The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
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Eye hath not seen. nor ear heard.
neither hath II entered into the heart OF
man TO conceive. what things the Father
hath prepared quoted a soft, unsccus-
toned voice. and we all looked around.
startled. but it was only grandma" We
met at the Young Mothers house that time.
and her mother was present. sitting quietly
in the corner, knitting a little boot for the
Young Mothers Youngest There was a rev.
erent pause for a moment. then the Good
Listener said: Il remember reading in one
of the magazines Of a woman who was
obliged to earn her living by some distaste-
full and trying work. She was thin and SAL
low and hollow-eyed. worn out by the daily
drag, and her friend looked forward anx-
iously to a complete breakdown. A few
months later the friend found her rosy and
well, in her normal state of health and
cheerfulness. What has happened?' she
asked.
Nothing happened-everything is going
on as usual. only I've been using mental
anodynes. My work was killing me. yet L
could not leave it; so imagined myself. all
day long. lying on a luxurious sofa in a
magnificent room. waited on by devoted
servants, who were so extravagantly paid
for their light and easy duties that they
were glad TO do them. l imagined myself
provided with every necessity and every
luxury. without exertion-and 1 got well by
doing it, Now that is an extreme case. but
it illustrates what 1 have always supposed
was the principal use of day fur
nish al escape from an unpleasant actual
into a delightful ideal"
YES said the Botanical One. eagerly,
that's what 1 thought when she stopped.
confused.
when what? You've something up your
sleeve. You've been writing poetry again.
Now just take it out of your book there and
read it,"
Caught in the act by her friends shrewd-
ness. the detected enc blushingly complied.
and read:
-Dreamland.-
We walk with ceaseless tread the round OF life.
But the dull path is other than IT seems.
For just outside It's petty care and strife
Lies ever smiling. the fair Land OF Dreams.
In every common life some secret fair
Transmutes to gold its dust of toll and pain:
BY every humble cot there spring in air.
With naughty crests. the viewless towers Of
Spain.
From every dusty road is swift escape
Into the free. enchanted realms OF air.
Where. hand in hand with many a shining shape.
The glory of the universe we share.
There splendid danger makes the pulses beat.
There wreaths of victory crown the glorious
strife,
There love is ever true and ever sweet,
There all the spirit glows with boundless life.
All, let us thank the Lord who giveth all
That of these magic realms our souls are free,
II That on each oloomy snot cf lfe may fall
The light that never was on land or sea-"
Very pretty said the Notable One, po-
litely. Then her repressed indignation broke
forth. but / can't have my mind on my
work and be building castles in Spain at the
same time. / don't see how any one can &C
complish as much while their wits are wool
gathering as they can while they have
their whole attention on what they are do
ing" She spoke with the weight and au-
thority of the best h~ousekeeper in the club,
and the dreamers glanced guiltily at one
another. without the courage to defend
themselves.
I'm afraid you are right" said the Criti-
cal One, meekly. But we get our come-up-
pance. The children of dreams are the chill
dren of poverty says the proverb. and il
seems to be true, only too true" and she
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she was wearing.
There is plagiarism and plagiarism. There
is the barefaced kind of the youth in one
OF the get-learned-quick pseudo-normal
schools. who read for
Unconscious his graduating essay an
Plagiarism. almost exact copy OF a
ford paper read by a
lady principal before a teachers meeting;
or of the enterprising grass widow who cop
led poems out of old magazines and took
them to a local paper with a bachelor editor,
as original contributions. And there is the
open kind of the master, such as Shak-
| speare's, when he took the plots of his plays
from any old history or novel that hap
pened to be lying around; or as ~Tennyson's.
when he borrowed phrases and ideas from
the whole range of literature. classic and
modern. Then there Is the unconscious kind,
as when several reputable persons claim,
in entire good faith. apparently. the au-
th0rship or some popular poem; or as when
a preacher breaches a Sunday evening SER
mon on some popular subject (the mis-
guided man not seeming TO know that there
is nothing so popular as r~eligiOn). and some
body detects In IL too great a resemblance
to the published sermon OF the Rev. Mr..
Flamboyant on the same topic. This is the
kind of plagiarism that makes trouble. Peo-
pie usually pronounce the modifying word
unconscious with a sneer. They do not be-
lieve that the copyist was not perfectly
aware that he was copying. The writer had
an experience, however, that showed her
how possible ii Is for the memory to play
this trick on an entirely unsuspecting vic
tim. She wrote q short newspaper article at
the time the Belgica went on her Antarctic
expedition. pointing out the astronomical
reason for the greater cold of the southern
hemisphere. We often see IL stated thai the
south-pole region is so much colder because
there is so little land I'm that hemisphere-a
singular reason, since W an oceanic
climate Is a mild one. The article explained
that the southern winter is five and a half
days longer than the northern, its summer
FIVE and a half days shorter. and that this
balance of eleven days on the wrong side
of the line is quite enough TO make the
southern ice-cap twice as wide as the north
ern one. What was her amazement to dis
cover later that she had written the same
article for the same paper three years be-
fore, even using nearly the same phrases.
If she could thus plagiarize herself with
complete Inconsistencies. why should not
the song writer and the clergyman plagiar-
lie others without knowing IL?
What is this we hear? That well-dressed
men are to wear corsets, and that those
who have tried them find them entrancingly
comfortable-that the
Corsets and clothing is worn with