The Archive · 1925

Memory's Possessions

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However much they detest travelling, they Tike the memories; they love' calling. up mind-pictures. They know that to be taken out of rats is good for them. In spite of their protests, their hangings back, their clingings to home, they feel that this pushing into the unknown going to have its compensations.

they didn't, they could hardly repress cowardly complexes end would leap from wherever we had bestowed them and make for solid ground in a terrible Inst-moment As it is, they let our spirit mate them," because some day the sights, the sounds, the strange cinells. of foreign "places, the beauty of old architec~ he interest of history brought close to them, the unimaginable loveliness of most of the earth they Hive on, will be precious in atom archives, They will plume danger" will look brighter for looked at backwards—allowing, too, that they did not shrink from holding her when she was to. be beheld. Drama will be intensified. Adventure will be ax colourful as a child's dream of pirates. They wilt almost feel that they" went out:

wontedly to seek everything they found. wrtunately, there is a sense of humour among atoms, crusty tempered as they often are. Tt really amuses them almost as much as it exarperates them to be stirred up. They can't keep back a grin at their own expense when they feel thomselves hezinning to whirl at the shaking of spirit, as pigmy snowstorms whirl through Hittle land: scapes inside old-tashfoned "ites Taper-weights when shaken by the human hand. Some people's atoms are not like this at all, They move cohesively and without ardour. They Tike to move, They would trundle off without one reluctant. thought for comforts abandoned.

They ara hardy, ninapprahonsive, forth-putting, carefree atoms, great ly to be desired by most mortals. But, there's this to be said_ in favour of the other kind, that, struggle as they do, unwilling as they are to be stirred," their abnormal sensitive. change makes them eternal ye of the imps change brings Designed and drawn for the "North-China Daily News"

Afternoon frock of flesh chiffon, the bands on bodice paleat green red with crystal and Buished with a safe bow of green

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