The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-04
Get Acquainted With Culture.
The Pathfinder.

Get Acquainted With Culture.
From The Pathfinder.
The advice hat Lolgfellow, the
poet, gave to Mary Anderson. the ac-
tress, would have a wonderful effect
in making our ives happier if we
would only take it to ourselves AMI
follow it out. He o her never to
let a day pass without reading from
some great work, looking at some
great picture, or listening to some
great musical composition. Even the
poorest of us could follow such ad-
vice, especially the first part of it, if
we would only determine to do so.
In this day when books are cheap and
libraries open there is no great poet
or novelist or eSSayiSt who is mac
cessible. Almost for the asking we
can have on our desk the master
pieces of the worlds literature, and
a few moments each day spent in an
intelligent assimilation of the beauty
of thought and expression to be
found there would in a short while
begin to tell ~appreciably upon our
culture and make for good. If, when
a person looks at the long shelves of
poetry, he feels that ne cannot at
tempt to read eve half of the works
of the great poets, let him, in order
not to shut out from such great good,
manage to rea carefully at least n
fine poem from each of them. This
will give him something of a feeling
of acquaintance with these great
men; and then for more particular
study he can pick out two or three
that o strongly appeal to him. The
refining influence is bound to be felt
in time, and when that knowledge
does come over one hat he has reach
Cd the nnfnf WHARF he rnol1u annrp-
ciates the great and beautiful in lit
erature, he would not exchange that
consciousness for all the wealth of
Ormus or of Ind.
So, too. it is with art. This is also
a day when reproductions of the
great master painters are sold for a
few pennies. art galleries are spring
ing up, and illustrated books on the
subject are easily to be had. Apprecia
ton is something not easily to be
put in words, but there is the feeling.
the sense of pleasure, often rising to
delight and more, Ia proclaims it.
self. How much better TO adorn our
rooms with copies made from the
fine painters instead of so much of
his tawdry stuff exhibiting ballet
and fencing girls and kindred sub
jects. 1t is a poor index to a per
sons culture, to say the least, when
such subjects are preferred to b
fine landscape enc and portraits
made by genuine artists, and which
be had at even less price. Art
of the low order, dime novels, and
coon songs are kindred subjects and
generally go together.
The music of the masters is not so
easily to be heard as the great pieces
of literature read and the great paint
ings seen. But musical knowledge is
spreading rapidly and many are the
households where the fine COMPOST
could be heard were the taste
but developed. Many a person Is a
good performer who, unfortunately,
scarcely knows the name of Bach,
Mendelssohn, Mozart and Chopin. The
piano Is also a boon with
IN the realization of many. and by
It's aid persons who eannot so much
IS strike a chord can become familiar
the bes that the world of music
afford. The embryo of culture
all ar0und us, easily to be seized
upon and developed If we can only
ind the can Surely with these
.hree felds-literature, art, and mu-
,ic-open to us there is no one whe
cannot avail himself Of the riches off
OF them, II not something from
H. Take the poets advice and every
lay read something great, look upon
'ome great picture, or listen to the
In music. 4a
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