The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-03-23
LOVE OF HIS KIND ALL
HE HAD TOLEAVE


Justice Walter Lloyd Smith, presid.
ing over the third department of the
appellate division of the supreme court
read, at recent meeting of the New
York University Law School alumni
association, the following very inter-
esting and remarkable document, the
last will and testament of Charles
Lounsbury, who died in the Cook coun-
ty asylum, at Dunning, ILL.,:
81, Charles Lounsbury, being of
sound mind and disposing memory, do
hereby make and publish this, my last
will and testament, in order as justly
as may be to distribute my interest in
the world among succeeding men.
THAT part of my interest which is
known in law and recognized in the
sheep-bound volumes as my property,
being inconsiderable and of no account,
make no disposal of in this my will.
my right to live being but, life
estate, is not at my disposal, but these
things excepted all else in the world
now proceed to devise and bequeath-
'Item: give to good fathers and
mothers, in trust for their children, all
good words of praise and encourage
ment, and all quaint pet names and
endearments, and / charge said parents
to use them justly and generously, as
the needs of their children may require
"Item: | leave to children inclusive
ly, but only for the term of their child
hood, all and every, the flowers of the
fields, and the blossoms of the woods.
with the right to play among them
freely according to the customs Of
children, warning them at the same
time against thistles and thorns, and
/ devise to children the banks of the
brooks, and the golden sands beneath
the waters thereof, and the odors Of
the willows that dip therein, and the
white clouds that float high over the
giant trees. And | leave the children
the long, long days to be merry in, in
a thousand ways, and the night and
the moon and the train of the Milky
Way to wonder at, but subject never
theless to the rights hereinafter CIV
en- to lovers.
'.Item: | devise to boys jointly all
the useful idle fields and commons
where ball may be played: all pleasant
waters where one may swim; all snow
clad hills where one may coast, and
all streams and ponds where one may
fish, or where when grim winter comes
one may skate; to have and to hold the
same for the period of their boyhood.
And all meadows with the clover BIOS
SONS and butterflies thereof, the woods
and their appurtenances, the squirrels
and birds and echoes and strange
noises, and all the distant places which
MAY be visited, together with the adj
ventures there found. And give to
each of said boys his own place at the
Preside at night, with all pictures that
may be seen in the burning wood, to
enjoy them without let or hindrance
and without any membranes Of care.
item 10 lovers, | devise their inn
aginary world, with whatever they
may need; as the stars of the sky, the
red roses by the wall, the bloom of the
the sweet strains of music,
and aught else by which they may de-
sire to figure for each other the last
ingness and beauty of their love.
"Item: To young men jointly, | de-
wise and bequeath all boisterous in
spring sports of rivalry, and | give
to them the disdain of weakness and
undaunted confidence in their own
strength, though they are rude; | give
them the power to make lasting friend
ships, and of possessing companions,
and to them exclusively / give all mer-
ry songs and brave choruses, to sing
with lusty voices.
"And to those who are no longer
children, or youths, or lovers, leave
memory and bequeath to them the vol
umes of the poems of Burns and
and of other poets, if
there be others, to the end that they
may live over the old days again, free
ly and fully, without 1.-THE of diminu-
ton.
"Item: To our loved ones with snowy
crowns, bequeath the happiness of
old age, the love and gratitude of
their children until they fall asleep"