Life — June 11, 1891 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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OE TO CERTAIN YOUNG PERSONS. SS. YOU who have been for the last few S. TO sears dallying with philosophy and toying with great abstract questions are now perhaps for the first time brought face to face with the horrors of house-keeping. You may not find that your knowledge of psychology will enable you to deal success- fully with jelly that won't jel, or that your knowledge of Kant will make it easier for you to grapple with bread that insists on retaining dough. Your acquaintance with the early history of the Celts and Teutons will afford you little aid in dealing with the modern servant-girl, Removed from the sound of the glorious predictions with which graduating essays are stuffed, you may ask yourself a number of hard ques- tions about the utility of excessive book-knowledge to your sex, ROMANCE, NORTH ANDO SOUTH. W HEN you go South of the latitude of Philadelphia, into the border counties of Maryland, you begin to find the frank expression of sentiment in all the relations of life, and a keener interest on the part of old and young in the romance of love-making. In solemn and austere fami- lies, where religion and bread-winning are the sole apparent aims of life, you will find this glow of personal feeling supplying a depth and color to existences which to the Northern eye seem barren of interest. For the Northerner is so apt to make his judgments by his eye; to him the out- ward shell of life expresses it all, He cannot understand the Southern temperament which surrounds disagreeable s with an atmosphere of illu- Their “old family mansions” are to him very plain and dilapidated farm-houses; their “estates are half-cared-for hill-sides and meadows which would not pay his own house-rent; their “distinguished ancestors” are to him picayune county politician: great orators" are half- educated men who retain in maturity the rhetorical habits of sophomores When the deliberate Northerner hears his Southern brother talk of his ; ons in glowing superlatives which he would reserve apt to mentally look upon his brother as something of a liar, with an ulterior motive in his sion. for a few of the most eminent historical personages, he i exaggerations. And the deliberate Northerner is often right as to his facts and all wrong He makes no allowance for the difference in tempera- ment which sets the gauge of emotion so much higher in the South. They are at heart a most sincere people (and that is the very essence of truth)h— and they look upon much of what the Northerner considers absolute jus as to his inferences. tice and righteous shrewdness as outrageous dishonesty. correction for latitude” that Thomas Nelson J f is with some such “ Page's first novel, “ On Newfound River” (Scribner's), must be read. em Virginia, before the And with your present-day faculties alert the story will strike You are transplanted to an old estate in war, THE PECUNIARY ADVANTAGE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION. THESE two pictures are respectfully dedicated to those hopeful and ambitious young men who are about to be graduated. AT COLLEGE. ust Undergraduate: 1 SHALL GO INTO POLITICS, 2d Ditto: FINANCE FOR ME, MY TASTES ARE ALL IN THAT DIRECTION. TEN YEARS LATER. you, at first, as a bit of comic opera which is meant to satirize many of the ancient traditions of romance. The “proud and haughty sire,” the “headstrong heir,” the “ancestral hall” in the possession of an alien, the “ family feud,” and the clandestine love-affair between the headstrong heir and the daughter of the other party to the feud—all these are stock parts in romance of a very old fashion, Moreover, on page 23 you will comicbooks.com