The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-04-24
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
"FoRTHE IDEAL LEAGUE. -

NuI c'uo 10 10 tue CONDITION OF once Oh.
scurc scholar aud savau', who awoke. one
morning, 70 find himself famous. If, by
association with greatness, menmay become
great, "Aestbete' may stain like promi.
ncnce. He has invoked the muses., and
culled the flowers Of rhetoric, to demon
s'rale his peculiar fitness to enter our
charmed circle. Bur, 10 wandering through
gardens previously unexpored, be msy
chance to pluck the ros,s that conceal the
thorns; aud, iin plumins his wings for uuac-
customed flights, be should remember that
lie who sosrs high must fear to fall:
He who srasps much, may then lose all;
and he may fall SO low that, to quote from
| humble authority,
AL the kings borsss and oil the kpgsmn;
Couldn't put Aesthete on bic {. ct again"
In the enumeration Of his many virtues,
huuill,y can have NJ place. 4 nature so
"souIfuIly Intense" qualities OF mind and
heart OF so high an order would indeed be
an acquisition to the League; and we have
TO regret, 10 this case as in many others,
that the limit Of membership has been
reached; and that al electric light Of such
extraordinary power and brillisncy can not
shed it's piercing and Illuminating rays
upon us. We have beard of the Ephemera
"a genus Of Neuroptera) who, from relucent,
scintillating points, gives forth sort of
homogeneous luminosity; unfortunately,
their brief spark Of lite expires in "a hours.
We donot know whether they, too. are sin.
degenous to western civilization" W. think
they are found farther south.
Where ignorance is bliss, It's folly to be
otherwise; and it is with no idea OF en-.
tightening your correspondent that We
vouchsafe an answer to his remarks From
the general tenor of the article (Which
seems to have been the result Of some sort
OF intention inadequstely fulfed) has
arisen the criticism How like
a woman Il! but, of course, that has no
special significance. Further comment
here would be supererogatory.
The club is called League" because
1t is an association Of young people for a
given purpose; it is ideal" In its AIMS
believing that a high standard best con.
duces to and couserves real progress and
advancement. Its members are all resi-.
dents Of Cairo, aud claim nothing more
shan kinship with eastern culture. That
1t desires any gain 10 that direction seems
to be the head and from, of It's offending.
The requirements for membership are
neither gilt edged" nor "of rarely high
order" That they should have uipped in
the bud Aesthetics" incipicnt desire for
membership, is sad, indeed; aud we would
say, in the words Of the play he seems TO
favor
10, for u halcouers voice,
To lure this tassel gently back again"
We can imagine him, in green aud
yellow melancholy, sitting, like Patience
on Monument, 10 solitary state; for he
sits apart--modern degeneracy has no,
reached him. The only requisite for ad.
nilsson to the cub is, that q member
shall present tho name of an applicant at
QUO meeting; and he will, in all probabil.
ty, b. elected at the next.
We sball, | fear, be lef, to mourn III at
this budding genius in the bistrionic act,
this Dtn'eI come to judgment, this modern
Romeo, ia not OF Va. That music is to
him "a sealed arcauum" is Certainly de,ri. |
mental to his pretensions; for
The man that hath no music In himself
Norris not moved with concord OF sweet sounds, |
10 at for trea'ons, stratagcms, and spois;
Lot no such man be trusted. :"
The club, in tho widest moments, never
,spired to present Shakspeare's tragedies or
but II rejoices to learn that,
when it's soaring ambition does reach such
height, there IS some one 10 Cairo who
will essay the role that Forrest aud Booth
have made 90 famous. lie gives
Is some reasons why he would not
attempt the part, forgetting to
state that slight aud almost CO feminine
appearance would be the chef hipdrance.
What q fine picture no presents Of the
young herol
'Hypsrious curls; the font Of Jove himself;