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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. These
are some of the reasons whoy, as a New
England college professor (not a pro
fessor of rhetoric) has put It, to con
tinue as our chief purveyor of highest
education-products 'the east has got to
get onto her job.' "
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