Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

haven't; we have only churches. They
lived surrounded by mysteries and gov-
erned by them. We claim to have swept
them all aside. Whether we have or not
life is not apparently controlled as it was
at tina time by the belief in them.
IF you have ever lived in a medieval
town as / have, and there is one in my
mind as 1 am talking, a strange little
Spanish place, you will have noted the
sanitary conditions, or rather the lack of
them. If they are so horrible today, con-
slider what they must have been then and
how the public health. morals and man.
ners would of course be affected.
Costume of the queen.
you look at the row Of pictures OF
Queen Elizabeth in the Wallace collection
and remember that with these wonderful
garments covered with pearls and other
precious stones she undoubtedly had fin.
ger nails thai would not stand the inspec-
ton of the most middle class woman OF
today, who would note them with disgust
Do you think a queen like that had any
real affinity to the supor-refined feminine
being Of our time to whom the luxuries OF
the toilette are an obsession? These are
only a few differences, there are many 9th.
ers equally salient"
Then Mr.. Hewlett gives some interest
ing data in regard to his method OF work
saying:
II is quite true that l have an intest
ing collection Of medieval literature and
a few, very few, rare books. l have never
attempted TO make q real collection. Tha.
would be necessary perhaps # l tried Il
steep myself in romance Of the middl,
ages, get into the atmosphere is the stool
I L-ug... -
Il will not say that / work by insplra
ton. for 1 think hat is a very foolish
unmesning word. and have no patienc
with the uses to which it is put or tn
abuses it suffers. 1 have written my book
as I a because at the time OF working
at them / loved the spirit of those age
so much that 1 naturally infused 1t int
them, / could not help myself. You can
explain why you do a thing or why 70.
don't do 1t, that is satisfactorily. Yo
can employ words, but they leave yo
in the dark.
An artist goes through a countr
twenty times and suddenly he sees a pic
ture there and paints it, that is all. !
sounds simple, but can you tell why h
did not see the picture the first time OIL
finally seeing Il, why he must throw asid
all the remainder OF his work and pain
that? l can't. II all belongs 20 the intr
caeies Of mood which are beyond the Ike
Of wisdom.
What GEORGE Eliot Did.
Il viii give you an example at its best
and worst.
Once George Eliot was in DevonshiI
and she had occasion TO go to the hous
Of a woman who lived upstairs in a veI
. simple cottage. AS she went up the stall
r she saw an opened door, and lookir
I through into the room she noted q loI
table, some chairs on one side and a lara
I chair, as if for a teacher, on the othe
I That, it is claimed. is the only view 81
! had, and in answer to her question regsr,
{ ing it the woman she had come TO see T
4 marked that it was the place where Il
% Peterites held their meetings. With thI
I scant information. ocular and verbal, 81
e wrote the wonderful account OF this Sc
] in "Slas Mariner, % which is said by tho
who know 10 give an absolutely aecura
idea Of that religious body. Here you ha.
n the idea az its best.
e Before she wrote Romola" she spe