Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-10-27
EmerSOn's Personal Appearance.

His personal humility was rs great as
his personal dignity. He entertained
all men with the same quiet genialty of
department; and his attitude toward
even the most ignorant or Juvenile of his
fellow-creatures was uniformly that of
one who seeks edification rather than to
edify. He knew how to ask the right
and searching question, and how to cy-
tract from tho clumsy or incomplete
answer the core of significance that
made it valuable. Thus he increased
the self-respect of those with whom he
converSed, while never for a moment
stimulating their selfish vanity, making
them feel their worth rs men without
exaggorating their Importance As indi-
vidual5. Yet few men can have had
more noticeable peculiarities of face,
figure and demeanor than Emerson.
Who that had once seen him could for
get his appearance? Who ever spoke in
his melOdious, measured tonesP or
whose smile so well expressed the self
command that does not deal in laugh
terP Yet he was distinct with distinct
iveness that arose not from unlikeness
to his fellows, but precisely from the
O'hNChtiat Itl VI LiltlI uiOtc SIH-
niiicant and controlling traits There
was something of the eagle in his aspect,
and physical awkwardness that some
how expressed the highest degree of in
grained culture and refinement. Ills
ordinary gait ia walking was that of a
man whose attention is so earnestly fixed
upon something on the horizon that his
body is conveyed forward rather by at
traction than vOlitiOn. II was progress
sion in its simplest form, steady and
uniform, but without the least embel-
lishment of grace or elegance; and yet
there was in it something Indicative of
the nature of the man, that made mere
grace and elegance seom sem-civilizcd.
In his lectures he stood before his audi
ence in the unstudied pose of a New
England farmer.
lie had no gestures; sufficient for
him were the modulations of the voice,
and the occasional lifting of the head
and Frightening of the visage. Never
theleSs, few speakers oomprehended the
art and even the articles of oratory
better than he. Every word that passed
his lips was so uttered and presented as
to acquire Its fullest force and meaning :;
and no one else could have delivered his
lectures so effectively and captivatingly
as he. The hand that he gave you in
greeting was large and firm; It held
yours for few moments in warm and
steady clasp. There was no vigorous
and impulsive Misunderstanding, but the
light of composed cordially that ema-
mated from his features made the more
demonstrative forms of greeting seem
vulgar and inexpensive. 1t is unneces-
sary to extend these details; they
amount to saying that intercourse with
Emerson tended TO make you realize
the practical superiority of the spiritual
over the physical part Of man. The
lesson Is no unimportant one, especially
In these days when We are gagged and
crippled with symbols the meaning Of
which we nave forgotten, and which we
consequently msapply and misinter-
pret.-jaiian HaWthorne, in Harpsr's
Mddatine.
A smart Warsaw man who wanted
to put stop to his cows switching
her tail while he was milking, tied that
appendage to a picket fence. The boz
vine became frightened. and the man
SAYS he wouldn't mind rpnairinu tho