Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-05

here TO enter q plea for grace. The most mag
nihcent example of grace that 1 ever saw was
Philadelphia, in 1879, with a power Of 25.000
tons, moved without noise or jar with exqui-
site grace.
Training the Body.
HEALTH and awkwardness are diametric-
ally opposed. Awkwardness means a
loss of energy. Self-possession is the beginning
of all. We may see the difference between
grace and awkwardness in the country girl in
her city cousins parlor. They.tell us that if you
will be natural you will be graceful whether
you are IN the ballroom or before an audience.
Yet when person without training gets be-
fore 500 eyes the most natural thing in the
world to do Is to become embarrassed. The
old farmer, who got up in school meeting and
endeavored to speak well, illustrates It: "Gen-
tlemen. when l sat there in that chair / had
bushel Of ideas, but now have not got single
one There is also the plea for appearance.
AWKWARD movements are disgusting and
firing; graceful movements are pleasing. sooth-
Ing and restful. How many Of us but spend
70 to 30 minutes a day in the care
minutes in training this wonderful machine the
human body. Some persons say they are too
old for such exercises; their muscles are stiff;
but It is themselves who are swollen and fro
zen. Why, some of you would think it death
If you should turn your necks. We often lose
our heads, but never detach them.
No Need to Grow Old.
a CARPENTER cannot best do his work with
poor tools. Neither can his body fulfill its
spiritual wants through a poor. weakened and
awkward motionment We often express our
selves through our bodies. A lady asked me to
show the audience the Delsarte walk. Del
sarte never had an idea of special walk. The
idea is simply to be natural. Sit down natur-
ally, get up naturally, walk naturally. The
backbone is the most important part of the
body and must be kept elastic. There is no
not more than q"
Miss Bishop assited Mrs. Bishop in her lee
lures by giving several or the graceful and
beautiful movements of the Delsarte system,
which is taken from Francois Delsarte, q
French artist. Mrs. Bishop is certainly
charming lady and has a most exquisite and
pleasant way on the platform.
On Political lima gination.
IT is always pleasure to listen to scholarly
man possessed of fund of facts and
learning. whose discourse abounds with prac-
ticar points and at the same time contains
soothing. dreamy flights of imagination, pretty
metaphors and language that flows as smoothly
as that of a poet. Still more pleasing when
ence, wise in q life Of observation and study,
optimistic, with q whole soul, whose great
heart reaches out to all the world in kindly
fellowship and good villa man great enough
and broad enough to contemplate all humanity
McKensle yesterday should have said he was
a fine preacher but he Is more-he Is thinker,
a scholar, a lecturer.
political Imagination" was the subject of
talk that left the audience only complaining
because the speech was not longer. DR..
Mckenzie begun by saying: But few
know the meaning of the subject 1 do not
has no imagination. When he gets to that he
verges on the statesman. No man understands
thing until he can state it. Imagination, in
this way, has very great value. Imagination
times things which we have not seen. You
cannot trust reason alone any more than you
can imagine. remember time when at sea
the captain of ship showed me the largest ice
berg that he had ever seen, but upon approach
ing that iceberg we saw that 1t was only o
piece OF illuminated vapor.
Be Sure You're Right.
THE next time that man sees an iceberg he
: will use his former experience and not de-
clare 1t until he knows it Is a reality. That ls
the trouble with you; you do not use your ex-
perience in your imaginations. It is far better
to revel in Tennyson or admire Raphael than to
attempt to write poetry or daub canvas yourself.
No one should paint pictures that he intends
to show, or write poetry that he intends to pub
lish until he has become able to expound
nature. Amateur lady painters in my congre-
cation often show me their products. There is
no nature about them, 80 1 cannot say 1t is
natural l cannot say it is beautiful. II did
BROOKS Of Iady's BABY. 1T is a BABY"
The great inventions always come from
Imagination. Not many years ago We knew
nothing of electricity, except as we
thought that it could be conducted over wires
and the telegraph was invented. DR.. Bell
thought 1t might be SO used SO that we could
talk to friend on the other side of the conti-
nent and he brought forth the telephone, and
now our imagination tells us that it can be put
to a thousand uses. In religion we can also see
the uses of imagination. We call God in almost
every image Of Imagination. We at one time
Leader, the Rock, the Personality. All through
the Bible we see the effects Of imagination.
There are two things In the New Testament,
death and Heaven. There are SO few expires
sions Of imaginations for them, perhaps may
account for it.
An Ina ginaiiVe People.
THIS is a nation OF great imagination. The
only land ever established about an i'm
age an idea, unless it be the Jewish nation, OF
which we are lineal descendants What every
citizen wants is citizens imagination, and If
he does not possess 1t he had better 60 to
China. The victory of Cromwell was the be-
ginning of the idea of manhood. which was the
origin of America. It does not make so much |
difference the number who went on the May |
flower, but it was an idea. This idea. repuD- |
lican ldea was the foundation Of our Govern |
ment. This was practically the first republic |
In the world. There are to-day the South |
American and French republics. I suppose
there is a French republic, though l have not
read the papers for the last two or three days.
ou have heard of q man who went into book
store in Paris and asked for q copy OF the
French Constitutions; the merchant replied, |
"We do not keep periodical literature, sir"
We do not use enough imagination to
the benefits of the Puritans.
They fought out and carried to success an idea
The Revolution was fought about an idea.
We were taxed and oppressed, but not taxed as
much as now. We fought for an idea. We be-
ievd we could take care Of ourselves. Where
you sent your father, your son, your brother.
20 the late war, you did not do 1t for the money
1ut for the "Old Flag"-for an old flag, yes; the
lag with its stripes of bunting spangled with
'tars that in your imagination represents to you
10 much. What does the politician care Tor
his flag? Just as much as he got by selling It
)r by selling his control of offices and politics