The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-08

Ia4f ~ 4.
s3Ifsall The wise and clever sayings.
an The ecessfuI solutions of vexed
problems. an the admirable literary
productions md brilliant plans and
ideas which come to us IN that bearti.
If1I bofderland time between waking
and sleeping could only be remember.
led andiutiltzed iii all their pristine
Isbrilllahcy the next morning, what a
:wonderf1t world of clever people this
|swouid bet ri
There Isl a certain question which
1 Have never solved entirely to my
Satisfaction perhaps you WIN be glad
to know that questions really do exist
which j do not feel competent to de!
eide and that Is, whether all these
thopghts really are SO Tremendously
brilliant and seem foolish the next
morning only because we cannot fully
recall them, or whether they really
are foolish and seem 10 brilliant only
ibecSdse they come to us when We are
ialf asleep and not capable Of Judging
ssledsly.s
Personally, am inclined to the lal-
Ter rather pessimistlc hypothesiS, but
IN know many people who hold the
$ormef9 One very persistent optimist,
Tor instance. who was a writer by pro-
lbs siefl and @as IN the habit Of think.
ing 81 the most wonderful plots and
The widest conversational for his char.
acters.8ust as ne dropped of to sleep,
none 81 which he could remember the
next morning, always used 10 argue
lswith8us that the ideas realty we're
wonderful and IL he could only have
a stsIcgranher handy to take them
ado@n,te could surely have every mag
1zlneih the country eager for his
stories. ~ r.
Incidentally, THIS person has since
married a stenographer, 50 suppose
we may expect some wonderful pro.
ductions from his pen in the near fu.
ture.
coleridge, Us you will remember,
drought that beautiful fragment, Kill
bla Khna, back from dreanland with
him! Who knows but that dreams
and their twin sisters, the borderland
inspirations. may mot be a wonderful,
updeyel6ped source Of power and efh.
cheney which the psychologist shall
some day teach US to utilize? isn't
this an opportunity for the efficiency
engineer 10 join forces With the psy-
biologist and find some way by which
we can crystalllze these brilliant
1ideas, so that they win stand the
strain of morning light without disap-
pearng?
0rSare they like those beautiful lit
tie leI-spangled cobwebs that the
summer night lays on the grass-in
the days Of long ago ! used to pretend
lthat these, were jewel spapgled scarfs
whlchfthe fairies wore In the inter
l:vals Of the dance. and sometimes left
lbehind in their haste when they fled
at da&n-are these bofderland inspira-
tons, say, as incapable of retain.
| ing their form and beauty under the
sunlight as the faicies' srafs?
You see 1 am back again to my or
iginal question. 1t is maze from
which / cannot seem to escape unless
some wiser friend can give me the
| clue that will lead-unlike poor Rosa
monds-to the light Of day.
Nov what on earth does all this
1 meah.." l can hear some practical
9ersor exclaimlng. There must have
been something the matter with Ruth
when she wrote that"
Cheer up. my friend, It may not
Il please you. but know there will be
some foolish dreamer like myself
who will know what I'm trying to say
| Yousee, / was Just trying to put some
of those borderland thoughts on pa
per. And tomorrow. promise you,
shall'be as practical as YOU please.
.IS<0 70