The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13
Copyright. 1885.


get the advantage OF Them go through life
in a more even manner, but I doubt If they
get one-half of the pleasure out OF every
thing that comes to them as does the en-
thusiastic woman. l say enthusiastic
woman because enthusiasm in man IS
apt to degenerate into Stiffness unless. 1t
grows into hearty likes and dlslikes about
the tins he is p. But that is another
story.
When l first read the Prose Fancies'
of Richard LIE Gallienne, 1 said 70 myself
Here is a man who knows how TO find
beauty in everything, and here is man
who isn't ashamed to have intense likes
and deeply strong dislkes, and here's
man who controls the best English I have
met since l was introduced to the essays
of Stevenson"
Then from here and there would come
a poem with the somewhat romantic sig
nature of Richard lie Gallienne, and after
awhile the newspapers began to tell, not
of his great genius-that isn't the way of
newspapers-but of his peculiarities and
distinctive hkings. OF course nobody
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likes and dislikes. and as we are al! 50
fond OF saying this world is free and peo-
pie can do as they please in it fail to see
why, If a man prefers wearing a lace tic
or his hair little longer than ordinary
or inclines 10 knee breeches or finds
loose jacket more comfortable, he should
not follow his fancy
A week or two ago I took into my
hands that most strange book, The
Quest of the Golden Girl" 1 say most
strange" great many other people put
a different adjective to it. but there must
be something else in this world except
milk for babies, and as it is already in
its ninth edition there must be other peo-
pie who, like me- found in ii much thai
was interesting. Perhaps, indeed, GER
tainly, / did not approve of everything.
Perhaps, indeed. most certainly, disagree
with the author about some things, ana
not perhaps and very certainly there are
some of the most delicate touches, some of
the most exquisite poetry, in this book that
were ever written. Therefore, when l saw
a small announcement in one corner of
the paper that Mr. Richard LIE Gallienne
place l presented myself at the box office
of that theater and bought the first ticker
that was sold, since when ! hear people
read 1 like to be near them.
There came the day and the hour-later
on the man. The curtains parted ana
showed stage set after the fashion of
simple English interior. There were few
books on the table in the center and beside
them a big bunch of violets. In a sec
IL. A.. l.
most conventional afternoon dress and
wearing a perfectly fitting frock coat,
made a polite bow to his audience. The
face was classic 20 degree 1t was the
face that Maclise drew so many years
ago when Charles Dickens was his sitter
and when Charles Dickens was just abou,
the age that this man is. The eyes are
peculiarly clear, and the hair, which,
oddly enough, you would first think was
long, is in reality tremendously thick in
clined 60 wave, very black, and, though
worn longer than the average man wears
his locks. still its thickness impresses one
much more than its length. There were
a word or two of introduction and sim
pie speech TO The effect that American
people, like English people, were probably
interested in simple things and liked to
hear about everyday affairs, as spring.
time. the moon, the heart beats of the
world and the world itself.
The greatest popularity of Mr.. lie Gal
lienne 10 me is his representative mouth,
IL were stone deaf, l could tell what he
said from the motion of his lips. He abso-
lutely caresses his words, although he is
entirely free from gestures and has no
tricks of elocution. He is yet a pleasant
reader but oh, what writer, Truly he
can make silk purse out of sow's ear,
since one of his most charming descriptions
of spring makes poetical the antics of a
matronly pig, followed by her ten little
pglets.
1t is easy to understand his great ad-
miration for golden haired women for he
is a perfect brunette, and yet the lady
pointed out as his wife was dark haired.
In 1.-THE Quest of the Golden Girl" he finds
that the woman whom he loves and whose
hair is golden has gained this golden tlnge
through the agency of little vial marked
Peroxide of Hydrogen" so he asks her
to lei her hair go back to its natural col
or. and she promises to do 1t, saying at the
same time, with that wonderful foresight
that comes only to women, IAN right
dear, but something tells me that when my
locks are ali brown again our happiness
VII be at an end"
He asks her how long it viii take for this
wonderful hair. which reaches almost to
her feet. to lose its artificial color, and she
tells him about two years. He speaks OF
cutting a lock of it-that is, one-half gold
en- and one-half brown-and he says il
seems to him to represent her life, only
the dark part is the golden and the golden
days are the dark time. The two years
go by, and for you who have not read this
book am going TO quote just the end OF
it:
1.-TWO years did Elizabeth and l know
the love that passeth all understanding
and day by day the chestnut upon heI
head was more and the gold less till the
day came. that She had prophesied, and
with the day little child, whose hair hat
stolen all her mothers gold, as her hear
had drained away her mothers life. All
reader. may il be long before you kneel a
the beside of her you love best in the
world and know that of all your love Il
left but hundred heart beats, while be
side sits Death, watch in hand and fingers
upon her wrist.
Husband whispered Elizabeth, as We
looked at each other for the last time. lei
her be your little golden girl And thcr
strange sweetness stole over her face
and the dream of Elizabeths life was
ended.
'.As / write ! hear in the still house thu
running of little feet, fairy patter, swee
and terrible 10 the heart. Little feet, MA,
feot--Derhaps If 1 follow YOU | shall in,