipl
my better childtle en- than are now diroa
g our lives? ,,-iii ~,
say soi'e one i did not ex- dead a
mean that What / do mean is meet If
would ike to live my life over sorrows
lust as it is l Would like TO 90 emiliro,
ITO the past and be born in tbe bovo y,
raule ana have tie same broth happv ,
'i9'SlS' WoVlu ike again the wear
o the same schools and marry tboo n n
ne girl and have the same chill ,,oors 90
would like to haHe NV life ex- Ill
produced as it ha4 been in the 10 a.,
Then, my friend, Il want to tell and bo,.
{ your life, if it WIRE TO he re- bi,,, >,
d just as it was. would be n Iar %
to YOU. "a n,idri,,t+
I'D tale" is never asl interesting ri,,o, e.
nd time as it is thk first time We oo,'
|. Let me illustrated shaI H.
A"iee toid TaIf. Thou b
any years my father lied a very deor ono
., Pleasure had but llttle in his conn. Gov
@. He went from enlargement irdo,no,;;,
ement, from duty to duty. But VIII nc
these years of work. he kent to- T.
ever before him. Ia wanted fo,.+,, ~,
elk and live Il little willie close 80. 49,
?, as he did when a bot. ooh" 70 ,,,.oot st'
. -. 'ii"eS' l. We could rise from