Show CHOICE IN LIFE word Fain fainter tir of an ideal existence A young man who bought sought a clerkship in one of 0 the departments at washington washinton once asked the lato late robert G ingersoll for his indorsement endorsement indor and this was ingersoll a reply young man I 1 auld rather have forty acres ot of land with wit h a log cabin on it and the woman I 1 love lu in the cabin with a little grassy grass winding path leading down to tho the spring where the water gurgles from the lips 0 of the earth whistling day and anti night to the white pebbles a perpetual poem with 4 ith hollyhocks growing gwint ot at the cor tier of the hoube and morning glories bloomi blooming bloo rg over tho the low thatched door with lattaro work ork over the window windo so that the sunlight word wet it fall checked on the dimpled baba in tho the cradle nud rud birds like son songs g s with wings 1110 hovering hol ering in the th summer er air than be the clerk of any government on earth |