Howard Payne Monthly, Volume 1, Number 7, December 1902 Page: 3 of 16
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The Howard Payne Monthly.
trifles, or any coldness or want of
etiquette.
A beautiful form is better than a
beautiful face; beautiful behavior is
better than a beautiful form. It gives
a higher pleasure than statues or pic-
tures. It is the finest of the fine
arts.
Giggle rs.
By Katie Smith.
Perhaps the members of the class
will laugh when they have heard my
subject, as I am some what of a giggler
myself. However I shall tell you
what I think of a giggler and if you
wish to class me with them, you may
do so.
The giggler is a nuisance at any
place. Other people than the giggler
do not understand the fun and often
their e is no fun, only a tickled imagi-
nation. It is the hardest thing in the
world for a crowd of girls to get to-
gether without giggling. It is as con-
tagious as smallpox, as exciting as
yellow fever and does not hurt any
one but "the other fellow." In some
cases it may prove a nuisance to the
outside party but still, I think there
are times when the giggler should not
be censured. For instance, during
the study period, the last hour in the
afternoon. That is a time when the les-
sons for the day are over and the girls
are so tired of books they can not do
much good at studying for next day.
Even then, though they are having a
good time, they appear silly and are
disgusting to those around them.
But I do not think girls are the only
gigglers. Of course they are con-
sidered worse gigglers than boys, but
boys can giggle, for I have seen them
get off together and indulge about as
much as girls.
Gigglers are usually found at church,
concerts and especially at school.
About the most disgusting thing I
know of, is to see a half grown boy
and girl go to church or any kind of a
public gathering and giggle through-
out the exercises of the evening. It
is bad enough for two girls to get to
giggling, but I think it is worse for a
boy and girl to get together and take the
giggles.
But after all, we gigglers are hay-
ing our best times and we had just as
well giggle, for after a while, there
may be separations or we may have
troubles and sorrows when we shall
not feel like giggling. Let us giggle,
now, while we may.The Power of Music..
By Maud Winn.
-Herbert Spencer the greatest think-
er of his age has said, "Music must
take rank as the finest of the fines
arts, as the one which' more than any
other ministers to human welfare.''
The arts are Heaven's gift: to man
for beautifying, purification and.
strengthening of his mind and charac-
ter.. Each of the arts in its own way
teaches the true appreciation of ulti-
mate beauty. The art of music most .
evasive, most subtle, most indefinable
of all, teaches us by the force of beauty
depicted in sweet sounds and ..raises
us from the low drone of every day
life to the appreciation of a wealth of
sound that will only be surpassed by
the grand song before the, throne of
the Great God.
Music is the very innermost es-
sence of the soul and it is to uur lives
what the glorious hues of the morning
and evening are' to the light of the
world. It is given us to make man-
kind better, more truehearted and
more noble. It is medicine to the
afflicted mind. A sweet sad measure
is balm to the wounded spirit or to the
broken heart while joy is brightened
by exalted strains. It cleanses the
understanding, inspires it and lifts it
into a realm which it would not reach
if left to itself. From the fabled
'davs of Orpheus and Apollo, musi-c
has been regarded as the handmaid of
civilization. It aids a people to pro-
cure its freedom and to maintain it
when established. Andrew Fletcher
once said, "Give nie the making of
the songs of a 'nation and. I care not
who makes its laws." As a nation is
musically educated so in the same
ratio shall we find its intellectual de-
velopment. Look where we 'will,
where ever wa find a highly musi-cal
people the arts are cultivated, the intel-
lect stretches its- gigantic arms into
the misty regions of discovery, and.
the kindly courtesies and charities of
life cluster 'around the domestic
hearth. Take Germany for instance
Can a nation which has cultivated its
perceptions and awakened its i:nagi-
nation by listening to the wonderful
creations of her immortal sons, whose
melodies come to us through the wild
and gloomy masses of sound like
gleams of sunshine from an April
sky, fail to be preeminent in the world
of literature and art? O music thou
art the language spoken by AngelsiAll men have been endowed with
susceptibility to thy power. Shakes-
peare, that great dramatist, that great
master in the science of the heart de-
clared that, "The man who hath no
music in himself. nor is not moved
with concord of sweet sounds, is fit
.for treason, strategems and spoils."
The motions of his spirit are dull as
night and his affections dark as Erebus
Let no such man be trusted.
The Other Side to Foot Ball. -
There is felt much objection now-
adays to the game of foot ball, and its
evils are frequently shown in the daily
and weekly press. There are some,
even, who cannot see any good at all
in the game. Perhaps the following
will give these latter something to
think about. The writer is President
Thwing of the Western Reserve Uni-
versity, Cleveland, 0:, and the words
are a summary given-in Current Lit-
erature for November. President
Thwing is writing "The Ethical Func-
tions of Foot Ball:"
'1. Foot ball represents the enex-
orable.' It embraces things that must
be done at specific times, places, and
in specific ways.
2. Foot ball illustrates the value
of the positive.. It teaches one to do.
It is action, not inaction. It bucks,
it punches, it breaks, it runs, it goes,
it goes through the line, it goes round
the ends, but it goes.
3. Foot ball represents the value
of a compelling interest. There are
other interests, good and bad, but cer-
tain temperaments need something
like foot ball to arouse them. Speak-
ing of a lazy boy, Emerson said: "Set
a dog on him, send him West, do some-
thing to him:" Foot ball serves such
a purpose..
4. cFoot ball embodies the process
of" 'self-discovery. Every foot ball
game is a crisis. It not only creates
power and develops power; it also dis-
covers the possession or lack of power.
5. Foot ball develops self-re-
straint. Self-restraint, or more broad-
ly, self-control, is one of the primary
signs of the gentleman. Foot ball de-
mands self-restraint, for it teems with
temptations to do mean and nasty
things. It thus helps to make the
finest type of a gentleman.
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