Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1916 — First Guide to Beauty. [ARTICLE]

First Guide to Beauty.

By singing, and by singing only, a little child of five may come in contact with a pure and perfect form of beauty. Not only that, but the child can reproduce this beauty entirely unaided, and in the process of doing so its whole being—body, mind, heart, and soul—is engaged. The song, for the moment, is the child. There is no possible realization of the little personality comparable to this. Here, in sounds, is that correlation of impulses in which the stars move; here is the world of order and beauty in miniature; here is a microcosm of life; meaning facts which are driven into children’s brains to jostle one another in unfriendly companionship. Through this they can feel a beauty and order and sequence which their minds are Incapable of grasping. The toy which a child gets in reproducing

beautiful melodies is like no other experience in life. —Thomas Whitney Surette, in the Atlantic. -