The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-27
The BARD OF AVON.
william Shakespeare as Member
of the Humane Society.

Miss Ora Miller at the last meeting
OF the Shakespeare club:
My unfamiliarity with the general
run OF the Shakespeare plays. very
much, as | well know, disqualifies
me as the proper assignee for this
subject-for it is a subject of which
would have the most made-but if
enthusiasm counts for anything,
then, am | clothed, and in my
right mind, for / am an enthusiast.
or nothing, along humane lines.
Since the first humane society was
probably orIy organic, d during the
nineteenth t'rtury, and the i'm
mortal Shakespeare was born in
1864, AMI died on the anniversary
CT his firth. April %, 1916, fifty
two years later, the little couplet
that
Critics who from Shakespeare
drew
More than Shakespeare ever knew"
may seem to well apply to the above
title. But Shakespeare was a prophet
IN many things, unknown to his day
and time, therefore, it is from the
standpoint that, coming events cast
their shadows before" in which we
take him up as "a member of the
humane society,"
Emerson, in his Representative
Men, chapter on Shakespeare; or,
the poet, tells US that now, litera-
ture, philosophy and thought, are
Shakespearized." Again Emerson
says: What mystery hath he not
signified his knowledge of? What
Office or function or district of man s
work, has he not remembered?
For executive faculty, for creation,
Shakespeare is unique. No man can
imagine it better. This, then,
is that which throws him into natur-
al history as main production of
the globe, and as announcing new
eras and ameliorations'
Biography, too, shows Shakes
peare's life was conducive to q
love and sympathy for all help
less human and dumb life, as we'll as
for things inanimate.
And in his plays are numerous
substantiations of these facts-as
will be shown by few examples, la
ter on-for he says: Full merrily
the humble, bee doth sing. till he
hath lost his honey and his sting"
Thus, in h S own !nmitable way he
makes mention, from the insects.
the birds and fowls, the whole cate
CORY of the domestic animals on up
to the deer and the elephant
l like to believe the anecdotes
that" Shakespeare occupations on
going to London, were, that at first,
ne was employed in comparative
humble capacity about the theatre,
and that for time, he took charge
of the horses of those who rode in
to see the play, and was so success
full in his work that he soon had a
number of assistants who we're
known as 'Sbskespeare's boys
Possibly this practice, and does it
not show "the self-made man." as
we'll as his great compassion for all
of "our dumb animals" was instru-
mental in his later years, for his
splendid lines to one of the noblest
and most attractive of the lower
creation-the horse OF the horse
it may be interesting statistics to
add here that Shakespeare makes
mention O. him in his plays over
three hundred and fifty times.
In his poem, Venus and Adonnis
he says:
Look, when a painter would SUI
pass the life,
In thinning orc a vel. proportion
ed steed.
His art with natures workmanship
at strife,
AS if the dead the living would
exceed. =
Roundabout short-jointed, fet-
locks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head
and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight
legs and posing strong,
Thin name, thick tail, broad but
took, tender hi, J.
Look, what horse should have
he did not lack,
Save proud rider on so proud
a back
AS further biographical proofs of
Shakespe Nf3, r. nl'ers of the
humane society, VIC read: AT
Snitterfield his grandfather would
be proud enough of the curly-head-
ed youngster with his fine hazel
eyes, ani his Incl. Henry, would
be charmed at the boys interest in
all he saw and heard, as he trotted
with him through the byres and