The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-12


taken by night and had no shelter or
1000. Suddenly appeared a band of
about twenty horsemen, all in white
robes, with torches in their hands and
followed by hearse draped in black
1t was funeral Of gentleman of Sc
govia: Don Quixote took it to be the
train of some knight either killed or
desperately wounded, and assured
that it was his duty to avenge the mis-
fortunes Of a brother-in-arms, halted
the cortege and demanded an explana-
ton. The replies of the clergymen
/ failed to satisfy him and he flew at
them in high dudgeon. Encountered
by their long robes they became easy
victims and all took flight
They possessed themselves of the
edibles deserted by the clergymen, but
unfortunately had nothing to drink, nor
did they dare stir from the forest be-
cause at the awful clamor made by
fulling-mill which Don Quixote sup
posed to be enchantment.
The next morning they met a barber
riding on an ass and wearing his brass
basin on his head to save his hat from
the rain. Don Quixote recognized this
as the golden helmet of Mambrino and
flew at this enemy as If he would grind
him to powder. The barber fed, leav-
ing his helmet which Sanch appropri-
ated, though it seemed to Inn merely a
common dish.
They came to another inn In the
night Don Quixote. while sound asleep
and dreaming, enjoyed the most fam
Gus battle Of his career. Dressed in a
! short skirt which exposed his lean,
long, hairy shanks, and wearing
greasy red nightcap, with a blanket
wrapped around his left arm for a
shield, he was repeatedly plunging his
sword into the plump bodies of several
giants. Their blood flowed across the
floor in wide, crimson streams.
Imagine the wrath of the worthy
| inn-keeper at discovering that his fam
| Gus guest had dismembered all his
wine-sack, which were made Of goat
skins with the heads left on
| After this Don Quixote was got
home by the curate and the barber;
but he broke loose again. Ffrse he
| visited his Dulcinea. but came away
convinced that through more enchant-
ment she had been changed into
blubber-cheeked, fat-nosed country
wench, the pearls of her eyes into
gall-nuts, her long golden locks into
! He had adventures with strolling
actors and lions; he attended the rich
Camacho's wedding; he explored the
/ deep cave of Montesinos; he rode on
a magic bark and visited the nameless
duke and duchess, through whose COM
| plaisance Sancho was granted his am
bition to rule over an island and did it
with wisdom worthy of Solomon. Many
| moro adventures foIowed hut ot 1ac
Don Quixote returned to his home and
| recovered his senses on his death-bed,
dying as a lovable, high-minded, noble
hearted gentleman.
Cervantes' masterpiece is not all
satire. Don Quixote has lucid nom.
/ ents; Sancho's simplicity wells COM
nonsense. often expressed in witty
proverbs. There is occasional coarse
ness. but not so much as in Shakes
peare. The chief fault is the treatment
of insanity, in it's authors fondness
! for cruel and brutal, practical Jokes,
which may perhaps explain the main
tenance of bull-fighting as the national
amusement of Spain.
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Paul and Virginia." by Bernadin de
Saint Pierre, as condensed by Irving
Bachelor, will be printed tomorrow.