The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-08

jcStic young women occasionally got up
and walked across the room and served
somebody with tea and 50 displayed ther
"w~ll-shaned hands and flashing rings.
The Duchess invariably made all her
Young women wave large feather fans.
which calls for 4 certain amount of mus
cuIar strength, and then she used to let
them sway wherever they might he
going.
This reads delightfully."-, but when YOU
bring it down to absolute truth don
YOU think that 4 Swayin@ young woman
woald look Il title bit like one who WAS
too full of-enthuSiasm The namby-
pamhy young woman VINO nestleS on
somebody's shoulder and takes the stiff
fcning out OF his collar went out OF
vogue with Thackcray'S Amelia, while as
fer the hcrones Of the various So-callcd
religious novels. they simply walk into Il
room and sit down on the scttee. /
have often wondered what Il settee was.
Probably il will he like Il comfortable
sleeper in Il paror car. III discover it
some day.
/ have never been able to get over the
concct of the man who wrote Ben
Hur.' He said that Dickens would be
forgotten because his people are com
mon, Why, when 'Ben-I1ur'' is being
used to wrap MP slate pencils people will
be loving Little Nell. admiring David
Coppertield. applauding the heroAsln Of
Sydney Carlton. and adoring the sweet
WomanlinessS of Bella Wilftr. ] don't be-
iieyc Charles Dickens and Thackeray
talked that way about people who wrote
books when they lived, Yet here 5 man
who happened to make Il hit With a
book that had history as its foundation,
and he throws mud at the men who pos
sesSed the great gift of touching the
heart and Of drawing the pictures of liv-
ing. breathing souls. Brother. Concert
may push Il book, but it won't make It
live forever. 1t may advertise it, but II
can make us love ii. Each one OF us may
read it once, but when the heart IS
sad we don t go To it TO be checrcd up, a~
we do 90 to those living, breathing peo-
pie created by the two masters of novel
writing in English. | never did see the
use of writing. novels to improve people.
4 novel, a good one. is like a beautiful
piece of Sunshine--it'S going to bring JOY
TO YOU. If YOU are we'll in mind and
body. you appreciate it keenly; if YOU
are ILL., it comes to YOU just hike the gold
Ell ray that peeps through your shutters
and. Frightening Your abiding place.
makes everything around YOU gladden..
He who can write Il good novel has done
more than any other man 10 bring hap
pincss TO men and women. And Il good
novel isn't one that has 800 pages de-
voted 10 what the writer thinks about
some much-vexcd question and 100 to the
story but it is one that tells IFS story
easily. CAREFULLY and in such a way that
it is like a series of pictures. it must be
the panorama Of life, and for the time
YOU are the locker on
Ith-, immoral novel is one of the unde-
sirable products OF tO-day-the novels
that analyZc faith into nothing, that con
denim man until one wonders how it was
possible that God made him after His
own image and exploit and make ot
worth Il fool of woman who considers ii
her business to remodel the world I'm
tired Of it. This is Il very good word
if one will only take the trouble to look
for the good things in it. ] don't blame
anybody for refusing to honor and res
I@ct such women as are pictured in the
analytical novel of to-day They talk
talk. talk. until You think that is 1h"
only mission they have. They regard
motherhood as Il burden. faith as Il folly
humanity as Il fraud. They complain oC
unfaithful husbands. of wicked Children
Of nnSympa thetic friends. But what
have they done to deserve anything bet-
ter: Thank goodness. most of these WO-
men are i'll books. Only Il few of them
are in the everyday world, and those few
are not popular. Women can WRIT
advocating a new kind of woman. but
it's the old kind, the loving. sympa thctic.
gentle woman, who is popular Men are
wiser than they look. and they realize
that if the heroine of the analytical
novel were desirable as Il companion she
would have been discovered in Solomon's
time. Instead. aS the centuries have
rolled by, men have gone en- loving ami
choosing the gentle. womanly woman.
and she's the woman he'll continue to
Eelect I'm sure Of this. GeneraliZing.
he's honest and brave and kind. and de
looks for u woman who will be congenial
and who will bring into his life all the
pleasant little wOmanly ways that he
would miss il it were not for her. Oh.
yes, I've so much belief iii man that |
know he will choose the right kind Of wo-
man.
Parcnthetically. though / must beg Of
hm not to disappoint me and so go back
on the good character youched for him
by BAB.