The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-10-28
BIGNESS AND SENSE.
NOT ALL INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE ARE
cCMPANloNA6LE.

cCMPANlossA6LE
The Art Of ofEntertaining sisouid Re studied
by MANY People Who Think They Are
Treading the Higher Planes Of Life.
Loving Children.
Bigness is not the same as size, at least
not always, and it is not to be estimated
by weight. The people. says gener-
ous woman, whom / most dread as
guests are those who have no capacity
for small pleasures. l. too, have the
same trouble. John has a bulky friend
who never plays q game or romps with
children. and | do not know what to do
with him. When we 60 ont to play cro-
quet, he stalks mp and down with his
arms crossed under his coattails and has
not the least interest in our sport. Then
John has to leave as and go of to dis
c1ss 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, hut he feels the
obligations OF host-and, az for me,
don't think any guest ought to disrupt
family and become q 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, il we propose q walk, he sees
nothing to interest him: doesn't notice
the trees or the flowers and strikes in
with q dispntatious TRADE about DR..
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. IL makes
me miserable when cannot be sure of
pleasing my guest. simply have to
wish that Edward Knox would stay
away.
Women as a 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 charac-
tiers to get on with. Mrs. Jane Geary
comes in to talk over the last book by q
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 7-year-old If she knows what
the analysis" of candy is. When she
walks with me, she pokes hollyhock
and calls it a geranium.
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 do not much care. But
Samson was and is interesting for this
reason: He was physical prodigy. with
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 oi
the great big body full Of small and
pleasant ways. ''I, said q certain great
preacher. Learned my first love for tn.
childlike OF my brave father. who never
despised small things. and then learned
the same lesson Of Jesus. am Chris.
tian because real Christianity is great
ness in small things"
One of Jules de Glouvet's novels, 1.-THE
Woodman." saves its hero, who is 0
poacher and always ready for killing
and eating and little else. by means Of .
little child. The child kills out ths
mans furious passions. and the sight oi
the little one converts him to new sort
Of life. That is the mission. is it not, oi
our children to keep us from growing
old and hard in onr emotions? But wha
can q woman do with visitors who eithel
frankly say they do not like children, ol
who manifestly are very Indifferent tx
them? It becomes a necessity at once II
create two households. to keep the chill
dren busy somewhere while we atten;
to our guests.
We are all fond Of trifing discoveries
We like our rambles in the woods ant
glens to find new flowers. John gets a
excited as one of the boys when he find
rare flower We talk it over, and it i
added to some ones herbarium will
pride. Indeed cannot see that ther
is any other way of making life very en-
joyable or livable even but by the tri
fes The Japanese Romeos make low
by calling on the object of affection
carrying in one hand fowerpot with
pet plant We ought, believe, to cul
tivate these simple ways. Those VIII
cannot be happy without noise. displa.
shuA CALAtEAliCtib I'll y Ou kllG AOdu w Ds~ii&2
incapable of happiness at all.
DR.. Bremer says: "Basing my asse1
ton on my private practice and at ST
vincent's, will say that the boy VIII
smokes as will drink whisky It IA. tax
TO morphine at 60 or 25 and wind up wit
cocaine or other narcotics at 30 or 500
after" Above all things have homel
way of living. so childlike. simple. fresh
that you will never be blase or any Q
your household lose the capacity for bt
ing pleased. have heard Of dead mora
natures and OF intellectual powers al
rested in the way of development an
have seen cases OF both sorts. but ther
is quite as much danger of loss Of facult
for pleasure.
Iwent to church yesterday and hear
clever discourse on the Christian obi
cation of loving. The preacher said I
MS, Just love. only don't love yourself
that is all there is to the law of religion.
But do not believe that preacher wa