Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-30

grahiiullnuu. And graudmamma. whose
sygice quavers just as his does, will MARBLE
% him how 'Gnilythe rruubador Touched
HIS Guitar" and then in Il lower key,
how All the Darkics are Weepin',
Cause Massy's in the Cold, Cold Ground"
Ana her voice will break down COM
peiely when she starts TO sing "'Way
Down Upon the Suwanee River" and
ioue Junior. Will see a tear coming down
her checks as she tries to hum gaily the
charms OF Nelly Bly," She will stop
singing for q few minutes and remind him
of the night when his grandfather, with
three other Young gentlemen, sang under
her window Come Where My Love Lies
Dreaming" And Roue, Junior, will look
her III the face ana say "Grandmamma,
those must have been happy days" And
she says, They were, my boy. because we
had faith in so much. When trouble
came, we women rested on our husbands
and our God. But | don't think your
mother likes me to talk to you in this way;
she wants you to form opinions of your
own, my boy
Poor little Roue, Junior, weak of body,
not oyer strong in mind, he wants
SOMEBODY TO MAKE IDEALS FOR HIM,
and then he will try living up to them. Is
this generation doing it for him? Oh, no.
We are wondrously proud in our own con-
ceit, and we are going round with hatchets
tAA-h VI blF WINS, anu hllOGhltlA hONh
all the representations OF honor, faith and
love And we think we are very clever.
1t is so much easier to break than to make.
Base ROue, Junior, one day got tired in
the Park, and he was taken to picture
gallery. And as have said before. he is
not very strong mentally or physically, so
he buried his head in his nurses apron
and cried, and she called him naughty
boy for not approaching the great masters.
They were the pictures OF to-day, and the
painters thought that some end was gained
by choosing the most unpleasant subjects,
and treating them in the most unpleasant
manner. \ landscape that is a smudge of
green paint with dash of yellow over it,
is not going to make people long for the
green woods; it is only going to suggest to
them the last time they went over the
ocean, and how unpleasantly ill they
were. A Christ that is ali human and
never divine, is only going to remind one
OF the awful physical suffering OF the man
and never the greatness and divinity of
Him who came to save all men. Those are
the pictures that ROue, Junior, saw. Do
| you wonder that he cried?
LOVE AND SWEETNESS IN ART.
once saw picture by that great artist,
| Watts. 1t was Il portrait oil Cardinal New
man. was drawn to that picture as hun
dreds of other people were, because from
out the eyes looked a benediction, and
after you left II IL seemed as ii YOU saw il
again and again, and those same eyes were
invoking upon you, The peace of God
which passeth all understanding" But
the painters Of to-day don't do such pic
lures. Watts belonged to the set Of men
who appreciated beauty, appreciated faith,
and VINO appreciated love- The painter OF
to-day leaves something off his palette, one
| OF ms beSs colors-his finest tint, don't
| you guess what 1t is p? 1t is that human
| colorlng which the painter draws from his
heart, and which makes his pictures, not
mere limitations of humanity, but real
| people who choose to live and breathe on
canvas, What is the matter with them
all? Has imagination, has melody, has
harmony i'll art been killed by the mad
rush after the dollar2 Can nothing good
come out of Nazareth?
don't trouble so much about it for
myself, because | possess what the other
| people did; | can read the great novel,
| listen to the sweet music, and delight in
the line pictures, but there is Roue, Junior.
You have got to think of him. He is
hesh Of your Hesh aud bone of your bone
| II Is true that when he came into this
| world, his inOthe1 had all her senses
| deadened, rather than endure that noble
pain WHICH is like unto hell, but lifts Il
woman up to heaven. But he is here now
and you are more or less responsible for
l
| once or twice When his mother WASH {
| looking, ana you met him sJraying in u
lonely way through the hail. you picked
| MIN up, brushed your mustache across his
cheek, and said, Poor little beggar." And
| then outside the door. you added, "Cun-
found that cigar" Why, don't you stand
up and assert the rights OF Roue, Junior.
Get grandmamma to help you. Remind
| yourself that you are u man and the master
of your household; give Roue, Junior, tine
same chance that you had. Ii you will 90
back II little ways and remember granu-
papas home, il will dawn ON you that 1t
was the masculine element that controlled
and the feminine une that persuaded.
WOMAN, ASSERT YOURSELF.
1t is women who make popular nasty
books, stupid music, and tiresOGne pictures.
1t is in their power to put them down by
expressing weariness OF them. Why
don't they do it My dear Roue, give
your boy his rights, make life pleasant
Tor him, make his mother love him, and il
she don't put her in the insane asylum.
| That Is the place for women VINO don't
love their children. Assert yourself. Say
there shall be faith, there shall be love 4
strong witl will do d great deal. Don t be
| laughed out Of it; that will be what
Madame koue will attempt to do, fol
when II woman loses faith, she laughs al
everything. II you can't make yourself
brave III any other way, do IL vita an ex-
ira glass OF brandy amt gain your first
point. Having triumphed once and tasteu
Its delights, you wont need q bracer for the
next time, and tine brandy can be reserved
for sickness only. Who AM VINO am Civ
ing ali this advice? l am yours of Uni.
and for the next generation. Bah.