The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-12-08
Wrtnen for The ArkdnsdW Traveller.
MY IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL.
ny LION RoBERT

| have every reason 10 believe that my learned
and specialized friend has been tckled to the ribs by
my halucinations on the sublime, and believe that
he will entertain my
H-Second Edition. Full Account Of the Beautiful
Before proceeding | would wish you to remem-
Der that the beautiful (unike the sublime, which
excites in us awe and admiration), is pro-
ductive of feeling of pleasure and love. Also
remember that graceful ness is analogous to beauty
Agreeableness, utility, unity, and variety have
been suggested as being the essential elements of
beauty. If this is so, | cannot think of a filter
subject for illustration than young husband seek
ing widow. See with what dgreedbleneSS she
propounds the utility of matrinony, and with
what admirable tact she conceals Udriety of
imperfections, and but shows to the unsuspecting
victim q unity of virtues. | have been there,-I
ought to know.
The following words in capital letters are sources
of the beautiful:
CoLOR.-lt would be difficult to say which is the
most beautiful color, mankind differs widely on
this point. The Irish would say green, the Anar-
chst red, the Chinese yellow and the pirate black
But to produce the truly beautiful one must resort
to a combination of colOrs, such as was once
achieved by the divine artistic inspiration of my
monkey. He soaked the submissive tomcat's head
in a pot of green paint daubed his body crimson
with gold and purple streaks subdued his vaultcd
tail with sunset hue; and, strange to say, the
horizon behind shone with the dazzling splendor of
the rainbow. In truth, the tomcat q most
gorgeous imitation of a butterfly.
MOTION.-A swift, violent motion belongs to the
sublime, but an lndolent, gentle one is q of
the beautiful The snail, the crab the clam the
goose, the hog and those human beings resembling
them, possess an extremely beautiful motion
So does The mule and his relations. What
beautiful sight in country road, is the easy going
gait of the jackass and his usual Iider? The ass
joys along slowly slowly, slowly; while the short
and stout rider is plunged in delightful reverie
and Ger his shoulder nonchalantly swings huge
umbrella His asinine thinker suddenly stops
philosophers his tail-and softly kicks
the air with his hinder hoofs. The rural dreamer
forsakes his seat gracefully upward-then
forward; his umbrella mildly strikes the ground
and within which he gently falls. And the two
donkeys look at each other elate with an appreci-
alive sense of the beauty of motion. CThe ass was
typical of locomoion and the skyward ascent of the
dreamer of promotion)
FIGURE.-The curve of a ball is exceedingly
beautiful especially when it closes the umpires eye
with q fine black and blue spheroid. giddy
maiden cuts pretty figure when ee-sawing on a
see-saw, or COO cooling with q goosy gander
SMooTHNEss.-I will not dwell upon the smooth
ness ofthe banana peel upon that of the pedestal
steps of great statues sandpapered by sedentary
breeches. But, will proceed to call your atten-
ton to that smoothness occasioned by the wear and
tear of time and trouble. Notably the bald head
Contemplate it well. Does it not remind you of
smooth, CLASSY skating rink2 Well, at any rate it
is being used as one by that disorderly centipede
Look at him, with his bloated face his blusterous
voice and skate to each of his hundred feet, dis
gracefully sailing along to the air of "Pll never
get drunk any more" But wait, have an idea
not copyrighted. / would like to see the mother
of that centiPede come along raise his wings, and
make him feel the patter of the single Wouldn't
that be dramatic?-Yet, come to think of it, 1t
would have been wiser after all, not to have men,
toned this centpede and far better to have knocked
him into an object of the sublime.
SMALLNnss AND DELIcACY.-The ant viii be
chosen - the subject OF this paragraph His whole