Show I Ir r Ir r. r t 4 w j By Mrs E. E Morrison Grout When en Halloween n draws near dont don't you ou wish you a a. child again I do It II brings to mind the making makIng- o of o lan terns and all tho one time Ume childish enthusiasm which animated us at such uch times Too bad we cannot retain our illusions to greater extent as wo Wit grow ol older cr and that wo vo have with tho the years cars a decided as If It we wo had been left ou out overnight anc nn had gotten gollen frostbitten we are lre re so coldly de tie tie- liberate This night brings to mind II n big dimly lit 1St living 11 room with a n. lot of chi children boyi dren boya and girls huddled girls huddled d on a bearskin rug rub a 3 fireplace tho fire flickers and Lights up a n group that arc are fishing for tho the bobbing bobbinS apples In a tub of water Tho apple la 13 to be e eaten ten with salt alt salton salton altan on an retiring and arid If It your out thirst Is relieved d during your dreams tho the per person on holding holding- the cup Is to be tho the future futuro husband or wife wire of the dreamer Throwing Throwing- a ball bail of yarn out aut tho the window holding on to one on end of the thread was my iny task with wih a n low crooned I wind here who winds binds there While hlo I busl busily wound the tue yarn yam am on m my sIder side of the window there there were a few tew cold chills chis r I- I running up my back os as I waited a n ghostly r- r f double of or the bo boy I liked est J-est est to begin to L wind Ind from tho the garden and croon In an an- A slight tug from tho the outer darkness darkness dark dark- ne ness sent sent me flying back precipitately to tob tob b be snuggled snuggle close dose to the motherly heart of or Mammy Liza In her chair In the chime chimney chimney chim chim- e De ney corner while sho lang sang sang- Dey Hl 11 los do wa way Dc Dey dunno where to go r I Dey des a a night night and daDe day day day- j. j De Doy Dey miss do mammy so r This in a a low full ful voice until fear fer had I fr left leC m my childish heart the while the tho other t children had gathered about her skirts skirt skIrts She then than told us delicious ghost stories of i f. f the tho southern outher plantation until little shivers L of ot dread dred racked raced our small smal frames an arid and each t f individual hair hall stood up like fn wire r f But oh the fascination of It all all' Years t have bays robbed us of many things and not noti i least least of these Is our childish credulity In InI I the supernatural As I watch tho children ren J f. f of today toay their Joys seem cem tempered with too to much worldly knowledge for tor real en en- en n- n Tho children are precocious and nd have havo no childhood the they childhood they are aro small smal men and women before tho the age of ot maturi ma ma- turi ty She Sho said Mid Beauty is ono one of the tho most I potent po P pos ss In life le but can cn you ou anal analyze ze It Jt I cant I bel believe believe eve It Is difficult to define but I often oCen think beauty d does es not note lie Be e in features nor In tho color of or ones one's hair hall as a much as It I do does docs s In a sort of emanation emanation ema ema- nation from character a face tace Illumed by 1 a beautiful be soul If I you doubt me mc watch yourself or some Intimate friend from da day to da day and note the effect of different emotions upon the skin akin kIn and md In the tho bril- bril k of the eyes Even the luster of tho the tho hair Is effected Have von vou ou ever er e watched persons who were l led captive f by b by the the little blind god How clear tho the eye ee and akIn become how lustrous arid soft oft the hair grows and what what a magnetic magnetic mag- mag mag mag- vitality pervades tho the whole person on Really I have hav and and and doubtless you ou have have have- seen een quite quie homely people gr grow handsome under this Influence So It Is with wih every ery i emotion or caln calling In life le which calls cas orth forth the thc higher Idealism Merely l bi b t facts are arc too to often oran without character and represent Insipidity If I p people aro arc only Onh attracted to us b by physical beauty and w we ha e no attributes of ot character by which we wo may hold them Iho will wi prove an empty thing The general generl Impression of Madame do de Staci Is that she was wa a beautiful beautiful beau beau- woman oman probably because she wielded wielded wield wield- ed d such an Influence upon France Contemporary Con- Con temporary historians the say on contrary that she sho he was vas wa not beautiful of body or face tace rather that sho was decidedly decided plain She Shei i was WM a 0 woman of ot brains and that rarer quality which the Frenchman denominates C and w wo we call cal warmth of na na- na- na turo ture and breadth of ot mind |