Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — Seeing Oneself. [ARTICLE]

Seeing Oneself.

"A sense of., the dramatic Is, of t course, closely connected with a sense of humor. If you have this faculty for getting outside yourself and criticizing yourself, you will be pretty Bute to see whether you look ridiculous. If you are a real artist in the exercise of the glit, you will also see yourself in your right perspective with regard to other i people. The artist must not be an egoist. He must not allow the limelight to be centered on himself. He will see himself, not as the hero of the story, but as one of the characters —the hero, perhaps, of one chapter, but equally a minor character in the; others. The greatest artist of all, probably, Is the man who prays, and tries to see the story as the author designed, It He will have the truest sense proportion, the most adequate dpnse of humor of aIL Undoubtedly prayer is the highest form of exercising this sense of the dramatic.—From "A oludent In Arms.** 3