Part 1. Chit-Chat
Part 1. Chit-Chat - Chapter 1. Chit-Chat
_ PART I. CHIT-CHAT
CHAPTER I. CHIT-CHAT
I thought to write a book entitled: "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." How much is buried in the wreckage of yesterday--how uninteresting today is and how little is to be done--our burden we shift to the strong, young shoulders of tomorrow； tomorrow of the big heart, who in kindness hides our sorrows and whispers only of hope. I ended by writing,--this--which I have called "Chit-Chat," thus classifying the book, knowing that such a book if true to name will picture the age and find a publisher.
I have read in the Arabian Book of Knowledge that "thoughts are Tartars, vagabonds； imprison all thou canst not slay," and have seen fit to follow this suggestion and the advice given a Turkish author--
"That none may dub thee tactless dund‘rhead,
Confine thy pen to light chit-chat,
And rattle on as might a letter!
For ninety-nine of every hundred
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