Show I 4 AN EDITORIAL BY I I FLORENCE DAVIES I 4 TOO ai M tY Y WINDOWS WIDOW s Has it over eOJ e eo OJ occurred to IOU sou ou that a room might have liae too riny windows not too much light but too many outlooks on the world arouni too many beckoning spices too man many distractions too little space apace for repose Priceless j as are the gifts Rifts of at tI the senses they may betray im us If It we I can cannot not learn to pull down n tin tilt blinds of our mental windows indo snow now and then and shut out tho the glare and QI traction I A writer in one of the mag mag- mag agines describes the affliction of deaf deaf- deafness ness and of Its compensation tion there Is a Iness iou ou ou know for tor almost very cry loss Deanes had ad cne of the thiv windows Indo s in his mind bul but how on Ida wido tt it had had opened others I Most Moat t of o 0 us he le reI I minds us ua hear too much anyhow too toe much that isn't worth north and so soe sowe si we e waste aste vears ears ears o of time Jt less thero there is more time for tor tt thinking I A big LIZ price prie to pa you ou ou sa say say for fora foila a little time In which to hink and see a 1 lea es but some of us squander our gifts girts of the senses so rashly that we no e desen deserve deserie e them at allI all I Nobody keeps all of tee tae t e windows s ot of otIl ofa ola Il a house houe open all alt of the time r Lien Even en at atI atthe atthe I the theatre e eHry light I Isn't t trained Ion on the actors at the san sa am Ie ic time In of tension a single Ie ray of light marks the tho spot ol oi shut out It Jt s just the old trl trick triLis 1 Ct Cf elimina elimina- elimination elimination tion lou you OU say shutting out else so that the one point of oC light holds all our Along with Ith his hI keen loss this Is th the leaf mon man s a again gain and the blind man b a rain that he shuts out half halt the world orin norm only to 10 know the tho other halt half more than those of o us who ho hear all aU an t an-t see all l Perhaps some somo of ot us ua who wao waste our time over sights and sounds who see and bear hear e eier eer every er Inci mci- Incident Incident dent and conversation con small baggage in the world wares and 1 nods ought to be taught what It means to of mortal mertal win win- windows have to close dose one ou dows clows for tor a II while whilo Wals a s of cf touching life lICe are priceless when hen they Ill aro are used to some purpose but what wI-at a waste aste hen they are squandered Just because a II room has s plenty ot doors is no I cason why a we e should keep running from one to tim other ati an annever never getting anywhere And nd yet et that thatis thatis thatIs is just what hat some people do with the precious gift gitt of o their Sf senses noes They want to use all of ot them ail all the time and w lID so get nowhere here It Ite It ve e aro really going to arrive any anywhere where here in particular In tb this we iso will have hae to to sl I ier window ot or the mind but oo on for hours at a 1 time Ye and ears Priceless as they al ale e n may betray hetra 1 s Into wasted we e Io not shOt Ithem them once in a a while hilo an ani give minds and fingers a chance to worl work at 1 0 op chosen tasks Just suppose e iou OU nero eru dear deaf for tor a 0 dav dl Think of ot the orl ou might accomplish in tIle tha 9 00 00 |