The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-18
hIelds were as sublimated dish covers

shields were as sublmated dish covers
They were. indeed. food for the godne
How we Toasted and fattened on them!
1 suppose no love or reverence could
have been more tender than ours for thu
book of beauty. Yet We serupuIousiy nut
out the eyes of all the Phiiistines. ana
scratched the faces Of the forty.two chill
dren whom the she bears were pursuing:
and even helped Samuel to hew Agag II
pieces. though we had cur doubts 6f that
afterwards. One or two OF our pet aver.
sions we used TO thump when we got @
the page. 1t Is true the thump went b.
yond the limits or It's object: and Ii the
course OF years the mark OF hot Sabbatar-
ian fists caused mist 10 fan on the lust
as wen as the unjust. IL was n sorrUwful
day for the sincerity OF our book wornhlo
when we were taught that art for arts
sake had To be respected and wrath a
md vent elsewhere than on the printed
page. Then We were pushed on another
stage In development. and began to &.
press our feelings In drawings Of our own
expend!ng much wet pencil IN hiackeuinQ
the face Of Cain and throwing Jeseb1e
under the hoofs Of the horses.
THE Purple Kings war first Our deco-
rative pet name for the seriptural story
book alone. But a day came when our al
legiance was transferred 10 a pictorial
puzzle OF the kings Of England Our
method OF practical criticism has made R
impossible for me TO remember what :
single one OF the wicked kings was IKE.
The digs with which ffor Prince Arthursa
sskep We put out the eyes OF King Jchn,
remained long after image ard superscYip-
ton had been wiped away bloody
Queen Mary was allowed partially 70 SUR
Vfve, because her frock was butchers
blue; but "Crookhack" was broken bodily
In pieces, and the pictorial part OF him
thrown to the pigs only his name and
rnisdeeds were allowed 70 figure IN tho
historical sequences. Oliver Cromwelfse
place was an absolute blank James II.
we spared for the sake of his wig, and be.
cause he was Stuart. William Nv. had
accidentally lost himself, and Queen Vic.
toria had not begun to reign SO long A.
We were thus picforially schooied, learn.
ing came 10 us in purple and fine linen:
but when the coiored picture period went
by, there Is no mlstHkIng thar knowledge
became an effort; 10 hoard IL ceased 10 b
JOY: TO reCite IL was no longer instinc.
: tive ebu'iitIon Of the mind.
The color Of lie has been learnediy and
gracefully discussed within recent times
and we have been taught TO know that e
Is rot red-no color 80 wastsful and ouf~
rageoUs. Yer red 20 me was once a large
factor OF it's Florles-purple and red or in
deed any OF the big sounding primaries
and their contrasts.
The color Of life depends very much on
age and temperament wnen you begin "a
anaiyze a. Il were 10 look for IL where
the prism Of youth first caught the light.
and out ~ the great coiorlcss wave that
washes through all existence broke visible
portions for outhful eyes 20 behold. then
would maintain that rainbow color was IL
true note. Rainbow color. pointing to -
much rainbow gold. gold that one cannot
lay hands on now 20 take away or 10 lar.
fish: but all the same lying hid some-
where IN The soil Of Hfe minxlsug per.
haps. lts bright dust with tho dust Of the
purple kings II ones childhood.