The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-28

teach him ito know the artful and par
asitic nature of most of the unfortunate
sex"
Poor little chap
Should he comply with the terms of the
will and get the money it will doubtless
be the worst thing that could happen to
him. Boys are easily ruined by getting
money they have never earned.
| What would you do If you were in
this boys place? You would take the
money?
You could probably comply with the
educational requirements If you studied
hard. But suppose you had been rear
ed in certain church and believed
with all your soul in that church.
Would you give it up for quarter of
a million dollars? Not II you were the
right sort.
| Or
Suppose you wanted to be doctor
or artist or a merchant Would you
give up your natural wish for the money?
You might do that.
But suppose your stepmother and her
daughter had been good to you. Would
you snub them and refuse to recognize
them or associate with them? Would
you want to be taught that womankind
is artful and parasitic?
| You see, some time you might fall In
love with a good girl and you would
not want to believe that she was false
and deceptive.
| The poor boy Is young-too young to
| choose his way-and 1t may be that
the petty prejudices and hatreds OF the
dead man will become his, more's the
pity.
| Do obo-, Copona1Iad to renress all
his natural longings and aspirations, he
can never be happy.
And all his life long he will be a mere
puppet, the strings of whose life will
be pulled by dead hand stretched from
the grave.
| Our "Ocean"
| Little Hannah Snyder of Chicago a
barelegged mite scarcely able to lisp her
name, was picked up by a policeman.
| Shortly afterward a much perturbed
father ran into the station inquiring for
| his little girl.
Hannah had wandered from home. look
| ing for the ocean,
was the little miss more foolish than
her elders?
| We all look for the ocean.
| Some of us look for the Plenty ocean.
|
let's and streams of prosperity. We want
much And so we eagerly follow the
| streams of thrift in search of more We
| must have an oceanful. We sacrifice
| comfort and peace-and 1t may be honor
itself-in order to search for the big
| Ocean of Millions
others of us are looking for the Pleas
| ure ocean.
We are entertainment mad. Rational
pleasures are not enough. Itds the auto
| aeroplane age. There must be thrills. We
are not content to live beside the cool.
murmuring brooks of satisfaction, nor
along the rushing rivers of sensation.
We must have an Ocean of Bliss.
And some seek only the Ocean of
| Peace.
We are content to let the others go
in their fevered quest for money and
unusual pleasures. We have discovered
that these oceans are salt-the more you
drink the more you want and the less
Won get, Deeper than the Ocean OF
Thrift, wider than the Sea of Pleasure,
lighted by 1.-The light that never was
on sea or land" somewhere-say do you
know where 1t may be?-somewhere is
the Ocean Of Peace. We would rest on
its shores and save our souls.
| And thus we seek
Some for the Plenty ocean, some for
the Ocean of Pleasure and some for the
Ocean of Peace.
| All little Miss Hannah!
The ocean you look for--and will never
finds the ocean for which we all are
looking. ,
Did I say we never would find that
ocean?
Lot rs believe that somewhere, some
sweet day. all weary and travel stained
and warming, like the 10000 Greeks OF
the march-some day, somewhere. there
shall burst upon our ravished sight the
Iow-lying banks and the ripping waters
Of our ocean, And, like the tired Greeks
we shall cry
1.-THE seattle seal" e-a
Extra baggage
The bane of the 'drummers' lie IL
the excess charge he Is compelled to
pay on his big sample trunks when-
ever he takes the train
And there are others.
Many of us who are not road sales
men make more bother to ourselves by
the extra baggage we carry than the
chattels are worth.
Have you ever moved?
II so, when you came to collect the
old furniture and traps you were sur
prised at the accumulation. Most OF
the collection was of the sort that l.
too good to throw away and not goot
enough to sell. So you paid the trans
fer charges on the entire lot.
Extra baggage.
NV desk is a good example. Every
pigeonhole and drawer is full OF ole
pamphlets, rejected manuscripts, ole
Letters, memoranda, notes, ETC., some Of
them SO safely slowed away / do no
know where to find them. Aside from
the value of the desk itself. bonfire
of the whole business would prove &
blessing. p
Extra baggage.
Most of US go through life gathering
up goods and gear we do not need
leaving them behind US for the executol