The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-12-07
HOW DOES 1T TASTE?

The Embellishments of our race comes
from the culling OF The best. 1t is pur-
posed here to measure good taste by the
enlightened standard. Good taste pre-
fers harmony: bad taste prefers snowy
discord The garments of a cultured lady
show chaste elegance of selection liz
complementary colors; but a squaw steals
| red blanke tswith a snatching lust.
| knowledge of the beautiful is sometimes
| found in the meanest novels, and is often
lacking IN palatial residences. A clean
| and elegant poverty is more pleasing to
the skilled eye than a sluttish magnif
cence. Every day, things, by false rela-
tim taking on consummate vulgarlty,
drag their vile prolixity athwart the nau-
seated eyes of culture. Things in rela
| tions positively bad create sncti loath
| someness To an artistic mind as can be
telt by a fastidious stomach towards
| sick toad clawing through sepulehraI
slime. Good taste is like sylph whose
| life is in an ecstasy Of light, and which
blesses the spirit with its rosy lowell
| ness; whereas, bad taste is like a
mad gorgon butting In the filthy dark
| Is there not sweeter presence in bird
| of-paradise than in a tnrkey-buzzard
Good taste reigns through culture: bad
taste reigns through ignorance.
All animate things have a special
| turn for what is on level with them
| selves. Thus the hyena likes the NAL
| odorous shagginess of his mate and woos
her by his sepulchral proving. The
| boa constructor finds all the bliss Of rep
| tile in the sweet lips and bright back of
his low-runnng affinity. The male
| Ethiopian adores the oily biackness Of his
! stolen rib
On the other hand. one would not ex-
| pect to zee Cleopatra making love to a
gorilla nor Psrepa Rosa according her
voice tn the muddy tuning-fork of bull
| frog. There is much in the fitness of
things. What would we think of per-
son. who, thereby expecting harmony
would stick a bouquet into pail of swill :?
Yet. such is bad taste.
| Any one that can find more pleasure in
a vulgar recitation than in the sweet
voice of little child, shows bad taste.
An elegant theatre is better than poor
substitute, and is less sinful in sacred
! plac, 8. 1t is cunning to see ladies chew
tobacco. but it affects their breath. Two
years ago on the grounds of the County
Fair was an example Of horrid taste, a
wooden image of Christ suspended among
cahbages and butter-6rkins. The poor
unfortunate who fumbles in the bottom
of his trayed out pocket for lonesome
cop. err to pay biting bill for bread. in
stead of stealing said bread, cuts health
Ter figure than he with a pussy wallet,
who allows starving babies to cry for
che csc.
Occasionally in the market place there
is made an original stroke of the genuine
d.: ma, such as the famous joke Of the
scales That fellow cut an artistic figure
who stamped upon the head of dead
herring and damned the ugly fish for
b ting. That was bit of the truly hui
norous which was seen in the sentimen-
tai uneasiness AMI frisky evolutions over
the register of furnace. That fellow gave
rare evidence of distinct character, who,
on Bonded knee before his dulcinia. with
his shrt-sleeves wriggling downwards,
and with his waist-coat quivering awry
with moist affection, said Dearest dar-
! ling. sing ogiin, sing n9il, if you please.
to save my life, that little love of song
which runnoth thus: The nightingale,
how she cheweth Ter cud - then cried.
yeol0! yeo,o! and plugged up his inp-
ping eyes with a wrinkle in her gown.
/ 1t is wrong for ''darter to scowl at
the grass, scold her mother, and threaten
the 5acL; of her maternal ancestor with
a croquet mallet. o.