The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-01
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 Pardon me if, for today, 1 shall di gress from my usual path of dream interpretations. I am moved to do so by the letter from a reader who tells mo that sacred things, and churches and celestial visions, are ever in her dreams. At times she finds herself at the gates of heaven; at others. in conversation with an- gels or saints. Altars and clergymen. sacred vestments. prayerbooks and pfous folk on their knees, figure often In her visions. There are times when the peace of these apparitions Is disturbed by unseemly sounds and confusion. At others. quiet refgns and she Is lost in contemplation of sacred matters.
 To all those who have dreams of this sort, let me say that, no matter what their station. their mode of life or their age-though young people hardly ever have such dreams-they will soon enter upon period in their
  lives where minor cares matter little, where their future is assured. where all point to peace and happiness. to been removed. It really IS inmate rial what forms dreams of sacred things may take. Even those which are broken by disturbing intrusions must be interpreted in the sare sense as those which proceed without in- terruption, without proclamation. They al point to peace and happiness, to contentment, to an end of petty troubles. True.
 Who builds church to God and not
 to fame Will never mark the marble with her
 name,
 but she also builds for herself a haven of rest and refuge of satis- faction.
 Answers to Dream Questions.
 Constant Reader-Your dream is not puzzling at all. though the vis- Ions of which 1t consisted surely seem to be unrelated to those who do not know. The interpretation is The ink meant a letter from afar.
 
 come from abroad. The mass of tam gled hair, that 1t Is woman's cry for help. The rat meant distress, and the largo building was a bank where you must go to draw money in order to answer the call for help. You have a sister abroad. I believe. Let me know. I am always curious to know how nearly correct dreams tell the story of life.
 Soldier Boy-My opinion is that your dream was what Is commonly called a nightmare" and that. aris- ing from your subconscious remem- brance of battle scenes in France, 1t has no dream significance but was due to overwrought imagination. Even though you may have com pletely recovered from the shock of your war experiences, your memory has retained many of them and while your waking hours are too busy to permit them full play, they are cast to the surface when you are at com plete slumber rest, just as the ocean casts up the things hidden in its depth during the night and they are found alone the shore in the morning. Lulu-The one sentence in your letter, l eat every nlSHt DeLoio going to bed" indicates that not very much importance can be attached to your dreams and I would rather not to interpret them. N. J., Buffalo-The poem you refer to Is sonnet by T. B. Aldrich. en- titled Sleep" It runs thus: When to soft sleep we give ourselves
 away,
 And In a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchant-
 ed dark
 To purple daybreak-little thought
 we pay To that sweet bitter world Ve know
 by day
 We are clean quit of 1t. as is lark So high in heaven no human eye can
 mark
 The thin, swift pinion cleaving
 through the gray. Flora L.--Eermits are usually as- sociated with ungrateful friends. To talk at length to one is sign of an transaction. "Foolish"-No, you are not foolish to ask me what 1t means to dream or hams. One is liable to dream of any subject on earth and one may be as as the other. To dream or ham is sign of day in the coun- try; to eat 1t. of merrlment: to eat and dislike 1t. a slight Illness; to buy 1t, a necessary expenditure.