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-…
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