Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-19

by having been once in his possession, one
of these Dryden's Virgil, in which is writ
ten "Ex Libris Pope, no." and has q
double value when it is remembered that it
has been the property of two poets. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Dobson the most remarkable
exhibit is that of industry on the part Of
the original owner. Not only are there stacks
of notebooks, but great folios of Euripides
and all the best Greek authors are marked
throughout and interleaved, and the pages
filed with odd bits of information, parallels,
corrections and additions. His copy of 'Ly-
tenia Natural'' by Linnaus has the margin
filled with wonderfully minute notes in
Latin, and illustrated by pen and ink draw
ings of birds and insect. Another curious col
lection is a compilation by himself of manu-
script music which he heard in Italy. This
and much more is brought to the readers by
Mr. Dobson, himself poet, and ought to con-
vince one that poets are not mere idlers who
dream dreams, but in most instances are
workers in the truest sense Of the word.
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The sweet girl graduate now at home
does not find that diploma eliminates from
her pathway all thorns, neither does it
smooth the stony places. Standing, as the
poet pictures her, on the rivers brink, she
feels the cold wave of criticism dash over
her essaying feet, she looks at the waters
quick flow and thinks of treacherous quick
sands or some distant whirl that over
whelms In word, she is uncertain; she
is home to stay and the old house is no
longer way-station; she has outgrown old
memories and scenes untried present them
selves. it is small wonder then if she pines
little for alma mater when she has for
years been the object of fostering care. She
knows that now much is expected of her
and she shrinks from contact; her environ
ments are perplexing much that she sees
she would change; her standards differ
from those of her associates and she has
sense of compassion and loneliness. The wise
guardian will let her rest. The work of
establishment will go on better if there be
no intermeddling, and the college girl will
eventually do good work in the home, in
society, and it may be in wider sphere,
because of little breathing time.
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''How do you carry yourself?; would not
be 4 forced translation of the salutation
used by 4 foreign people, and if American
women answered truly, the almost uniform
response would be, Badly" Yes, ever
since you were a little girl you have been
told to throw your shoulders back, and if
you have obeyed. your physical develop
ment is improper. The shoulders are able
to bear their own burden if let alone what
is needed is to draw the head back until
the back of it IS q little over the spine, keep
ing the face at right angles to the floor
Then, if the arms fall relaxed, the chest
will be raised up and noble carriage at
tanned. There could be more patience felt
if a STOPPING habit or the protrusion of the
abdomen We're the only evils arising from
improper methods, but this also imperils
health. n defective carriage congresses
and shifts the vital organs out of their
proper places, and they are in this way pre-
vented from discharging their proper func-
tons, and thereby endangers the health If
not actually dwarting mental growth A
perfect body has much to do with perfec-
ton in the mental and moral nature, and
that person who, through ignorance or in
dolencc, neglects such rules rs teach sound
physical doctrine is most likely to indulge
in slovenly if not vicious habits of thought
and thus check all healthy mental growth