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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1904)
-st--: TSSUStarw rxwrrtxxx. jty-- ' i" ttbe D a i I 1R c b r a 0 ft a n ; I A CHILD'S IMAGINATION. In childhood magic and mystery lie close around ub. Our world 1b filled with Btrango, unfathomanlo thing that pique tho curiosity, bo strong in tho clilia mind. If our fancy bo di rects, our fantastic Imagination pic tures for ub wild and uncanny crea tions from mere shadows, or exagger ates Insignificant details into gigantic and terrible portents. One moment de lightful enchantment and charm Biir round us, tho next we are heeeiged by omens and signs of tho most alarm ing nature. Tho child views everything with the1 eyoB of wonder. How very little aftei all Is required to catch the childish fancy! Little incidents, trivial hap ponlngB, to us utterly without conse quence, become to him circumstances of tho utmoBt significance. Who but tho child can toll how many genii how many ImpB, how many fairies, are contained in a pipeful of grandfather's tobacco? Who but 'hlniBelf can appre ciate tho deep Import of tho old trunk in the garret, or tho old cabinet In tin hay-loft? What conjecture can you make as to tho number of bold Spanish pirates, with long, black, f erocloue "moustachlos" and high, buckskin boots, that have boon slain by that dirk that hangs on tho wall of fath er's library? Imagine, If you can, the numborh'BS palaces of Aladdin tha every tall, white cloud contains, of a summer's day. But they are thoro, for the child sees them. The world Is now to tho child. What tho eye does not discover for him tho Imagination must supply. When, In his everlasting reaching out for more knowledge, things do not moot his idea (or Ideal) of tho fitting the gap muLt bo supplied, and his fancy must do the trick. For him, tho very ab sence of romance is an incentive to romanticism. The world is fairyland, whether or no let's all bo gnomes and fairies. For, mark you, if It isn't falrleB, it's gnomes. If the child can discover nothing beautiful in his surroundings, ho must go to tho other extreme and depl t to himself beings of untold hor-', ror. And sometimes he even prefers tt do so. Just as, now, wo all like to bo "scared" a little; so it Is with tho child, only he will stand no half way measures. With him It must ho a genuine fright. Ho will have It so. -One evening when grandfather had gotten out his pipe and had drawn up close to tho fireplace, l iounu my drawing book and began to draw pic tures. Ouisldo, tho wind was howling and crlng, and onco in a while a fierce gust would find its way down tho chim ney and moke the burning logs crackle suddenly and sharply, and twist their smoko into curious figures. Funny shadows dancea on tho wall, and grandfather's presence became very comforting at times. But I wont on with my drawing. . I drew houses, and roosters, and cows, and trees. But they were very tamo. Soon I foil to watching the smoke In the fireplace, and presently I thought I recognized one my old friends, tho imps, in it. Tho next mo ment there was no doubt of it, and I set to work at once to draw his por trait. I gave him a hoof on one log, and n legitimate foot on tho other. He had a long, black, anchor-pointed tall. HIb eyes were very largo and glaring. He had long scaly claws for hands, nd two pointed horns on his forehead. Ho was very dreadful. I gazed at tho picture in nwe. A veritable Franken stoin, as you shall see. Suddenly he winked his right eye at me. HIb teeth showed In a diabolical rin. HIb claws began to twitch in a truly dovillsh fashion. O horror! I could stand it no longer. In an In stant grandfather's pipe waB dashed from his mouth nnd I was crying and nobbing in his arms for him to save me to drive tho fearful thing away. It 'shows what a child's fancy will do. The mystery in the poorly lighted room, the magic of the curling smoko In tho fireplace, the shrieking of the wind in tho chimney, tho loneliness of the place you see, they all demanded In my childish Imagination some sprite of fairyland. I had to scare myself It was Inevitable. After all, much of what we Bee, we see only in imagina tion. The thing is only a little strong er in the child than In us. To ua, the novelty of the world haB, to a great extent, worn away, but to the child everything Is novel new mysterious It was imagination, of course, that saw the imp In the fireplace; It was imag ination that put him down on paper; It was imagination that insisted on my so fiightenlng myself. But how man) times a day. do you do the same thing, only in letter degree? The HotlWaffle Man. Or,e of the roost notable examples Of bushiest Bucress achieved' by courte ous treatment of patrons and a close attention to their needs is that of Pani We-stcrfield, whose portrait ap pears below. Perhaps few business men ar more widely known and re Bpeitcd !.i long University podple than Mr. Wchterfleld, as ho has always been jjHtBfrft ft i FOR it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it n n it it it it it it High Grade Chocolates and Candies a it a it a it it it it GO TO M axw ell 4. V a friend to the students and paid es pecial attention to their wants. He Is the man who Invonted the famous waf fie. wh'ch has drawn him so much trade, and which can only bo-found at "Sam'B Cafe," as the students expreBB It. Mr. Westerfleld has long been ac quainted with University people nnd has drawn much patronage from them which ho duly appreciates. Ho has al ways sought to treat the students squarely and it Is conceded that he has always done so. Ho was an en thusiastic rooter for tho success of our great football team, and showed his enthusiasm in a substantial man ner last fall by giving tho boys a ban quet that could hardly bo surpassed in excellence. 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