Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-06-25
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Loneliness of the ESar2C changing
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of the Sky. gl1
The impressiveness of lofty noun.
tains, the grandeug Of the boupdless
sea, few of us fail in some degree to APP
preeiate. We travel in search of them;
we pause in our work or our pleasure
stop6hola anqg dasnfl8 But there are
many persons who do not live within
view of either mountain or ocean, and
who can not travel. How many Of
these observe, enjoy aud appreciate
that other even greater glory of nature
which IS With tlieaaf and wsthsaA of us
everywhere and every day2 How many
of us study and love the sky? --.4.
In a recent article on John Raslxin
at Holne,a' in McClnress Magazine, the
writer states that R.usRin has for many
years kept account 9ef the weather in
his diary, not merely by records of the
thermometer and mention of drought
or tempest, snow or sunshine. but by
hotsNw with accompanying color sketches
of the more striking. beautiful or un7
usual aspects of the sky.
In his beautiful home, Brentwood,
on the banks of Coniston Water in the
lovely lake region of England, Ruslkin's
first remark to a guest in the morning
often eagerly delivered at the moment
of an early lnoolxa4 gthe bedroom door,
is commonly;
t.ztA Are you looking oNt?'' -
Indeed, the scene is worth looking out
upon, and. it is 9noswonder that the hos
pitable-and artistic soalsof such a host
should shrink from allowing a friend
to miss the early ibeauties of dewy lawn
and woodland, shadowy.nh and
morning skies reflected in SO fair lake.
.,4ii' Not less 6than1.the English Rusizin
did the obselvant and poetic American,
Ralph Waldo Emerson love the sky.
7 He could not depicti it's exquisite varie-
ties with pencil and brush, but in his
verse he speaks of it always with rare
accuracy as we'll as charm.
ST was his wise and graceful Gus
/ tom, too, to make ii a part. of the daily
enjoyment of his.childnen, as it was a
part of his own.saFle taught them to
notice clouds, anists and lainbows; and
/ when diseord OF fretfulness threats
their play within doors, he would often,
instead aof Heprovingt or Furnishing,
/. quietly send heichild most ,glieved on
angry Quito the garden, gate. to look
sat !. the slSyj'' andssbring him word
/ whether.it was fair, or eloudiHg over,
j. and which way the, wind blew. The
/ child did not understand why. .Ghe was
sent. .butneyer failed to retrtrn after a
few -moments'l,'c contemplation of the
heavens with,a calmer spirit as well
as.with an accurate report.a an fsst=
Ia. Even little sky7-a strip of blue
]. holds an infnityY of changeful.a beauty
for those whom city walls shut away
| from the spectacle of the. wide frma.
mept, unmarried by impertinent chin.
neyzpots and the. towering intrusive
ness of ten and, iiffteen=storied build
/ iings., -.a1 syas .:,i.4. los mas
/ :. Sometimes, indeed, even ugliness will
! turn. to beauty fen. those who have
! cheerful eyes to see. The tail, circular
chimney of a mill erected against hel
4 skyline quite spoiled the view, one
woman thought. until she learned K
look toward it in the early morning
when the machinery was first.started
1t was toward the east, and as the
black smoke poured forth, and a more
delicate plume OF; white steam. floate6
beside it, the sun, rising behind the
contrasted wreaths of black and silver
4 turned them to veritable sstrailina
i clouds of glory above, the sooty sum
init of the hated mill.
+ IF we can not have what we like. W.
I must like what we have. A range o
| mountains or the Atlantic ocean is n,
small thing to do without; but if w
I can not have them, the sky. which i
always ours. is no small thing, either
Let us make the most of it Youth
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