Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-28
APPRECIATION OF
 VALUE OF OTHERS WORTHY ATTRIBUTE
-Fairest Glass Through Which $ Mankind May Be Viewed

Appreciation. Have we ever stop ped to consider the wealth of signifi- 'cance that lies in the word or to realize that the capacity it names in- cludes almost every other within the compass of our feelings? Arprecia- tion is the truest. fairest and happiest glass through which we can view life and mankind. It has been fitly ad- vised us that we "let our admirations govern our disgusts." Appreciation, however, is something far more searching and. more reaching, more cognizant and of moro enduring na- ture than admiration. Appreciation may be called understanding, but it is understanding plus, just as it is justice plus and sympathy plus; it is even love plus.
 Supreme Relationship.
 We are apt to think of love as the supreme relationship that can link and blind us one to another, and in the largest sense this is so. Yet there are so many species and varie- ties of love, so-called, so many sem blances that pass for love that, as a guarantee, the term is variable. Much that professes to be love is wound up inextricably in externalities, caught by the magic of flashing eye, cap tIvating gesture, seductive voice. But where love will find cause in such as these the sense of appreciation sees them only as incidentals, possibly indications.
 Love is too ofen passion for pro- prietorship; appreciation is percep- tion, and perception plus responsive ness, that puts it into a possession unknown to mere proprietorship. Love, as it is frequently round, is heated and headlong; but where love ignites the precious spark it is appreciation that faithfully and steadily tends and nourishes it into an abiding fashion.
 The young and inexperienced espe- cially should learn to discern the true content of these emotions before sur rendering to their seizure if they would not find themselves confounded and ensnared. Pitching camp be- meath an insufficient shelter or upon an unsteady footing is the cause of many of the domestic discontents and disenchantments that arise. A love that counts itself adequate with out the crystalizing substance of ap- preciation is frail and fleeting, per llous thing to be depended upon for permanence. Appreciation is the pro- cess whereby love is perpetuated. It is Towering growth, following with fruit, not something to be captured and caged. Neither come by sudden ly nor parted with lightly; it is not instantly won nor easily upset.
 Towering Growth.
 In q recent popular novel the her oine is beloved by a young sculptor, who, however, denied the realization of his love in requital, has to retire. But, dwelling continually with his love and upon her who is it's object, he bends himself to devotion of la bor that shall contain his passion. Long, later, comes to light that on which he labored, and To! it is the very spirit of her he loved, wrought wondrously into deathless bronze. Thus did his love confirm itself, a love not to be defeated by circum- stances, possessing itself of its prize by virtue of it's own vision and con- stancy.
 Brahms, the great musician, fell hopelessly in love with his masters wife. It was love he could but bury within him, yet out of it bloomed ul- timately the marvellous c minor sym phony, an immortal appreciation of her his love elected. Pater chose, as he did, for that bequeathment of beauty to the world his "Apprecia- tions," not because he admired the greatness of the men he selected and wished to acknowledge their contribu- ton to civilization, but because he had entered into their very spirits, apprehended their peculiar and essen tial quality, and he wrote with the magical glow that belongs only with that expanded love which is appre- citation.
 The riches of life lie in q spacious capacity for appreciation, keen sense to recognize it in its express sion, a cultivation of nature that com mands it at it's best. "You bring out from dog or horse or boy or a woman accordingly as you have brought out the values of yourself so clear-visioned teacher of youth daily declares to them. You must be big enough for the other person to expand in if you would be anything to him and see him as he is. You quicken those about you by being in charge of yourself, not acting, but being" To be "in charge of" our selves. there lies the secret of being able to discern and direct our own feelings and, as far as we may, the feelings of others.
 Essence of Love.
 Love is force to be governed and