Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 182, 14 July 1915 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14 1915.

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GREAT MIND FINDS JOY It COMMONPLACE THINGS

Wealth, Leisure and Shallow Intellect .Produce Restless Globe Trotter Masters See Beauty at Home.

White Wrote Book on Swallow Which Visited His Chimney Thoreau Finds Wonders in Wood Plants.

BY EDGAR ILIFF. ' The small mind seeks amusement In the extraordinary. Great minds have always found contentment and happiness in the study of the commonplace. J6in wealth and leisure to the shallowpated and you produce the globetrotter who circles the planet to see if they broil a porterhouse steak any better in France than they do in America. Or he takes a long journey to see a piece of art which was produced by some master mind who stayed at home and worked the rich soil of commonplace at his door. Gilbert White studied his little garden spot and wrote a book of enduring fame, "The Natural History of Selbourne." He saw more in his back yard in one day than the globetrotter sees in a lifetime. The eye sees only that which it has the power of seeing. Some eyes see only those things which the lower senses crave. Men see with their stomachs and nature punishes them, with a paunch. They see with their gizzards, and all the world of art, song, poetry and Joy is a blank to them. - "Their optics never drink in the soul of beauty," as Ben Johnson said. , They never see with the brain any more than an ox does. Their opinions are of no more value than the thoughts cl a bat or owl. And yet in this silly world, clothes, buildings, money, leisure and effrontery give weight to the!r words, because size is the measure cf puwer in the minds of i he shallov. There is u divine something that lies buck of the optic nerve which gees life in its harmonious relations. The possessor of it i3 rich. Millions of money cannot produce it and give it to another. Wrote of Swallows. Gilbert White could write a whole

book on the swallows that came to

the chimneys of his home. Thoreau could make a volume on a few wood plants. "If I were confined," said he, 'to the corner of a garret all my days, like, a spider, the world would be just is large to me while I had my thoughts about me." But of course everybody is not a Thoreau. A young lady in tne beautiful Catskill mountains sighed to see

Dayton, Ohio, and M me. De Stael pre

ferred: to. alt ijn the-curbstone of Paris to living in the best hotel in Switzerland. Thoreau had his hands and

head full on the edge of a small pond and saw ho use in crossing the ocean

to count the cats in Zanzibar; as well count the tadpoles in his pond. He watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettli tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, and Bummed it all up by saying: "If the day and the night are such that you greet

them with joy, and life emits a frag

rance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, and is more elastic, more

starry, more immortal tna. is suc

cess. All nature is your congratula

tlon and you have cause to momentar

ily bless yourself." Plows Through Museum. "The plowman," said Lowell, "runs his furrow through the most interesting museum in the world." This is the commonplace earth, dirt, soil, clay, upon which we walk and spit. Shakespeare ran his plow through the

commonplace nearest him and produced the finest crop of dramas, of

tragedies and comedies, the world has ever known. He accepted nature and

found it beautiful in its entirety. He

absorbed everything about him, the littleness, the deformities, ihe weaknesses, the excesses and vices of men, their joys and sorrows, their irregularities, and turned it all into gold. He shows us men at meals, in bed, at play, sick, mad, drunk, jealous, suspicious, treacherous, brave cowardly. You know that he- is drawing from the depths of life and showing you just what be saw. His men and women talk just as we hear them talk today. They ask the time, talk shop, discuss the weather, banter, bluff and bully one another, kill time, show brief authority, act up in horse play and indulge in the most trivial speech and deed. You may go all through the Elizabethan dramatists and see that their enduring fame rests upon the faithful reproduction of what they saw and heard ever day around them - in the commonplace environment. The talk and gabble, the tittle-tattle, the conversations of the market places, the inns and taprooms,' startle us by their freshness and modern tone. Genius Is Youth. We find in Chaucer the same cheerful acceptance of life and the same manly hilarity in dealing with the commonplace. Genius Is perennial youth. Genius takes the ordinary and gilds it with all the radiance of childhood. It carries the feeling of this childhood into manhood, and ' combines the child's sense of wonder with the appearances which we call stale and unprofitable. Genius takes the very thing we do not look at and transforms it into such freshness and beauty that we stand amazed. Franz Hals paints you an old woman scouring a pan or a girl reading a letter. How very commonplace! But "genius saw what we did not see, that life Is all of one piece, neither good nor bad, neither saint nor sinner, neither saved nor lost ultimately, but just life, as the sun is life. Burns sees a snowflake fall upon the water and cries that it is

like a sensual pleasure, "a moment

white then gone forever!" Genius is the power to absorb,

select and transform, whether applied to making epics and dramas, founding religions, forming great political parties or building and extending vast

railway systems. It uses the water on tap, not that which ran in the past. Shakespeare drew from all oceans, as the sun does. From his environment he absorbed a vocabulary of 15,000 words, nearly three times as large as that of the educated John Milton. He knew all the flowers, all the birds, all the beasts and reptiles, all the old wives' tales, the folklore, the saints' calendars. He knew the heart of woman the supreme knowledge! He touched every shore. Then he sun med up life, religion and morals in the most immortal words that ever fell from human lips "Nonce can be called deformed but the unkind." Burns immortalized the commonplace by such, words as these: -

Ll"ToJseep a, cozy fire side cleaa

- for weans and wife ; That is the true pathos and sublime Of human life." Let us think a moment longer. The most charming of English essayists is Leigh Hunt. What has he written about? Well, he writes about "Bad Weather," "Inside an Omnibus," "Beds and Bedrooms," "A Day by the Fire,"

"Weeping," etc. The books about

every day doings, books of tattle and gossip and books of memoirs live on and on, while tons and tons of books on theology lie, like John Brown's body, "a moldering in the grave." Men may be so scholarly that they decry the gossip of the modern newspapers but they forget that Suetonius's "Lives of the Twelve Ceasers" and the history of Hereodotus are gossip and tattle. In such books we see the streets and houses of ancient days, we see men and women like ourselves and hear them talk. They were human. That lives, will live the caravan beginning we know not when and where and journeying on with us into eternity.

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NEW PARIS, O., July 14. The installation of Rev. Edgar J. Vance as pastor of the New Paris Presbyterian church was held Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock and was largely attended by all the church people of the community. Rev. Merkeson of Middletown, delivered the sermon of charge to the pastor. Rev. C. A. Hunter of Eaton, the charge to the pew, and Rev. S. K. Scott of Dayton, the installation sermon charge. Music by choir ac

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pieces was a feature, as well as a

vocal solo, "Open My Eyes," by Mrs.

M. O. Penland. Following this service.

all retired to the Sunday school rooms where a reception was tendered Rev.

Vance and his bride. The rooms were decorated with palms and ferns banked about the walls. Punch was served throughout the evening from a prettily decorated table in the center of

the room, other light refrjsshmenta being served by the committee. Revs. E. E. Davis and J. J. Rae of Richmond, were present and assisted la the service. ,.

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