The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-13
From, Other Pens
NoYEe ON THE BrBLn

School for Girls, hast Tuesday nieI,f 10
hear the great poet. Alfred Noyes. vas
compliment alike to himself and the
community. In this materialistic age
we turn from poetry a. q fancy that
has nothing to do with real life. Ac-
cordtng to Mr.. Noyes, It embraces an
ire, ana 10 q truer representative OF
truth of philosophy or science, because
the poetic eense 10 divine expression.
We guess that IL 90, but there Is poetry
and poetry. some baneful and some in
spring, and ono must be careful to
choose the latter. II he does. there II
hope Tor such a one. II one takes
Wordsworth. Tennyson, Whittier. Low
ell or-Noyes. he IL likely to be ON the
safe side. but II he associates with most
Of the others. he must be careful Still,
It ID . good sign II man or woman
loves poetry. where the muse believes
in God and IL on its way to the fara-
way land Of the soul Mr.. Ncyes quoted
and then he stopped. for everything
that followed was God-all the philoso-
phies, sciences, arts, economics, prog
ress. everything were subordinate to
God and nothing could explain Him but
Himself. Here was where poetry en-
into the spirit Of God. There - where
1t got its truth, and not from the great
.9aet world. that sntande unrelated to
tho spirit. Really It was = great lee
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CULT or THE TANGO.
Its hold upon modern society, how
ever. II not hard to explain. We have
reached again . moment at which the
pursuit Of pleasure ID approved. The
pursuit Of pleasure is one Of the most
sensible things to which the mind Of
man can give itself. for, though the
moralists dwell on the difference be-
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normal man finds that the greater
part Of his happiness arises from
pleasure.
Yet the rhythm Of life never brings
to the surface the same thing twice
in the same form. The pleasure Of the
regency. we should imagine, must
have been q grosser and more brutal
pleasure than that Of the restoration:
as the pleasure OF the restoration was
more partial ana physical than the
twenty years ago English pleasure
reached the summit of q peculiarly
dtsagreeable phase. Pleasure was ad-
mttted to be wrong. and was cultivated
day we have passed beyond that stage.
We honestly believe that pleasure II
not bad. but good thing worth hav-
ing for its own sake, no less than an \
source OF vitality and strength and ~
= sweetener Of life. We believe 1t to
be natural. ana sincerely hold THAI
what II natural cannot be evil. And
yet We seem to be no nearer than
twenty years ago to the understandings
OF what IL, for ourselves, natural. We
import our nature. We turn for It to
the negro. the South American. the
ancient Greek. the modern New York
er. With . country densely populated
by fairies and goblins and sprites and
Of dryAds and nymphs and 0fympfans.
The waits has held its own Tor =
hundred years because. though Of for
etgn origin 1t suits the English tenn
perament-dreAmy. romantic. senti-
mental We know and nike its mean
ng. Doubtless. in tts native country.
the tango has q meaning, but it ID not
1ne that can be expressed In an Eng
ish ballroom. Like our farces from
he French. the ballroom tango hints At
What II dare not say. and involves its
at once In dullueaD ana pre-
Times.