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Show f AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES 4 sill i I s OHi MILLIONS? When the modern woman In the , modern apartment starts In to dust the b'l o-o-t rue -he !s tempted to doubt ! the wisdom of Robert Louis Stcven-I Stcven-I son when he exclaimed. "It is per-i per-i haps ii more fortunate destiny .o have ' a taste for collecting shells than to I bo born a' millionaire." "Yes. by ah means," we might add "If only we had a place to put the shells" For the modern woman has long since learned the tyranny of things and the high cost of paving I rent for a place to put them. But It Isn't the things themselves that Stevenson was talking about, but an Interest In things. And bore's difference. Things, like the very millions mil-lions he deprecated n.ay become a burden and an annoyance But an ' interest in things stays by one forever The things themselves, whether they i be shells or mountains, or diamonds or pain'lncs aren't half as Important IS Ideas about Ihlngs. It isn't the 'i.ountaln Itself, gaunt iand gray again a dloud-bsnked sky I w hich you treasure For you can t take tint mourfl 1 1 r home and lick It up In your safety deposit vaulf or stOW It Iowa In the eij.-jn cabinet to dust. But I the Idea about Hi mountain. Its sense jot majesty ani aim. Its peak tower-I tower-I .ng skyward. Is what yon love. That Is one reason why It's bettc' I to be born w ith a taste for collect -iiL- shells than to be born with millions mil-lions it's because1 the m ! ln tn lhm I selves are dumb If you h ive no eye I of the mind to sec the bcauiy they can buy. , I Such are the consolations of pover i 13- No one can rob yon of the beauty you see In a piece of old pewter or worry ou with taxes or upkeep on j what vou know about Wvdgewood, Ad while wo modern housekeepers mipht wish to be spared from the doubtful joys of finding places for th j collection of shells which Stevenson i re ou,ninued. A&me thing mu't be said for the lasting satisfaction which Is offered by the eye that can see the bi n ut v in the shgll. Th'- present duv youth, alas, makes short work of q choice betw een u col- i III fun nf anyihln-i. and being borne a! millionaire. Ho would choose the mil- '..n- every tlrn" and leave the collect-j I '.hit huqlncss to 'lie e . i rn t o r rt moc.l eum.". And having chosen he pays the pen-altv pen-altv of his choice, which Is a great nnd ohstant and compelling unrest He has. it would sem. no Inward' n lourcee, no furnishings of the mind with which to entertain himself when action ceaees He nmst be In hodlly motion or sink Into a s'ouuh of despond, des-pond, since he opparentlv knows so little about mental motion. Happy the youngster whose father oi mother has given him one old coin 'to lay upon another, or a stamp from i some far country, or shown him tin- colors on a butterfly's wing, and thus' fired him with the collector's zeal No finer reniedv .'"i nstlcssness ma be prescribed. -nn 1 |