Show 0 Something to Think About 1 L By F. F A. A 0 IDLERS IDLERS' ISLAND P you are arc resolved to continue your our search for tor Idlers Idlers' Island contrary contrary con con- to the advice ot of the experienced experienced I and those disconcerted souls out ot at the elbow who have spent time the f best years ot of theIr lives In Its quest you ou may set It down as on an unassailable able tact fact that you ou are doomed to sorrowful sorrowful sor- sor disappointment The youth who dreams ot of this mystic mystic mys- mys tic place forgetful of ot his duties to his parents and his employers while he be Is fitting up his phantom ship to sail away In pursuit ot of perpetual pleasure Is heading straight to a land landof ot of sorrow and desolation which he will find In tIle the meridian ot of life Ufe when his sky Is turning gray and the Icy wInds of wInter nIp hIs shivering body and freeze up his last remaining energy There Is only one event e nt at this time ot of his exIstence whIch really ns- ns ton I and startles him out of his self imposed ImpoverIshment and that thatIs Is he cannot build himself up again to hopeful manhood He Is pushed and jostled on the streets and takes It ns as n a matter ot of no consequence i he Is shunned by old friends who pass him with n a sneer but there Is not enough fir In his blood to kindle resentment he Is miserable mis- mis erable crable and lonely but so dull In sen sen- that he Is unconcerned He may sometimes try to bruce brace hl him him- self up ns as a sudden ray my ot of hope momentarily mo- mo flashes across hIs darkened mInd hut but the effort proves too much for him background of at his subconscious self Is s still sUIl covered with dream pIcures plc- plc lures ures ot of Idlers Idlers' Island blurred by cobwebs cob cob- webs and out ot of harmony with the colorful scenes around hIm and hIs present physical and mental lassi- lassi tude When he was twenty five he was i lazy careless wasteful and Improvident j dent with frIends everywhere e delighted delight delight- ed cd to help hell him spend his InherItance now that ho he Iii s five and forty he Is destitute and alone left to drift drUt seaward sea sea- ward with the ebbing tide Oh that he could warn the hotheaded hot hot- headed ot of ot of their youths today folly nut But lie he cannot He Is de despised and shunned rug ragged hungry gaunt g and cold nIl all because In hIs earlier days he refused to work so that he might have hn time to search for Idlers Idlers' Island where now he is IR for Ute life D 1924 1924 McClure McClur Newspaper Syndicate |