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Show Eyes That Sec Not H By WINIFRED BLACK. THE other day I went to the H mountain top. H Tt wa6 a. fair day in the valley, H a day exceedingly fair. All along M the way the red Indian paint III brushes stood like funuv little M paiarans, put there long ago to HE show gypsy feet the road to the H summit. And beside them flowered H the tall blue lunth and the bright H yellow mountain furze, aud as we H went higher, through the sighing H pines, into the region of tho twist- H cd cedars, past the quivering aspen H gTovcs, up, up beyond the line of H timber, the blue forget-me-nots H carpeted the upland mendowg like H great rugn of priceless worth. Blue. H blue as the eyes of a new-born H baby, blue as sapphire, blue as the H sky' ou a June day in California, H blue as forget-mc-uots H And a little pale R'rl sat among H them and gathered bouquets to help H pay for her living there in tbe H hills where she hoped to find HI strength. And wo nil bought the HI bouquets and smiled into the shy HI eyes of the d plicate child, and Wn naked hcr what she called the dog HJ who was her sturdy companion. HI And some of us thought of HI healthy children of our own, happy HJ at home, and some, T think, re- HI mcmbercd children who bad tried HI to live, too. and had failed. HI Up we wont, and up 0 the top HJ of the world, and there we saw M tbe glory of the skies H Tbcv were blue that day. as blue H as ' the forget-me-nots, and far. H far below us floated great fleets of H snow-white clouds like icebergs H adrift in a. strsnge aud silent sea. H And some of us could nor. speak, and some sighed, and some. X know, M wept for very joy at the great beauty of it all. H And one stood beside me aud H soiffed. H "Say," said she, "T don't see H anything much here, do you?" H ''Not a thing, ' .said T, and then H she told nie the mountaius were H all a great fake, and she wished H she had stayed at home. H "Spent a lot of money all for H nothing," she Baid. "Ill know H bettei next time, I'll tell you B And as we went down tbe raoun- H tain side we talked, and I found H that sho liked the town nearby HJ "rather" well." H9 "There are two picture shows HJ there," sho said, "and every night there's vaudeville, .and a HJ band concert twice a week, and HJ lot's of folka moving about all the 19 time." H And we lauchod together, the nj woman who sniffed and J, at the H people who were ".jay enough," ffi) that was the expression she used, Wj to like the mountains, and the K ski', and the fleets of clouds, and HJ the fields of heavenly Jblne, a-nd I H suppose that woman thinks she saw HJ all there was to seo in the monn- HjBr tains, too. MB Poor, foolieb, blind, deaf, dntnb, Hjt half-living creature! Why, she HJH never sees anything, 8he just HH thinks she sees. HH What do such poople get out of HH tho world, T woDder? Wbat a IHff queer, mixed up, foolish sort of Hjli place it must be to them all tbo Hjj What fools tbey must think all SB the other people, or maybe they HH think the rest of us are just put- tine on when we like to see beauty HH instead of ugliness, glory instead jflHJ of squalor! aHJ T know a man once who said he jHJi know no, one reallv liked to read. fSSt thev just said thov did to "put iffx I know another man who. de- H clares that he cau't see the differ- mm eni'e between a dinner at a goad 9 restaurant and a "feed" at n jjl oafeteria. "It's all grub," he say, "what's tho difference, ox- cept the nirs?" And he really l means it, too. mSm Ajl men are equal, says tho old mm law oh! if some law could only Hfll make them so. Al men are oqual, mW 3nd one is blind, and one is deaf, Wffi and one is dull, and one is lame. HJ All men are copal, and all wo- jtffl men, too perhaps. Ogl T wonder if the woman who eouldn "t spe anythinor worth look- BjP inc at on the mouutain top thinks gfflS to, too? JSS&ll |