The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-12
LOVES YOUNG DREAM.

III lONG. vi course JH6 boy ) III
love. Weren't you in love when you
were in your teens? asks Winifred
Black in the New York American.
The first time it was a teacher-re-
member the big red apples you used
to bring and lay in her desk, and the
spring beauties in April and the Ii
lacs in June? Dear me, l never get
Whit of lilacs to this day without
seeing before me the old school room,
with its worn floors and its dusty old
blackboard, and Him slipping in to
lay great bunch of feathery, plumy,
fragrant, purple wild flowers on that
black-haired teachers desk,
Him?
Oh, he was the boy I was in love
with myself, and he didn't know |
was alive.
1 was too young for him, much
too young and too giggly and too
easy to make friends with, so ne
chose the teacher, hateful, tail,
black-haired thing, with beau OF
her own waiting for her at the Wen
corner every single afternoon.
| was glad when | heard she was
going to be married, but | couldn I
bear to look at Him when the news
first got out. l was afraid he would
commit suicide or something, but ne
didn't. He fell in love with little
yellow-haired German girl, VINO
blushed if she met a cow and STAN
mered if you asked her where the
lesson was.
Purple lilacs? No, it was snow
balls by that time, and Glove. p1nks'
and I had to be content with the
sworn fealty of boy with big hands
and freckles, whom | had known all
my life.
Oh, | tell you, sorrow comes carry
to some hearts.
And then it was the boy with the
mysterious dark eyes and tasclnaI-
ing lisp, and then it was red-nalreo
how who was always fighting, and
then-and then-dear me, you can I
count the list.
Afterward it was the man OF forty
or so; poor dear, he never even
guessed there was such a person as
me in unimportant existence.
He was the captain of steamer
of the Great Lakes, and USED 10
sit in a trance and hear him say
tStarboard some," Port little, TIL
ALL the summer night grew silver with
stars and the supper down In the
port a little; starboard some
and on and on the ship sailed INTO
the purpling waters and the rosy
sunset, and my silly little head swan
with dreams-and the captain was
middle aged and gray haired ana
probably wondered what on earth
was the matter with the little red
headed tyke of a girl in switchy pet
ticoats who couldn't seem to stay
away from the wheelhouse.
And then it was an actor-an Eng
rehman who said me Lord and
"By me faith, fair Catherine.
used to tear the daily newspapers out
of the hands of Infatuated and aghasl
elders looking for the bare mentloh
| of that English actors name, still no.
body knew what in the Worlo pos
sessed me.
And then it was the leader OF a
certain little country German Dano
oh. those flaxen locks under the mill
tary cap! And ali, those brass put
tonsl And then-and then-WelI'
then it wasn't funny any more
A Denver teacher told me the oth-
or day. with a brow fairly tied into
Enots of anxiety, that the worst
thing she had to deal with was What
she called puppy love. g., >,
""Those children are so dreadful
eaid the teacher. ''You can't realize
If but they fall in love before they
are out of the eighth grade;
"Eiohth grade" I echoed. "HoW d.
Won hold them back so long?"
So they fall in love in spite OF you,
dear teacher Well, what OF 1t:
They have the measles, too, don
they? The scarlet fever and the
mumns and the fraternity fad and the
sorority obsession. Why on earth 90
Won want to cheat them out OF the
one sweet dream there is lett LOT
them? ond
what's the color of her eyes, ana
are her cheeks red or dellclously
male? And, whisper, does she loVe
Won for yourself alone or can II De :
perish the drak thought.
BLESS her little young heart ana
bless yours-the pair of you:
The man who said There's notn-
ing half so sweet in life as love
Young dream" didn't tell the who're
truth: he ought to have added ex-
cent loves mature reality; but ne
told enough truth to make his phrase
immortal.
Dream away, boy, dream away,
some time you'll find out that oldef
heads than yours have been kept
sane by lust such sweet dreaming.
ECILC