The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-22
H'r.ttca .for The Artnnsdw Tratgler.
 4 Plea for tle Artist.
By Margaret Sharpe.

" neH Was tedCulnS Ill the nlEn school of a western city some years ago, one June morning dear girl came to me, and with her arms about my neck looked up into my face and said:
 Do you know what l want to do, Miss Sharpe? You know you were talking to the girls in our class the other day about having an ambition to be something. We'll 1 have had an ambi- tion to do one thing all my life to- and she looked around nervously, to-go- on the stage!
 She evidently expected me to be quite shocked, and to tell the truth amaze ment did fill my orthodox brain for few moments,
 "Why, Rose, dear, how did you get such notion?"
 She was only seventeen as beautiful as lily, and as pure and innocent.
 How did get it? have dreamed of it since was three years old-I have prayed for it-haye mourned for it. Oh, there is something in me, away in my very self, that must be satisfied and only in one way. But it can never be, 1t would break my mothers heart"
 Seven years after that morning I vis- tied at her home. She was then wife and mother and housekeeper She was worked to death Her two children, her husband, an obtuse, phlegmatic man, her company, her baking ironing, scrub ping, churning, alarming, cooking, etc, kept her hard at work necessarily. Could the stage life have so told upon nervous and physical health in seven years?
 "There is something in me-in here, she said one night after they were all in bed, placing her hand upon her breast, that has never yet been satisfied It has never yet found expression, and it never will upon earth ,
 Not long after this had talk with Keene. He told me substantially the same thing He was driven to his work by force within him that was greater than himself The wind of fine am bition had entered his inmost soul, and he, being a man, broke away from the chains of circumstance, and the result all the world knows what it was His parents and friends opposed him in his ambition but he threw all remonstrance to the winds
 '.'''' Do you think the stage life neces- sarily induces immortality" l asked him. wish you could have seen his look of fine scorn as he answered:
 Not at all. There is no more i'm morality on the stage than elsewhere, Not half so much as there is in fashion able society. A person so inclined will find safety nowhere" And believed him
 Henri Greville in her novel Merkof gives a good example of ambition and what it led to in the case of young man, the son of priest, and himself intended for the priesthood He is natural musician, violinist, and feels within him the stirring of divine pas sion. He finally consents to enter his fathers profession, if he may take his violin to school with him. But the priests regard it as an unholy thing, and threaten to take 1t from him. Speaking to his brother about it he says:
 You have learned how the martyrs suffered themselves to be torn to pieces by the wild beasts for their faith how the missionaries went forth into wild countries to convert the heathen. Why did they do it? Because they were urged forward by a power over which they had no control. They preferred to be devoured by the lions and slain by savages to living quietly and doing only what was easy and agreeable That Is what Is termed calling We'll, I-I would rather live miserable for ten years, yes, Victor, for ten years, hardly earning my bread, wearing thread-bare clothes and not daring to go to any ones house, because I shall be too poor I had rather, if needs be, suffer the bangs