Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1885-12-18

tones OF the tenors and bassos ssrike ID
accented beat Of the measure, 1 saw tn
baton, in Mary Smiths hand, come u
on the last beat. .,
From the discordant sounds and tn
accompa nying frown upon the leader
face, Judged that the music had pee
| on the decline during thepast ten years
Confusion yelled the scene and pleas
ant Alice Cushing, with the air OF
professional lady, quietly opened tn
door Of the boarding house OF note
college and stood before an old friend.
Icould not see why the plump, robus
lady. reclining on sofa, should call 4
a physician; and Alice said, Carrie,
will not advise you to take anti.fat. bu
| II you are determined to do so, | hav
nothing to say. BY the way. have yo'
heard lately Of our old class-mate Liv.
Day."
dwell, she has finally taken my ad
vice, and having received means iron
her benevolent fourteenth cousin, Queer
Victoria, has gone to China for chang
Of climate. Her interest in the heather
| Chinese may have influenced her de
cision. Her many friends will mis-
her."
The smoke hid the doctor and he
patient from my view and when
cleared away / saw Louisa Williamson
seated in the front row OF teacher
institute. She rose and l heard he
explaining her method Of teaching mum
bsrs.
Another TEACHER, interested in kinder
gartens. wished to get their thougnt
upon that subject, and that they migh
better understand the Meter, he intro
duced to them the Superintendent o.
those SCHOOLS. Miss Lucy HUE.
left them in their discussion and
looked away. | saw. riding toward me
herdsman, leading black horse.
followed him with my gaze and saw
him admitted to amagniticently furnished
office, where, seated at table, was Q
lady, to whom the man bowed low and
whom he addressed, not as Cora King,
nor Cattle King" but as "Our Grea'
Cattle Queen
He must have brought her important
news, for, after hasty preparation, sh'
mounted the black steed and they rod'
away. As they went, 1 noticed crap'
upon her cap and surmised that she wa
CARRYING on her deceased fathers extern
siye business.
When the cloud OF dust settled saw
large number Of girls in gymnasium
with Miss Foy al their head. The,
seemed tired by the feats OF the hour
and I heard her say: "Young ladies
please march to your rooms now and Il
thirty minutes be In the club room, pre-
pared with the plan Of Shakespeare
Macbeth"
This reminded me that in days OF yor
she believed strongly in both menta
and physical development.
The girls retired, and | saw in thei
stead pier. Beside 1t was the wreck o
an electro flying machine and slende
woman weeping. Recognized our Anna
and / heard her moan that she had trie,
in vain to turn Fred from his scientific
enterprise, and now he had come to hi
death. Her good neighbor Ray pres
emily came to console her, saying tina
she should not feel 30 badly, for the pc
siiion of lone widow was preferable 4
hers. She had lost two husband
and was now the wife Of anothe
with seven children. The smolderinl
embers removed this sorrowful sight ant
showed to me little old log school hons
| in the backwoods. l was within correct
| ing refractory pupil. The old clock
hand soon pointed to four and l diz
missed the school. The children lef
| the door with Hurrahf" and sa
down, detected.
Soon some one said: Come. Alice
the fire is out. Notebooks, like al
else, must, as chimney sweepers, com
to dust. >"
MISS RAY GOOD
Read particularly good essay on "Fic
ton the Handmade Of History" The
youngslady showed that by the exercis
Of the Imagination in lighting up his
torical pictures they were Impressed
upon the memory Of hearers and re
NAMED lasting. Historical novels alst
have a good effect in causing people Il
re tair facts OF history. The younl
lady was very happy in her delivery.
MISS MARY Z. FoY,
Chose for her subject 1.-THE Peculiaritis
Of the Lake Poets, and her essay is o
such excellence that it is produced il
| full:
"Gather nosegay Of beautiful noun
tain and field flowers; q handful Of pop
pies, blood red and white, and . fragrap
castilian rose. The blending Of tn
colors, the diffusion OF the odors, max,
harmonious whole of totally unlik
| odors.
Not less unlike are the three poets
Wordsworth. Coleridge and Southey.
The poppy holds in its chalice
thousand delicious dreams, more beau
tiful than its own satin petals. Tn
rose breathes odors sweet enough Il
have been caught from burnt offerinl
to Joy or romance. The wild flower
| and even the weeds hold lessons o
beauty and of truth in every leaf an,
stem.
To Wordsworth they revealed thei
| deepest thought; into his soul the,
poured their sweetest melody. And h
Imprisoned the music and the super
natural beauty Of the thought in mysti
poetry.
Coleridge took deep draughts Of thu
Intoxicating juice OF the poppy. and b
dreamed dreams swte ct, wierd and wild
but so swiftly did they course througl
his brain that he could not catch then
all nor picture them in the fall glor,
and magnihcence of their form and col
oring.
That Rose of Spain whispered man
secrets to Southey's willing ear Of love
romance and poetry. Southey's geniu
is not so lofty as that Of Wordsworth o
Coleridge, and yet to-day he is the mos
popular. Just what it is in his vera
| that pleases us is hard to define.
Grand and deep as his great religion
| epics may be, there are doubtless man
lacking the knowledge necessary to thei
appreciation who do not read them, s
the popular element must be looked 70
in his minor poems.
Behind beautiful legends we see pic
lures of ourselves as we are, and W
laugh with the rest at our Transparent
foibles, but feel that the man who pic
tured them was in sympathy with man
1t is hard to realize that these tire
who lived and wrote among the Guam
took hills aud beside the waters OF Gras
mere and Windurinere were first calle'
the Lake Poets" in scorn and ridicule
Though De Quincy and Kit Mort
recognized the new poets upon the frs
publication OF Lyrical Ballads" an
the "Ancient Mariner" it is eviden
that their literary colleagues, able critic
though they were, long considered tn
sure confidence OF genius but man
festation of common conceit.
lis natural, perhaps, that Words
worth should draw forth this censurt
IA man who expresses himself very de
cidedly and meets any opposition wit
positive rudeness must expect his neigh
bors to agree in despising him."
In Southey this unpleasant elsmen
was probably found in his reviews. /
which his own private opinions were to
dogmatically expressed.
Could we but know our favorite poet
how unlike the ideals we have imagine
would we find them.
Before reading the biography of Co
eridge we have no desire to have see
and known him. But all who cam