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Show WONDBRS OF THE HUMAN MIND. Traveler In HI Dreamt la Carried Far and Fait. A flash of llRht la not sluggish, sound travels rapidly, a bullet Is no mesnenger boy, and an automobile which shoots a mile In twenty-eight seconds Is moving along, certainly. When It comes to getting over the ground In a real hurry, however, to devouring distance In dead earnest, the dreamer marches proudly at tho hpad of th? procession. He makes tho latest thing In the lino of 160 horse power racing cars look like tiny carts n a mud bank. A man sits In hlfl chair after dinner and dozes; ho awakes with a start and discovers, to his surprise, that he lost consciousness conscious-ness for exactly three minutes by the clock. Yet In those three minutes he Journeyed from New York to Port Said, transferred himself to Bt. Petersburg, Peters-burg, loitered In Paris and Ijndon. and palled tip tho Nile. What Is of greater lmportanco In this connection, he Journeyed leisurely, almost. Indolently; Indo-lently; he stopped at various "points of Interest" and examined them thoroughly; thor-oughly; hn mot with annoying and amusing experiences on steamships and trains; he talked with acquaintances acquaint-ances whom he encountered In foreign lands, and he told some of them precisely pre-cisely what he thought of them there was genuine pleasure In that A dreamer can put thousands and thousands thou-sands of miles behind him In the short space of three minutes and lazily en-Joy en-Joy himself In his wandering. By comparison, the chauffeur, with his llfo In his hands. Is a slow coach; and he must attend strictly to business; busi-ness; he can engage In no conversation conversa-tion dr sightseeing. The human mind Is a wonderful vehicle. Some people in spectacles have analyzed It and think that they know what It Is and what It can do. But they do not know and they never will know. Providence Journal. |