The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-26
THE NEXT GENERATION.
Wide-Awake Bah Takes a Look Into
the Future.

! tic Modern Writers Criticised-The
/ Songs and the Pictures Of To-day.
What the Mad Rush After the Al
! mighty Dollar Has Done-What Wo-
/ mans influence Can Bring About.
/ (Copyright)
+ New York, Nov. 25.-What are we go
/ ing to do for the next generation2 Now
/ this question isn't from the standpoint of
the advanced thinker; it is only the re
[ suit of gratitude for what the past gener-
| alton has done for very ordinary woman.
! My Lord, the Doctor, rises up and says,
DO you mean physicaly?' And simply
I say Bother"
/ My Lord. the Student, rises and asks,
| From the standpoint of sciences" And
1 say Nonsense
/ My Lord, the Politician. says. as it
how to run a machine,7 And 1 say, oh,
go to Putncy."
Madame, the thinker, the reformer,
and the sitter-down upon all other women,
| asks, DO you mean in regard to clothes.
IN regard to morals2 In regard to relig-
| ions,'
And look at her and laugh, and say,
ooh go home and have some babies and
study out what a coed dinner means"
|. What troubles me about the next gen
Grafton is how are they are to be provided
with pleasure You arc invited by very
formal note to come and drink candle in
honor Of the son and heir of Mr. and Mrs
Blase Roue. You go, and naturally you
look at the small bundle of stuff to whom
you are drinking this highly spiced bever-
age, and you start back with surprise
Blase ROue, Junior has face that is a
com bination of a Senile old man and a
monkey. Poor little dot; he is the effect
The cause is mixed. Cigarettes and pes
simism; lack of faith and lack of love too
much absinthe, and not enough mutton;
too many made dishes, mentally and
| physically, and not enough wholesome
food for the body and mind
.. LOOKING FUTUREwARD.
What are the writers doing for this in
FAINT of the Nineteenth century, Pick UP
any of their books and see. Their novels
are analytical, descriptive and tiresome:
| their poetry is in such abominable blank
| verse that no idea permeates it: their re-
| lgiOus books, so-called, simply bring the
! tears TO your eyes, because they force YOU
to think there is no hereafter, and that it
| is not worth while looking for sunshine
| even in this world.
1t is gloomy outlook Blase Roue
| Junior, probably inherits love for books
! from his grandfather, and this is the
market to which he has to go to find
! dishes to suit him. The generation be-
! hind US did a lot more for US they
| created Monte Cristo;" they introduced
us to Jean Valiean:n they made us laugh
with Mr.. Micawber, weep with Nell.
learn to adore dogs with Dora, and know
! how sweet it was to love with Bella Will
| fer. VIII poor Blase Roue, Junior ever
! enjoy the hours that I remember four
! children having Dinner was ready
| and the darkey waiter went out to look
| for Master Harry. Word came back that
| Master Harry didn't want any dinner
| This was unusual; and Tom was
asked if he knew the reason why. He
! said. with grin that stretched from ear
to ear He's enjoyiu' heself mighty
much with them three Musket-teers I've
! heerd of EN- He was sent out TO col
| lect the rest of the family Brought back
the news that Master Jim he did not
say uuthin' eXcep' just let him alone
And Mister Larry, who was a visitin he
| Just said, "Oh, get OUT And Missy
she hid over behind the curtains, and was
so deep in her learnin' that she never an.
swered me at all These three were
! brought before the maternal Judge One
| boy was reading The Man Who Laughs"
The other one was deep in the Virgin
! ians. and the girl couldn't for one min
| utes let 80 of The Tale of Two Cities"
! Pleasure! That was leisure.
THE LITERATURE OF OUR TIME.
And is poor little Blase Roue, Jr.. going
/ to be forced to take the books Of to-day
and find them pleasant. Now, everything
in this world is mere matter of taste
but l have an idea that Roue, Jr. and [
1 would agree I would just as soon read a
| railway guide as one of Howei's books
| and | would thousand times rather read
!
AS for all that school of English writer's
who have sent out so-called novels, of
| which just at present | best remember
The Story of an African Farm" l
| should like them all chloroformed
and their books burned They ccolly
| aid calmly knock over the belief
| to which you are trying so hard
to cling, and they offer you absolutely
nothing in exchange for it. They haven't
even the decency, when they deprive you
of faith in q hereafter TO say you can
have pleasant time here. Oh, no. They
draw pictures Of life that. from a mate
/ rial standpoint, are athouSand times more
offensive than any ever drawn by ZoIa
As ] remember the african Farm story
/ or one by the same author-thank heaven
/ such stories roll of me like water off a
/ ducks back, in which when the people
( weren't proving there was no God and
{ no hope, they were announcing that their
in the kitchen where other people were
eating. Bathing is of course, an abso-
lutte necessity, but if it were necessary
that it should be done in the kitchen, the
writer might have left out the deserip-
ton of IL. or the people who did it might
have waited until the rest had gone to
bed, and not made it a sort of family
/ picture.
would rather have novel that ex-
aggerated love, if you can exaggerate it;
that exaggerated manliness, if YOU can
eXaggerate it; that exaggerated faith.
and you can't eyaggerate that, than have
one OF these horrible mixtures of realism
and pessimism that are to-day called
novels Moral! They are the most i'm
moral things I ever read. The average
reader seems to think that immortality
means something that touches on the
Seventh Commandment am not uphold
ing sin, but when those commandments
were written out. that one wasn't under
lined. That YOU shouldn't be
thief that YOU should not
fail of respect to your parents
that YOU shouldn't be u murderer; that
you shouldn't be envious that you should
give, even to your servants, and the ami
mails which you own, a day of rest; each
one of these is just as important as that
YOU should not commit adultery I don +