Show HIS VAIN REGRETS COULD HAVE ENJOYED GOOD THINGS DENIED HIM man born w th keen appreciation of the and the beamut ful doubts whether G ats were well bestowed As I 1 look back aid a man upon whose head now quite some years have fallen my only regret Is that I 1 was born with refined tastes with an appreciation 0 the beautiful with a love tor all things graceful and good for I 1 have not been so fixed that I 1 could satisfy these longings now it so to say I 1 had been born rich as well as handsome it would have been all right but unfortunately for me poverty was my lot as lar as money Is concerned and so I 1 t ave had high tastes and aspirations with out the means of satisfying them and I 1 think I 1 might have enjoyed life more it I 1 had been made ot coarser lay you take for instance the matter at food I 1 like good things to eat and good cooking and though I 1 am naturally of a tranquil temperament and possessed always of a good appe tite yet food poorly cooked and poor ly served always disturbs me greatly but on the other hand do we not find plenty of people who rise from a dinner however cooked and served contented and happye and I 1 often wonder if it would not have been bet ter tor me it I 1 had been born with that disposition take pictures I 1 like good paint ings and should be glad it I 1 could adorn my house with such but as it is my walls are bare while those who find delight in simple chiomos have walls well filled and would it not have been better for me if my tastes had run that waya and you take works of art I 1 like vases that would cost 1 apiece while many are sat isfried with what they can get at the five and ten and would it not have been better for me it I 1 had been like them and I 1 think I 1 could enjoy a motor car though I 1 ride perforce in the people s automobile and I 1 know I 1 should like a yacht and id be batis fied with about a 45 foot sloop for a starter but I 1 have to ride in a steam boat common to all and my clothes get shiny and I 1 wish I 1 had more money for clothes in fact there s a whole lot of things that I 1 d like to have and that I 1 d much enjoy but that I 1 can t have for lack of money and so as I 1 look back I 1 sometimes wonder it it would not have been better tor me if I 1 had been born with an appreciation less keen for the beautiful and yet I 1 don t know As a certain powerful writer once remarked it Is better to be a might have been than a never was and I 1 don t know after all but what I 1 agree with him for it Is some pleasure to me to think that I 1 could have enjoyed these things they had come my way |