Show Life Is a Swaying Bridge Over Eternity's Stream s Stream m B By WINIFRED t eJ BLACK B k LACK S COpy Copyright 1915 by Newspaper Feature Service Inc Ina I 0 0 she went out and killed herself little Angela Colombo She was 13 lg SO S years old and as os sweet and loving lo as she could be bc and as pretty as asa asa asa a picture too She lived over in the suburb of a great city and she had two little brothers and two little sisters and a mother who loved her and a lL father who could not look at lid hel they say without a kindly smile But she did something that was not quite right an and her mother scolded her and she cried and cried and then she killed herself Life had scarcely begun when she tho brought it to an end Poor little thin thing I hope her troubled heart is at rest today They do o suffer so the so-the the very er young oung Everything is so tra tragic ic and so BO dreadful to themI them I cant can't make good says saS the boy of 21 1 a against me I dont don't get a chance And he wants to die And if you tell teU him that he is nothing but hut a ahoy boy and that success seldom answers to a boys boy's whistle no matter how earnest it itIs itIs itis Is he looks tragically at you ou and and wonders how you ou can be he so heartless In ten years ears he will look back and anti understand 4 s I I Youths Youth's Tragic Fears f I 4 t. Dont Don't you ou remember the time when you were in fractions and you ou couldn't understand them to save your our life The Thc teacher explained the clever girl at the head of oC the class went event to the board and elucidated d Your lour brother at home laughed and your our father fron frowned d But none of t iem seemed to understand the tragedy of or It It to to you OU They thou thought ht it didn't amount to lo much The They didn't see why you were so 80 queer about it it But ys u knew You that it wasn't the tho fractions fractions frac fmc that were wrong It was you ou There was all out of or balance in your mind A blank spot you OU would never be lIl like e the rest And before I long lonn- everybody would know it it I Somo Some would pit pity you OU and antI some sonic would make malc fun of you but the they would all know that you were different rent When you are very cry young it is very cr dreadful to lo be different Now when you OU cant can't add atIl fractions you ou just get somebody else to lo add them for tor you OU and let it go 0 at that The tragedy has turned into a joke But the they never believe that it will do that the that the vcr very young The They cant can't If It they could they wouldn't nt be young young u Dont Don't you ou remember the thc swinging bridge in the ravine in the thc woods last summer It stretched over the little tumbling stream like a co cobweb web spread by some Borne gigantic spider The first time you ou crossed it how heir you trembled You walked slowly and set your foot down with great care al anti and tl every time the bridge swayed a little as it always did and always was supposed to do you looked back ack at the firm ground behind you ou and wished cd you ou had halL I never heard of or the pretty swinging bridge After Artel you had cros crossed crossel e l it ii a a few times lines you Oll stepped lightly across and sang und under r your you OU went T I J Lifo's Lifes First Stops I 4 i j I- I Life i is tc d' d Abridge bridge e A AA han hanging bridge thrown lightly over 1 a I f tumbling and I sometimes terrifying terrifying- stream When you first walk wall upon the thc grid bridge e you OU tremble at cv every r step If it should break l If you OU should slip If Jf It should hould all turn out to be he a a. trap or 01 a cruel snare But afterwards what of or it You cross and somehow What Vhal does lees it matter mutter One Ono failure more or les less On One disappointment less les or more One Ono mistake mistake mis mis- take tako too man many One Ong On success too little One disappointment less or more One mistake too man many Ono One success too loo little In tho the long bug count of the thc Journey across across the bridge what does docs it matter malter in the end So that we sing as we go and Jostle no man from his rightful place and hurt hurl no woman from Crom her safe sare crossing crossin- Lets Let's be e very gentle with wIlh the children Very ery 1 kind to the very or young ounG They do not see seo life lire as wo we C see it as a whole To them each cach day is the beginning and th the ond encl She's Just starting across tho bridge The rhe girl sirl with the wide eyes ees tho the brow of the thc dreamer Dont Don't Cr frighten hlen her Dont Don't startle stallIe her hel Sh She doesn't know She Sho cannot see PA the thc other side yet yot I |