Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-30

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1.-THE ROSARY OF a RAMBLER. I
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When one visits Buffalo and goes
elsewhere thansto Niagara Falls for the 1
first place Of interest he has feeling
akin to the citizen who braves the scorn
of friends and passes by the big tint to
enter the side show. But a rambler OF
the writer's acquaintance did this
seemingly foolish thing by going first to
East Aurora, the home of Fra. Eli
bertus, his Philistine and the Roycroft-
5ers. 1t proved to be no ordinary side
show, but one of remarkable interest.
The work OF those prominent and
early residents who have the privilege
of naming towns, cannot always be
commended, but word of praise must
be spoken for those who named East
Aurora. There is something so clean
and wholesome about the quiet little
village that ones thoughts turn in /
stinctively TO the dawn, its purity and
charm. But seventeen miles from Buff
falo, it is within the past few months
only that tourists have come to notice
the place.
quaint old houses which muteiy tell
of generations of thrift and refinement
have for their setting Well kept
grounds, too spacious to be called
lawns, and of which many more pre-
4 ~ ,l.,r ,;rrnt eYV
Yet 1t is not the physical aspect of the
little town in western New York which
is to make it famous. Delightful as a
month of its calm and freshness would
be- there are scores of nlaces equally
as attractive But there are few places
which have within their walls man
like Ebert Hubbard. When the years
have passed and the men we know and
talk about have been weighed IN the
balance and some have been found
worthy and some have been found
wanting. it may be that Ebert Hub
bard will be declared neither prophet
nor a poet. Yet today he is deserving
| the Knowing and talking about. While
| the belle lettres of the country seems
at so low an ebb he is doing his work
/ of strength and beauty and teaching
| the gospel of the work which is love
1 and the love which is work.
The old saying about prophet be-
ling without honor in his own country
4 is disprovad in his case for all East
4 Aurora loves Fra Eibertus. 1t is not
4 strange that they do. for ne loved them
first. and this love for them has
/ prompted him 10 givesto them the Work
and life that he does.
How the first number of the Phills-
| tine was printed some half a decade
\ ago as a Joke and with no thought OF
iestablfshing a magazine, every one
4 knows, and the old Franklin hand press
from which IT was run Off is SHOWN 70
I guests The growth of the little maya
L zine published every little ~nlle,
has been phenomenal, as have been the
4 discussions caused by its perusai. NOT
i all. by ans means, have been compii-
! mentary. but the fact that whether ers.
4 spraises or condemns it is with intensity
4 of feeling and yehemenee of expression
3lsbefits the man. Whatever Ebert 81 uo-
4 bard may be- he is not mediocre. his
very appearance makes that fact
4 known. Tail and sinewy. he opeys his
\ own Injunction to keep the cnin n ara
the crown of the head high. His hanu
erasn is firm, but his chief points OF
excellenceies are his dark eyes ana
a deep voice. An expressive voice Is one
8 of his great hobbies. as every one aWae
{ has read the last Phiiistine must kap"
Al first glance one can not say Wnon ne
& resembles the more, Phillips Brooks OF
slSGlay Clement Lacking the more pro-
3inounceGl physical characteristics OF tht
latter and something Of the spiritual
strength Of the former his is a person
4 ality&in which are blended. 50 II seem $,
Il The man of the world and the man OF
q thought
q THAT Ebert Hubbard has thought
land though Well is attssted by the
work which the Roycrefter shop Is
sertiing. ont Perfection is hard 10 at
Tain. Ne, the volumes which come from
the East Aurora WORKSHOP leave little
10 be desired. II, may be only ny
which prompts the belief that no werk
81, il rcr,,,are with5th w1fk5af the hanG
VI but al lit;le sentiment Is an inS5igoratiIs
,a,,if. in the Tr4saic world and althe the
81 ma king OF all books and papers Wltiieut
THE asa OF nlaehirsitS not 9paraled aps
hand could not be advocated, we w2usl
willingly put aside many books ifat US
have to make place for a lsoyeroffte15
That is what Che workers nd, ina
their books sflan be 50 streng and .ooe
;hat they viii be "a thing OF beauty
and a 10Y forever When ems has seer
tn rooms Whsre the Work IS diiiss Y
55,1.it to be wondered at 50 llneh tnat ttas
work posse ssts quality, For tn WORK
lshep is truly an8itieal ole Large, airy