Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-08
.ur Castles IN
the Air
~ FORTUNE FREE.

When = man remarked ont day 70
Justice Hawkins that mutual friend
~ theirs HHf AL right" only addicted
~ building caailes IN the air. be was
sstomsbsd 70 hear the Justice exelsim
Well why shouldn't he? Building
castles To the sir may be q most ~
eellent recreation wouldn't rive
cents for the nisn woman, hoy or girl
who didn't build them"
Justice HAWKINS VIA mot person
win whom II WA very safs 10 argue
even Whsn he waa or The bench He
ma considerable amount Of wifher.
ing sa4TnsIn ~ bis command The rnan
dried up he collapsed with. "Weil,
! don't know, bat soInehov" and that
ttnd of thing. Bot the Judge wa m .
talkHbYe n0Dd. ...
When he Uas quite a young and un
known lawyer. bs said, he sst ~ hiS
office nhIrY . day lonely gnd waiting
~ tboss times hs often heard sounds
Ike steps upon The darn, croahy stairs
eading 70 hls chamber.
" What a. you think they wefs2' he
asked bis companion. ana hts friend
promptly saREestsd rails
idiot" roafcd lfawldus 'They we're
the footsisps ~ f1turs clients with
triefa ! Nss building my castles M
The air II kCp me alive.
TN uss Of CASTLES N The air depends
upon The castle II II ons that II door
ron EOod ~ inhabit for timer no
ygn oorns out Of Il sgsin feeding bet
Ter for the ehanRsY You noed 70 choose
yg1r esEse. Won srs not limited Ia your
chDior. yop have vida and varied ~
lsofi0n. ~ Tho catalogues ray Tho man
sr woTnsn who ehooBss badly suffers,
snd has only him Or herself TO blame
"A castle IN The air II a refuge from
tho present" said Tennyson. iIs vha
auifa Y4Eht There arn some people ~
whom the presont ~ ali guffcng, they
srs happy enough Of ought To ~ no
for II not 10 h. neaenAsry for them 10
dream ~ sifber ths past or the future
! remember Toois relating how no NJ
viaed = friend ~ bis who wea getting
married never 10 fsii into Tho mistake
he had habit that wny of saying 10
his wife while they we're on their honey
moon. y remember tirno yenfg hgo
hero cann IN a Sigh "whon ! wan ns
happy, IS happy ne / could possibly DO.
Toois said his wife would not Ike a.
Another friend no warned, upon n SINH
lar oeeasion, not 10 suggest 10 tbs lady
That no VIM looking for supreme hapa
piness in tho future,
Don't you 40 saying you know you're
iuclined that ways'Ws'li havo real
happy time sona day, my dear, Or some
thing like that. Shell feel annoyed u
you DO" t.s.
..., ..s... a.. n.atI. t,ttfa
Ing IN tho past or IN tho future n q
reflection east on the prosent, sgggest
inR that one does not think all IN ~
geil M IL might be. When tbe present
lime Is good there In no nense In seek
ing refuge from H.
But for tho vast minority of people
The somewhat drab lameDegg of ordinary
ne lends them TO castles IN The air
Come ~ them live among the fuina u
The CASTLES ~ the pnst imaginary
superb residences which might have
been only for something which snppod
heir foundations md brought tfs
eaHtics down with crash upon their
bends they stumble their way hmong
Ms tumbled-down walls, finding o dis
nal pleasure IN the ruins.
I.ongfeIlow remarked that N only
was the foundation on which millions |
bDllt their shattered palacos Of slghs' /
How easy II In upon ~ only to con
lure up phantom habitation In which !
every wiah might have been satisfied.
every hope Of our heart ana aspiration
~ our soul roalizcd How much ~ sur
ferng We should have escaped " onlyT
How much better should We have been.
low much happlerI But the dream palace
Hes shattered. We sit among ita ruins,
our eyes are filled with tears, but the
tears only deiudG our HRht to magnify
the dream beauty of what might have
been n onlyr