The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16

but he awalSeth, and behold he is faiSt and his soul hath appetite, so shall the multitude of the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion"
 Many people of the most delicate modesty are made to suffer untold em- barrassment by this tendency of dreams to go "by contrar1es." They find themselves, n.their dreams, out on the streets with their garments falling from them; or they are suddenly star | tied by a consciousness that they are in parlor with ladies and gentlemen, and have gotten there, they know not now, without the conventional amount of clothing upon them The vain eff forts to hide themselves and their ina bility to get out of the room, are in- describably distressing. Ordinarily the only relief comes with a shock of nor tifying shame. so keen and painful as to awaken the dreamer, who is apt to exclaim: Thank God, 1t was only dream"
 I said dreams go by contraries, and that reminded me of an old Irish wom- ans interpretation of the sentence: This old woman met very wealthy landlord driving out with his wife one morning. After greetings on both sides, the old peasant woman said, q had a dream about your honor, and about your lady ship last night. I dreamed that your honor gave me a pound of tobacca, and your ladyship gave me pound of tay." "But, Brigdet," said the man of wealth,
  traries." To which she replied, "Ah we'll your honor it's me lady then that's to give the tobacca, and yourself is to give me the tay."
 It Is often said there is one place where dreams are always true to the mind that conceives them. and that ls where inherent characteristics are dis closed. miser never dreams that he is scattering his wealth abroad. A cow ard never dreams that he is an invinci- ble hero A bad man cannot dream that he is an absolutely good person; if the suggestion comes to his dream that he is good man. he will remember. even in his dream. some wrong that he has done, and argue. yes. in his sleep, to dis prove the notion of his goodness, even though the conclusion reached be to his own moral shame. Neither can a man ab- solutely lose his individual identity In dream. He may become two men, or a dozen; but one of the many is still him. self, and in all deeds and conversation, one is more intimate with his individual self than with any of the others that seem to be himself multiplied.
 | QnhfaCtq haf have no place in the mind in the day find place in the dreams of night. This is true, but 1t is not the rule. Gener- ally the thoughts that one fosters in the day he will confront again In dreams; and the friends of whom one thinks oftenest while awake he is apt to meet oftenest on some of the highways or byways of dreamland.
 Mathematicians have often solved prob- lems in dreams. over which they had toiled for hours without results. Dr. Lamberton, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, gave up problem in de- scriptiye geometry, upon which he had labored for weeks by the analytical meth- cd. It would not be dismissed from his mind. however, and in dream he saw a blackboard upon which had been drawn the lines and complete diagram necessary to the solution.
 Coleridge had been reading Purchases "Pilgrimage" wherein occurs this sen tence: Here the Kahn kubla command ed a palace to be ebuilt and garden thereunto, and thus ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed within 8 wall. Dropping his book he fell asleep and took the story that he had been reading with him into dreamland, and there, in that mystic land, he composed his wonderful poem, "Kubla Kahn" of "The shadow of the dome of pleasure, Which floated midway OCT the wavcs;' Interspersed with the musical lines.
 Tt was an Abysinnian maid
 And on her duicimer she played,
 Singing of Mount Kbora."
 Upon exekinx coaagaAgs uretp the pis-