| Show 00 SEEING ONLY MAN MANOF MANOF MANOF OF THE MOUNTAIN Have UTO you ou ever seen the old old man of o the tho mountain T You have not traveled tra far tar If Ie you fOU dont don't know him For every every mountain range has at least a dozen not to men men- men men-k 4 Uon tron a f few fw w bears a sphinx a SL tish antI and a hammer or two all acci acci- accidents acci- acci accidents accidents dents of rock formation They They are curious enough these chance pictures that we w see In clouds and cliffs like liko dream cas cas- cas casties castles ties tics which build themselves In Inthe the tho gloWIng globing embers of ot a log fire firor or etch themselves I ii In the frost on a window pane Curious and interesting even en pleasantly touch touch- touch touched touched ed with fancy lancy but surely Dot ot very Cry Important Yet no tourist Is allowed to escape them He Ht may drIve for tor miles through majestic mountain he may just lust begin to be aware aware of ot the vast authority of piled plied high against the SKY or the brilliant beauty of little lakes cupped In iii the th encircling encircling cling arms of green bills hills when the g guide de points to the th face ace of the theold theold old man in the tb rocks Instantly the tb party alights walks to the tb appointed spot squints at the Jagged sagged peak jilt each discovers the rock that forms torms the nose zose ose and chin suddenly per per- perceive perceive the th sug suggested ested profile and registers delight Even at the th Gra Grand d canyon where here sheer vastness if It If nothing else must Jar even a small soul out ot of hIs hi accustomed accustomed self com people go right on searching for tor the little while miss missing ing log the tho big Happily Happily it is a physical and and mental Impossibility for Tor even ven the most minded I 1 to es escape pe The iho challenge of o th the canyon lInt But the old habit of ot looking for tor forthe the figure seven In a arock rock shad shadow ow or finding the lI h In Ia the sIde of a cliff stays Perhaps Its It's typical 1 ot of C tJi the way most people live We spend time squInting at cracks and crevices bothering over little problems and missing big Issues Most of ot us do just this with both things and with people Most of us are arc too close to pie to see tho the panorama of ot their lives as a whole Only after they are dead do their little weaknesses and whims drop away and the croll of o their lives live as a a whole emerge Then how small do some of their trivial failings become We go 0 to the th Grand canyon and waste time hunting for a hg- hg fig figure ure ui-c seven In the color of the soil We live next door or under the same sam root roo with a noble per per- personality personality and see re only the queer quirks of ot character which make It IL on o occasion caslon hard to live with Ot OX Its high purpose of ot its es- es es essential kindliness of ot Its Inner strivings we see little How fool fool- foolIsh foolish foolish ish and wasteful How stupid to drIve for tor miles through sculptured beauty of o the mountains all to search for the profile that looks like a sleeping bear Just as stu stu- stupId stUpid stupid close to another pid as to live s so o me lire that we w never have room to tosea to see that life as a whole |
