Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-29
THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER


! THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER j.
Variety may be the spice of life, but |
cinnamon and cloves, however sweet
and pungent they may be, grow tire
some to any palate and very near as
flat as palmer food. Repetition is mott
always wearisome, and in that which
happens again and again one comes to
feel an interest as he feels in a friend |
whom recurring meetings only make |
the dearer. 1t is this principle which
makes so dear to US the holidays and
festivals which the months are always
bringing. Christmas with it's gifts,
New Years with its good resolves,
Easter with its lilies, Decoration Day
with it's garlands, Independence Day
with it's noisy patriotism-can "age
ever dim or custom stale their infinite
variety?" OF all the holidays there is
not one more distinctly our
own, more tenderiy bound in
with our national life than the
one we shall celebrate tomor-
row. Other nations are thankful for
wealth and progress and have at va
rious times set apart days to express
their thankfulness, but the people of
the United States are the only ones who
have regular day when president and
governor order the giving of tribute
from thankful hearts The last Thurs
day of every November has been kept
| in this fashion for scores of years, and
one needs but to look on the family
| gatherings in homes all over the land
to find a negative answer to the ques-
ton, do such things grow Old
So
| In unconcern many momentous
words are spoken and innocent ques'
tions asked Sometimes. if the onlook-
ers only knew, scenes contain comedy
which seem to be tragedy or romance.
In the light of recent press dispatches
anent things theatrical, it is little
wonder the actor presenting The
Royal Box staggered when the fair
| Juliet asked her time Worn question,
whats in Nance Little wonder
ne looked toward the audience. He
| was answering her question, or the
| large audience was passively doing it
| for him. AT last Shakespeare has beer
/ answered and if we had only known,
/ would we not have been pardoned foi
seeing as much OF comedy as of ro-
/ nance?
$50
There is a clever little publication
which promises to haA a career similar
10 other mushroom .magazines'' which
4 has hit on a novel scheme. on every
/ page are blank spaces marked with
such a legend as IAN illustration goes
in this space and on the last page we
1 are greeted with the inspiring words "A
i beautiful tail piece with quotation
i from Tennyson's Day Dream goes in
i this space OF course, the irony is to
4 be seen and the publisher thereby puts
himself on record as ridiculing the pro-
fusely illustrated magazines. even as
Il The rrepressible. editor of the Philistine
4 has held up TO our laughing scorn that
COMPILER of reading for niiady and her
. naaids-Edward Box. We may be Will
Ling to admit that the picture Of a van
4 deyille actress. one of a society bells
and another representing a tea fight
lamong the 400, do not add to the literary
: value of a magazine But in admitting
that we must also confess that such pic
4 lures are not illustrating at all; and we
lind ourselves back at the beginning OF
the proposition. When the wave of pic
.ure making swept over the land there
were but few publications. and those
Weld to what seemed to be not only the
cubic taste but the public demand 1t
may truly be said that Littell's Living
Age, The Forum, and the Atlantic
Monthly have lost none of their pres
tipe. But il must be remembered that
far tho Greater, mart they are read by
people of such broad culture and cIea,
insight that an illustration, which in its
orndest form is used 10 make clear q
meaning. is unnecessary. Certainly tbs
readers of those periodicals by theii
very taste for such reading evince diff
: ferent mental traits from those who
read only the popular magazines Yet
The fact remains that the popular
, monthly has been made so largely by
ts nct,,res and pictures we all admit
,re of aesthetic value Leonardo da Vim.
4, nlacad naintirg above the other arts
!. ven above poetry, because its appea
,vas spontaneous and instant and pow
a,sul although it had not words t,
J ,iaad ;ts cause Leonardo was an art
: Isl hut he was also poet and there il
,,,,,cb of truth ii his saying Publisher
, ,,ov have gone 10 one extreme, but it il
!. -, o,,ar question if it be not more ac
| b,a ,han me other would be.
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