The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
IF WISHES WERE AUTOMOBILES,

To purchase heaven has gold the powerT Can gold remove the mortal hour
 In life can love be bought with geld
 Are friendships pleasures te be sold3
 No! All that's worth q wish. thousH'' Fair virtue gives unbrib'd. unhought Cease, then. on trash thy hopes 10 piii"' 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. II 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 1t, but fedouble our efforts to effect a change is We feel that we can grasp that elgnive prize-success.
 To lament bitterly over present sur roundings is a loss of energy needed elsewhere. The goman who wishes her husband was a millionaire instead of an honest workman-aye, might actually change places with one might have cause to hug real sorrow to her bosom if ner wish could be granted. She wou.d quickly have to bid adieu to love and happiness, sigh ing in vain for the love which was once hers and was now 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, if her longings were fulfilled and the beauty eloped with a bogus nobleman. scamp who sent her soon home again, sadder, be: wiser girl.
 The mothers ardent wish that her 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 6ver-ambtious youth was sent to prison for embedding
 Somehow 1t is The nature of many women to feed oh foolish wishes They spend the test years of their lives nursing and coddling them They will call it ambition. but their i judgment of the difference between ambition and wishing often flies far afield. Ambition s 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 a nice young husband In c0nse- 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 10 se- 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 Der husband sue cessful money maker, as well as being devoted to her and blind to the at, fractions of other women Her chil- dren would be the cleyerest. and no cloud of grief should ever oyershad- 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, whirling airily into happiness.
 But, to be honest now. aren't ths majority of us happier just as we are? No life is so dark out little sunshine creeps into it, though the hour be long delayed