The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 16, 1904, Page 7, Image 7
V&" f?iMr?!ffi8yrv,! iwrri 'yepwgjirfrr,' '','KqsBjte "yyr &&mr& " f, Gbe alls tfUbraeftan VSAAAAWAVVVVVSAftAftAAWVVV'iiii: r kttV k CI II I CTAPI AF Esthetic Essays n Eetbetic Subjects Treatise Concerning "Secrets" and Those Who Often Reveal Them TTI 1ftHHI rt I ULL OIUV1 VI HIGH GRADE GOODS. OUR Everyono has secrets; 'arid- there are few people who don't. A person could not bo a rational being without har boring in his mental nest a few modest reflections not Intended for publica tion. If the mind did not have a pri vate bill of fare to occupy lUselt with it would bo compelled to resign itself to death by slow starvation. The pos session of a secret locked tight in the secret recesses of the cerebellum serves as a vitalizing stimulus to the mental powers, causing them to range through fields of activity where they have no right to be and which are all the more delightful on that account To the elderly virgin whose age has reached the point where it is station ary, not only one but many secrets aro essential to her very existence. When all other comforts have fled beyond hor roach, a secret is the only thing that can compose her disordered In tellect and lull her vigilant parapher nalia of observation into a state of iclaxation. She keeps a close tab on the activities of others, just long enough to discover something not In tended for her to know something If served up for the scandal hungry pub lic to feed upon, would mean the utter destruction of perhaps a score of her fellow creatures. , No one is more acute in prying off the lidi and investigating the contents of the jar of privacy than this self-samo maid, and once having obtained! possession of a prize, she fondly dotes on it until In her distorted imagination it increases in magnitude until an objective climax of astounding proportions is reached. It would mean life-long torture for her to keep a secret, and1 one goes from her as naturally as the chronic mover changes his quarters when the rent is due. In some sort of a round about fashion, the murder gets loose and romps about until it stands on the edge of the earth unable to go any farther. As a monument to her aber rational mental activities, a high and noble edifice of ninety-nine per cent fallacy stands upon a tottering founda tion of truth which, however, heroical ly supports Its burden until tho mis chief is done. The old maid is indeed an ideal circulating agent and to give her credit, she docs hor work well, and she well deserves a title as the hand maiden of old-Dame Fama. Have you ever noticed a man emerg ing from tho inner shrine of a fire water dispensary, and watched his evo lutions when his spiritual guide and pastor Jioves In sight. Note how ho navigates along with graceful undula tions, striving to reach the street cor ner first in the consciousness that his breath is not sufficiently convalescent - for an interview. He hues the star board side of the sidewalk with frenzied zeal, until he completes the first leg of his courso and shapes his prow to tho leeward to proceed on the second. Hasn't that old sinner a secret a-buz-bln' in him? Recent events would' in dicate that he has. Didn't he get up In meeting last Sunday and swear that he had made up his- mind to cancel all his contracts with tho demon of drink? XinT didn't the preacher say. "God bless you," and didn't tho choir sing "A Wandering Child Como JTomo?" In order to prove his utter depravity, ho dodges Into a restaurant and buys peppermints to kill the tattling, pro clivities, of his breath. Such a man! Such' a secret! Ho Iff more to bo pitied than a freshman well, mebbo not that bad; tho next lower point In tho pcalo might do. This man's wife has secrets, too, of a Uoart-rendlng8ort. It is horrible to contemplate her suffering when Bho realize that sho is tho wife of a drunkard; that all her Christian hopes and ideals must bo blasted); that her children must crow up depraved and . stigmatlzedi by their father's degrada " tlon with no chance for Christian training or an education, and worse of all that sho can't have any money to buy a new hat for Easter. O terrible 1b tho hardship of her existence! ! ! Since everybody has secrets, It would hardly bo wise to deal with each case, as wo would like to do. And then, too, such a task would bo difficult to per forin. Just think of tho immense va rieties of secrets that could bo tucked jnto tho blank between,, tho. happy, young wfo who intenda to surprise hor husband with a complication of angel food for his supper and the pro found misery of tho maid of sixteen summers who Is compelled to wear tho made-over gown of her mother a gown of a different Btyle of architec ture to what is suitable to her needs. Oh. the thousands and thousands of BecretB! If I were the town gossip or the member of a sewing circle, what a paradise it would be to know them all and be able to blow them all. But I only know my own. This makes a first-class topic sentence, but I really haven t the time to proceed farther. WESTERN STUDENTS An Extract from An Article Chancellor Andrews by The following extract is taken from Chancellor Andrew's recent article In the New York independent on "The Coming Generation of Western Schol ars," having been brought to our at tention through the eouitesy of a friend: "If the western college Btudent Is in culture scarcely the peer of his eastern contemporary, he quite balances the ac count by superior mental power I am of course, speaking of the usual or av erage case and by greater Industry. Western youth can boast as good blood and ancestry as eastern. The best immlgiants to tho United States have settled In the west, and their numerous children and grandchildren attending universities arc among our most prom ising students. Western men and wo men put forth effort more naturally than the scions of families who have been well-to-do for generations. They possess the will for it, and also the strong physique. Never have I Eeen In the east-, save In professional and grad uate schools, such desperate and unre mitting application to study as charac terizes the mass of students In the prai rie states. "Western students genorally display a veritably insatiable hunger for high er education. In them survives the spirit of their pioneer fathers, who be fore they had places to lay their heads, taxed themselves to build schools and equip universities. Western students attend college to learn rather than to bo taught. They average to study many moro hours a day than eastern. Tho typical college Idler is never seen. With eagerness for knowledge the western student combines a zeal and a power for hard' work seldom if ever witnessed in eastern institutions. "Tho outside 'seminar,' to cram men for 'exams,' reducing- tho necessity of study to a minimum, and turning into a farce so much undergraduate 'work' at the oldest of our universities, the west has not adopted. "This assiduity in mental toil often under the greatest obstacles is an in valuable discipline, not only intellec tual, "but moral, tending to torm and settle a young man's character as des ultory study could not possibly do. It is not astonishing then, that the west ern collegian should display not merely much tho greater ppwer of concentra tion, but also tho moro earnestness mnrallv. This sHbws Itself as well In his general as In hlsTolleglate life. The moral weight of tho average university student Is among the things that have most Impressed mo In my experience west. "Native ability. enthusiasm for knowledge, coupled with the power for study which their strong pbyBiqueB Im part, and thoir readier submlssivoness to discipline, all attested by tho goodly number of fellowships, which Western men and women hold In eastern gradu ate schools, assure the coming genera tion of western scholars) a prominent placo in American mental, life. 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