Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 366, 9 November 1911 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUX TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911.
DO MOST WOMEN THINK THEY'RE FASCINATING
If They Deny'It, Don't Believe Them for It Gives Them Pleasure to Think They Have Blighted Some Man's Life. Optimism and Royalties.
effort to advance or slide back to j CLAIMS $78.72 FOR As a class, however, optimists are to j SHOEING HORSES be avoided. Is there any-one in your entire reper- Several claims have been filed Loire that you detest with a fiercer : against the setate of the late Lawrence
! and more murderous detestation than
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Most women like to think they are fascinating. A good many of them really think It. Others bamboozle themselves into believing that they are. Way down at the; bottom of things they know they're not but they won't admit It. The best womn alive liken to think, or would like to think, that she can lure men by her charm and physical perfections. She might hate to know that some man went to the devil on account of unrequited affection for her and because Bhe coldly threw him over, but lurking round the. corner is a complacent satisfaction that she could do It. Not did. Hut could. In one of Itob-rt (Jrsint's novels a Wan Is telling a woman about another woman who treated him mot inexplicably. The woman confidant said "What you ahcmld have done was to have taken her in your arms and tried to klsH hen. She would have ftcreamed and pecjmed Indignant but. Bhe would have ben delighted. Your offense consisted In not trying." No woman living but would really like to be thought a deadly coquette. They may deny this, but don't believe Vm, All women would rather be loved than married. Most of them want to get married and do for unconschwisly primal reasons. Hut this is qui'le another thing. The fact is that, most women are bored to death after marriage. flecause love and marriage really are Inimical. They have nothing to do "with each other. Many women don't rcognizo this or won't recognize it. Hut its true. People adjust thetrsflves to the social condition and get on nomenay. As a certain writer on social subjects says "What you mean Is that sensible people make the best of each other." This man also says "No man Is a match for a woman, except with a poker and a pair of hobnailed boots. Not always even then." While this Is seemingly not entirely apropos, upon heavy contemplation It will be seen that It is. Recause when a woman makes up hier mind to marry a man he may as well succumb. The fiction is, of course, that he pursues her. All women r'se up and howl "You horrid thing! It Isn't so!" if it is timidly intlmited tha.t tliey corner the wen. Hut when they're strictly among themselves discussing the announcement of the latest engagement you wight hear something like this "Well, she's got him at last. "Tie never cared a cent for her." "No he wanted to mafy Ethel." "He couldn't get away from her." "Never had a chance to speak to another woman." "Perfectly disgusting the way she ran after him." "Well she'd better look out after they're married!" "I feel awfully sorry for him." "Yes, after the wedding trip he'll lnd out a few things." "Its just the same way her mother an after her father." "Mmm inherited." "Don't you remember how Sal roped In 111 U?"
"There are wimmen's faces, lad, That are wind and fire, Rhtlrrin' up the whole world, Wakin' ould desire! And there's other wimmen, faith, Calm and shtill through all, Shtickin' to their wan love Till the hivene fall! Wan's as foine as hell fire; Wan's as thrue as life! Wan ye'll leave and weep for, And wan ye'll take as wife!" You can't harness and handcuff emotional elusiveness. "Stay a moment thou'rt beautiful," implores the human entity. Hut It doesn't stay. And if it did it wouldn't be beautiful.
When Robert Cameron Rogers wrote "The Rosary" little did he reck. Nor when Kthelbert Nevin seized on
these words and put them in a musical I setting did he know what he had done.
j For betreen them they welded an appeal as wide as the world. And have served as a foundation for plagiarism in titles as successful as it has been, in a way, unfair. That the words of Nevin's song are ! not written by him, or, at least, that the author is not generally known, is a bit of information that is not often recorded. And while the vogue of the song is due to Nevin's exquisite musical setting, the music would not have been written had it not been inspired by the poem, which, of itself, possesses poetic merit of a high order ! The hours I spent with thee, dear j heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; i I count them over, every one apart, j My Rosary. ; Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer, I To still a heart in absence wrung;
I tell each bead unto the end and there A cross is hung. Oh, memories that bless and burn! O barren gain nnd bitter loss! I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn To kiss the cross Sweetheart, To kiss the cross. The figure is admirably carried out to the end and the symbolic intent. That Mr. Rogers' poem has brought
ifame and fortune to Mrs. Florence
Barclay, the English writer of the popular novel "The Rosary," must be admitted by that amiable and talented lady herself for she boldly appropriated the title nnd used the poem as a motif for her story. The tremendous vogue of the story can be accounted for on no other basis than in her clever manipulation of these two, things for Nevin's song as it is called although it is equally Rogers' is known wherever people sing. Madame Schumann-Heink sang it for Emperor William and you can hear it at the ten cent vaudeville. Mrs. Barclay knew this. And her novel sold three hundred and fifty thousand copies. As literature it is regarded as neglible. And as a story the writer found It amusing although that was no fault of the author. It possesses, however, a certain sort of saccharine attraction
the confirmed optimist? The horrible person who always looks on the bright side. Who sees a silver lining to every cloud. Who knows it will all be for the best. Who says -'"oh, well, she has a good heart anyway," and after you've lost all your money "there's just as good fish in the sea," and such old saws as "honesty is the best policy," "to be good is to be happy," "cheer up and never forget to smile." And on no account forget to smile. Go grimacing round and grinning about like some sublimated chessy-cat. Be sure and don't forget that because then people will love you on the left side of the moon. Why don't optim'sts let pessimists and other unclassified persons wallow
in their gloom. There's no pessimist
that doesn't love it. To sit round a
anathematize fate, curse heaven and refuse to be anything but abjectly dismal is often exquisite enjoyment. In such a state you do not want to be disturbed by any fiendish optimist ladling out his always smile remedy. Mrs. Barclay, however, believes in dispensing optimism. There are very few pessimists, indeed, who could resist the royalties on three hundred and
l fifty thousand books at $150 a volume.
If she hadn't sold enough to pay the publisher's bill would her optimism have been so unquenchable? But do not push an optimist too hard. The reason they're optimists, maybe, is because they have money enough to annihilate the high price of living when it strays their way. To return, though, fo-"The Rosary," as a magic title for other things besides songs and books. Mrs. Barclay was hoist by her own petard, so to speak. If she borrowed her title and some substance from the Nevin-Rogers' song, then a play-writer took advantage of the popularity of her novel to foist on the theater-going public a play peon here recently called "The Rosary." Most people supposed this play was the dramatization of the book and hence it drew the multitude. Between acts they sold a book called "The Rosary," which, from the cleverly elusive announcement, led those in the audience to believe that it was the popular novel "The Rosary." It was merely a novelization of the play. Forty copies were sold here. It is the truth that people are as unconscionable about stealing ideas as they sometimes are in stealing purses.
D. Commons, the well known horseman living sout hof Centerville. The bills ordinarily are small and are for
labor and amounts carried. Among the number is one for ITS. 72 demanded by Harry Hon for shoeing some of the fastest race horses in the state.
Napoleon at Waterloo. The question. "Was Xapoleon himself at the battle of Waterioo?" does not admit of a Cat answer. He was not himself physically. The dread disease of which six years later he died was at work upon him. and the physical decay, while it in no way affected his mind, told heavily upon his will. It was, for iustance. observed that during his last campaign he was often found to be in a sleepy mood, that he talked instead of acting, that he
n(j I frequently asked for the opinions o?
otners, a tning mat ne nan rareiy neen known to do before, and that he seemed quite often to waver In his resolution, whereas he had always been noted for the rapidity of his decisions Mentally it was the same eld Napoleon, but the great intellect was sorely handicapped by the stomach trouble that was so soon to kill him. New York American.
Th Most Extensive Language. The Cbiaese is probably the language that is spoken by the greatest number of human beings between 400,000.000 to 500.000.C0a The Eng lish comes next, with some 175,000,000 to 20o.000.000 of patrons: then tbe
j Russian, with pretty nearly 15O.0O0.-
000. French and German are nip and tuck, each being spoken by from 90.COO.OOO to 100.000,000 of people at home and in the colonial possessions. The chances are that English Is destined to become the greatest of all lan gnages. It is advancing more rapidly than any other, and It may yet be the language of the entire civilized world. Exchange.
"Well, do I! He was crazy about me that goes far toward selling a novel
r proposed several times. But I of its class.
wouldn't look at him." And on Indefinitely.
Psychologists, artists and other dab-1 'hlers In emotions will tell you that I there are two kinds of women the ' Wort that men love and the sort that I they marry. There are Infinite varieties of these two classes, of course, I and the edges lap over sometimes and j give an Illusion of jointure but its!
Mrs. Barclay, an excellent woman, mother of eight children, the wife of a clergyman, and forty-eight years old, is an optimist. That she should remain one, under the accumulation of circumstances would lead the darkesthued pessimist to believe that there might be something worth examining on the reverse side of the sheet. A pessimist with a good digestion.
only an illusion. The line of devage however, might be infinitely preferals there just tho same. I ble to an optimist with the dyspepsia.
Arthur Stringer, a writer of compel- Although it is denied that anybody
ling verse, has expressed it in one of with a bad stomach can be an optimist,
his "Irish Poems," recently published,
Vith poetic felicity and charm:
it is true that many dyspeptics nowa
days are leading the higher life in an
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