The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-05


1ainder is vehicle and machinery
Neither John Bunyan, Deoe or Robert Burns were il
good form" in their day and they
oalmed in the classic" STANDARD works" and
books gentleman's library should without" Defoe
and Bunyan wrote in their simple mother cutting
and left mperishable truth that
sends men into the world sometimes who do need
teachers, schools colleges social guarantees
are universal teachers themselves.
We should have very wide charity for the mspro-
nouncers the .mmatical, and the bad spoilers
good heart multitude of grammatical SINS and
they shall be forgiven much who love much
Oliver Wendell Holmes said beautiful thing in his
"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"
IF ones intimate friendship cannot or
does share intellectual tastes pur
suits, that is small matter Intellectual companions
can be found easily in and books. After ALL if
think of it, most of the worlds loves and friendships have
been between people who could not read spell. The
brain often with the hearts best blood, which
gives the world few of wisdom sentiment OF
poetry instead of making other heart The
worlds great commonly scholars
it's scholars great men"
OF all the great pictures drawn by all the worlds
great novests, approaches in pahos por-
trayed by George Eliot in "Middlemarch" On the one
hand eminent theological scholar bowed in study
coursing blood of youth long ago dried up by
thinking. On the other hand young wife, eager
to do good help husband, ignorant
OF all that he had stuffed into his dry brain This
Holmes said further sis great martyrdom sensi-
tive beings, of all that perpetual autodafle
where young womanhood is the sacrifice
Let be charitable and critical Criticism has
ceased to be discriminating judgment and has degener
fault-fnding The no longer weighs all
sides and strikes fair balance; he bitterly
The critic has become nuisance under the of
"knocker"
The best of people may with their knives bless
their dear old souls! Edwin Booth very peculiar
modes of expression and pronunciation and couldn't eat
cream puff without getting it all over him. Sam
Weller wasn't much of speller but world loves
"Samivel" The "Peggotty" family in David Copper
field didn't know much about pronunciation grammar
but would to God the world had more such fami
les The person who pronunciation social test
is fool The devil polished gentleman and no
doubt pronounced his words according the highest
social and intellectual set. Faust scholar No
doubt sweet Margaret felt embarrassed in the
of these elegant gentlemen No doubt she bushed when
she that she had been pronouncing
the
This is argument against correct speech, proper
infection and good 1t goes show that while
these things good in themselves they not the
whole thing in life by any
If you will walk past the homes of the very rich in
Boston, Cleveland Chicago you will notice the
best houses closed like those big ironshutered
warehouses in cities They contrast unfavoraby with
the beautiful hospitabelooking old colonial in
Salem Concord and Lexington Mass The Chicago
scowling. The Salem houses smiling their
wonderful vnecovered doorways You readily dream
that these cosedup houses often sepulchres for
mics the ombs of ancient divney-ordaned rob-
bers freebooters.
In Chicago these places surrounded tenfoot
iron fences surmounting stone wall. The windows are
grated like jals pale face looks you. think
of the Prisoner of Chllom. are
not homes, but institutions On Euclid Avenue in Cleve
land homes night look like gloomy where
some Imogen Juliet is imprisoned for fear she
become natural.
Oh, let live among the fair-tomiddln' people, where
in the German home the father plays the bass violin, the
the fiddle and the daughter piano. where
whole family and old, makes this home the realm
of light, music and laughter
To think that wealth should bring men
and women live in iron-grated jas and shudder the
thought of being robbed of paste-jewels.
do not believe with the pessimist that
eled road of life is long wearyful Every of
grass has its own drop of dew Every condition has its
compensation.
do not believe that all full discomfort, that
the unhappy that the ignorant miserable
and that every will commit suicide you give him
razor or become drunkard if show him bottle |
That is gastric dream, bad liver phantasy.
say this of the fairtomiddlin people: Wherever
mutual love dwels wherever little children prattle
around the mothers knees wherever cradle is the
shrine of home, wherever childhood is long, joyous
dream, wherever the lilac honeysuckle bloom at
the door of purity and faith and the mother is the royal
queen of the hearthstone there is heaven though it
in cabin, and the world is full heavens But
wherever bitterness destroys distrus warps the
the child is checked and its voice
hushed with wherever the fathers step dreaded
wherever the mother loves fashion than child
the father chooses sham instead
criticism and hate and lust have entered hell
though it be in a millondolar house.
Shakespeare right
TITS better be lowy born, and range with humble
livers in be perked up in gistening
grief and a golden sorrow"
And Epictetus also right when he said that any
city great souls lived in small houses