Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-24

lbO0t and saw you fellows around me
Yes siri thought wss dead and ~,
up sure"
Tho Hitn ess OF Thtnss.
A gorgeous couch, silk-o0versd. m d
with added ornaments Of satin laid oveI
lit, two In number. and each radiant
with . sunfower, 81 a. large ~ lie -
this IL the frat thing that arrests your
leye In room.
The plain carpet 10 we'll worn the
table IL homely the chairs are merely
TO sit on, not TO look ut, and the walls
have received no artistic attention for
Years.
You would not, perhaps, have motto.
ed these features Of the apartment II II
had not been for the sofa 1t Is out ol
place.
1t provokes comparison with any.
thing else. II IL in pronounced disre-
gard Of the fitness OF things.
In case Of this kind We say that
taste ia lacking. But taats Is only
Judgment working on particular
line.
He who has good Judgment regard
ing the style Of . book, the outst Of .
room, the quality Of q picture, the
bearings of remarks, and the properties
Iof things, Ia said to be a man of taste.
He IL not necessarily al adept In every
Thing. He may not understand cor
ners," CT be an authority on banking,
Tor know how Wholesale house il man
Jagged. -.
But the presumption IL that II he had
bet led to the study and examination
of these things he would have under,
stood them.
The same judgment that Is capable Of
sound decisions 81 to the other things,
would no, be conspicuously defective In
these things, If 1t had 70 be employed
upon them.
A yen tleman has been twice bersav.
ed and his third wife Rrsces the head Of
his table, and guest discourses on the
heartlessness of second marriage and
its election On tho memory OF the de-
parted.
There IL no response from the host Or
hostess. There IL general dropping Of
the eyes around the table. There Is
sensibls Nv Hardness. Several are men
tally denouDcing the speakers -" want
of tact" but incapable Of dealing with
it.
81 cannot quite think 49," says one
Of the guests. ct length. II remetn-
Der q line from Bailey on the subject
:" Came there none to roll away the stone
From his sepulchrsl heart, and cit on it--sn
angel ~
BY the way. did you ever read Bail
ey 4 Festus Pc
1t was happy diversion it pre-.
vented trouble, for 1t was easy to get OH
from the untimely topic to Kant Goethe,
and other great thinkers on whom the
Englishman had improved
But want of tact Is here again want
Of Judgment, the possessor of which,
before tlinging around sweeping con-
demnations, would mentally say
sis there any one here should hit ?
And even II there be- mistakes here, AIN
! called on to show them up?"
But judgment is simply one form OF
the exercise of the human mind, and 1t
can be cultivated or neglected just as
can bodily powers.
There are men trained to ruh,to walk
to climb, to box 50 there are minds
trained TO reniem bsr, to reflect, " con-
struct, u judge.
Some minds, indeed, have iucoheraat
defects and never can acquire Jndg-
nent but tina no more disproves our
view than that some bodies are NO
feeble that no training will ever make
hem vigorous and athletic.
Now ii mainly with the Judgment
men have work on that whole class OF
u. Il Oh he nj
thugs" must be con siiared. |
To cultivate the judgment, IL the way |
to see the fitness of things. A very !
plain, good man, with plain income,
in plain position, among plain people,
fe.l--a little way In love with
,hony lady of the continental caste OF
habit ard education.
He ask d advice of friend. who |
owned all her attracti ons, but mildly |
led h il mind to the point Of her suit
q ,Iere 8 for LIN. He admit I'd the force
Of the pea, and drew back, but with
regret.
"Ah, air." said no, " II you only |
heard her singing the Italian :"
II might have been Bohemian OF
Persian, for aught he knew.
W lien n ILdH huultdStS - low 10
marks to IA group OF plain people,
metaphysical, md generally
learned processes of thought are out OF
place..
He may give the results Of such lore
in simple terms, the highest achieve
ment Of useful eloquence; but to 'rot
out the learning itself Is In bad form.
The man may be excellent, and full
CT good intentions, but he lacks judg- F.,
ment, Just AZ he would do II he tried to
talk to group of educated men rs he
would do to an infant class.
Iu the very kindIiest approaches We I
make to others the fitness Of things Is .
o be considered, rs we may be justly
ret down al lacking in judgment. Take
this ease
A good, kind.hesrtod and wealthy T
lady had a gentleman friend, of high |
literary reputation, an eminent CLASH
cal scholar of broad thinking, 70 whom
she wished to show civility. ~
She sent him large cheese and
small volume of popular hynlns-eIcel-
lent things in their way, 10th OF them.
He duly received them. One can fancy
his smiling ; perhaps his friends even
laughed. He made grateful acknow
edgment thus:
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