The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-02

/ mathematics anu can Ot ~ positively taught
The laws applicable to dress, to all decor.
alton. the making Of the person and
the surroundings attractive, can all be
taught AS correctly ~ the correct use of the
Kings English may be taught The laws of
expression are immuatb,e; their applies
cation is to ART expression As infinite rs the
universe. As Mr.. Clarke remarks:- 1.-The
simplicity and beauty Of the discoveries of
/ Delsarre, and the facility of the application
Of these principles TO all the varied, seem
ingly contradictory, phases of art, makes
their exposition by one who illustrates the
principles Sc, forth most attractive"
/ That these principles should be taught in
our normal aud higher schools and should
be NJ familiar to teachers as the principles
/ Of percentage or the simple equations Of
algebra, and should be part, Mt least, of
all literary education, surely needs no ar.
gument That an element of education
which will directly teach the child how to
develop his body and muscles in healthful
normal directions by creation exercise, avoid
a gymnasium, which destroy hundred fold
more power than they create, and should be
taught III our schools, surely will need no
argument. WIN any one who listens to the
musical periods and watches the graceful
gestures of the true des3i ple Of Delsarte deny
that principles which place art of that kind
within reach Of all should be familiar TO
teachers of our schools? JUST think, in com
parison of the cOntOrtiOns of the legs and
arms, called "gestures, at high school
commencement In its application TO indus.
trial training. so deliberately discussed at the
of the discoveries of Delsarte would be in.
Calculable. A general dissemination Of
these " laws of related harmonies," with
the accompanying teaching of Industrial Art
Drawing in our public schools, would give
q wonderful impetus to our art knowledge
and consequently to the art productions of
the community Vulgarity, exhibited in
the preference of what is snowy, sentiment
tai, sensational and fantastic, to what is sim.
pie refined and unpretending, says Prof
Chas +. Norton, in the March Forum, "is
the stamp of much of the popular art every
where TO day" That this is true, is proba-
bly, because, as Prof. Norton EXPLAINS
ave still for the most part regard the fine
arts as pleasing and becoming appendages
ard adornments of life, DOT understanding
that they are the only real test. of the spirit
ual qualities Of q race, and the standard ty
which ultimately its share in the progress of
humanity must be measured; for they are
the permanent expression of the soul-of its
desires and aspirations by which it has been
inspired" 1t is the triumph of the princi'
Piles of Delsarte that under their influence
no vulgarity' can find place. The apple
cation of law exposes the vulgarity-s shows
why vugarity is vulgar and, gagged by
law, vulgarily becomes its own unconscious,
incorruptible self.accuser, whose testimony
admits of no contradiction.
That the teaching of Delsar'e is not the
province of amateurs or dabblers, needs no
argument. Let us not mistake the high school
graduate for al Emerson or country house
builder for a Richardson. To learn the
theory of withdrawing life from the hands
or arms does not in itself give man or wo.
man that mental control of the hands and
limbs which is the ultimate end Of those
exercises. when coupled with the work which
follows to be able to wind the right limb
around the leg of chair and push the body,
stiff as stics into mid air, is not Del
sarte 1T is tom foolery. Nothing is more
easily csunterfeited and ridiculed than
" Delsarte. The very simplicity of the
discoveries of Delsarte is constant tempta-
ton to stop at half Knowledge skimming
of the surface without looking into the
depths in which the true simplicity and
beauty of all lies buried The real exposi
ton of the principles Delsarte discovered
and formulated is one Of the most fascinating
and elevating of studies, admitting the STU
dent within the realm of all true art
broadening the mind and ennobliug the
character.