Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-16

singer. The exquisite joye Of music are
evanescent at the best, and the musical
soul is sensitive to the slightest discord.
Nothing can be done with pachyderm
Of this species. There are fools and
idiots so strangely constituted that thew
will not believe they are fools and idiots
even if you tell them. His is one of
that kind, and the law, alas, does not
allow you to kill him, nor can he be put
in dark cell, like the prisoner Of Chill
on, and fed ON noldy bread and tainted
meat till his discordant life fiji, ends in
a lingering death. There are other forms
Of musical idiocy which are displayed in
acrobatic feats at untimely hours on
the piano. in tampering with that ex-
qaisite instrument, the violin, and in
eliciting ear-piercing sounds from the
flute. But the types are too common
place for scientific classification. So.
also are those types of idiocy that open
all the windows in midwinter and insist
on having them all closed in midsum-
mer.
Once in crowded theater the orches-
ira ceased in its efforts with q great
crash and an abrupt silence, and shri!l
voice was borne to the uttermost parts
of the vast auditorium which said: 81
like mine fried in butter" The incident
is mentioned in all the histories of the
period. 1t was one Of those idiotic per-
sons, female in this instance, who,
when they get to talking, can be stopped
by neither steam brake nor the side of
mountain. It is numerous class, and
it's representatives travel much on the
street-cars, and often visit theaters and
concerts, where they insist on relating
their private affairs in loud, nerve-har-
rowing tones. They have the kind of
voice which heard behind you in the
street ever pursues you, maintaining it's
penetrating quality in the universal din
long after its owner has peen distanced
and ergulfed in the needless crowd.
This class of idiots is most vicious and
offensive. They have an acute form of
the malady transcending anodynes and
an@sthetics, and aiding heroic treat
ment. Nothing will suffice but to extir-
pate the present generation and slaush-
ter their children.
The idiocy of the average boy is of an
exaggerated kind. It can hardly be
classed as mild. He might be properly
called bowling idiot except that, not
having arrived at years Of discretion, he
is partially excusable for the mental alb
CREATION which causes him to violate all
the properties. A little later he becomes
an adolescent, when his idiocy takes q
sentimental form, less disagreeable,
though eIaaNy selfish. The male biped
just entering manhood imagines that he
is the center of the solar system and that
about him revolves all the planets and
their moons. He is not quite certain
aGou. the universe. II he walks he
thinks everybody is looking at him.
When he speaks he imagines everyone is
listening. He regards mankind as only
an enlargement or broadening out of the
family circle, of which he has been the
idol. Nothing but hard knocks cures
this form of idiocy, and it is sovereign
remedy except in respect Of certain cases
specified.
But the forms and phases of idiocy
that characterize advancing years-the
shipper of old maidenhood, the girlish
affectation of matrons who should have
learned something in past full of stern
experiences, the weakness for the front
row that characterizes badness, and all
the little articles by which one attempts
to wage losing battle with time-lack
interest and repel SYMPATHY. With
varieties not mentioned there is enough
material to make a work like Agassiz'
Fishes or Audubon's "Bhds," and he
who devotes his time to it will be sure
70 make money and may enhance his
anne.