The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26
Literary.

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1t is said that the powers of either man
or woman are developed fve-fold by work.
ing with life companion who is in entire
harmony. The ideal wife as rule has it
in her power to make the ideal husband
What constitutes the ideal wife is dis
cussed in an extremely able article by
Lavinia Hart in the April Cosmopolitan.
Among the papers of the late Grant Allen
was found an article on 1.-THE British Arts
tocracy" 1t is probable that he did not
care to place himself before the English
reading public in the position of entire
frankness which he had assumed while
writing this article, and consequently it
was held until after his death for publica
ton 1t was secured through his son for
The Cosmopolitan and appears in the
April number. Certainly no Englishman
has ever so handled the subject without
gloves as Grant Allen, and no one was
better equipped to do the subject justice.
The position which the Pierpont Morgan
organization holds with reference to TIE
business and political world is discussed
by Mr. John Brisben Walker in the April
Cosmopolitan under the title, The
Worlds Greatest Revolution" Familiar
with the business world and a student of
affairs, Mr.. Walker has, while approving
of the general idea of concentration
which makes for good organization and
public economy, drawn picture of the
power now exercised which will be a sur
prise to the great MAORI who have not
given this subject thoughtful attention.
To the tradespeople of Paris the coming
of Americans to the Exposition was
direct interposition of Providence. Like
to all lower Paris we're the rules of pro-
cedure set forth one morning by the head
of thrifty family-father, mother, and
two children-who had temporarily adopt
ed the profession of ticket-scalper at the
Trocadero entrance to the Exposition
grounds. They bought their tickets each
day of spectators at the Bourse, and sold
them at the entrance of the grounds for as
great an advance as could be shrewdly ex-
torted. The attendance at the Exposition
fell SO far below expectation, however,
that the price of tickets dropped from
franc to thirty centimes-only six cents
and the ticket vendors would have been
hard put to it had it not been for the
Americans So the father gathered to
gether his flock to give hem instructions
out of his superior wisdom "To the
French, my loves, he said impressively,
charge only thirty confines if they come
thirty-five confines if they roll up in car
riages, Forty confines you must charge
to the Germans and to the Italians; but
from the Englishmen demand fifty cen
times always"
''And the Americans, papa3" queried
the littlest lad
"Begin with at least franc, my love
Try them with franc" replied the old
man. And the worthy son of worthy
father ran off to profit by his 1esson..-
Caroline Lockhart, in April Nev Lfbpan-
o0tt
What produces temperament in a people?
Is it that half-mythical, heroic past which
feeds the imagination Must a people
have had long past, and great deal of
varied history, to possess temperament?
Will climatic conditions bestow it? What
ever the conclusion, tits impossible not to
perceive an apparently inevitable tenden
ingenuity, dexterity, de vice, in all art
expressions of Americans, and, on the
other. a fear, as it were, of the fundamen-
tai feeling which first started the impulse
toward art expression on its way. Look
ing below the surface, one sees that it is
ingenuity, this Yankee hardness tt at
makes, in their field, the splendid faire of
certain of our representative painters; just
as it makes the ''go' and the storytelling
facility of the contemporary American
novelist in his. The head is always in the
ascendant. The proper art impulse, how
ever, is, in its origin, not cerebral phe-
nomenon; it is always mode of the thing
which we call temperament.
Temperament is probably best defined as
a great love of lite in all its forms. Such
love of life as this was in Shakespeare, in
Michael Angelo, in Richard Wagner. 1t
would be absurd to affirm that without it
nothing really great has ever been done
Some Of the immortal things in art have
been inspired BY a spiritual mood so lofty
that it looked quite beyond life; beyond,
that is, its earthly circumstances. Yet the
warm, close place in the hearts of men is
always for those whose art has reflected
the multitudinous existence of this planet
with a passion for it all.-From "The
Point of View" in the April Scribners
Richard Harding Daviss 1.-The Princess
Aline' in dramaized form, illustrated by
Charles Dana Gibson, is feature of the
April Ladies' Home Journal. 1.-THE Beau
tiful Tewess who was Called the Princess
of Her People," and 1.-THE Lovers of a
Cheerful Giver, are two other articles OF
in crest in the same issue. Miss Griscom,
the American woman golf champion,
shows "How Golf is Played" in series
of photographs. Edward Box further
emphasizes the value OF simpler living,
and Helen Watterson Moody offers guild
ance through ''The First Tragedy in a
Girls Life . IA Stucco Country House
for $500" "a shingled Country House
for $500 and "Some Artistic Little
Homes haye a practical value to those
planning to build homes There are three
Short stories by Gelett Burgess, w. A.
Fraser and Laura Spencer Portor, and
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's "The Successors
of Mary the First" is concluded. WI.
Taylor's painting, ''The Barn-Raising as
Social Event" worthily fills whole
page, and Through Picturesque America"
is finished, making way for similar tours
into other lands Much space is devoted
to fashions, and there are articles on gar
dening, the lawn, Horticulture, cooking,
etc. BY the Curtis Publishing Company,
Philadelphia. One dollar year; ten
cents a cODV