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Show oo BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR. Men who have delighted in dreams and then have passed on without rea-illlH rea-illlH lUing their hopes, oftgn have lived Uvea of cheer because they have had their dreams Other men have repelled everything but that which they had realized and have soured their existence. To which class shoud ono attach himself Why. to the dreamer who found contentment In his dream? Recently an eastern publication has expressed this same idea by felling of the "World ol Make Believe," as fol- She was an old lady of- 80 who for yeaTs had not walked a dozen steps without assistance He was a small boy of 7, with a crippled limb, who could not move with out the use of a crutch. And these two were playing hide and go seek together. "You have three chances to guess where I'm hiding, grandma,'' said the boy. The old lady chuckled "Be-hind "Be-hind the bush," she guessed. Back of that chair on the piaz 1 ; "No, but you'ro getting warm." "I know, under the couch." The boy laughed greefully. "You've caught me," he said. "Now It's our turn to hide, Grandma." All the afternoon the old lady and the boy of 7 played the game together without moving from their chairs. They might have sat there, sick and heartsore because of their limitations, but instead they entered the 'world of make-B make-B believe and the hours were full of B What an example for those men HBW and women who are continually HBV complaining and bewailing what fate has brought them: H you have big troubles. Utile B ones, or imaginary ones, a good B way to chase them from you ie to take a trip Into the land of make- believe. Childhood has the happy faculty of imagination, and .in play draws heavily heav-ily on the Imaginary objects and ac Hons We older folks do not indulge as we should In thoughts which are pleaslnc and satisfying In this busy world of , serious problems there Is not enough relating, not enough play, not euough laughter. |