Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-28
Both sides told their story.
Each sounds fair.

Both sides told their story.
Each sounds fair.
Neither is getting at the real center of
the problem any more than the figures
one uses to work out mathematical
problem are the real sum to be solved.
There was this difference between the
two sides One spoke openly and fear
lessly One was afraid. The people
whom IL includes begged me not to tell
their names nor to even describe them
SO they could be identified. They show
ed this fear because they said they were
afraid of being deprived of the means of
earning their bread and butter. That
being so, | cannot blame them. Per
haps they are professionally fearful
though. Maybe there is nothing back of
their fears The other side says this is
SO and that it is nonsense TO suppose
they would do the things the others
claim they would do under certain cir
cumstances. For myself, hope this is
true, for at present the side that is with
out fear is much stronger than the other.
That has always been so. Fear is the
thing which destroys all ones surety in
life.
The people who make up these two
curiously antagonistic and yet closely
united sides have something to do with
art too-the highest of all the arts, at
that
They have something to do with it
and yet have nothing to do with it at all,
because art can't be limited by restric-
tions and there are restrictions every
where around the people who are afraid
placed there by the body which is not
1t is queer complications if the
head of a creature made its stomach and
lungs and heart afraid to make known
their wants in their own way, but must
go at it in a roundabout fashion through
some other organs.
Art is indefinable. The more one
thinks he knows about it the less he
really knows. The man who hears the
birds sing, in whose ears the thunder's
reverberation is harmony and can find
the soul behind the others in the trust
ing and wailing and resonant strains his
deft fingers pull from his violin strings,
( is an artist He tells the things he ex-
periences. So it is with the painter and
the linton no nj 4, IL
MEASURE ART BY YARD.
Yes, there are certain men on this
earth who measure art by the yardstick
OF technical knowledge. If he possess so
much Of that he is tossed in with a
bunch Of others whose store oftechniaue
has been found to be the same and there
is an end of it. The battling against
these store houses of knowledge may
hurt his soul to its very quick, but that
makes no difference in the feeling of the
whole
1t was Il girl who first set me thinking
in this manner. She is a talented girl,
too-one of those rare creatures one
sometimes finds who has mind in a
genuine sense. She composes music,
plays the violin, Wfites poetry and is
about as pretty as one usually finds a
girl to be.
If were asked to define her exactly
should say she is an artist, that some
day she will be great artist.
Luella Comfy is her name She was
not afraid to tell me what she thinks
about things because she is not on either
OF those divided yet close together sides
| mentioned.
Just now Luella Comfy is a newspaper
writer. Into that she throws as much
of her soul as she does into the harmo-
MES and melodies that are born within
her quaint little personality. Being a
writer of feature articles, she is always
on the lookout for things to make the
people think, to make them laugh or cry
little. Besides, she. of all the girls
know, tries to, do most for other people.
EXPERIENCE WITH ORCHESTRA.
That was why she wanted to write
newspaper story of an experience with
girls orchestra. 1t is great little or
chestra, that one she meant to write
story Of There are four sisters and
they all play-one about as well as the
other. Their playing is well paid for,
too, SO well that next year they are going
abroad to store up more technical knowl-
edge. No matter how much more they
acquire than they now have, it will
make no difference in their standing
with the great body Of which they are
part.
Luella Comfy and / are friends. The
day she first told me that she was going
to play her violin in the girls orchestra
and then write q story about it she was
as gleeful as a child. Probably she
plays the violin as well as either of the
sisters. The point was that she had
never done il ina public orchestra. but
only in church.
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