Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-09-26
BIGNESS AND SENSE.
NOT ALL INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE ARE
coMPAkIokABlE.

II
~ Mssy People whe rhiak fAsy Az
rrssdiss the Higher PiA.ss sf Las.
Loving Chiidrsa.
Bigness IL not the same - dss, st Lest
not always, and II Il not to be estimated
BY weight. "The people" says gensr.
ous woman, whom ! most dread -
guests are those who have no capacity
for small pleasures" !. too, have the
same trouble. John has bulky friend
who never plays Q game or romps With
children, and I do not know Whist to do
with him. When We 90 out 10 play cro-
qust, he stalks up and down with his
arms crossed under his costtails and has
not the least interest In our sport. Thea
John has TO leave us and 90 Of 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 II, but hs feels the
obligations Of host-and, - for me,
don't think any guest ought 10 dlsrupts .
family and become . distrscting els-
ment. Why can't tho man get OF his
horse and try to SEQ what other folks
need and likei This y all the worse be-
cause, II we propose walk, he sees
nothing to interest him; doesn't notion
the trees or the flowers and strilkss In
with q disputatious tirade about Or.
Briggs or the higher criticism. When
theology runs dry, he goes into politics.
and we must discuss tariff and silver or
be impolite. like hospitality. II makes
Inc miserable when I cannot be sure OF
pleasing my guest. I simply have TO
wish that Edward Knox would stay
away.
Women as a rule are made mp Tor
smaller things. and II very much plesses
me that Emerson decides genius to b
capacity for small things. But know
few women who are terrible charac-
tiers TO get on with. Mrs. Jane Geary
comes In to talk over the last book by o
womun 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 7.ycar-old II she knows ''what
the analysis" Of candy Is. When she
walks with re. she pokes q hollyhock
and calls II geraniuin.
I do not know whether the ancients
meant the sun and its rays when they
talked about samson and his long trees.
es Of hair. and do not much care. But
Samson was aud Is interesting for this
reason: lie WIS physical prodigy. with
Q gentle capacity for very human feel.
ings. He could be cajoled into frolic-
some mood and was terrible only when
he must be. David Is better sample Of
the great big body full Of small and
pleasant ways. "I," said certain great
preacher. "learned my first love for the
childlike OF my brave father. who never
despised small things. and then I learned
the same lesson of Jesus. am Chris-
tian because real Christianity IL sreat.
ness In small things"
One OF Jules do Glouvet's novels, The
WoOdman." caves Its hero. who is .
poacher and always ready for killing
and eating anl little else. by means Of
little child. The child kills out The
mans furious passions. and the sight OF
the little one converts him to new sort
OF life. That Is the mission, 10 II not. OF
our children to keep Us from growing
old and hard In our emotionsl But what
can q woman do with visitors who either
frankly say they do not like children. OF
who manifestly are very indifferent to
theml II becomes 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 trifiing discoveries.
We like our rainbles In the woods aud
glens to find new flowers. John gets rs
excited as one Of the boys when he finds
a rare flower. We talk II over. and IL is
added to some ones herbarium with
pride. Indeed I cannot see that there
is any other way Of making life very en-
joyable or livable even but by the tri.
aes. The japanese Romeos make love
by calling ON the object OF affection.
carrying In one hand y howsrpot with .
net plant. We ought. believe, to cul-
tiyate thess simple ways. Those who
cannot be happy without noise. display
and excitement are on the road to being
incapable Of happiness at oil.
DR.. Bremen says: "Basing my asser.
ton ON my private practice and ut 81.
yincent's, I will say that the boy who
smokes ut will drink whisky 1t II, take
to morphine ut 20 or Is and wind mp with
cocaine OF other narcotics at 80 or soon
after" Above all things have homeg
way Of living. 30 childliks, simple, fresh.
that you will never be blase or any OF
your no isebold lose the capacity for be.
ing pleased. have heard OF dead moral
natures and Of intellectual powers N.
rested In the way Of development and
have seen cases OF both sorts, but there
10 quite Us 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 mid to
as, "Just love. only don't love yourself
that Is all there is to the law of religion
But I do not believe that preacher was
uOluR uHy tHiuB uiotv ush tVfoahhb
wares he had bought In the lump and did
not know anything about, for he went
on with illustrations Of all sorts to EN-.
phssixe and explain love, but all his
examples were Of q snowy sort. The
real Christian love Is In trihes Of the
commonest sort. Tbs grandest exhibi.
ton Of bigness h In doing small favors
There Il something wonderful In big
mans arms. The habit Of taking mans
sxm u the finest little exhibition OF
honor . woman could have bestowed.
Your arm, ar. u stout and full Of soul.
II b the very ideal Of defense and psotsc.
hon. You give II to me, and II have
confidence that your soul II as muscular
- your body take the arm. Woman
gives the hand, man gives the arm. But
it u not all arms that are worth taking.
Mary Z. Spencer In st. Louis Globe
Dsshocrst.