The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-10
Eyes That See Not
By WINIFRED BLACK.
THE other day I went to the
maintain tap

THE other day / went 10 the
J. mountain top.
II was fair day in the valley,
day exceedingly fair. All along
the way the red Indian paint
brushes stood like funny little
patarans, put there long ago 10
show gypsy feet the road to the
summit, And beside them flowered
the tall blue lunth and the bright
yellow mountain furze, and AS we
went higher. through the signing
pines. into the region of the twist
ed cedars, past the quivering aspen
groves, up, up beyond the line of
timber, the blue forget -me-nots
carpeted the upland meadows like
great rugs of priceless worth. Blue,
blue az the eyes of a newborn
baby, blue as sapphire. blue as the
sky on June day IN California.
blue as fprget-me-n
And q little pale girl sat among
them and gathered bouquets to help
pay for her living there in the
hills where she hoped to find
strength. And we all bought the
bouquets and smiled into the shy
eyes of the delicate child. and
asked her what she called the dog
who MAS her sturdy companion.
And some Of US thought of
healthy children Of our own, happy
at home, and some, ] think, re
membered children who bad tried
to live, too. and had failed.
Up we went, aud Up TO the top
of the world, and there we saw
the glory Of the skies,
They were blue that day. as blue
as the forget-me.nots, and 1ar.
far below Us flosted great fleets of
suow.whlte clouds like icebergs
sdrift ia a strange aud silent sea
And some OF us could not speak,
and some sighed, and some, / know,
wept for very. JOY at the great
beauty of it all.
And one stood beside me aud
shifted.
ISay," said she. II don't see
anything much here, do you?''
''Not a thing said ], and then
she told me the mountains were
all great fake, and she wished
she had stayed at home.
"Spent lot of money all for
nothing she said. "Ill know
better next time, I'll tell you
that.
Aud as We went down the noun
tain side we talked, and I found
that she liked the town nearby
'rather well.
"There are two picture shows
there" she said. land every
night there's vaudeville. and g
band concert twice a week, and
lots of folks moving about all the
time
And we laughed together, the
woman who shifted and /, at the
people who were jay enough.
that was the expression she. used,
to like the mountains, and the
sky, and tine fleets Of clouds, and
the fields, of heavenly blue, and
suppose that woman thinks she saw
tains. too.
Poor, foolish, blind, deaf, dumb,
half.living creature! Why, she
never sees anything, she just
thinks she sees
What do such people get out OF
the world, I wonderl What
queer. mixed up, foolish sort of
place it must be to them all the
time,
What fools they must think all
the other people, or maybe they
think the rest of us are just put
ting on when we like to see beauty
instead of uGliness, glory instead
Of squalor'
I knew a man once who said ne
knew no one really liked TO read.
they Just said thew did to put
on.
know another man who de.
clares that he can t see the differ.
enre between dinner at good
restaurant and a "feed at
cafeteria. "Its all grnh,' he
saws, "what's s the difference. eg-
cept the airs!' And he really
means it,, too.
All men are equal, says the old
law-oh, If some law could only
make them so. All men are equal,
and one is blind, and one is deaf,
apd ope is dull, and one is lame.
All men are equal, and all wo-
men, too--perhaps.
wonder if the woman who
couldn 4 see ANYTHING worth look
ing at on the mountain top thinks
so. toof