Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-20

life-the society drama Is the drawing
room: the melOdramn takes IN all sorts
and conditions Of men; the melodrama II
an impressionist picture-the society play
is Meissonier, The man who Is edu-
Gated to art takes up glass and looks
possesses hut the grent mass of human
ity hnngs around the other, do not need
a guide book to tell them what II all
means and are awed TO silence. The
pluywrights are greatly given just now
10 putting too line a point on their pencil.
On Il white sheet Of paper they can only
make gray lines, and while gray and
the educated eye. they are neither iui-
pressive nor truthful. for life Is skctched
out In mordant strokes. aud II the gray
comes in at all It IL between the black
and white, and the picture of life Is
never gray and white.
CLEVER TAKERS ON DECK.
THAT'S all very well.' responded the
handsome girl. but return TO the play
itself. Why did i make the tears run
down The cheek of the cynicf Why did
il make Bah sit quiet In the back Of the
box? And why did my heart beat so
/ Thought it would break my shirt fronlf
IN teil YOU. Because 1t is the old. old
story Of love and forgiveness, Of hon
esty triumphing over vice. aud because
II tells that in this cynical world OF ours
II Is time we remembered that love and
goodness, gratitude and honor are not
confined to drawing-rooins,. but may be
found in the stables or where they are
least looked for"
Then began the cynlc: at was the
emotional side that fetched you women.
Now. It's beautiful mounting and the
good dressing oil the men "pp'"icu
s.yes." answered the handsome giri,
',they amounted to a good deal; but say
what we will, its the heart beat that
affects us all. no matter how hard We
may try TO prove we have no hearts.
With this she gave q scerntli lo1k AT ne
ovnlc. who taking his cigarette from hts
month. threw II into the water. and said
inughingly: There goes my cynicisrn.
Now. m agree that we have hearts; bur
/ want somebody 10 tell me what sue
means by the heartbeat
The captain looked Interested, and
gave the first answer ITS the-wen,
Won feel that humanity hns been touch
ed. and that each time your heart throhs
there's another one 10 answer II.
ats the reality" said the artist. You
SEQ i In one picture and not In another;
Won know that one man painted because
he loved to, and because the subject WIS
close 10 him; while another did II Tor
' .It'sNweil,~ said the handsome girl,
"I can feel IL: but 1 don't know bow 10
explain II, except TO say that II Is IKE
the difference between staring at your
face In >looking-glass, and seeing y N
a clear brook. the glass. no matter now
true Il may be, represents you as y
prefers; the brook gives you natures
pictures, and shows you your face, ms
God Almighty made 1t, aud as you have
marked Il.
Bah AND CYNIc HAVE THEIR IN
NINGS.
From my cushions came this explana'
ton: Its understanding suffering be
cause you have suffered; It's spprcrlaiing
love because you have lOvcdi IL j. the
exquisite sympathy between human beings
maj comes from mutual understanding
Inc cyuic snld NO, you are all
,sronx. Men have written great plays,
naintsd great pictures. composed wonder
vi music. and they hive unconstiOurly
,.r,reyed the truth. aud the truth will
siaars ring clear and bring back an
mo when Il speaks. The reason we
love certain books, certain music and
.arfain pictures IL because we find IN
thenl what almost unconscionsly the work
~ put theIc. The book that Is the fad
~ me hour dies IN an hour; the book
fhat n discovered by One man spoken Of
10 another, and Ia which We meet the
neonie we know and love, or despise, as
4 nav be. Is the book which ia going
~ live. Why does Bah throw aside the
last new novel and pick up an Old eoOJ