The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11

or less desirable quality, such as or, wis
dom, argent. chastity charity and clear
conscience; azure, a goodly disposition;
doctrine and sorrow for the loss of
| friends; vert, joy, love and gladness; and
purple, jurisdiction. It is curious that the
poets should have adopted two of the her
aldic colors to the exclusion of the other
| five They sing of azure skies. but not OF
gules sunsets. while their ladies' tresses
are often sable, but never or. Mr.. Swim
| burne if we remember right, once clothed
a heroine in a robe of vert. The use OF
| poetical figures and similes drawn from
the terms used in heraldry has gone out
of fashion to a great extent with the. de-
| cline of popular interest in the subject
| One fine example. however, occurs in the
story OF, Enid in the "Idyls of the King, >
Geraint remained:
Apart by all the chambers width and
mute
AS creatures VoiCeleSS through fault
of BIRTH
Or two wild men, supporters of a shield,
Painted, who stare at open space, nor
The one at other, parted by the shield,
The heraldic fauna IS chiefly remarkable
for the large number of chimerlcai ami
mails that it contains. The prediction OF
heralds for such creatures as dragons,
griffins and uniforms, may perhaps be eX-
planned by the fact that it is sometimes
convenient to be unable to compare por-
traits with originals. There is an old story
of the provincial heraldic painter who. on
his first visit to London, was taken to see
the lions in the Tower.
What tell me those are lions, ne eX,
claimed Indignantly. why, I've painted
lions rampant, PEASANT, couchant ana Sla1
tant for the last twenty years, ana shall
hope | know better than 10 DeleVe tn1l
those are lions
one of the humors of heraldry is to he
found in the rule that lion Is only d
tude he is a leopard. Most of the quail
ties represented by the animals are obvl-
Gus enough, such as strength and courage
by the lion, patience by the ass anu are ee
tri1e farfetched,. as pollteneSs: pS Inc
crane policy by the goat, and skill IN niuo
sic by the hart. Some OF the herd 4ai',
monsters are monstrous indeed. rev. Few
families would care to bear upon thelr
shield the wonderful pig OF the ocean, + Ui
the falcon fish with houndS ear, sun
less the scarlet beast OF the oo'loiiiie''
pit. ,.,o+;,,,or
Canting arms, or. as they are sometimes
called, abusive arms, have always pseLl
popular, and this is not surprising WIZ fo,.
they are so simple and appropriate, as, loI
instance three whelk shells Tor Shelly,
rabbit for Warrender, three trumpets 10; LOT
Call. or a horse for Trotter. In the reisll,
of Henry VIII family arms began to as
character, insomuch that some OF them
have been compared to garrison Well
stocked with fish, flesh and fowl me
adoption of a fiord style of armory was
followed. as Bontell says. by the substitu-
ton of pictorial representatio tons, often of a
most Frivolous and unintelligible descrip-
ton, for the simple and dignifted insignia
of true heraldry. The same writer de
scribes a grant of arms made to a family
named Tetlow in 1850, which. with thirteen
other figures. included the representa- ton
of a book duly clasped and ornamented,
having on it a silver penny, upon which
was written the Lords prayer, while
above the book lowered dove with a
menorate one of the family having writ
ten the Lords prayer with a crowquill in
the compass of a silver penny!