Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Charm of Novelty. [ARTICLE]

Charm of Novelty.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of whicb.it was not before possessed. We are, generally speaking, so conversant with one set of objects, and tired with to many repeated displays of the same (things, that whatever is new or uncommon contributes more or less tq vary human life, and to divert our minds, for some time at least, with another state of its appearance. Rural nature is ever pleasing in its clothing of groves and gardens;.but the season of their superior beauty is the spring, when thpy are all new and fresh with their first gloss upon them, and not yet too much accustomed and familiar to the eye. In short, what is there which t e imagination or fancy cannot make subservient to its pleasures ?