El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-03
Sunset


2 CHILDREN like to sit on the step
- for little quiet time and dis
pute what they would wish. II
I Iairy should slip out from between
ne iris leaves and offer them one or
three wishes.
/ Invariably II a child have a crippIed
OF hurt or desolated next friend his
| first wish will be for health OF hap
I piness for his beloved.
/ Next he will wish for his own most
] Immediate need, a play house or in
door BAN with welted seams or wire
[ less or whatever.
His third wish is always canny.
| He viii wish for perpetual fee
Z cream cone or toy shop OF a pocket
Z book with always a dollar IN IL: or
] sometimes belated morality. some OF
/ the sunerimposed, somewhat petrified
( morality OF his grown UPS. viii refuc-
/ family come TO the surface and he will
! wish he never would be tardy at
school or never spill gravy on the
tablecloth- He Is not trying 10 be
moral, only putting out feeler In an
: attempt 70 dodge punishment for the
rest Of his life,
Half grown girls like to wish. Nine
out Of ten viii wish for curly hair
| and some wish FOR strings Of pearls
OF diamonds. Some never draw an
unthriftT breath and are ready first
pop with a wish for e million OF two.
Some try to make sure Of the future
I by getting the wish ready for the
I rairy II she ever should appear, 70
ask her that they may be widows
with six children. They will also
get the names all ready.
GroWuuns go on wishing and never
stop wishing, always half believing
! that some time the wishes VIII come
l true. aand OF course some times
wishes do come true.
It only needs rainbow to set any
NJ n q
There IS something in the wonder OF
It, OF the reach OF it from the sky TO
earth
or a sunset like that a few days
ago-a mere list Of the colors Of that
wonderful hour is magic. sun setting
behind a dark screen screen edged
with gold; orange, scarlet gold. and
mulberry heaped in the west From
the spot where the sun was dropping
20 the other side Of the world. a
broad violet path stretching up over
the zenith and across TO the east.
Heaped on either side Of this violet
path, mountains and surf and seas OF
gold changing 10 rose and 10 turQuois.
I over the Juarez mountains smoky
grays, east and northeast pure tur-
quois; southwest all rose and gold.
Heaven was not q minute away,
one could almost stand on tip toe and
touch It.
such glory. OF the glory Of a rain
AAMr OF aA a EEalAE l5N " lAANE- = alN
changing dawn makes any one Won
der about moTtals and immortals and
why one is not always uplifted. and
where is heaven, and what Is the best
wish in the world.
One wishes and wonders.
Like the little folks. we wish high
up and we wish low down. II wishes
suddenly began coming true We poor
mortals would find ourselves all the
time with one foot in he'll and the
other IL heaven.
For it IS difficult to put ones fin
ger on what is the best thing in the
world
Is It love, when love Is some. nE
SO unloFing. sometimes Wicked2
It Il fame2 a good name is 8 Eu0d
comfortable thing, a high name is q
rare pleasant thing.
Is it money! Money is comfortable,
II can buy comfort, release and do
50 much for other folks; II can mend
so many blunders.
Is It philosophy or some recipe for
living every hour wisely?
Or perhaps It viii be enthusiasm,
appreciation, the ability TO live vivid
~, to go ones way singing.
Certainly II one have no large stock
OF enthusiasm or appreciation he'd
better get his wish ready against
the coming Of the fairy, for IL Is dead
one Is, II he cannot find his enthu-
siasms and live with them.
md enthusiasm, which is only one
angle Of appreciation, which Is
only one side Of sympathy. which Isl
world.
Wishing helps along anyway.
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