Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-24

!, trlling dream. Is it that oiiriaudiencos
are so in love With reallty?gIs 1T tbnt
| the Isolation of u dream, which NAV
neither be shared or rc-enactcd, leaves
The listeners cgotisn cold II do moi
know, but at the mere words II
dresimt.. YOU may see your auditors
attention Observation-Disclosures ut his will
nor your own-likc mist before tho
sun. Now, Is not this strange. when
YOU consider how deeply dreams color
the days ofSeven the sanest OF us; how
in dreams VIC commune with the dead
love strangers, marry our enemies
fight and die: have. in short. all the
adventures Of life in Its most puig-
nant moods? Yet not oven our nearest
aud dearest will lend us their ears DO
we merely need more art? Must we
seek only some method to hold that
dissoving attention until the full radi-
auce of the vision can be sketchcd
out? Ortmust we nll improve in a sort
OF psychological Imagination? Or is it,
as / am inclined to think, that some
thing inherent in the experience IT.
self makes 1t remote. and that rs wo
must die alone, so we must dream
alone TOO From Point of Vicw,"t In
,l,c January Scribncr.
StuDid me inner inuiViuual qunii-
~ Genius vealng themselves. 1t is
s the older. f2clul lenuCn-
cics that rule in childhood. Irritation
nj restraint, irrcSponsibiiity, and prim-
live Incidence, are to be expected.
some mature slowly and are called
stupd, George Eliot learned to read
with difficulty. Thorwaldscn, the sculp-
tor. spent three years in one class in
the village school; Burger the poet OF
German ballads. required several years
10 learn the Latin forms: and Alilcr,.
the Italian poet. was dismissed by his
teachers, so backward was he. Were 1t
necessary the list might be indefinitely
extended by adding Newton. Byron.
Ibscn, Walter Pater, Pierre Curie, aud
others. Sometimes seeming stupidity
IS due to interest in subjects outside
the little circle round which the to,h
cred children are allowed to Craze. Full
ton, Watt, and Sir Humpliry Davy, in
carly childhood. were already busy
with tho experiments which were to DO
told to children after the teachers who
called them stupid were forgotten.
Tolstoy, Goethe. and Dean. Swift were
refused their degrees because they fail
cd in their university examinations
and, for the same reason, Ferdinand
I3r,lnctierc was denied admission to tho
E.cole Normalc Supcrieure. AT Cam
bridge, also, Sir William Thomson was
not IL senior wrnnglcr, though one OF
the examiners admitted that "the sue
ccssful competitor was not tit to cut
pencils for Thomson" When asked
why he had delayed so long on one oc
the problems which he himself had
discovered, Thomson replied that, hay
ing forgotten that it was one of his
own inventions. he had worked it as
wholly new problem, Later it was
learned that the winner of the prize
wrote the solution from memory.
Thomsons failure to- win the Cam
bridge honor because of the unusual
memory of one. of his competitors illus
trates an important class of cases in
which the examination system COM
plctcly collapses. Justus Won Licbg.
whose father was compelled to rcmovn
him from the gymnasium because o.
his wretched work, attributed his fail
lrc in the school to his utter lack %
auditory memory. He could remember
little that he heard. Yet his teachers
never discovered this.-Edgar James
Swift, in Hurper's Magazine for Janu
AIRY.
Women To commemorate the sacrl
or the flee. privation and bravery
South. of the women of the south
during the Civil war. ten
southern states will crcct-in their cap
ital it!es-monuments In bronze or
.nurble, replicaS of the original design
made by Miss Belle Kinney. a young
daughter of the old south. Miss Kin
ney's father was q confederate soldier,
her mother n southern woman. and she
herself was born in Nashville. Tenn,
about % wears ago. This young woman
whose art education has hcen entirely
III the United States. has thus secured
the largest contract for sculpture wor;
ever given to any woman. says n writet
in the January Hanpton's Magazine,
The monument Is n group of three fig
urcs, all heroic The central form is
that of Fame bending slightly TO set 4
the laurel wreath upon tho brow Of II
figure ut the right representing, the
southern woman. who Is placing the
palm of victory upon the breast of
dying soldier hoy. The boy IS struG-
Cling to raise once more the torn AMI
SCARED battle flag which he has been
carrying. Tho group is an attempt to
reveal the heroism. sympathy. and
steadfast loyalty OF the southern Wom
eli to their soldiers in the ileld,-Hamp-
tons Magazine.