Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21
non TO Make LIFE IN
THE CITY INTERESTING
Are Not Gained by Travel
ing Around.
an. pEArRrCIc FAIRHAx.


Ayo you one of the folk who COM
plain because life in the city Is so
duiia Are you terribly sorry for your
SELF because you mover get a chance to
travel around and see the world?
Doesn't it occur to you that the
world is right about you for you to
observe here and now? Some one has
said that an hours trip in The New
z. York. subway would afford keen OBJ
server like IL q. wells or Arnold Ben
/. nett material for a three volume novel.
+ OF course. not all Of US can get three
volumes, or oven three columns. from
subway trip. but we can get q few
minutes OF recreation and inspiration.
Viewpoint even Il it's only that OF
the poor old man who's bringing 4
GU, OF bologna home for dinner What
time were carrying box OF carna-
lions.
nance TO the simplest trip. That
Weary-eyed young woman opposite
she It's ,notherf Has shc spent her
self and her energy and her little
store Of money 20 make that baby so
dainty? Or is she the nursematd bored
duty?
The Old Clerk.
An exquisite little story is told OF
"A poor Old clerk who took each yea
n glorious vacation. He went home
10 his attic room ,h Tor his h Imo oyss
time tables. folders and prospectuses
Of various sorts. He bathcd his mind
in the wonderful literature OF travei.
Zach year. in this way, he took a
beautiful trip In imaS ination he went
UP and down the floTery kingdom OF
Japan and the ice-packed steppcs OF
With romance In his heart, and with
his imagination kindlcd to make for
itself a picture of tho far places OF
shs earth. the ola clerk * eTsr cleo w TseS
came the opportunity TO 90 on the
Journeys he had visioned.
The old clerk was afraid. AFRAID
that reality might destroy ns bd ms mies and
tho lands OF which he had dreamed
so beautifully cold and austerc' OF NOT
and parchcd. Travel TO him was a
thing of the heart-not tho eye. The
grim necessities OF railroad trains and
boats. or time tables and schedules
would have spoiled the beauty OF ar,
dreamed Of the places the approach to
which terrified him.
And yet he had moro of the beauty
OF tho world right there at ms ON t,n
travel merely TO do the conventiona
thing. What OF the beauty OF places
comes TO the folk who look up tne
most fashionable hotels and the most
tasS;onabic way Of getting to them and
hwy the srnartcst clothes with Thicn
70 make glad the new places and then
move themselves about like pieces on
a checker board? .. "a
Any one who knows how to ae-
1ni.e and TO see" has ONLY 20 open
their eyes on the glory OF every cay,
II will afford them some incident tne
nerc tenolding OF which Is coio.iu!
and inspiring. There are nits OF 49,
rise and sunset, snowy ristas; INES
Of trees and skyline that are 6eautS
incarnafe- And no ono has 20 etit
ont OF his own town for these. sun
shine and sky and cloud shec's arc
.niversa;-they are everywhere
In every home there are heroism ah io
,,ve and conflict and drama 20 slit
~. tn,a-ination Maybe it's only
SnSnn".s effort TO spin top. May ce
80 sisters attempt to make hesseil
- sionse out o. q bit OF old SILK ano
sh-ne corn lace L. may be mother $
Innr;ne 10 give her children beautJ
~ ~. mids: OF uElinoss. II may be
br,th.-'s determination 20 talk tathes
MO sharing his political view. There
snmeihIoc 10 give the mind that MI
,rs OF stimulation which Is rear jour
II pity the man who can travel fro'T
Dan 70 Beersneba and cry, II is Al
i.a.e'" said an author OF oyEon
Bu, pity the man who dwens il
Dan or Beersheba - London or New
York-van Vert or Thomaston, ane
does not know that barrenness Is no
where the mind IL fertile and th'
heart rich In love.