Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-07-07
BEAUTIFUL WORDS SELDOM USED

r UST as some melodious theme IN
a great symphony will stand out
amid the thunder of the bass
and the sobbing of the violins in
mighty harmonies, so out of the Eng
lish language there stand twenty-one
words full of beauty.
Twenty-one, which, according to
the judges in a quaint word contest
recently carried on in New York, are
the most beautiful in the world
And back of each, as glimpse
through window will show the
stretches of forest Or sea, there lie
long vistas Of beautiful thoughts,
ideas and dreams which the mere rep
etition of the words can bring up.
How often do you search for the
beautiful in words or phrases?
How often do you seek to imbibe the
beauty that lies around you and sc
bring into your life the lovely dreams
that are usually the heritage of the
artist, or the musician?
Not often, | imagine, because in
these days, when the eye moves will
a rush and haste is the keynote tc
which we set steps, we are prone to
clip our words, to express with a few
slang phrases what might have been
a speech full of harmony.
Did you ever realize how sweet and
how attractive is the gentle language
of the older woman whom we meet!
Ever stop to think that they see much
more Of the beauty in life than We dc
because they think beauty, have beau
ty in their vocabulary and use it ir
their speech?
1t is true, and no one in whose
mind there lie the twenty-one words
chosen in New York can fail to fine
a charm in using them, despite the
fact that they are very familiar to al
of us.
Melody, splendor, alteration, elo
quence, virtue, innocence, modesty
faith, joy, honor, radiance, nobility
sympathy, heaven, love, divine. hope
harmony, happiness, purity and lib.
erty are the words, and each one is
i'll itself, chain upon which one may
actually hang the pearls of speech
Of which the poets sing.
Slang and brusQueness of speech
lead inevitably to brusqueness O,
character. For our words are the key
note to our thoughts and our tho-ghts
are borne by our characters.
So you can readily see that by en-.
larging our vocabulary to take in the
beautiful words, and by using them
we shall in turn be engendering beau.
tlful thoughts to tide us over the
weary hours that must come to all OF
US.
They have a club in Philadelphia
a walking club, whose members e.
out through the suburbs and searcl
for the beauty that lies in old land
marks They wander across the hills
to catch the warm CLINT of the set
ting sun upon the stark trees of some
bit of woodland, Or across a stretch
of untrodden snow
And just as these folk come back
to the daily round, with the visions
OF the fresh sweetness of the outdoor
world lingering in their minds, so the
girl who searches out the beauty thai
lies IN mere words will find that she
is cultlvating taste for good books
an appreciation of their literary mer
its, as well as learning new Thoughts
ana sweeter speech, that is in itself
the greatest charm woman can
have.
For soft words in a gentle voice
nave more attraction than even
pretty face. And if beautiful thoughts
lie back of the words they will bring
beauty into the eyes as we'll as on
the lips, and for that no thanks tc
beauty doctors.