Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-11 | Page 4 | A Disappointment

A DISAPPOINTMENT. An Ogdenite left his home in the old country when he was a young man. As he grew to manhood in America and then to old age, he often thought of the beautiful country he had left and the homely virtues of his people. He longed for the time to come when he could feel free to leave his extensive business interests long enough "to go back home." The opportunity came this summer and now he is in the land of his nativity. The dreams of his boyhood were dreams of great achievements and hope was the dominant feature. From the cradle to his young manhood, there were new beauties and new charms to engage his attention at-tention and fill his mind with inspiring thoughts. Of course, when he went out into the world, there was much to disillusion him, a-s there is with all of us, but the impressions of childhood remained, with the rich coloring of the child infancy, and there was ever present the thought that no place was quite so grand as the home of his young, er days. Well, here is the sequel: Letters have been coming back and all cf them contain some reference ref-erence to the superiority of America, to the unappreciated beauties of Utah as compared with world-famous points of tourist interest, and to the admirable traits of American character. "The grafters here would put to shame the worst of our American Amer-ican grafters," writes the Ogdenite, and then to give emphasis to his feeling of disgust, he says: "There is no place like America." ... .The recollections of boyhood have proved disappointing. That is a story as old as the hills. The buoyancy of youth causes us to see things in most fantastic forms, but, in after years, the mind grows critical and more exacting and many of the charms of boyhood disappear. dis-appear. Perhaps it would be well if we could remain always young, always al-ways exuberant, and always pleasantly deceived with mind creations.