The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-23

mangled and lifeless form OF a child
from under the fender Of street car
and carry it i'll your arms and lay It
down before the distracted mother:
Did you ever do that and listen to the
words of grief and despair as they
flowed spontaneously from her lips:'
Il never did," said Dave. Did
you?"
well. no." said Editor Westbro"h.
with slight frown. But l can we'll
imagine what she would say"
$50 can H. said Dave.
And now the fitting time had come
for Editor Westbrook to play the ora
Gle and silence his opinionated contrib
utOr.
.My dear Shack" said he. IF I!
know anything of life know that ev-
cry sudden. deep and tragic emotion
in the human heart calls forth an ap-
Dosite. concordant. confOrmable and
proportionate expression OF feeling.
How much of this inevitable accord
between expression and feeling should
be attributed to nature and how much
| to the influence of art it would he diff
| ficult to say. The sublimely terrible
roar of the Iioness that has been de-
| prived of her cubs is dramatically az
| far above her customary whine and
| pur as the kingly and transcendent
utterances Of Lear are above the level
of his senile vaporingS. But it is slS'
| ND i.1v
what may be called subconscIouS
dramatic sense that is awakened by 4
sufficiently deep and powerful emotion
"A sense unI3nSciously acquired from
literature and the stage-that prompts
them to express those emotions III Ian
guage befitting their Importance ant
| histriOnic value"
And. in the name of the seven sa
cred saddle blankets of Sagittarius
where did the stage and literature gel
the stunt?" asked Dave.
From life" answered the editor tri
umphantly.
The story writer rose from the bench
and gesticulated eloquently. but dumb
ly. He was beggared for words Will
which to formulate adequately his dis
sent
Editor Westbrook looked at hi
watch with an affected show of lei
sure.
Tell me-" asked Dave. with trurr
lent anxiety. what especial faults j
The Alarum of the Soul caused yo
to throw it down.
when Gabriel Murray" said NeS
brook, "goes to his telephone and
told that his fiancee has been shot b
a burglar he says-I do not recall iii
exact words. but
.. II do" said Dave. He says: Dam
central: she always cuts me off, Can
then to his friend, Say. Tommy. doc
IL 81 bullet make big hole? It's kin
of hard luck. amt it: Could you gt
J me a drink from the sideboard. Ton
my? No: straight. nothing on I'll
side"
! And. again." continued the edit'
without pausing for argument. "whe
! Berenice opens the letter from III
: husband informing her that he b;
fed with the manicure girl her wort
are-let me see
''She says" interposed the autho
u "'Well. what do you think of tlat:'
( "Absurdly inappropriate words. sa
l. Westbrook. presenting an anticlinEl
L plunging the story into hopeless 4
" thos. Worse yet. they mirror life falls
ly. No human being ever uttered b
nal colloquialisms when confronted
+ sudden tragedy"
Wrong" said Dave. closing his u
'e shaven jaws doggedly. Il say no IN;
or woman ever spouts highfalntin ia
when they go up against Il real {
L max They talk naturally and a lit
y worse
! The editor rose from the bench wi
his air of indulgence and inside inf
nation.
~ Say, Westbrook." said DAVE. p
:. ming him by the lapel. would y
III have accepted The Alarum Of
y Soul if you had believed that the ;