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Show I LITTLE PARABLE OF LIFE Aptly Compared to Journey Through Comfortable' Passage Leading to One Small Room. I will tell you a llttlo parable. Each Ufo Ib llko a wonderful castlo, with hundreds of mysterious rooms. Through tho wholo expanse of thnt castlo runs n broad, comfortnblo passage pas-sage ultimately leading to tho small room thnt contains an honored and peaceful deathbed. If you would bo safe, you must Btay In this pnsBago. You must pass by without opening them tho hundreds of alluring doors. You must pass without with-out following them tho secret winding wind-ing stairs lending up or down to unknown un-known places You will novor know nil you really own. You will novor seo tho festlvo hnll with Its brilllnnt revels, nor tho taper-lit chnpcl with Its tnyBtlc ocata-sles ocata-sles you will novor find tho hidden chamber with Its lotus joys, nor tho romantic balcony with Its blzarro assemblage as-semblage you will novor rench tho tiny towor room with Its view across land and sea nnd up Into tho skies. . . And you will nevor seo tho dark colls whoro wolrd things nro kept nor tho ghastly dungeon deep down below tho ground, whoro ono lies sobbing nnd bleeding nnd broken, nnd whence thero Is no returning. I havo opened many a door in my ciBtlo said Christlno and I fear I shall never find my way back to tho broad, comfortnblo passage Smart Set. |