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Show CALAMITY THAT DWARFS ALL. Trouble of the Grown-Ups But Bubbles Bub-bles Beside Tragedy That Harrowed Har-rowed Boy's Soul. People talk of calamities tho drop of a few points In somo stock, tho crash of a runaway horso, tho bursting burst-ing of a water pipe, tho cook leaving Just ns tho. company arrives, a fellow gottlng mad and trading at another store, nn editor writing the word "damn," tho loving helptneot running Into a dash of rain while out in her richest plumnge, tho lawyer losing a plain case which ho took on a contingent contin-gent feo we Bay peoplo talk of calamities calam-ities llko theso, and they fall back Into In-to unspeakable anguish, but they nro all tho mcro foibles of disappointment iompnred with what wo saw tho othor day, whloh was this: A small boy built n kite out of sticks nnd tlssuo paper, and It had a long graceful calico cali-co tall, and he brought it forth to sail It In a sunny brooze. What a realization realiza-tion of great hopo was thero when he held up that thing of beauty to catch the first palpitating beams of tho morning! How his heart thumped with delight! Away goes tho kite, borno on tho sweet breath of the morning up, up It goes, nnd now It sails and soars, as If It transfigured Bomo happy dream but look, lo, there is a flurry and a dart and down It dnBhes on a malignant tangle of tele-., phono wires, and a boy's soul Is harrowed har-rowed with despair. That's what we call real calamity. All the others aro bogus. Ohio Stato Journal. |