| Show WINIFRED BLACK Writes About DREAMS I if Copyright 1918 by Newspaper per Feature Service Inc Ino 1 Do YOU vou believe In dreams I d don't dont of oC of course not Its It's superstitious and ridiculous and very ery very Ignorant i You might as well eat with your knife or throw salt sat over your our lIen left shoulder or look the other wa way when the first woman you ou moot when you ou leave the house in the morning is ere cross eyed cross or order an extra chop clop and another another tomato and md a second cheese for dinner just dinner just because you rou dropped your fork at the tho breakfast table B But t. t still sUll there are some Home dreams that well really really well you simply cant can't help noticing them that's all Theres There's the one about being very elJ tired an and trying tring to get g-et somewhere and walking and walking and walking and you OU never ne arrive or If it you OU do when you you get there th the people you ou have come to see aro arc gone or the they come como to the thedoor door Ioor to let you in and dont don't know V you and you thought ht t they ey would fall into your arms anna with cries of rapture and delight Then theres there's the dream about going to the party such a beautiful party parly all lights and music and flowers and pretty dresses and arid gay uniforms and the handsomest man in the place asks you to dance and you float over o the floor like a fairy and all aU at once you look down and there you OU arc are without a shoe to your our foot toot and theres there's a hole In the toe of your stocking stocking- Theres There's the tho dream about being married Ever Every girl in the world has hIlS that I 1 wonder i if the lads dream of the tho wedding march too Theres There's always a achurch church full tull of or people an and a n. bower bOWel of roses and a boy choir In surplices fight Ight bridesmaids and children ren carrying the ring on a satin cushion and n a clergyman fco so clerical that lies lie's fair fairly awe inspiring and when you look up at atthe atthe the altar its altar its it's the man you hate worse than anyone anone In the world or some someI I creature you saw in the side show at the tho county fair And theres there's the dream of ot swimming Was Vas it clear water water tell tell mo rue that that that- or or muddled It all aU depends you OU know If Its It's clear youre you're in for a bad run ot Lot luck an and if Its It's roll roily rolly and troubled look out out youre youre you're In for tor some sleepless sleep sleep- less nights Theres There's the dream of skating skating dear dear me how you ou can and how the ice bends and sways swa'S under your flying feet splash feet splash Did you OU go through p Into nto the cold water ha Ah-ha dont don't be too sure about that business venture youre you're 5 BO so Interested in Who hasn't somewhere in tho the corner cotner of his brain a automobile that arrives after a long and weary day and away you i go O away into the green reen fields and over the great free lulls hills and the tho winds sing aing and the clouds look down down but but you ou ride faster than they On and on you jou on fly with flowers springing b by the roadside and clear brooks singing along th the way and theres there's the tho sea sea silver like the shield of ot Galahad and the e are the tho mountains purple e like liko the tho cloak of Solomon and there are the valleys verdant like me the gard garden n of the Queen of or Sheba Who Vho wants to be bean beon on an eagle when they ride ide in auch an automobile on such a ride even if it its it's only in a dr dream am And there Is the snake dream dream lont dont you hate that Youre You're walking in Ia a beautiful garden caren or sitting talking with a a. now and delightful friend and all aIt at once a snake writhes at your our ver very feet teet You see it ao so plainly that all aU the next I day you watch very care carefully fUll to I be sure lure where youre you're treading treading- I And theres there's another dream dream dream-do do you have it often about often about the great reat house bouse full tull of ot windows and sot with hundreds of or doors and there are winding stairs and secret passages and youve you've lived in It always and always and yet you never knew half halt the truth about it and you open a n. little narrow v door on the staircase and suddenly theres there's a great vaulted chamber hunS hung in in wonderful tape and set with weird lights that fascinate and frighten you ou at the tho same time and you never realized before what a strange place it was and was and all aU the tho next day you look at plain your every day house and anda wonder It If there thero Is somewhere in It a secret room or a staircase you havo Dover liever round found or a door that where leads do they mean these dreams Indigestion o an Imagination nation wild run Very probably 1 1 And yet why is 18 It impossible that the they are a LL kind of metaphorical hint to you that something you ought to do or ought not to do do like like some one whispering to you in a foreign language lang which you dont don't quite thoroughly understand understand un un- un- un and yet et you can sense sense faintly a faintly a warning The snake now and the tho secret 8 staircase lr ase in the strange house some house some times i I- feel reel if as that other mind which sits and watches while we work or or play or laugh laug-h or cry Is 18 trying trinS to tell teU us something something full of or hope and courage ra e or r B something B of or a warning No I dont don't own a m book took and I dont don't go to fortune tellers but hut whisper whisper whisper-if If I 1 dont don't want people to know inow what I am thinking about when 1 Im I'm m awake I r never Iny my Swims dreams nov never nover tell them that that's It s what they're y yr r I sometimes very clever fan fancy they C will ill U know how to Interpret them-at them least How do you feel about it |
