Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-26

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The reading public has long been
familiar with the term "dypsomania,
applied to such individuals ag are IN the
habit Of going on tare and being per
sistcntly and thoroughly drunk. Also y
Is equally wen known that "kleptomOnia'
Is form Of insanity which attacks people
of consideration and has the exact syinp-
toms Of that disorder which induces
stealing In others Of less degree, and who
are branded thieves In this line or
eulirhtenfnent that chronological speci-
men known as the "hrebug" has become
a 'pyrOmaniac." and to the pyromania
of n 17-year-od boy is due the late dis-
aslrous conlagration Ia that city. III 70
these mental deficiencies, no Longer moral
deinquences, be added the comprehen,
sive term emotional insanity original
sin will have TO give place to original
disease. and penitentianes must then be
conducted as if the inmates were luna
tics.
While It Is true that no one who
reasons rightly commits crime II - also
true that the majority Of the human
race are not rightly rational and il fol-
lows that n mania for netting out justice
strictly. speedily and impard0lly would
he a beneficial one. Tho other fellows
who endeayor to lead correct lives have
the right Of protection against maniacs
or criminals whichever they are.
No one who has seen Richard Mans
| UatI Ia fht, roIa NJ Roam lirummpl can
forget the smoothness Of diction and the
apparently unconscious gruce with which
he enacts the part of that prince OF exc
quisites and also of good fellows For
beneath the ruilles and the brocade there
lodged n heart which once stirred could
pulsate for another If any one believes
that these evidences Of genius means
that there had been no antecedent plud-
ding and pGinstaking the Spectator would
remind such a one that Mr.. Mansfield Is
student and that his accomplishments
are many. lie Is said 60 speak ten
different language, is an artist, writes
poetry and on his tours lives in bis eur
surrounded by his books, and he varies
life Of hard study 10y playing on his
piano, which is his companion If there
Is any stage-struck youth who thinks
that the heights of dramatic fame are
easily reached. or that the grace Of acting
well ones part, Whatever the stage,
comes by nature let him try, ana the
probabilities nre that he Will be n con.
vert to the doctrine that genius after all
Is the result of hard work and of per
sistance in one line.
Never mind the results IL the principle
Is correct, says the modern school mas
ter; never mind details, work for effects,
says the master In the studio In this
way one by one are uprOOted the cherish
ed beliefs Of lifetime. In the days
when an older. generation sat ON the log
bench and before the time when tablet
and plumbago had superseded the slate
and the stone pencil. the work must be
absolutely correct In principle and also
/ neat In execution, in fact, one stern
pedngOgue is remembered rs having q
moist sponge conveniently near with
which TO Obllterate work done at tho
cost Of cleanliness of face, fingers and
roundabout, because the arrangement
was faulty and he could not see at d
glance the wherefore OF the many
| figures.
zone dash for the sky, n sweep for O
mountain. dot for nesting
farmhouse. with a smear Of white
for the silver shingles two wig
giles for n fence, may be q
masterpiece In modern landscape paint
Ing, but ! scarcely think the old mas
ters, whose fame increases as time goes
on, would have been content with SO lit
lie painstaking." The Spectator has an
old-fa shion belief I'm fidelity 10 detnil
ship may be model of grace AND swift
ness, but a worm-eaten plank, worth
less riyet may send II in all its gallant
beauty 20 n grave beneath the deeI
waters. A young man may have fin,
conceptions and cherish brave resolves
but contempt for details. or rebellion
against the rksomeness Of the restraint
which attention 10 these begets will rol
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aud so clip his wings that flight to upper
heights win be impossible
Has 10 ever occurred 10 YOU persistent
and omniverOus readers, that you are an
intellectual glutton, and that you are n
danger of becoming mental dyspeptic
solomon in bis day sighed over the max
. ing Of many books, aud had he lived II
these days Of printing presses, his lamen
tauons would have been intensified
When Bacon said that reading made
full man, | do not suppose II occurred {,
that great thinker That men would cram
themselves with intellectual food os
goose Ia fed for the epcure's delight
4 but TINT reading and digestion woull
o have that elect, The dey0urer of book
, never develops thought; he is too bus!
with the thoughts of others to give utter
0nce to his own. even If he gave am
q time TO thinking 1t Is the man VIII,
r reads TO point and with purpose who's,
=, reading and thinking 20 hpnd-in-han,
y aud uses ideas received from books L
70 fertili2e and promote the growth Of hi
own, that IL n reader IN the proper sens,
:. of the word. From such readers only
X can be expected clearncss of perception
v and freshness In mind and heart.
n Man is a queer FISH, and In nothing Il
" his queerness more apparent than in /
= love Of parade, of the display of bits Of
y gay cloth and ribbon, and In bis devotion
70 TO the martial sounds of Drawing horns
A few weeks ago thousands FASTENED 1,
the national capital, endured much hard
u ship and stood for hours In the blind
l ing snow, for what2 To see a man
e chosen by the people 10 serve them fol
the next four years kiss the book. anl
swear that he would be honest and faith
n fol "Chacun son govt" saw IA,
n French, and the Spectator Is willing a
X allow every one the Indulgence. but
when IL comes 10 an upsetting of MI
traditional usage and moving the date III
I. the Inauguration forward nearly two
months IN order that the af0rementioneC
queerncss may have grander opportu
y nifty, as lover OF conservation / protest
+ Whether or no the assertion that IN,
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year has been an after discovery or moi
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