The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-09-12


J enthusiastic persons
Il exclaim at sight Of
fair landscape or a beautiful face The
speakers genuine appreciation, then, i
evidently for pictures rather than for
the actual things which the picture
more or less truthfully represent, and
his compliment TO nature Is in conse-
quence lamentably left handed. But ma
ture can stand it well enough, and the
sentiment underlying such a sponta
neous expression Is very human and nat
ural There is indeed almost invariably
an instructive justice behind social ira
ditions and popular prejudices. In this
case the fact Is that the picture is a sim
plified adaptation Of nature to the gen
eral comprehension. In a successful pic
ture much is made OF the salient fea-
lures which pleasantly strike the eye,
and everything else is eliminated, for
the sight, like the other senses, and like
the heart itself, has its own predictions
and antipathies, which it subtly imposes
upon the reason. 1t is the discriminat
ing selection and adjustment Of these
outward affinities, then, that constitute
tho main function Of art And social ar
tifciality is simply art applied to ethics,
to the minor morals and manners Of ev-
e1yday life; hence the unanimous pref
erence of mankind, particularly women
of course, as the old phrase has it, man
kind embraces women-for the suave
conventionalities Of art over the crude
verities of nature. 1t was easy to see
that Alphonse Kari had been philosO-
pher before he turned florist when he
said, Few women love flowers, but all
are fond of bouquets.
Flowers themselves are highly sus-
ceptible TO the ameliorating influences
OF artifciality. Compare the wild flow
ers with the cultivated exotic or even
with the favorites Of the garden and
see how splendidly nature acknowl
edges with what richness OF bloom and
incense Of odor, the ministering atten
tions of art. How UNNECESSARILY the eX-
quisite Parma violet SURPRISES tie
modest dOgtooth Of the wood! While
that dainty Wild rose, TIE cglmtiac,
whom called by some other naIuc--
JaoqueminCt, fer example, with q FIRE
pedigree Of artihciality behind it--real-
ly does smell far swecter. This, "
course, is no disDarags ~ent 10 rhe Gar--
eglautinc, which Is Cd l-ning IN its s..-
tive wiids Ali I claim IS thar the con-
parisun certainly does not slight T..
queenly Jacque.
So the rule runs al the way NJ ~
men and women. High bred is Liul -
ned everywhere. Wan has repeat.
demonstrated that the city man .
the nervous tension and artificial life
has better soldier stuT in him than &.
horny handed patriot fresh FROM I'll
DICyv
Nature laws the foundation az I'll
beaufv. moral and physical b1r
does not l.ssv- tha cache, Of G-..s..--
tioD A Parisian arsDda dare onessai5
IN INV heo,.iner 70 AIRS q :. fair &...-~.
loan who rs.i.Ied herself 7,ron that WON
drol.s lilv and rose co-vrle,-il11 Win. p
tb2 late Horace Greeley b-rra,t,sa# -
al ,is f-re1-e,,s. ,sP-r nv dean. van
sborld 1-. rer-7er NOT thar Won nee.
st for rel-r--'s s.f-7 or - r-.l-- ~a
el-f,, v,-l,s-,7,-- ot--r--- 81 s4F-a..s rr-
eclat Of color and lel-es away rt. shine.
All the difference between n r1.trv--,--.7
and y drcia.
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tbe comedy IS es }--ll oP ir7-~f0o-s1Z- IT,
to,.,,-,,..,,, .,r-+-rs q 1,,,7- ,-...
i Of siIl-sr r,,r.,Fs and +e,1s-s p--aT-,.-
icaIIv $40, zinc These assure is r-7n--
inercs<. From 5be most trivial a+4ecra-
lions Of soes.s ana rsrs91al a5o-7r7e--
TO the a1vfaIas- concerns of life. death
and the hereafter We progress THROUGH
such "a series of discoveries Of things BE-
ing not al all what they seem that we
may well ponder over Be~keIey's theory
of the unsu5sJauriality Of the universe.
Form and fact bear about the same re
lation 10 each other IS the lines in q
PeTsl3ecSl's CIV Ms ''' - muse u --
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