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Show PLEASURES OF ANTICIPATION Dealre la Much, but Realization la 1 Less Colorful and Pleaa- ureable. The hounewifit who complained that she "hud lotted for ten jears to poRsnss a brans bed, but now that she run get one ulie discover that she 1 wants a Napoleon bed In mahogany," linn unwittingly sutniiiel up the whole I I benomenon of human life. Practical- i ly all of our plensures come from an tlc!Htlon. Realisation is much less colorful and pleasurable. The woman who had pictured for years a nice solid brans bed sitting on her rose-toned rose-toned carpet beitlds the mahogany 1 dreasing table, r.nd had warmed her 1 spirit In the roaeate flamea of that 1 anticipation, has practically exhausted 1 all the potislhlllties tn the ownership 1 of sui h a treasure. Thn treasure it- 1 self amount to much less. 1 It Is so with life. In youth we look 1 forward longingly to the day when ' we ran buy all the chocolate creama I that we can eat, but on arriving at ( hat delectable estate we dlscovet ' thfit very fw aatlafy ua. Antlclpa- lion dwelt upon a big round seal muff, 1 but realization shows us that round 1 muffs are pasne, and that, beatdes, ulnk Is the thing. We dream of an lutomoblle and before It Is realised be flying machine appears on the ' lorlson. Desire la much; realisation c a little. Give ua our antlclpatlona. P v |