The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27
\: Over the Nuts and Wine \:
By FRANCES coURrENAY BAYLOR

Our poetic name for tho scnsOn
meaning meaning the fali Of the Leaf, ls much
peoplc who think of us only as % COM
niercial nation, not knowing that II no
otHer aurpasses us in the p.aetical arts
OF NC, no otner Is more full or senti.
rnent. Not German sehtimentnilty OF
the Wcrtner and Charlotte type, bui
Iobusl saxon sentiment. 1t saddcns
many persons to zee the last leaf dror
on Frozen ground. TO realize that ma.
1urc has cSquisitely packed up ief
+. wonderful and beautiful creations"
go borrow an absurd attenlpt Mt pig.
WlSBery over small matter, used Dy
snopkcepers, and properly use ~ and
gone away for several months, leav-
Ing the world to be as torlorn az II
likes. But is 1T sad? Not a bit OF II
as IN the cnilnren u men IL a peau,,..1
thing and full Of interest. IL IS tlme
70 LOOK back with great gratitude lot
blessings garncred--not lost; to LOOK
up with faith and on with courage
we get wide Views when the leaves
are gone OF earth and sky and there
ls WISDOM ana calmneAs ana sweetness,
100, III tho human outlook when the
green leaves of life tnat clustered so
fhlckly about our youth are neariy all
gone home to God. where we arc go
quite new way, for the dust of mill
lions lies safely In the great mothers
bosom. inc SKY says. "Sursum corda,f
In fiute-like tones. Il Will never leays
sonal promise to each faithful Chris
iian of the God with whom Is no vari-
aolspess, neither shadow OF turning,
and something 10 lsan tired hearts on,
tnat VIII never move. nor change nor
disappoint. nor fail. nor decay. There
are people all around us, too. who have
lived as beautifully and arc dying With
MS much sunset tints as the leayes
rustling beneath our feet.in every for.
est. The mellow charity and tlnseltish.
ness ana wisdom. the patience and
ndeIity and faith OF good lives glow
from t1em,in a splcndor that Is better
and greater than any that an untried
youth can give. TO be drinking tho
ilrst Intoxicating .druught of the cup
tnat sparkles SO at the brim OF the
goblet OF life is one thing. Young
people are very charming, as well as
very pathetic figures on the stage OF
life but To see the brave Old man or
woman who IL drinking It's drcGs with
faith in God aud lovo TO men. IS a far
more Inspiring and beautiful sight. To
bc sure, IL takes a purified and en-
lightened vision 70 see it. for dull eyes
tchoId only wrinkles and palIor and
feeble steps and falling memories. az
we fall back on the earth from which
that have always upheld us. whether
VIC realized Il or not MOST people
done, VIC are all so thickwadded with
stupidity and defective IN honest, in
tclllgent gratitude TO God.
In Scnson.
In homes where there are books ans
al evening lamp. and a refined, affec.
tomato and sympathetic audience al
hand--and there are a few left here
and there in the quiet pools of Vir.
GINA. far from the ocean of Allan.
tic surges restlessness connections
storms. political and comnercial-thi'
is a season TO take down your Bryant
or Jongfellow, Your Wordsworth. VOW
Crabbe, your Keats, your Goldsmith
and Iapsing into an easy chair--a
thing almost as hard to ind as q per-
iss5ly faithful lFsndTeaa a i 1ns
of St. Agnes" The Deserted Village
and taste the other dear delights OF
book-lovers; and by the wood fires
nickering glow. watch drifting leaves
or driving snow" That is a fine
nhrasc of Alfred Au5tin's in THE Cap
tive Throstle," .thc birthrlSht OF uit-
bounded skies'-autimn reveals them
and makes us realize that life kills,
but does not coop" From everlast-
Ing TO everlasting" Is our glorious
blrthright. Poetry is out of fashion,
know, in these prosy days of prosalc
ideals, but to steep our minds IN the
fountain OF perfect poems is won
derful refreshnent, and as long as hui
man hearts beat and poets sing there
viii be people 10 hear and rejoice in
n lovely gift. Poetry. when II is IKE
:he music that is ground out. benefits
no one, but when II is poured out it
Is a perfect delight. The young people
Of our day are losing incidentally
BE- a system winch lfnpaItS oceans oil
anatter. but which does not draw
from few deep. satisfying fountains
that contain all that is really worth
knowing: that really give education"
in the highest sense-the Bible above
all: Shakespeare; the great histories,
poems fiction, plays-the great litera-
ture, ancient and modern, of the world.
A ragtlme literature, like ragtime
music and ragLime manners. ideals
breeding and conversation, may breec
many remarkable men and women IL
more ways than one-but 1t will never
produce scholars, nor gentlemen. MOI
gantlewomen. Our great Virginiant
were men who learned the three RS
In field schools from able men, who
went TO universities Off possiblel
where scholars of European gaugin2
nodded and trained. and disciplined
them in the classics with great thor
oughness and efficiency, and mado
them perfectly familiar with the great
productions of their own tongue, be-
sides giving them perfectly invalua-
bic standards of honor and good
breeding: or, lacking this, they one or
all studied law under some man who
had had these advantages and felt it
his duty to share them. or, failing for
any reason to get any of these great
helps to career, there is not one
OF them who did not read, Well, wisely.
broadly, cons family. and so supplement
as far as possible the unfortunate de-
fects of their education. But nova