Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
", HEROES OF ROMANCE
They Arc Seldom Taken from tho
Middle Classes
htri''N speaking. There Are hut Two
Normal Heroes Of Fiction. and They
Are the Warrior and the
IaIrN Prince.

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h'....r' y: haH.:'~ and bcadlcS are
in,h an" lr"'acr~- he" may d" Their
'it"utlnr> dangerous duty with the
i.i~.i 90. u Rupert. 'r 'h'- Good courage
e.; 4 r":nwc.I. says Macmillan Mara
..!.c. ~ th'l are frankly Impossible
a. hvr"cS ~ romance. De Quincy
makes a remark >nmrw here u the ef-
feet that one wuu.d not hc inclined I"
think hiEhll 81 a man who. N thr ib-
scnrc - prvdi~pn~.n,e circumstances,
deliberately and f,r til" love "f the
business dr,...rl :" lee i butcher. Yet
butchers arr husbands and fathers.
and have blood in their veins as well
- "n their aprons. ~ matter OF
statistics believe hardly day passes
hnt som" solicitor falls III love; yet no
court 81 I"v" or l'i'rat"f" Will give
nm audience a. a lover nor take cog
hI|ah'' ~ h!N piradInEN- he breast
al the At"rN croker - S"ayed by the
bears ana bulls 81 passion no less than
hy the Nuhti.r lniin"nceN of financial
speculation. Vet his name is not hon
cred III lac more than royal exchange
OF romance. Then with one stroke OF
the PEN romance rules out the whole /
amorous mob OF retail traders. They
are not altogether absent from the
pages "f romance. these worthy clti'
Gems: 'hiE 'heF nave I" ioreSo .he
"'r"' P"r'' an" P"' up WIN Deins
S"i'fh u'h'rarlr> or VlIiaihs or comic
characters. ABOUT the outcher am
oouotiui. NOT even DICKENS, l think,
FOUND room Tor butcher amid his
baDyl"n OF trades. Nor with Shakes
peare Is IT any better. Ounce the car
penter' Snug the joiner Bottom the
weaver, Flute the bellows-mender,
snout the tinker, and Starveling the
tailor, are very we'll to play the fool,
TO divert the duke and ladies', but none
OF them, not even Bottom translated,
is mt object for iadys love. AS the
democratic Whitman has complained,
IN Shakespearean play the mass OF
industrious citizens is just a mob to
throw up its sweaty night-caps in some
Chsars honor at the bidding OF an An
tony. What is there about a trade
thus to lncapacitate q man for ro-
nance:
Strictly speaking there are but two
normal heroes OF romance, the warrior
ana the fairy prince. IL there is no
larry prince at hand. an ordinary prince
Will do. The English duke is. as the
American moralist rightly enough di-
vined, only modern variety of fairy
prince. To be mistaken for 4 fairy
prince the English duke no doubt needs
to be looked at from the other side of
the Atlantic. Seen ut close quarters,
in the house of lords, on the race
course or in the law courts, he is apt to
appear feshy. But he has the essen
tial attribute OF the fairy prince, which
is rarity. There are but two dozen or
so OF him all told, and most of these
have been bespoken or used up. He
has besides, for the American girl, an
other of the essential secrets of ro-
mance-he is exotic. 1t is the good
fortune and fascinating fashion of the
fairy prince to descend always from
some unknown upper and diviner air.
That it is which makes the Prince
Charming OF the fairy tale SO irresisti-
Bile, So it was that Cunid cama N