Arizona silver belt., 1892-10-08
Saturday, October 8, 1892.
CHEERFUL NOVELS.
Tho Timely Plaint of Man Who Want
 Happy, Sparkling Stories.

The Timely Plaint of Man Who Wanta
 Happy, Sparkling stories.
 In the olden days one might look for some pleasure in her novel reading, Novels were not the deep physical stud ies, the moral forces, the concealed ser mons they arc now, and however har- rowing they were in the beginning and middle parts, ono always knew they'd turn out right, and according to wish in the end No matter what came be. tween, the hero was sure to marry the heroine in tho last chapter. the cruel father, if there was cruel father, was sure to relent, the culprits be forgiven, and all be smiles and joy. If riches took to themselves wings in the first few pagcs to fly away, in the last few they took wings to return, and oce al- ways knew beforehand that it would De so. If she grew too unhappy over the woes and sorrows in tho middle of the book, sic had only to turn to the last and all was:
 .Honor, riches, marriage blessing,
 Long continuance and increaslnE.
 But now all is changed, we are tossed on a sea of uncertaiTty from first lo last, We know EJt if virtue will be re- wardcd and evil punished, or if good ness will suecnmb and vice be triumph ant, or if indeed, the cruel author may not slay all the dramatis personn0 in the finale and leave nothing for our agonized patience but pool of gore or in m;ldcr form, a cluster of grassy s. .l topsy-turvy, In the desire to be true to life, 10 paint things as they arc and not merely as they should be,in the wish to hold the mirror up to nature. the rcalists of to-day make the novel often terrible thing a thing to be avoided as the night-shade, or deadly henbane. They take one clear through tho mirror and show the quicksilver on Che back
 While the trlals and tribulations of real life may be strcwn over long period of years, the novelist gathers them all in lump, as it were, and you may take all the nauSeouSnesS at a sin gle dose. The sorrows of ten years you may OftentimeS read, and in some sort experience, in as many hours.
 IL is true this may also apply to the illusory joys of novels. but one does not object to o,eriOses Of joy. Ono can stand pretty large draughts or quafls of happiness As one longs un- eonsc ously for love and happiness in real life, so one hopes unconsciOusly for it in t.re books she p.cks up, If she s to find thcre only the sorrows and tears she finds also in the world about her, where is to Dc her help and escape? What cty of refuge is there left for the blee ling heart, tho woInd d s0nl9
 A friend says she almost dteads c. read new book for fear it will not turn out well, and she will b. made more sad than before the reading, dc laring she would almost rather take up one whose end ng she know, already from previous read ng. Let Us thnk of this, let us pray our fr,cnds. ,he novel sts, to writ lhorr of life as should bc. life tho q 'al, and less of life the real We all havo real burdens of oIr own tO carry. heavy bona f'lc burdens why then should ws be lO"d d with imaginary ones also? plead for happier novels If we must have Books III the running brooks. let us have tlc sparkle and cheer as we'll Don't lct it bs all fret and moan and trouble - Detroit Free Press.