The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-07

stock or not. and then reading the
labels on hundred other bottles be-
! fore finding it.
/ What he has once seen he remem-
bers. his eyes photograph whatever
passes before them, and he can often
I tell what is being done even behind
! his back. He sees things that are
very distant or very near, and yet all
! this is done without any apparent
effort on his part and giving no occa-
sion for suspicion on the part of
others.
1t is these faculties. developed to an
abnormal extent, that so eminently
quality the man in the ST. Louis
depot for the peculiar duties of his
office.
The perceptive region of the brain is
would imagine he was deformed and
marvel that any one person could pos
sibly gather retain, arrange and utiI-
ize such an abundance of secular facts
and have them ready for instant use
Professor Stephens has the same
I qualities, though not to such marked
! degree. There are a few doctors mot
many nowadays, however, who argue
/ that these organs may appear large
! when in reality it is unusual develop
ment of the frontal sinuses. They
forget that the temperament and other
considerations indicate very accurate
ly the extent of these divisions be-
tween the walls of the skull and in
pronouncing the perceptive group as
being large in Professor Stephens it
is after having made due allowance
for this anatomical condition in his
case
The organs that preside over a
sense of time and tune, so essential
to musician. are also located in this
group, hence it will occasion no sur
prise to find in Professor Stephens a
musician and a master of unusual
ability, and as the leader of one of
the largest, one of the best and most
famous choirs in the world, he is
Justly entitled to rank with the shin
ing lights of the age in his own spec
ial line.
Although the musical organs of time
and tune are very necessary to eX-
! eel in this art, yet they do not of
themselves constitute the musician
Spirituality. ideality and sublimity
cut an important figure. These are
the elevating and refining sentiments
and without them there can be no
soul, no feeling. no sympathy or
pathos in music-nothing but a cold
parrot-like throat production.
Professor Stephens is well endowed
with ideality and sublimity. but spirit
uality, like all the religious faculties
is not quite up to par.
The musician, artist and poet are
very much alike in organization and
temperament. That which gives a
taste for one will show an equal ap-
probation for the other, and Professor
Stephens viii delight in whatever is
grand in nature, beautiful in art or
ideal in poetry just as he will enjoy
harmony in music He has an aes-
thetic nature, is attracted by what
ever is refined, and repulsed by what
ever is coarse. He is the reverse of
what we understand by the term
rough and ready" He wants his
work and desires to see that of others
cleverly executed and artistically fin
ished. The slip shod' fashion is alb
horrent to his ideality. and a work of
art, or a work of any kind that is
clumsily done viii rasp his sensitive
feelings just as his teeth are set on
edge by a discordant sound in music
He has high ideals and is not salts
fed with anything that falls short of
their attainment.
Time and tune being exceedingly
large, as is shown by the prominence
of the lower forehead a little upward
and outward from the ewes, he is
therefore admirably suited to both
execute and teach. Because a man
can produce and appreciate melody.
this does not qualify him for a teach
er, as some excellent singers and in
strumentalists are but inferior in
structors. The successful teacher
must not only thoroughly understand
his profession, but must understand
to some extent at least those who are
to be taught. The ability to do this
marks the successful teacher, and it
is a gift not enjoyed by everyone.
however expert and proficient he may
be in other respects.
He has an intuitive comprehension
of those peculiar difficulties that differ
ent pupils have to encounter and over
come, and is, therefore, able TO impart
appropriate advice.
AS an instructor and leader his great
est fault is lack or dignity. He is
woefuliy deficient in self-esteem and
were it not for his conscientiousness, |
aDDrobativeness and combativeness |
coming 20 the rescue. il would require |
all the kings horses and all the
kings men, to drag him to the front |
He is altogether too humble and too
willing to discount himself in the opin-
ion of others. If he should be tempted
TO address q congregation his first i'm
pulse would be to apologize for pre-