The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-27
4Cr ALL INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE ARE
CoMPsNiCNABLE.
The Art Of Entertaining Should He Studied
by Many People Who Think They Are
;readjnr the Higher Planes of Life.
LAYING Children,

arms crossed under his cOattalls and has
not the least interest in our sport. Then
John has to leave us and go off to dis
cuss the resurrection of the body or set
tie some other high and mighty problem
that neither of them knows anything
about.
John doesn't like it. but he feels the
obligations of a host-and, as for me, !
don't think any guest ought to disrupt a
family and become a ~distracting ele-
ment. Why can't the man get of his
horse and try to see what other folks
need and like? This is all the worse be
cause, if we propose q walk, he sees
nothing to interest him: doesn't notice
the trees or the flowers and strikes in
with a disputatious TRADE about Dr..
Briggs u the higher criticism. When
theology runs dry, he goes into politics,
and we must discuss tariff and silver or
be impolite. l like hospitality. 1t makes
me miserable when I cannot be sure OF
pleasing my guest. simply have to
wish that Edward Knox would stay
away.
Women - q rule are made up for
smaller things, and it very much pleases
me that Emerson decides genius to be
capacity for small things. But | know
. few women who are terrible charao
tiers to get on with. Mrs. Jane Geary
comes in to talk over the last book by a
woman author. A pleasant topic this.
But how unutterably silly this wise
woman is when she tries to please chill
dren-for she really tries. Think OF
asking a 7-year-old if she knows what
the analysis of candy is. When she
walks with me. she pokes a hollyhock
and calls it a g~eranium.
| do not know whether the ancients
meant the sun and its rays when they
talked about Samson and his long tress-
es of hair. and l do not much care. But
Samson was and is interesting for this
reason: He was a physical prodigy. with
a gentle capacity for very human feel
ings. He could be cajoled into a frolic-
some mood and was terrible only when
he must be. David is a better sample of
the great big body full of small and
pleasant ways. ~" said a certain great
preacher. Learned my first love for the
childlike of my brave father. who never
despised small things. and then | learned
the same lesson Of Jesus. | am a Chris
tian because real Christianity is great
ness in small things"
One of Jules de Glouvet's novels. The
Woodman." saves its hero. who is q
poacher and always ready for killing
and eating and little else, by NEAR of d
little child. The child kills ont the
mans furious passions, and the sight of
the little one converts him to a new sort
of life. That il the mission, is it not. Of
our children to keep us from growing
old and hard in u emotions? But what
can a woman do with visitors who either
frankly say they do not like children. or
who manifestly are very indifferent to
them? 1t becomes a necessity at once to
create two households, to keep the chill
dren busy somewhere while we attend
to our guests.
We are all fond of tri1ing discoveries.
We like Il rambles in the woods and
glens to find new flowers. John gets as
excited as one of the boys when he finds
a rare flower. We talk it over. and it is
added to some ones herbarium with
pride. Indeed l cannot see that there
is any other way of making life very en-
joyable OF livable even but by the tri-
6es. The Japanese Romeos make love
by calling on the object of affection.
carrying in one hand a %flowerpot with a
pet plant. We ought, l believe, to cul-
tivate these simple ways. Those who
cannot be happy without noise, display
and excitement are OF the road to being
incapable of happiness at all.
DR.. Bremen says: ''Basing my asser-
ton on my private practice and at st.
Vincent's, l will say that the boy who
smokes at 2 will drink whisky 1t IA, take
to morphine at 20 or IS and wind up with
cocaine or other narcotics at 80 or SOC
after" Above all things have a hoInely
way IF living. so childlike, simple, fresh.
that you will never be blase or any of
your household lose the capacity for be-
ing pleased. I have heard Of dead moral
natures and of intellectual powers ar
rested in the way Of development and
have seen cases of both sorts. but there
is quite as much danger of loss Of faculty
for pleasure.
Invent to church yesterday and heard
q clever discourse On the Christian obi
CATION of loving. The preacher said to
us, Just love, only don't love yourself
that is all there is to the law of religion
But / do not believe that preacher was
doing anything more than retailing
wares he had bought in the lump and did
not know anything about, for he wen,
on with illustrations Of all sorts to EN-.
phasize and explain love. but all his
examples were Of a snowy sort. The
real Christian love is in triies of the
commonest sort. The grandest exhibi.
ton Of bigness is in doing small favors
There is something wonderful in a big
mans arms. The habit of taking a mans
arm is the finest little exhibition Of
honor a woman could have bestowed
Your arm, sir, is stout and full of soul
It is the very ideal of defense and prorec.
ton. You give it to me. and if | have
conf ience that yons soul is as muscular
a. your body l take the arm. Woman
| giyr- tEg hand: man glyeS the arm. But