St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29

Ao d PtOoC POChi
Mr.. GRADY's famous
Christmas Christmas editorial
compares well with
Editorial. that other equally
celebrated piece of
descriptive writing which gave "Sun-
set' Cox his nickname. Christmas
morning of last year the article quoted
below appeared in the editorial columns
of the Atlanta Constitution, and was
recognized as contribution from the
gifted pen of HENRY W. GRADY. Just
year from that day another Christ
mas season of equal beauty dawned
upon Atlanta, but Mr.. GRADY did not
live to see it. The brain that would
have formulated sermon for sweet
charIty's sake was at rest, and loving
hands bore the dead editors body to the
cemetery while the Christmas bells
were ringing. The following is Mr..
GRADY's famed Christmas editorial:
A PERFECT CHRISTMAS DAY.
No man or woman now living will
see again such a Christmas day as the
one which closed yesterday. when the
dying sun piled the western skies with
gold and purple.
A winter day it was. shot to the core
with sunshine. 1t was enchanting to
walk abroad in its prodigal beauty, to
breathe it's elixir, to reach out the hands
and plunge them open-ilngered through
its pulsing waves of warmth and fresh
ness. It was June and November
welded aud fused into perfect glory
that held the sunshine and snow be-
meath tender and splendid skies. To
have winnowed such day from the
teemIng winter was to have found an
odorous peach on bongh whipped in
the storms of winter. One caught the
musk of yellow grain, the flavor of
ripening nuts, the fragrance of straw
berries. the exquisite Odor of violets,
the aroma of all seasons in the wonder
= full day. The hum of bees underrode the
whisting wings of wild geese flying
soutward. The fires slept in browsing
CRATES, while the people, marveling out
doors, watched the soft winds WOO the
roses and the lilies.
Truly it was day of days. Amid its
1ilO was WOttu
living to hold up the head and breathe
it in as thirsting men drink water: to
put every sense on its gracious excel
lence; to throw the hands wide apart
and hug whole armfulS of the day close
to the heart, till the heart itself is ell
raptured and illumined. Gods bene
diction came down with the day, slow
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was its light; and all through and
through its supernal beauty and still
ness, unspoken. but appealing to every
heart and sanctifying every soul. was
His invocation and promise, ''Peace on
earth, good will to men,
To Take the 1t is great disap-
pointment that we are
Place of the to have no winter car
nival and no ice palace.
Ice Carnival. Perhaps there Is more
disappointment abroad
than there is at home, for great many
strangers had been saving up their odd
cash as a reserve fund to defray the eX-
penses of a visit to the st. Paul ice car
nival this winter. But it can't be
helped. and there is no good in crying
over split milk. The sensible thing to
do is to set our wits to work to devise
some new form of amusement to attract
people to st. Paul. We have demon
strated the adaptability of our winter
season to outdoor sports, now let us
prove an equal adaptability of our sum-
mer climate to indoor amusements.
Here is what we mean: Let us 60 to
work and put up big auditorium build
ing, and then let us arrange for a
season OF summer concerts of the
highest order to be held in it. 1t will
be at season of the year when the best
musical talent of the world will be
available, and under the management
of man like THEODORE THOMAS or
PAT GILMORE the st. Paul summer
concert season would become thing of
worldwide fame. 1t will be at the sea-
son, too. when people to the east and to
the south of us will be signing for our
lake breezes. With our beautiful lakes
all within easy reach of this city, we
ought to be able to get up summer at
traction that would bring strangers by
the thousands and tens Of thousands to
visit us during the summer season.
When it becomes the fashionable fad, as
it would in time, to attend the st. Paul
summer concerts. and at the same time
toenjoy the beauties Of our Minnesota
lake scenery and the luxury. of our
Minnesota climate, we will be glad,
awfully glad. that we thought of some
thing to attract visitors. Now that the
ice carnival has served its purpose, let
us give our attention to the summer
concert season.