Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-17


Writing in Lippincotts Magazine.
Mary Elizabeth Blaseregrots very Justly
that 60 little attention is paid TO the oul.
turc Of patriotism Ia the education Of
American children. "sentiment Is n
tremendous addition 10 principle" she
remarks She might have said with
equal truth that sentiment takes the
place Of principle in the average mind.
An important part Of tho child's train.
ing is the incubation Of the national
spirit by every means at the teachers
command A great aid TO this end %
the singing Of noble patriotic Songs ono
fears that Miss Blake isyery nearly right
when she says we belong to a hard. utili-
tartan age, when ballads have not greatly
the power to move tho souls OF men,
But the souls Of children. tender and
still imprrssionahlc. can bo influenced
indelibly by stirring music whose theme
is love OF country, such as men marched
to death by when the rcgimcn,al bands
played "Thc Battle Cry Of Freedom and
1.-THE Union forever, hurah, boys, hur.
rah."
In the French schools, on. Of every
fifty songs prepared for pupils use, an
average Of twelve Is devoted 20 rlorify-
ing France and kindlng love ior her
Forget not France" Is tho burden Of
all these songs
We would like to call attention par
,icularly to this extract from Miss Blale's
paperi
II any ono doubts tho necessity for this In
! naturalization Ia connection with the broader
| and more generous education W tho intcfcsia
OF humanlty, let him recall tho lack ofniilunal
spirit which IA already only too APPARENT In tho
ordinary happenings u lie. Except In tho
calculations of the Statesman aud tho Nnpor.
ings Of the politician, there Is little IN our
progress which y not as tonglomcfato as our
Oflgin. There " ~ lit'io originality Ia our Cx-
precision Of thought ~ IN ~ cguccpton, and
TINT - surely small enough. H. literature,
with the exception o. tow OF our h"vullils
and fewer OF our poets. there T. M attempt ~
tho conservation and development Of Aintri-
eau subjects.
our architects MALAY reproduce hodge
podgo OF forrlsn ideas without either fitness or
beauty. our artists arc ffuleh, German or
Italian, according tOthe schools in which they
| have been educated. ltNns ~ most noteworthy
fact In tho last great Paris exposition that.
whne the artists OF every other county bad
reproduced the history, the tyIca OF the rua-
toms 81 their nuthcflands, there Wa no tuch
means ~ dttcfminlng tho nationality u tho
AMERICAN Tho stcppcs aud ishas of Russia,
tho bcwitchlng grace and historic glory u
spain, themes from Hotnian song and story,
tho palaces and laErafuni u Italy, the dltcs
and wlndmllli VI Holland gcfo each rupfo.
ductd on scores mud scorcs Of cauyhsci d 4
were lahoru ~ love. There was small need u
Inscription 20 declare tho country 60 which
this or that division belonged. bat the great
ma gician u Caldcron could scarce have dis
covered the secret Of tho United States.
Yet We, too, have bad historic "reminiscences Of
tho nohlcltand grandcsi; We have picturesque
nature which equals Va subimlty unl lowell.
ncss while e aufpasscs In awful immeugity II
savage grandeur anything else on earth. We
have tho wild liic NJ tho Indian, tho frontCft-
man. tho western miner, the northern tfapper
We possess tho Infinitely varied race traits oi
every phase. from the New England farmer u
the South Carolina frcodman-ffom tho high
pressure Of metropolitan life 10 tho dreamy
phAntAsm Of existence IN the Tennessee noun
tnlna. Yet from all this wealth our artist
either could not or would not attempt TO draw
| Inspiration. And " they did, u 1, moro thaE
probable that our art patrons you'd withhold
tho needed appreciation and tile moro needut
Patronage Tor soue mole familiar and lea
American subject.