Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-01-06

we would have to change time. In.
stead of being seventy. sixty, fifty or
forty years of age we would have to
become ten. twenty or thirty years OF
age. What does that mean? Why, II
means when we call back our fathers
and mothers and sisters and brothers
and run around again rs curly head
ed child we would have to give up our
wives and husbands and children and
grandchildren. Would you like to do
that! or course IL you were little
girl of eleven years of age you could
not have husband and lot of ba-
bies as you have now. or course IL
you were II schoolboy you could not
have Il 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 nowI | doubt 1t.
| doubt if the opportunity of being or
dercd 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
say. Give me back my youth" l
think that YOU would say: Let me
stay rs am. would prefer to be a
man rather than Il boy or wife and
u mother rather than Il little child be-
ing put to sleep in IL trundle bed"
Would We Change Our Friendss
We loved and still do love our ia
Tiers and mothers and sisters and
brothers. But do we not also love and
cling To our wives and husbands and
children! We seem to grow bigger
baby about them every day. When we
20 away from home now we long to get
back just as little child cries for its
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 wife as well adapted to
you as she who is now your companion
and helper! You know how faithfully
she las 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 do
the same | do not believe there is
another woman in all the world who is
more fitted TO he the companion OF
your life than she has been. If | were
YOU would not ask 10 go back to
childhood and risk losing her. 1t was
hard enough in the beginning to win
her All her school friends We're amaz
ed 10 see her choose you when. from a
worldly standpoint. SO many suitors
had laid siege 10 her heart and hand.
Then the babies. How could we give
them up, even for little while! l
once read of II little girl who. with her
brother. was watching Il knife grinder
sharpening some scissors Her father
quite nearSightcd and deaf. turned TO
the boy and said: My SON here is
some money Ask the organ grinder
to play another tune" With that the
boy bcgan to laugh His sister turned
upon him look of sharp rebuke as
She answered. Yes. father we will"
Then she turned and gave the organ
grinder another pair of scissors to
sharpen. and the nearsghted and deaf
father turned smilngy away, think
ing he had made his children happy,
whereas. in fact il was the daughter
who had made the father happy. So
when we grow older our children have
habit of covering NJ our weaknesses.
We do not know why 1t is, but we are
growing more and more dependent up
OH them every day. All. yes those
boys and girls of ours. how much they
are to lis, The hair may be gay up
Oh our heads. the hand may he fee
Bile. but we would not have raven
locks and stout limbs il we had To be
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?
But" says some one. Il did not ex-
actly mean that What | do mean is
this; | would like 10 live my life over
again Just rs it is | would like to go
back into the past and be born In the
same cradle and have the same broth
to 20 to the same schools and marry
the same girl and have the same chill
drcn would like to have my life ex-
actly reproduced as it has been In the
past" Then. my friend. | want to tell
you that your life If it were To be re-
produced Just as il was. would be a
great disappointment To You. "A
twice told tale" Is never as interesting
thc SECOND time rs it is the first time
fl is told Let me Illustrate:
Twice Told Tale.
For many years my father led very
busy life. Pleasure had but little in his
existence He Went from engagement
to engagement. from duty " duty But
during these wears of work he kept
Que hope over before him. lie wanted
10 go back anal live a little while close
10 nature. ass be- did when "A boy. oh.
said he 4 thousand times, "if We could
only gel % his carriage and take all ihe
ellidrcn aluas aud go camping through
ihr mountains Then We would picnic
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