Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-18
'DUN'T Be DISCOURAGED
WHEN YOUR DREAMS FAIL
Follow Advice or Old Sage WHO
Said Better to Travel Than
Arrive
- ny nEATRICE FAIRFAX.

S.i:. I'll your heart ana soul? Then
having struggled toward ii, havins
almost attained it-have you found
that !; was not for you? Perhaps
the price was higher than YOU had
the courage to pay. Perhaps the
reci;oniuc FOX your desire would
have fallen too heavily on others
You found mat you couldn't in JUS
tlce ana fairness have your desire,
Al any rate. with the goal in View.
YOU had TO turn away TO the lesser
loneines Of Your life,
What then Ola you feel defeat
-eAl-pid YOU decide in al! bitterness
TIac-1:fc wasn't playing fair with YOU
5nd tina; IL wasn't worth your while
!, 80 struggle upward OF toward any
- Let's stop here for minute and
Remember the verses each line of
,&htch ends. i've never been 10 Car
,Sasonne" II tells OF the old peasant
, .St France. VINO dies with his c-en;
longing unfU.nllcl. Life has given
'Sm many things. but never has he
.Neen able 10 ViS: the C.ty Of his
Mreams - "Clrcasonnc," which lay
Only few mortal miles away. but TO
,wh!ch he has never been free to
.iravcl "Carcasonne." the desire OF
1fiTs eyes and his souls !ongcd-for
lsoa!. has never been his 20 reach
tTis,fuuy and sadly he repeats over
End over. Ike never been 70 Garcia
tsonUc'
= So for most Of US. W. have a
SCarca sonne"--a city OF dreams. ana
III may Toe that we never reach i. Is
dis poverty: i I; tragedy OF de
sa,?
4 ,hlak not. The tragedy and de-
:hrat lie elsewhere. They lie in the
IottTty OF spirit which deprivcs a
hnortal from having an IDEAL of beau
"a. They lie IN the s,uugncss which
ihaSts a man satisfied with the cas-
ily obtained and in tho broad-and-
4sutter nature which does not aspire
10 the glory O. dreams-come-tTH
Even tho Hind May Dream.
= Even a blind man may have in
ais heart a dream OF LONELINESS. lie
MAY remember the green grass and
Abe budding tw.ys 1t was once given
III to see. He may imagine the blue
81 the SKY under which h" WAS born
W!thout eyes 10 behold. But ms spirit
u no, blind Perhaps with tn. eyes
pn his soul hr actually sees more
fnauiy than the stoiid creature WHO
,iudgcs along with his eyes bent on
( the mud and lnurk o: life. So dreams
Z inay he fa!rcr than reality
:. Which OF US doesn't know some
.~esctablr" of a person VINO j. root"
IL IN. place where he HAPPENED 10
iailNaad who hasn't one desire. or one
Aeniratlou. or on vision beyond his
ntyn dull little round" Such man
rts not the nncn"ss Of feeling 10
suffer Sometimes he IL rnH'ed 'or
tHs very imperv!ousncSs TO IN" pa u Il
I tto-e lmaG NATIVE soul suffers. Rut
Z ibink OF al the glowing moments ne
X misses,
4 :aNo "Carcasonnc" for the "vese-
3 lAnle" soul IN his smugness. lie has
/ no IDEA OF anything better than what
3 he secs about HIN and within his
! Z reach What are sunsets and apple =
= blossoms and delicate feelings OF love
is !th? lie has no pain-hut he has
Hp thrill.
tWould you change with the SNUG,
5mplaccnt creature who drives by
y pu N her limousine hUGslrS her pc,
fpod!e and gazing with vacant eyes of
! 4; word which can't give her any
Ding more than food ANA drink and
e@othcs and physical comfort
t.If, in your moment OF greatest de-
p{esyion. fairy g"dmo;her came to
ytu and said I'm give you cars and
skar!s, and in return tUr the riches
d, shower upon Won. III take YOU.
feelings. your emotions, your dreams,
your long .rgs' would YOU make IA.
y.adec
..Would you give Up you- dream OF
at"Carcasonae' you may never reach
bet toward vh!ch yor may always
str.vs :. -eturn for dun certainty
ySth suffered Windows on. O. which
W. may never lOoST
.tDoA't ydu IKE me Fun Q. strlv-
Sr Don, you Ike The @xcitemen,
ct working tOw4r! f!la!llanat2 Jsu',
Ih+re thrN! la ,ua possibilities o.
fach Gsy' Ism. !, tGu 20 forge around