The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-26
DREAMING


visions take the form OF radiant palaces
beside sapphire seas with full orches-
ira playing Strauss waltzes all the time
and blue satin princes stray in red rose
gardens with a book Of verses under
their arms, but IL is when the dream
takes the form of the biggest bear in
the ZOO. who imagines you are nice
brown bun all full OF currants that you
want to wake up. Dreams, they are the
things that happen 70 you when the
lobster you ate for supper attempts 70
butt you all around the place. and they
are also the starry visions that come TO
q soul stepped in happiness. But you
can't always dream what you want to
dream and most OF US. old or young,
have taken up tho habit Of making IL
all up Just as We want 10 TO be with our
eyes wide open ana sleepy time hours
away For instance. you remember the
time that you went TO sleep saying
your prayers and you had fully intended
10 dream that night all about the man
that you danced with entirely too often
at the german. and II was aggrayating
10 find yourself repeating drowsily the
next morning words 10 the effect that
you desired daily bread"
When / was little girl we used TO
calf these day dreams "pretends" and
you spent hours and hours dreaming
when you should have been studying or
getting an intelligent education all
about IL A can saw a cord Of wood in six
hours and II takes Is twice as long how
many hours viii II take 9 10 do three
times as much. You know the problem,
and didn't you always feel dreadfully
sorry for poor old Q. because | did. In
stead Of naming all the capitals OF all
the countries in Chrtstendom, you look
ed out of the window at nothing but
a plain brick wall and pretended as
hard as ever you could that you were
a beautiful princess with blue shoes on
that eat on d gold throne instead OF
chair, and could eat floating island for
breakfast without anybody saying IL
would make you sick. I don't think
there were any blue satin princess in
those pretends then. 10 wac all about
never having 20 mend your dresses or
do lessons, and just when the whole
procession OF ladies in waiting swept
into the throne room bearing the big
gest pastry tart on record. why the
teacher called on you. You went 70 the
board in a kind OF stumbling daze and
wrote blue shoes" instead off whatA
and could do 70 poor unprotected
and lame old 9. The teacher gave you
zero, but IL never stopped you rom
smelling lilacs when the snow was on
the ground or seeing golden but
terAies when the day vas darkened
with fog and mist.
Now that you are grown up, you
to make il all come out night. haven't
youp And when they call you IN the
morning and they think what sleepy
head you are. you are not sleeping. no
indeed. Its pretend, and the princess
has outarown the pastry tart. perhaps
ard she IL swinging the blue shoes in a
hammock while the most approved and
modern of princes. having tied hie
machine 20 the front gate is reading
verses that are all about red rose
garden for loving. and white rose
garden for prayer
on. ] like il think Il is so much
nicer 10 come TO yourself with big
Jolt just when the car IS turning al
the railroad crossing and you have all
this time been doing and saying the
most wonderful things which you
never on earth could get 20 happen 20
you az long as you live. don't suppose
You spend millions. you crown your
self queen Of love and beauty, and re-
ceive the homage OF the Wise Men of
The East all in one little bumpy ride
with two dozen eggs perched perilousiy
on your lap and you get up when IL I
comes your turn 70 get OF and fairly
sweep out. Really. its splendid game
and all this time il is making a warm
glow where maybe you woulcnt nave
thought OF pleasant things If it hadn't
been that this make-oeheve spirit JUST
rose and asserted its power
People make lot OF fun OF dreams
and make believe. but down IT the
heart OF Us all nearly everybody does II,
If IL isn't pretending about thing. out
the way he is going 20 look with hair
cut. Why. the busiest man you meet
ia dreaming about the kind of man his
little son is going TO grow up 10 De anc
the girl with the prettiest race 'nat
looks as though she has never tnousht
about anything else, has already hung
the curtains in her oream-houses darned
her good mans socks and clsmissec
the cook for stealing potatoes Dreams
dreams please Mr. Matter-oi-Fact,
don't take them away from US ney are
the property of everybody ana their
boundaries stretch from Castles IN Spa-n
70 poppy gardens III the East. ana the
peopIe that inhabit them are the loving
hearts and souls OF what we want our
selves and our own dears 70 De
dream. a pretend. make-oeieve car
IL ANYTHING you want. but II Is the falFy
hook OF our own mind with the pages
turned down al our fsvorite story ana
the trace of kiss on the prettes'
,;o,,,ra BRENT WITT.