The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-11
DIMES AND DOLLARS.

asked: What would you do il suddenly you should
become heir to million dolars?'
As to that who say? Some of us would prob
ably be wise. and put out money in the bank Others
of US. and am guiltily conscious that might find
myself in that class would be like the small boy
in the Jane Joseph and John poems, who put his
money in the bank, and
Found my bank would add
Nothing at all to what had
simply wasted time,
But went right out and spent that dime"
What do few decinaIs, more of less count any,
how? Even IL we happen to inherit million we
cannot eat whole bunch Of bananas at one time:
we cannot read book any quicker or get any more
sugar, unless we want to go to Jail for it, or eat
more than three meals a day, or wear more than
one dress at time.
TIE richest person know is a woman who has
absolutely nothing more than her daily bread Once
upon time she famous southern beauty-and
this is a true story-she was worship of many
she regned in at least three southern Cities vert-
able Queen of Hearts. she travelled much and knew
quite as much luxury and adutation as it is good
for any person to know.
| Today that woman hardly ever knows what it is
to go out from the four walls that she calls home
She is as oldtimey you please-that is she looks
dtimey because she wears old -timey clothes. but
she used to be fascinating. she is interesting and
she is Observation-Disclosures in the people about her
in books in art in music. in the drama-perhaps
most of all. in the things of the spirit. She sits in
her quiet corner, in great city, doing the work
that comes to her slender hands to do and she
what you might think less than living wage but
/ that is because you would not understand unless
you happened to know her very well. And then
you would find that the very world beats at her door
for admitance People seek her. because of the gifts
she has FOR them. the riches the intellect and the
heart
| Her servants will tell you that when she puts on
her bonnet to go shopping, it is annual rite and
that the household is stirred to its very center so
unusual is the event, and so fearful are they that
she will lose herself. as she has many times be-
fore she manage to find her way home again
though the shopping district is just around the
corner.
But if you should make one of group where she
sits, you would find that she can tell you all about
the newest styles and fabrics-she has young and
devoted friend who is at the head of one of the
largest stores in the United States; and she has
another, who is of the most successful interior
decorators in this country; and another who one
of its most famous artists. But even if these were
not her friends, trust her to know Just as she
knows about music and the drama just as she
knows about national politics and international COM
plicatons. She reads. And she thinks She loves
and she laughs.
Is any book snuch discussed? She reads it, Is any
play very popular she tell you all about it. and
about every actor and actress of any consequence
who takes part in it. Is there an opera which
arouses the musical world? She can tell you all
about it. and describe its setting. Is there a
great painting, of gift of Jewels presented to the
museum? She give you the good and the bad
points of the exhibition
| petant? Far from it. She will talk to you with
the eagerness of girl. And il it so happens that
iyou have seen the picture the play or have read
the book or heard the opera, she will hang upon
your words. and thrill to them
i She told that she slept at night like a
baby and that her dreams always pleasant That
is because her sub-conscious mind is filled with
pleasant things-beauty of word and tenderness of
thought.
She did not put her dime in bank-she spent it
like it might have been million And the more she
has SPENT the she has had. She loves flowers.
whether they are hers, whether they the
flowers that some beauty wears. but which she is
privileged to admire; she loves life and charm and
Good deeds and kind words and high aspirations,
and innocent pleasures and bubbng mirth.
That woman is one of the richest women I know.
But just suppose she should inherit million. Who
can tell Maybe it might go to her head just as it
did to the Coal Oil Johnnie" of whom the St.
Petersburg Times has told US.
After ALL it is good to be rich. isn't it? To know
that you have the sunshine, the blue sky above
you, and plenty OF good books to read and plenty
CT good work to do-work that is good for the soul
as well the body. And best of all, to knw that
you need not be poverty stricken millionaire to be
wealthy but that you have all the time there is and
all the good things that you need provided you will
take them and be thankful.-C NJ r.
Il A SAMpT r LIE AGAINST THE CAITTLJ