Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-14

applies to all pleasure giving pursuits
If there is any conclusion to be de-
duced from this somewhat rambling
peroration it is briefly this: Let your
own fancy dictate in your choice OF
bOoks-"to your own self be true.
Show me your company and | will tell
you what you are-show me your books
and l will tell you more about yourself
Joaquin Miller says Bret Harte was al
ways Disguised with his Heather Chi
nee" glory, and always begged his friends
never to mention it. Once Miller and
Harte went to breakfast with Lore
Houghton in London. and on the way
Harte asked if the guests would be like
~ to quote from that awful poem. This
prompted Miller to tip Lord Houghton Il
wink. and the jolly old nobleman gave
the tip to lot of good fellows at his ia
BILE, and they all talked nothing else.
However. Harte soon saw through the
joke and he never betrayed his impatience
on the subject again.
Somewhat as writer and more as a
lecturer, Max O'Rell is known to the
American people. Jonathan and His
Continent" and Her Royal Highness.
Woman evinced admiration for many
America niSmS and kindly Satirical COM
prehension of social eXcrescences appre-
ciated by our own people. AS speaker
he is witty and philosophical, equipped as
an excellent entertainer.
In recent years, however, he has sue
cumbed to the allurements of yellow
journalism and industriously scribbled a
large mass of comment on life in which
some grain is smothered in chaf, In
part his latest volume Tween You an
l." published by the Lothrop Co. Boston,
is composed of such essays. bon mots
cushioned in stretches of mediocre prose.
But the versatile Frenchman is rarely
prosy. Though he fails to edify, he does
not bore.
The first of the volumes two sections
is devoted to masculine problems of life,
the second to problems of women. There
is no lack of courtesy i'll this arrange
ment. for the female sex seems to be
principally regarded from first to last.
In explaining the fact that The
World is Beautiful the author gives in
formation regarding Partisan life. out
side of the aristocrats and of the wealth
lest classes, we have practically no club
life. We prefer the mixed company OF
men and women. We take our women
everywhere
Dispensing information relative to the
Way to Prepare Cheerfully for New
Times Coming. we are informed that
Ernest Renan was the greatest and most
influential prose writer of the 18th cen
fury, the apostle of humanity. One point
of conduct should be, avoid perfect peo-
pie and angels of all sOrts--ths side of
the grave" And consolingly, The most
real the sweetest pleasures of life are
the pleasures of poverty
The author does not believe in pre-
destination. There is no luck in the
world he remarks. mo fate, no predes-
tinatlOn. There is character and there is
also talent. which is of no use without
the partnership and the supremacy OF
character.
In an essay on UNFAIR Criticism the
author takes fling at the London Sat
urday Review, ironically remarkinS, No
author can hope to make a living with
out the appreciation of the Saturday Re-
view
Authors should never marry" is "A rule
enunciated. Simply because he is unlike
any other person. If he were not. he
would never be an author The rule ev-
identity does not apply to the host of
mere writer's who sometimes seem like an
army of locusts.
This of male and female critics.
a woman who has been badly treated
by man abuses all men. The man who
abuses women is not the one who has
been badly treated by them but the one
who has treated them badly. Women who
abuse men advertise themselves as social
failures.
Dudes in general
The English swell is bit stiff and
heavy, except in the top story, where YOU
find his attic generally light and unfur-
nished; but he wears his clothes well.
his dress is irreprOacha BILE and he is not
altogether destitute of manlineSS.
The French dude is not so manly as the
English one, but he is gay. supple and
makes an art of every social function
He is a graceful dancer, an inventive CO.
tlllion leader, and always an amiable
companion.
The American dude has always struck
me as sort of hybrid creature some
thing between man and woman an imi
tation of the English swell less the man
mess, OF the French one less the re-
flned and artistic taste. He is disguise.
The reign of the humorist:-
Humor is much more than the divine
iS laI.
the greatest power on earth, and the
greatest power for good, too.
But for his humorous after-dnner
speeches, Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew might
long ago have been president of the Uni
ted States.
Lingual proficiency
The English are the worst lingusts IN
the world The French rim them varv
close. For true-born Frenchman the
world is divided into two parts. France
and the rest For true-born Briton this
world is composed of English people and
foreigners.
Memory
The fact is that the whole Of America
Is huge thinking machine, huge mind
constantly on the alert. and kept in good
working order by a strong bracfng. in
vigorating climate which alone can ex-
plain marvellous feats of memory Amer
leans are not all beautiful. but they are
all intelligent looking
Civilization VS.. Happiness
Happiness is not the result of events.
but the outcome of character HaDn;-
ness consists of being content with one s
lot. Clvlilzation. with all its prodigious
discoveries, promotes the advancement Of
the human race, increases it's comfort
but does not promote it's happiness. be-
cause 1t constantly creates new desires,
new wants which only the privileged few
can satisfy.
A Lexicon of Love-
Will love you eternally," signifies
MY rove Tor you will continue as long as
It lasts. Stereotyped love phraseoiogv
mas done duty since man and woma n
were created. and by the use of it ma
has ever taken in woman"
ORell is a butterfly essayist whose
opinions rarely attain the dignity of con-
victions. In his epigrammatic habit he
somewhat resembles Wilde, but lacks the
Englishmans serious pose. Tween YOU
an |, solecism carefully explained by
the author, makes very entertaining sum