Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-31
THoRoFARE.

Here bide we encompassed with Gains and
Our souls full OF exquisitive rest,
The naughty old world, with its hollow pre-
sentiments,
Remoter than yonder dim West
Its fears and follies, its boasts and ambitions,
Like vanishing yapors are past;
We iouted the faunt OF their triviare traditions;
We broke from their bondage at last
The story Of Rosamond and her purple
jar, which fed the minds OF you in the early
part of the last century, had very immor-
al moral attached TO it, namely, that the 4
useful was more needful than the beautiful
Rosamond, it will be remembered, deeply
ed new pair Of shoes. Her mother who
was an insuferably wise and prudent per
son, laid before her little seven ear-old
girl the whole situation something pretty
to look at gersns something comfortable to
wear something to crafty the eye or
something to meet the needs OF the body -
the useful or the beautiful. oh, mother
what beautiful thingsp' Rosamond had
cried out!-' Look, look Blue, green, red,
yellow and purple!- Won't you buy some
Of these? and the mother with cold reas-
onableness, replied, .Of what use would
Rosamond hunting for use, suggests that
red and yellow things-and then the pas
sion Of art speaks with pathetic simplicity
They would look SO pretty on the chimney
piece. 1t is then that the mother calmly
presents the situation. Rosamond. with
spiritual instinct which was soon TO he ex-
tinguished, quickly chose the purple lar.
ioyously Indifferent to ragged shoes. The
remarks Of her mother. the great diseomfort
Of pebbles in her shoes combined with tbe
mean advantage taken by the author -
making the lar fraud III the f1eeting ma
ture OF the gorgeous nurnle dive. soon
brought poor Rosamond down to the mater
ialisBic level of the most utilitarian Of Miss
Edgeworth' 5 households. The moral shines
forth distinctly necessities of life are
not spiritual but material. That this Is
immoral, everybody will agree The state
ment that the body snail be nourished at
the expense oil the soul. at the cost of emo
tionai experiences, OF the love of beauty and
the sense of fitness, of what we call Art. is.
Of course, wicked Such nourishment
staryes the spirit, though the body NAV wax
fat upon it, and the individual wax prosper
in every material way. Nor is he any the
worse ethlcally, for character. squeezed by
pure reason. into hard and fast rules OF con-
duct, becomes reliable and useful COM
modify in social life,-a staple that
never fuctuates in gusts OF emotion, but can
always be depended upon. Yet where there
has been any love of beauty, the artistic
sense sufferers its own agonies Of starya-
tion-until its death ends it's pain By
and-by RosamoIld got over crying out with
Joy at the sighs Of color, just because it
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f go mas solsensu anu cIunloleu que
luuu snesl glanlse Vi nunah experience
uneiL we hass merely much OF emoblons
mllou ussii ene aseassic sense. Even our
aSa,luus ille = noe Tree from tnls influence
cally in some forms Of worship 60 that the
bedrock Of conduct on which emotion
should rest crumbles little by little away
plain duties 90 by the board. and PAINTED
plums Of feeling take their place.
The Changers had one Of their old fash
toned good times on Monday night, Aug.
21st. The various WAYS Of nrenarino
wnlse potatoes mad been called for 70
shls i E; iua nsIa.age responded: sne told
aoouo Do,ilng 1usn Wien bne SKINS On;
mashed; frying them raw. and finished by
describing her favorite dish = potato pie.
THE she makes the same as sweetpotato ME
only adding butter and more sugar. Mrs.
Isabella Carter read a paper on pie-crust
and filling, and ended by saving that every