Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-30
THROWING THINGS AWAY.
The Time When You Weary Of Hoard
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The Time When YOU Weary Of Hoard
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sasI am beginning to throw away
things said AIR Flittingby, accord
ing to the New York Sun going
Through my papers and things and
throwing things away. AZ
i 81 find among them newspaper clip
pings about things that | would never
have thought of again but for this re-
minder and some things have for
gotten SO completely that even the
sight Of the clippings does not recall
to me why cut them out and saved
them, SO unimp ortant really are many
of the things about which we bother
ourselves OF which at some time we
found of interest. saa4 Sg5 8.s
s.There are letters from men long
since dead, and old bills that recall
forgotten periods of our life that now
seem strange to us, we live so much
in the present And why keep these
old receipts? The men that gave them
are dead now or moved away. and
these accounts will never be sent in
again, and if they We're they have long
since been outlawed by the lapse of
time. Throw them away.
.Here are old birthday cards. with
pretty, with affectionate, with loving
greetings, bringing most pleasant
memories, though they do remind us
Of the years that have gone since first
they came to us. And why should we
preserve them longer? We can re
member, we can cherish those who
sent them without them to remind us,
and they would only lie there with the
| old papers in the drawers. N 10 the
basket gently with them.
..And here, as live, are some old
valentines! Well, well! This does
4 make us young again. But, dear, dear
| that was long ago. Why should we
keep them longer? To the basket
| gently. We have the valentine her:
self now. IBIS #
There are SO many things that we
put away to save, to treasure. Life
seems to stretch away interminably be
| fore us when we are young and We
are going to keep these things always
and it takes US happily a long, lone
time to get where we can see the be
1 ginning of the end Youth enveIops
4 us with a buoyancy and strength that
make life seem a joy that Is to go on
forever, and in sturdy middle age, in
deed, we take little account of the
i years, but then comes a time wheI
we begin to realize that two and twt
| make four and no more.
"NNow, / have arrived at that tim,
Of life when begin to know. Don't
for heavens sake, think that an
taking mournful view. Far from 1t
life never seemed to me so full d
/ joy as now, and I'm good for goot
long stretch of it; vet, with senses keel
and understanding broadening, finding
enjoyment in everything and takinl
this broader view Of things, not occu
\ pied too much by detail, this stored VI
accumulation Of long gathering trucl
seems snperduous and useless. and S,
j I'm just going drought 1T and THROWING
things away.
.'This lot that I've been goini
through today Is just stuff that ha
i accumulated in the cubbyholes in m,
desk, but I've got boxes and bundle
OF such slut stored away, and ] mus
i get 1t out, box or bundle at i
time, and go through 1t and throw
Il away, for Of what use viii it ever
to anybody What becomes OF slli
sort of stuff. anyway, when people
er-rI mean why shouldn't I sort thi
stuff out now myself and not leave
to cumber things up for somebody els
q to throw away?
y tsThere may be some things, to b
sure, that I'll want to save, things ths
other people will want to keep, an
these things ! will save; but as to th
bulk OF this stuff, why, it's just {
J much hindering, useless baggage, an
j this I'll throw away and with til
decks cleared start life anew Z