The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-01-05

we do not mean childlike, but childish. That
which banishes childishness is not me ely natural
growth, but pressure, the heavy weight of ex-
perience and difficulty and suffering, which,
times unconsciously, sometimes without full
consciousness trains ALL The great singer Is
nearly exempted from this discipline. At an early
age, just when most men and women begin TO
realize that they have no protection from the wind
that life is heavy we'll as light that in short.
effort is Indispensable the great singer songstress
is released from effort finds himself or herself I'm
possession of an unearned and undeserved gift
which is almost magical in its power, which makes
ii rain gold, which brings worshipers, fatterers
lovers in streams-they say Mario at one time had
dozen "ofiers" a month-whch lifts thousands OF
cultivated hearers their feet painting with emo
ton, quivering with rapture of enjoyment at once
intellectual and sensual. court forms round
successful primo fe10re or prtlHd donna in an
instant and henceforward, till their threats give
ont, eager hands lift from them the very burden of
the air. Their "agents" are rs devoted as the
equerries of kings. How should they get exper-
fence, training, or the habit of severe thought
any more than princes in India princesses i'm
Europe. They from the first where severe
efforts land few of the abest at the close of life.
with this sggravation-that they have suffered i'm
achieving eminence, from passing general
dislikes have never, in all their intercourse with
the world, seen that world look anything but
enthusiastic approval. There is pathetic passage
in the queens dairy wherein she, Just for moment
Anu Dc IL were WIFI suppressed sign, notes the
dangers of being a sovereign at eighteen and that
altering the age little but not the experience is
the lot of every prtmd donna She and her COM
panion on the stage the tenor too, have no COM
pulsion not to be childish and childishness is
ENJOYABLE so long as all whims are gratified, they
tend to remain in that mental condition. Why
learn when learning brings nothing? Why strive
when all is obtained without effort? Why. above
ALL be self restrained, when no one asks of YOU TO
restrain yourself and self restraint may be as
painful breeches a savage, fine etiquette 10
street rough? Unsuccessful or half-successful or
slowly successful folks like the majority OF u.s.
hardly recognize how they have gIown TO bear
self restrain they have grown To bear leather
boots by incessant repettiOns of small endurances
1t is not only that the first burden of life pecun-
larry care, is not for the great singer. Most heads
turned by sudden fortune, but the possessor of
great voice has to bear more mental shocks than
that-sudden popularity, sudden alteration, sudden
affection often real and deep, all drawn to him or
her by something internal, involuntary and incom-
municable Talk of genius; hat is it in oxicat-
ing power to the possession of of gift like this
unique ii may be, through all the singing houses
of the world? No woDder its possessor remains,
till it departs, enjoying, unrestrsined. almost
irresponsible and sometimes very naughty child.
The instrumentaist has neither this joy nor this
temptation. He, too has his gift" the something
magical which learning cannot yield, or labor
produce; but 1t is not gift. lie has to pay a
price-usually full price-for its development:
and when, by strenuous toll, ii is developed, il
produces neither the rain of gold nor the same
passion of alteration
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