The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-04

along ny DduUb, UuU Su0 pullcO ucISt1I W
gether and she got her second wind:
She mentioned old man CHANGER, Millions wife
& and did he boss her; and dwelt on Burns
and Byron and the dreadful way they sinned
He sat quite mum, though frowning, till she set
tied down on Browning: AMI deemlng shs
meant Peter, he said he thought perhaps
She would like to hear of Ewing and what Broth
er Ward wa doing. recalcitrant cid Arson
and OF kelly's tender taps.
He could talk base ball, he stated, and with elo
quence related the history of every game
down to the present year.
And when his tale was ended, she said he was Just
SPLENDID. as she got down upon her knees
to adore him as her peer.
Charles Dudley Warmers article in the
May Harper's ON the intellectual activity
Of the girl of the period and his questioning
as to whether our young men are not being
surpassed by their sisters in various direc-
tions, have drawn forth some rather inter
esting and spirited replies, which We give
below. We quote again the substance of
Mr.. Warmers Indictment:
WHAT MIR. WARNER SAYS.
Does he read az much as she does? Is he
becoming anything but newspaper-made
person? Is his mind getting to be like the
Newspaper? Speaking generally Of the he
business men in this country-have they
any habit of reading books2 They have
clubs, to be sure, but of what sort? With
the exception of conversation club here
and there, and literary club, more or less
Perfunotory, are they y; not tho mostly social
their :chips?" What sort Of a book would
q member make out of :Chips from My
Workshop. Do the young, men, to any
extent, join in Browning clubs and Shakes
meet for the study CT history, of authors,
Of literary periods, for reading and discuss
ing what they read? Do they in concert
dig in the encyclopedias, and write papers
about the correlation of forces, and about
Savonarola, and about the Three Kings?
In fact, what sort of hand would the
Three Kings suggest to them?
In the large cities the women's clubs,
pursuing literature, art, language, botany,
history, geography, geology, mythology,
are innumerable. And there is hardly a
six clubs of young girls who meet c::ce a
week for some intellectual purpose. What
are the young men of the villages and cities
doing meantime? How are they trying to
meet socially these young ladies who are
cultivating their minds? Are they adapt
ing themselves to the new, conditions? or
are they counting, as they always have done.
on the adaptability of women, on the facil-
ity with which the members of the bright
sex can interest themselves in baseball and
the speed of horses and the chances of the
'sstreet?" Is it comfortable for the young
man, when the talk is about the last nota-
poet or novelist, to feel that laughing eyes
are sounding his ignorance?
WHY NOT NEwsPApER-MADE MEN?
10 The INDEPENDENr: Charles Dudley
Warner seems to think that the young men
of the day are falling behind in the race for
intellectual supremacy, and that they are
terms it. think Mr.. Warner overlooked
the fact that the daily newspaper is capa-
bic OF developing young mans intellect
to such an extent, If he reads wisely, that
he should not fear to meet any Young
women in discussion of the many topics
which concern people. He may not be
able to explain Browning to her, still it is
believed that some people don't understand
Shakespeare yet. Listen to writer in cur
rent literature on the daily newspaper:
within the year the daily journal has
usurped the place Of the weekly, stepped
squarely into the path of the magazine,
and trashy book, demanded recognition Of
literature and-heaven forfend!-has
brought Art shuddering to its knees.
1t has pressed, or tempted, into
its service the famous and the
accomplished of every civilized land and
novelists, exploited the adventures Of great
travellers, crowded diplomats hot upon the
wire, and put into simple Language, and
tho universal understanding of type, the
ripened thoughts Of scholars and the ex-
periments of specialists the world over.
fact. The latest theory of scientists re-
garding the involved problem of heredity
was best presented in an editorial by the
New York Times. The best summing up
and criticism of the Bellamy plan of sristo-
cratic socialism was made IN the louisville
articles on affairs sociological were printed
In the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. The
solid nonpareil of the Baltimore Sun fixed I
many q scholarly essay on mental and
moral philosophy. The Atlanta Constitu- |
tion wrote more ably than any ponderous |
tariff. and trade were handled most intelli- |
gently and with the widest ability by the |
editorial writer's of Boston, Philadelphia, |
Pittsburg and Chicago. The New York |
Herald was an envoy extraordinary abroad. /
The great dailies of San Francisco kept one
presses Of Denver, Kansas City, Omaha <nd
u. Paul rolled out the continued story of
The great West. The New Orleans Plea
yune and the Times-Denccrat in delight
tul literary Werk almost out-classed the /
New York Tribune and the Boston Trans
,ript; while the New York Sun kent in in
telliRent touch with everything from the I
rival, but pathetic, incident Of the side |
.alk to q masterful understanding of the |
'tars. And as for poetry! A comparison
u newspaper verse with that selected from /
periodicals. and books tells its own story.
AnA, mind You, the mentions made are but |
.xponents Of 2 vast, anonymously working,
'orce OF brain and skill, around which
sluqter the great nanes-the potablee in
ai1tory. Fiction, Science, Medicine, Law.
Literature and Art. En9land's Laureete
,as his verses cabled; Ouida and KiSer
aaegard entertain enraPtured eldsss, while
Gladstone and Lord wolssley write for the
Youths Companion" He then writes at
ome length on T. p. OConnor's article on
The New Journalism" and says, amsao
'tAer things that: ''Tks BRIGHT
md thrilling bits of Mac
'aiAy and other grsst historians are
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