The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-09
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BY MYRTLE MILES.

dancing in unison. Beauty became added 10 utility.
 Architecture is then, enlarged and skllfully made and beautified shelter.
 The next need, after the discovery of fire, would be an utensil for cooking. Shells might serve at first; as they serve to this day at clam bake. But some one must have built fire upon damp or wet clay; and the effect of fire upon the clay might easily be observed. It could be kneaded and moulded into form while wet dried in the sun. and then baked with fire until 1t could resist fire itself. Thus the first crude pottery was made--pots and bowls and urns. After cooking and eating his game some one attempted to draw the animal upon the soft surface of newly nodded bowl or pot, engraving it. Later, the utensil would be more carefully shaped. Beauty became added to utility.
 In the course of time and with the &C., quirement of skill sculpture was born. First the reproduction of forms in plastic material; and then the chipping away of more solid material into stat uary.
 In times of leisure, through the same prosperity, color sense was developed At first for attracting one sex to the other. The warrior decked himself m 0iofo ohAoJt WILL lnt IcdlISTS ana SklHS of birds and animals taken in the chase (by the way, how times have changedl 1t IS the woman who wears the feathers and the furs today). Later on, the mate Of some warrior would seek to picture his prowess In the field and on the battle ground. She would scratch the scene upon the soft clay of newly moulded piece Of pottery, or draw 1t with a sharpened and charred stick upon the smooth skin of the tent wall. Then pigments were used to color the drawing and to create the illusion of life. So painting was lifted out of the plane of utility into that of beauty.
 l suppose that no one will contest the claim of music to the highest aesthetic value. It Is the most subtle, etherial, evanescent art of them all. It has less to do with matter. more to. do with the spiritual quality It deals with the im- material force of vibration. It exists only in the moment of it's production; 1t dies with its birth,
 This is why I have taken the arts in the order already named. Architecture deals with large masses of material-mat- ter. Sculpture with less; and there is an added human and spiritual quality. A sculptured group of Rodin looks like a rough stone, at first glance. Then one forgets the stone entirely In the fact of soul that Is wrought. Poetry calls upon our puny vocal organs, a small portion of this physical body of ours but it ex- presses more of the inner being-the emo- tional man. Painting makes use of a scant film of material coloring medium and the subtle force of light transmits the spiritual or emotional message. But It lasts. For there is sufficient matter to keep it real and fact as sure as the hills and streams around us. But music is gone, it's message ceases at the mo- ment when mans soul stays it's stir rings! It Is lost until some other soul takes up the message again. The written score, the viol and harp, all are dumb until some human hand bid them speak There Is no music apart from the living soul
 expressing human emotions beautifully. beauty is truth. Art is the truthful ex- precision of the soul.
 Art is not necessarily the expression of a beautiful and true soul-it is merely true to the facts of soul. Thus music may be immoral, like some of the scores of Straus; or spiritual and moral. like the music of Handel and many of the scores of Beethoven. Poetry may be im- moral with the depths of despair of a Poe; or uplifting and Godward, like much of the verse of Browning.
 They are all art, when they truthfully express the facts of experience within the soul. Therein lies the falacy of "Art for Arts Sake" O art! Off I may para phrase) How many crimes are commit ted In thy name! That art is alone worth while that truly maintains its genesis the highest utility within reach of the soul!