The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-10-10
wondered how one SO charming and grace
iui as he was could have escaped tho stain
OF an age that was at once sordid and sen

of an age that was at once sorJid ana se,.
suous.
He himself. nm ,etnrn;,e home s,o,, ona
If those mysterious ard nr,Innaoa oSaanaas
that gave rise tn s,,ch sf,anye c,n,oct,,ro
among those who we're his friends or
thought that they were so would Green nm.
stairs to the locked room onen tlo aoor ,,,;th
the kew that Ind never left him and stanI
with a mirror in from, of tho n,,t,..;t th,+
Basil Hallwsrd Ind nain,ea Of hin loo,,inr
aow at the evil and aged face nm tbe c.n.
vas, and now Mt tho fair ,,,,nm faoa 49,
aughed back nj him frn,n 1na ,,,,;sb.5
sl;>s The very SHARPNESS nj the contr,.t
Used to quicken his sense of pleasure Ha
grew mora and more enamored of bis nv
1cauty. more and more interested in the
corruption of his own soul. He would OK.
anime with minute care. and often with n
nonstrous and terrible delight, the hideous
ines that scared the wrinkling forphead or
,rawled around the heavy sensual mouth
wondering sometimes which were the more
horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of aoc
dc would place his white hands beside tho
.oarsc bloatcd hands of the pict,re and
mile. He Knocked the misshanen body and
.he failing limbs.
u,bc,r ,,oro ,,,n,o,+s ;,a.o
yhe,, lv;nn sleanicss IN nc or,m 5ol;,n Ell
,centnd cbamh hon. ~. in tio sowa;a ,asss
he little ill-famod tave,n ne,, tho nn,.ls
which under an ssnmna name mi i, a.
misc. if was his h.b;, Ia r,o,,nnt ba would
,binl. Of tho min ho baa h,.o,,oht 49, ~.
foul, with a uitv tina, yas ,nl tho MOVE
poignant because IL vas nnro,y seInsh
Rut n,o,pc,,s su.h rs ,boso a,n 49,, nv.
curiosity ,hor, lif, tl,,, ,n,n, ,.o,,s ha
ore Lord Hen,, Ind sti,,,oa u, hi.n =
hev sot tof,tbcr In M m,,.a., - -.
,,icpd seemed Ia ;nc,,a.sn ,,.;th ,,a.;s,.tion
rho more he knew the more bn dos;,nd ~
NOW. He had mad hunpcrs tbat ,.ev, ,no,,n
.,venn,,s nc ho fad ,be,,,
Yet he was M, ,c,,]v r]colloss ,t any r.to
II his relations ia soc;etv Once on t,,.i,,
very month DINING tho ,yinter md ~, o,nh
Wednesday, cverino ,,bi,n ,no snssam
.sted he wound tb,n,,, ono, IN tho n,onla
MS be,ut;fu, house and have Tho mns4 ,.olo.
,rntca mus;c;,ns of tho d.v 10 ,harr III.
nests With the wonders Of ,hoi. mt HI
title dinners. in the settling Of wbich 1.o,d
uenrv ,,,,, rs ossist,a Mn, ,,.,ro natoa ~
mich for the careful selection and n,,c;na
If those invited rs for Tho excnisi,c ,oste
shown in mo decoration of ,bc t,hlo ,,itt
ts subtle %symnhonic arrangements Of ayoti.
overs and embroidered cloths, and
ntique plate of gold and silver. Indeed,
mere were many, especially among the
Dung men, VINO saw OF 1anclcd they saw, i'll
DORIAN Gray the true realization of q type
II "hlch they had often dreamed i'll Elton
" OXFORD days, a type that was to combine
something OF the real culture OF the scholar
With all the grace and distinction aud per-
-cct manner OF a citlzen OF the world. To
mem ne seemed TO belong to those whom
Dante describes as having sought to make
themselves perfect by the worship Of
beauty Like Gauticr, he was one for
whom 1.-THE visible world existed"
And, certainly, to him life itself was the
irst, the greatest, Of the arts, and for it all
he other arts seemed to be but a prepara-
ion. Fashion. by which what is really fan.
tsstic becomes for a moment universal, and
'ahayism' when, III ls own way, IS an at
einpt 10 assert the absolute modcrnity of
eauty, had, OF course, their fascination for
tih. Els mode OF dressing, and the par
icular styles that he affected from time to
me, had thcif marked influence on the
ounS eSquisltes OF the Mayfair balls and
all Mail cluo windows, who copied him in
ferythang maj he dld, and tried to repro
luce the accidental charm of his graceful.
hough to him hnlf.serious, fopperics.
For, while he was hut too ready 10 acccp,
he position that was almost im,ncdinteiy
iffered to him on his coming If uge and
indeed n subtle nlcosurc in the
thought that he might really become tn the
London of his own day what TO imperia,
Neronian Rome tho onthor of ,ba .Satv,i.
ON had once been. vet in his ipmost hcar,
he desired to be so,pethinp more than n
mere d,bi,e,. ele,nn,ioy,m In he consulted IN
the wearing of n level ~ tho ,,nott;ng of a
aeck-tie. or the conduct of 81 cane He
sought to elaborate some new scheme of
life that would have its reasoned phi,osonhv
and its ordered priuciplcs and And in the
spiritualizing of the senses its highest real
~ization.
The worship of the senses has oftcn. nnd
with much -iustice heen dnc,.;ea ,ron ton,-
ing a natural ]instinrt If tarro,. about mass
ions and sensations that ecnm .tronoor thon
ourselves. and that wa a,e conscio,,s .f
sharing with tho lose binh,u nnaax;.aa
forms of oxistenca R,t Il .,nna,nd 70
Dorian GRAY That Tho t,,io r.t,,,o af tho
senses had never. heen nnae,.stooa ona +ta,
thew had ,,anai,,,a snnana oms nnn,a1 n,a.a
lv because the world Ind SOUGHT to staryo
them INFO suhm;ssinn ~. 10 In tha,n ~: na;,
instead of Amino ~ m,ki,r tban, alor,an.s
of n new snir;tuo,;tv of ,cbioh = sna ~
stinct fo, beauty ras 10 no tbo aam,inaa+
chnraoteristic As no ,ooloa b,nL no. 49,
rov;nn tb,o,oh h;s+orr ~, .nn - -.
a feeling of loss. So much had been sur