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TH PIKICE 15
House of Memory
ALPHALETA KENNON"When time who steals our years
away
Shall steal our pleasures, too,
The memory of the past will stay
And half our joys renew."
The house of memory-the key to
which we alone hold-to which we
stand sentinel at the door and can re-
fuse admission to anything, or anyone,
that to us is objectionable, is a wonder
castle, mysterious, wonderful, beauti-
ful, precious.
We are the architects of this
shrine and the beauty of it depends
almost entirely on ourselves. It should
not be made ghostly with specters of
long-gone opportunities, or cluttered
with the debris life wrecks, or useless
objects of no possible value. It is
not a treasury for things repellent,
ugly, grotesque, bizzare, wicked, or
forbidding, or where obscene thoughts
lurk, or beasts of hate and revenge
crouch awaiting the time when the
holder of the key to this home opens
the door. Only the true, the beauti-
ful, the precious should we allow to
enter.
We should make this house of mem-
ory a treasure house with gems of
thought and sweet sentiment, pearls
formed 'by the transmutation of tears
in the sorrow of mankind; pure goldof character, refined with the cru-
cible of sad experience.
When we think seriously, we real-
ize the more aged we become, the
more we live in this home. It seems
the only sensible thing for us to do
is to see as near as possible that our
hopes, deeds, ideals, thoughts, and
words shall be such as will make our
memory house holy, glorious, and joy-
full. "Let us select only pictures of
scenes appealing, and beautiful, only
records of music sweet and inspiring,
only faces of dear ones cherished and
beloved."
"One of the greatest boons vouch-
safed to man is the veiled future.
Another is memory beautiful and com-
fortingi" when the misfortune of the
unveiled future comes - if we have
made it such.
We must remember the "future of
today will soon be the past of to-
morrow." So let us make our house
beautiful with pictures surpassing the
more beautiful paintings of Da Vinci,
Velasquez, or Raphael; more wonder-
fully sweet than the sonatas of Bee-
tehoven, "The Moonlight Serenade."
We must remember that everyday
even every hour, we are selecting and
storing these things - beautiful and
joyful, or ugly and repellant-by our
hope and filled by love and time.THE PICKWICKER
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