The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21

gawl the jump Of the limerick! Were
there organization in the department (
Of dress artistry, were there schools Of I
education endowed for promulgating I
knowledge on the art Of dress. instead 4
OF confectionery shams, imposiuons OF /
self-styled dress artists" we should /
have dress Style would take the place (
OF Whtm in fashion, fashion would be
style, ana style would be the only
fash1on-style born of knowledge. We
ask for originality, not eccentricity, or /
lslnallIy based upon and ruled by the 4
laws of the appropriate in personal (
decoration. The art life makes for q ]
rational hedonism and consequently /
Tor simplicity, for art and simplicity go /
hand IN hand. To absorb from Nature !
and Art its essence, and reject the /
huskss IS to get nearer to the full life. |
which is a life of sympathy-the Soul
llre- To awaken the soul to conscious !
ness OF the hfdeOus in externals is to
awaken It to the healing influence of
beauty. The messenger of beauty
bears its seal upon him; he assimi-
lates It with himself and impresses
himself upon his surroundings. His
dress, his home, everything about him,
has the impress of a personality whose
mission IS to exist, whose teaching is
TO live Thus, in accordance with a
creation temporarily possessing the ar
tistic creator, he has not unfrequently
apparelled himself. In great musical
composers notable examples are
{
dressed themselves according to their
themes In general, Haydn never sat
down to composition unless he felt in
a good disposition and humor for writ
ing Then he always found it neces-
sary to have his hair put in incest or
der, he dressed himself with a degree
OF magnihcence as if he were going out
on state business. Frederick II. had
! sent him diamond ring; Haydn has
1 SAID that often when he sat down to
/ his piano, if he had forgotten to put
/ ON his ring he could not summon a
single idea. The paper, too. on which
/ ne composed must be the finest and
WnllesI possible, or he could not get
/ on He wrote with so much neatness
/ and care that the best copyist could
/ not nave surpassed him in regularity
and cieafness of his characters. Legiti-
I mate eXtraVdgances these, because be-
4 longing to the decoration of life ex-
pressed from the inward to the out
ward.
We are in a state transition. The ar
festauOn of social beauty and social
/ culture of today is probably but
/ phase we are passing through. All our
/ theories are speculative-must be
speculative. We know that behind the
UNBORN still turks the new SOrrOW-
/ the Great Fatality. But we also know
/ that out of chaos came the gOds=they
! governed, they still govern, we uncon-
sclously obey I believe in the great
| remedial process already at work.
There is d great wave of psychism
consciously and unconsciOusly affect
/ ing the world of thought and permeat-
! ing to the furthest corners of the
globe. The psychical movement is the
mental axis on which the world will
turn in the future and the apotheosis
we wait for. AS the belief in text
dogma and tradition is waning. the
religion of rationalism is on the as
cendant The prevailing spirit of ag-
Mysticism is shaken by the overpower-
! ing evidence of the next world through.
and in, everything we see and han
! die. To realize the existence of spirit
world is 70 realize that we are living in
/ both worlds. and that the conditions
] of our so-called material and the so
called spiritual work are mutually ex-
/ planatory. Contemporary with the in
genuity Of speed travelling, the cycle
the motor, the telephone. wireless tele-
graph, and the discovery of radium
/ the time signal which encircles the
world in seven seconds, are the dis
coveries in psychological science.
There IS telepathy. and the hypnotic
/ hospital Of Saltpetriere, recognized
universally as an institute of cure in
stead of stumbling block of incre-
/ dulity-
Let US part supreme friends with
/ those whose views on the philosophy
1 of the simple Life differ from our own.
/ After all, the essential is to find the
relation of The Self behind the world
\ For the Unseen, behind the Seen. goes
! almost over our heads. beside and I'M
4 der the fOOtlights. We are in our
] weaving place, moving EDWARDS, not
| backwards; without this optimistic
/ certainty there can be no contentment.
i Without it. what is the use of a race
for wealth. What is the good of the
raid against the rich, without Charlie?
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