The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02
The First Glass
in Sentiments
By NAY BELLEvILLE BROWN.
EDUCATION has done a great deal

hDUCAIlON has done great deal
for you" said Leslie. regarding
him critically, "but one thing was eft
out of your college curriculum, and
that is sentiment"
Leslie Mason could say impertinent
things without being taken in earnest,
and Steele Addison might have known
better than TO accept the challenge.
but he was intensely practical, and still
young enough to take himself very
seriously.
"Yes, that's the way with you wom-
en-" he retorted, in an aggrieved tone.
IF man isn't mawkish.y sentimental,
and doesn't strike attitudes and de-
claim fervently of his devotion, you
look on him as a sort of craven image.
You count a calm, logical, well-trained
mind as nothing. Any brainless fop
can be softly sentimental, but it takes
a man to be logical"
Leslie sprang from her chair by the
library fire and crossed the room TO
the dictionary stand.
'Listen!" commanded she, striking
an attitude and reading from the pom
derous volume. 'Sentiment-from
Latin sentire-to perceive by the sense
of the mind, to feel. A thought
prompted by passion or feeling;
state of mind in view of some subject;
feeling toward or respecting some per-
son or thing; disposition prompting to
action or expression! Steele Addison.
you stand convicted on your own tes-
timony. Sentiment is not only stran-
ger to you, bur you do not know what
it is. A thought prompted by some
feeling is that necessarily mawkish?
Feeling toward or respecting some
person or thing; must that be softly
sentimental"
Leslie warmed to her subject as she
confronted him and continued:
Sentiment need not be connected
with a young woman or experienced
only by brainless tops. You go on the
street and see a man abusing horse
that has load too heavy for it to pull.
What is your first thought"
] The young man felt his feet touch
known ground, and answered, calmly;
"That the driver ought to be pun
ished for overlooking his horse"
/ But don't you have a thought for
the poor animal, a feeling of pity, a
desire to relieve it, wish, however
vague, that you might put it in clover
field for the rest of its days?"
II can't say that do" replied he,
loftily. according to Herbert Spen-
GERS Synthetic Philosophy sub
human justice is imperfect in the sense
that there exist multitudinous species,
the sustentation of which depends on
the wholesale destruction of other spe-
cies, and the individual of a species
shall receive all the consequences, good
and evil, of its own nature"
Bother Herbert Spencer!" ejacula-
ted Leslie, in Disguised tone. Il am
taking about people who have emo
tions. Your case is hopeless, unless
you can prevail upon some one to es-
tablish school of sentiment and en-
roll yourself at once in the infant class.
There may be a chance that you can
stop living in the top story all the time,
and get down for a visit in your heart
occasionally"
There's another way that you WON
en- have" replied Steele. Fencing
isn't argument. But if you are willing
to start class in sentiment, Leslie, en-
roll me. Call it kindergarten class
if you want to, and you may advance
me as you see me improving. At the
same time 1 will endeavor to INSTRUCT
. you in logic. l feel sure that l can dc
, you good, and it will be interesting, Il
say the least, to experiment on eacl
: other"
81 don't care to become a cold-heart
; ed logician or a musty philosopher,
answered Leslie, with disdainful look
+. but accept the offer, for the sake o
the good that may be abe to do you
/. The class in sentiment will meet to
: morrow afternoon and accompany it
. teacher to Rat alley. 1t is my after
noon at the Hermitage, and when yol
) see some of our proteges in that par
of town you will surely know some
thing of one branch of the subject
pity. No. as he began to speak, don
mention Herbert Spencer again to
day"
& For three months the teacher o
sentiment and the teacher of logi
y Wed with each other in FURNISHING
y precepts and examples to furthe
& their individual theories. Steele az
companied Leslie on her pilgrimage
Y to Rat Alley; he saw how old an
y young loved her, he looked on at tn
& work of the Hermitage club, he Ii:
3 tened to her enthusiastic plans, an
y quoted Kant and Spencer, and di:
N cussed the survival of the fittest.
q Leslie, with her natural enthus
z asm, had thrown herself into tn
y work wherever she saw anything tha
81 needed doing, so Steele, as leisur
8 permitted him, could see her in man
z lights-with a ruffled apron over he
y street gown, serving hot soup
81 chilled newsboys, deftly twirling Il
& dian clubs for the instruction of
= circle of working girls, demonstra
y ing lower mathematics and the rud
81 ments of English to class of hal
& grown boys, or, perhaps, in the seN
ing class exemplifying some hit
~ nicely of needlework.