The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
SPARKLES.

From ''The Jewel in the Lotos, " by Mary Agnes
Linckner:
The orbit of mans life is never a circle; it is a
spiral, leading up or down.
Nothing sets a woman up so much among her
own sex as the alteration of the other.
A pretty blonde woman may always calculate
on being called an angel a good many times in
her life,
People who's minds are accustomed to a
initiated moral airalways do wonder at those who
cann0t bear it.
A mans truest inspiration is on the spot where
he drew his first breath, and there, most peace
fully he draws his last.
What dingy walls, Miss" said Jenny, with a
SILVER. 1T is picturesque" said Aurelia, glanc-.
ing about. Most picturesque places are dirty"
1t is charitable to hate wrong; it is just to CON
denim injustice; it is noble to despise the ignoble;
and, a woman is not truly gentle who is not
charitable, just, and noble.
A family which was founded by some heroic
ancestor. and which has preserved those heroic
characteristics unmixed with baser motives and
elements, has a right to be proud of itself.
Poetry makes frequently a more vivid impress
sion on men than on women. A woman whose
life is diluted by a thousand trivialities conceives
of poetry trivially; while upon the sterner back
ground of a mans habitual thoughts, If he be
not all unworthy, it comes as a sweet surprise.
1t is the beauty of love that it brings back the
childhood of the soul. Up floats the old wonder
land from underneath the yelling years; the old
glamour that neither art nor science can hang
over mountain. sea and valley is there again, the
sweet credulity of other times comforts the
heart once more, and all things great ana beau
tiful become possible.
Society will never be redeemed-will go on
.s,1,;,r 1,uoa on1 lou,on until What ava cDaapad
at as poetical ideas shall have the power they de
serve. What are these p~oetical ideasl They are
lofty and pure ideas. What is poetical ~iusticel
1t is pure Justice. And what is this vaunted
practical wisdom! 1t is material. egotlstic, and
short sighted. 1t would be well for both religion
and politics if poetical ideas and true poets had
more power.
1T has sometimes seemed TO me that the effort
to introduce women into politics might be provi-
Dental. Glenlyon said slowly. They will either
kill or cure. Women are always more subtle
and less generous than men; and if American
women should be really and intelligently patri-
otto. they would be good cOunselors. 1t is the
mother of animals which defends her nest and
her young most fiercely. So these female eagles
may have q keener sense of coming danger and
less foolhardy generosity.
Italy is the paradise of people who have some
thing to hush up" if they have money, or if
they can make themselves iPafeu. IL IL were IOl
the interest of any person of influence to hush up
an earthquake doubtless a way would be found
to do it, and there would be plenty of men and
women to declare they were never more com
Portable and stationary in their lives than at the
very moment when a city might be disappearing
into the earth before their eyes. and they them
selves being tossed about till their teeth chat
tered. Earthquake! [ don't feel any earthquake.
You musu be be mistaken.
The religious combat of the dav is in the field
of literature and the heart of the fight is in
poetry and fiction. A favorite poet, and still
more. a powerful writer of fiction, WELD a great
or influence than any preacher or legislator. We
lay great stress on the early education Of chill
undying child in the heart of man. When they
are bad they can 90 back under the years to the
childs heart hidden in the layers of the mans
heart. and smooth out. as no other can, all
traces of early virtuous teaching. When they
are good they recall and strengthen the early
aspirations in every heart that was ever capable
OF aspiring.