Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-06

forty years of age we would nave te
become cen, twenty or thirty years oi
age. What does that mean? Why, II
means when we call back our fathers
and mothers and sisters and brothers
and run around again as a curly mead
ed child we would have to give up our
wives and husbands and children ano
grandchildren. Would you like to DO
that? OF course if you were a little
girl of eleven years Of age you could
not have a husband and a lot OF ba'
bies as you have now or course II
you were a schoolboy you could not
have a couple of other schOolboys run
ming around and calling you papa
and asking you what they should do
Were you happier when you were
young than you are nOwf l doubt IT,
I doubt if the opportunity of being or
dered around by your teachers and by
your parents and by your older broth
ers and sisters were laid alongside OF
your present opportunities you would
saw. "Give me back my youth" l
think that you would say: Let me
stay as | am. l would prefer to be
man rather than boy or wife and
a mother rather than little child De-
ing put to sleep in trundle bed"
Would We Change Our Friendsf
We loved and still do love our IA
! thers and mothers and sisters ana
brothers. But do we not also love and
cling TO our wives and husbands and
children? We seem to grow a bigger
baby about them every day. When we
90 away from home now we long to get
back, lust as little child cries for lts
mother How would you like to go
back to childhood and live ten, twenty
or thirty years before you had the
pleasures of domestic life that you
have now? Are you sure that you
would find a wife as well adapted to
Won as she who is now your companion
and helper? You know how faithfully
she has chung to you. She is like sap
ling She knows how to bend before
the angry tornadoes; but, like the sap
ling. she never loses her anchorage
When the storm of anger subsidies she
rights herself and compels you to dc
the same. 1 do not believe there is
another woman in all the world who is
! more fitted to be the companion OF
your life than she has been. If l were
you | would not ask to go back to
childhood aud risk losing her. 1t was
hard enough in the beginning to VIII
her. All her school friends were amaZ
ed to see her choose you when, from a
worldly standpoint, so many suitorS
had laid siege to her heart and hand.
Then the babies! How could we give
them up even for a little whilef
once read of a little girl who, with heI
brother. was watching a knife grinder
sharpening some scissors. Her father
quite nearsighted and deaf, turned tc
'he boy and said: "My son, here is
some nivs1ey. Ask the organ grinder
to play another Ce." With that the
boy began to laugh His slstsTS turned
upon him a look of sharp rebuKeN as
she answered, "Yes, father, we will"
Then she turned and gave the organ
grinder another pair OF SCISSORS 10
sharpen, and the nearsighted and dear
father turned smilingly away, think
ing he had made his children happy,
whereas. in fact, it was the daughter
who had made the father happy. 80
when we grow older our children have
n habit # covering up our weaknesses.
we do not know why it is, but we are
growing more and more dependent up
on them every day. All, yes. those
bows and girls Of ours. how much they
are to us! The hair may be gray up
OH our heads, the hand may be fee
HE but we would not have raven
locks and stout limbs if we had to De
separated from them even for year
If we went back to childhood days,
could we improve our lot? Could we
have any better children than are now
blessing our lives?
"Rut" saws some one, 81 did not ex-
actly mean that. What 1 do mean IS
tbis: I would like to live my life over
again Just as it is. l would Ike 10 90
hack into the past and be born In the
same cradle and have the same Droth-
ers and sisters. 1 would like again
to 90 TO the same schools and marry
the same girl and have the same chll-
dren. I would like to have my life ex'
actly reproduced as it has been IN the
mast" Then. my friend, 1 want to tell
Won that your life, if it were to be re-
produced Just as it was, would be q
great disappointment to you. a
twice told tale" is never as interesting
the second time as it is the first time
it is told. Let me illustrate;
A Twice Told Tale.
For many years my father led very
husv life. Pleasure had but little IN hl'
avistence He went from engagement
IN engagement, from duty to duty Bu
during these years Of work he KEEP
one hope ever before him. lie wante'
70 90 back and live little while clos'
TO nature, as he did when boy. ION,
said he a thousand times, "if we coul'
only get a big carriage and take all tn
children along and go camping througl
the mountains. Then we would plchl
in the woods by day and sleep unde
the shadow Of the trees by night
D We'll the time did come when that OF
fen planned dream was to come true
. ve wore snending that summer in tn
mountains of old Virginia. Father pu
all his children into wagon, and W
5 started. We Travelled through tn
woods as be did when a boy for JUS
two days. The first day was stihin
e hot. 1t ended in a terrific thunder
e storm, which frightened all the Chi
7 dren and 1 think himself included. In
i next day the milk soured; that mean
II no coffee. While father was eating hl
e lunch on a log he saw crawling up b'
4,roo,, bie IoOa a snake lifting its hea