Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-03-27
A Fall from the Clouds.

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"Have your ever noticed how ma
tural it comes for every man to look
at things from his own standpoint@'
said a Cincinnati man in a chat at the
Palmer House the other evening.
"No, l can't say that l ever noticed
it particularly" said one member of
the party; "but since you call atten-
ton to it, believe it is probably the
case"
"The matter was never brought
home to me forcibly but once" the
Queen City man resumed; "but since
that time l have observed it frequent
ly, and the more attention | give to
the matter the more | notice that it is
invariably the case. Without know
ng it, every man insensibly falls into
The habit of measuring everything by
the standard of his every day life. |
dare say a tailor never looks at an
other man without mentally running
over him with tape line, andin all
probability the dry goods merchant
is never without his yard-stick. An
artist in Italy would look upon the
worlds masterpieces with decidedly
different feeling from what a shoe
maker would do. The artist would
find poems of beauty where the dull
mechanic would see nothing more
than a clever job of stone-cutting, up
on which he would estimate the labor
at so much per day. The halter
would be mentally fitting the most
becoming tile on the head of each
statue, while the shoemaker would
be itching to cover the feet with
leather. The cigar man would regard
them as very attractive signs for his
business, and the dressmaker would
soon select one she would like to have
for dummy. At church a photo
grapher may look ever so devOut, and
still be occupied in studying the diff
ferent faces and poses, while a physi-
clan may be specializing upon the
ailment apparent to him, and his
neighbor, the undertaken, may hear
in every cough the ring of business
for him in time to come. You catch
the idea? No matter who you are or
where you go, the shop is uncon-
sciously dragged along, and you look
at nothing through clear glass. All
your emotions are tinctured by past
experience. 1t is said that no two
people ever beheld a rainbow with
the same feeling, or looked upon the
ocean with the same thrill. But tt
get back to the case ] wanted to speak
Of The first time found myself il
Music Hall, at Cincinnati, | was i'm
pressed differently from what ! haC
ever been before. 1t was at the frs
musical festival held in the structure
and it had an effect upon me alto
gether unlocked for, and differen
from anything | had ever passeC
through. The building was CRANE
beyond the meaning of the word, tn,
audience magnificent to the same de
gree, and the music not describable il
the symbols Of speech. The structure
was the gift of nOble-hearted man
and everything about it was in keep
ing with simplicity of his character
plain, massive, and attractive. TIL
occasion and surroundings awok
within me new feeling, an indetina
bic sort of ectasy never known til
that moment. 1t seemed to me tina
no one could enter the building with
out being impressed in a manner al
together different from anything eve
before experienced. The following
fall granger friend of mine came
the city to visit the Exposition, an
was anxious to see what effect tn
building would have upon him. S
went along with him. 1t was i
the evening, and the place was rt
splendent with gas light and crowde
with people. l took him throug
the Exposition first, and kept MUS
Hall for the last grand climax. IgC
him up stairs and led him out int
the balcony, so that he might get
all at a broadside. He stood Speecl
less, and gazed as only farmer ca
when confronted with something tn;