The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-26
IF WISHES WERE AUTOMOBILES

To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour?
 In life can love be bought with gold?
 Are friendships pleasures to be sold?
 No! All that's worth wish, a thought Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought! Cease, then, on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
 If wishes were automobiles the poor could ride as fast and as far as the rich. Unfortunately, it takes more than idle wishing to secure the lux. uries we often wrongfully crave. It is intended that each one of us should fill a certain groove at a particular time in our lives. We should make the best of it, but redouble our efforts to effect change if we feel that we can grasp that elusive prize-success To lament bitterly over present sur roundings is a loss of energy needed elsewhere. The woman who wishes her husband was a millionaire instead of an honest workman-aye, might actually change places with one might have cause to hug a real sorrow to her bosom if her wish could be granted She would quickly have to bid adieu to love and happiness, sigh ing in vain for the love which was once hers and was new scattered among the yachts, stocks, everywhere anywhere save where it belonged
 If she wishes her plain young daughter were as beautiful as the girl of the rich man across the way, she might have cause to regret that, too beauty eloped with bogus nobleman, a scamp who sent her soon home again, sadder, but wiser girl
 The mothers ardent wish that heI son could change places in life with the smart young chap who So clever. ly forged ahead of him in the business world might be thankful enough that her boy was just his own. plain, hon, est self when the over-ambiticus youth was sent to prison for embedding. Somehow it Is the nature of many women to feed on foolish wishes. They spend the best years of their lives nursing and coddling them They will call it ambition, but their judgment of the difference between ambition and wishing often flies far | afield. Ambition IS a stimulus to make | the present better; wishes are the hope of getting something without the effort of striving to obtain it through | strenuous effort. If everyone could have just what he wished for most how many lives would be wrecked | cruelty sacrificed?
 What young girl would not wish | for nice young husband? In conse quence. no girl would be husbandless. Wives would never encounter trouble or be put to the torture of invent. l ing new schemes every week to SC, | cure the needed amount from his weeks wage to eke out the household expenses. If wishes could be the fairy wand, every woman would have a | home of her own, her husband a sue. cessful money-maker, as we'll as being devoted to Ter and blind to the at. fractions of other women. Her chil dren would be the cleverest, and nc cloud of grief should ever overshad ow her or hers.
 Yes, if wishes were automobiles
 there wouldn't be any hitch in land
 ing us where we wanted to go. We
 would all take the easy road, whirline airily into happiness.
 But to be honest now, aren't the
 majority of us happier just as we are;
 No life is so dark but little sunshine creeps into 1t, though the hour be long delayed.