Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28

wonder why :" many really SEN
sible people waste thcir breath il say
Ing what they would do IL they were
rich. o. II they happened to have $500
Or somc;h',Ig equally foolisi. and i'm .
probable. remarked a friend OF mine
tho other day. Her tone betrayed some
amount OF annoyance. ana asked her
" hat difference it made 20 hcr if some
people did act in tho way she mem
toned.
1T doesn't make amy difference at
a.! actually she admitted. but i, is
so very annoying. II really vcAcs .mo
10 near them cNpcndiu@ sUyh . lot Of
energy om Supposinr things that ~i!i
mover happen. There is that silly little
widow. Mrs. You know sh,. is
as poor rs a church mouse. lT,ll.
money is her fIG She spends quite a
lot Of time that might 10 spent to some
usttul purpose. in planniuG what size
VIII set for hcr children when sho has
sum OF money drop from the clouds.
Il cannot think whore she imacincs
II VIII come from. don't oc.ic.c she
really troubles about finding q likely
source Sh" leaves all the practical
considerations out of the question. All
she employs herself with Is the spend
ing Of it,
Mnkc-Bclicvc thildhced Jay
1ou should hear the things she -
going 10 buy. and the things she is go
ing to do; The places She will take the
ch'iGfen 10, ana the treats that AFRO in
store for them. Poor things. rcallv
feel sorry for them occasionally when
! hear their mother ro:nancing or In
this style. !; must be so tantaliZ!ns
ior them, though they seem 10 en-
JOY it,"
OF course thcy enjoy it," said.
Don't YOU remember how YOU cnioye,:
pretending when YOU were little"
Why, half the games that We used to
play as children--my brother and J.
mean-were made up OF make believe.
Almost everything Was Imaginary. and
We remember those games to-day"
Il do not think that ever made he
HeNe, as you call it. in my life" said
my friend, IT had dolls. OF course. but
We played real games with 40 nonsense
about them. Really. | had no idea it
was so late. How the time flies, r
nave an appointment at o'clock.
GOOD by"
Left alone. had time aud oppor-
iunity 10 think over the words Of my
friend and To consider life from hc..
point OF view. She f"lt ii to be some
thing OF an outrage that grown peoplc
should spend their moments in think
Ing out delightful plams tina; could in
reason never he expected to material
iZc. She felt that to map out :; holi-
day one knew one would never take
was form of weak -mindclnCss She
said that it was unreasonable or she
implied that il was She pitieA I woman
who had so little moral courage that
She was forced into dccciviur herself:
INTO pretending to herself that things
were quite other than they really were
Two sides of tnSc.
And in the other case she iustauccJ
that of the little widow ana her two
ch!idrcn--shc was equally cmuhaiiy IL,
was foolish. almost. She appeared to
mink 1t wicked. that q woman should
dol q al
piahninS what they would do with
sums OF money which they would never
hC uke!! 10 S.c or TO handle. She aD-
reared to think that the JOY this mag
ming brought into their lives counted
~! nothing. ana that the people vino
INDUCED themselves by buildiu.s cas-
tics III the air arc nothing moro or less
than set OF lunatics
Ihos" who arc familiar with the
writings Of q. x. thcstcrioa will re-
member that he has said that the per
son With Wild, Unframed kind of mag
NATION Il not nearly 50 possible a
iunatc as the terribly reasonable per
son cannot give his exact words
h"t nc implies that what We Say about
" !Unauc is wrong. We frequently say
OF person who has had to 10 taken To /
4 lunatic asylum that hc OF she is =
.unatIc. that the man or tn" woman
mus lost his on her reason. nut when
VIC come to examine the matte. We ana
mat TIC lumatic has not lost his r.a
son lie has lost everything hut that.
The entire rcasonablcncss al the mad
3crson II his one outstanding synlp-
tom. i! his VERY tcA.6Hu.p iuucss you
may kno" that his .i-ii,. =; no, normal
And So my friend, w1.i her mat
-er-of-fact, common-scnsc view. of air,
'astles ~ really iu far more danger Of
'ecomin" !unatic than is the sick
woman planning holiday She viii
lever take or the little w!dov s,.ud-
ns In imag.nat.ou sums Of money sin.
Mil never handle