Life — January 11, 1912 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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[aa] See EUROPE: in an AUTO! SS | Bi peice par =Om cement = : Ca. Cnartemaxcr per, Literatar Rinerasies, atso rape. etn an Auto.” ea'tequest: Write us about everything to aR ze INTERNATIONAL AUTOTRAVEL SOCIETY % to 30, Morning Post Buildings, Strand, London, England, PRINCESS “HOTEL, BERMUDA _THE IDEAL WINTER RESORT. v OPEN, Accommodates 400. Outdoor life all winter ives, saddle riding tennis golf, yachting, sea TNE'NEW S\ ING PO ys, from New York by fast, ‘Juzurlous steamers, sailing twice a wee HOWE& TW OROGER, Mgrs., Hamilton, Bermuda A Lament Over the Decay of Humbug When that I was and a little tiny bo: as the fool sings in “Lear,” a wander- ing mongrel drifted listlessly through the Street on which I dwelt. “ Bring that dog to me!” The command was given by a litle girl whose clean fingers were a marvel to me. I associated the idea of clean fingers then with little girls only. I do not mean that I did not dream of having clean fingers myself when I was a man, but clean fingers implied little girls to me at that time, precisely as decadence stands to me now for the poetry of Rich- ard Le Gallienne. We always make our world. “Tam afraid to go and get that dog,” I objected. “It might bite me!” “Afraid!” repeated the little girl with the clean fingers as she stamped her pretty foot. “You are not afraid. Bring that dog to me!” I realized at once that the little girl with the clean fingers was a humbug, but the extreme brilliance of her tech- nique overwhelmed me. She knew per- fectly well how afraid I was of that dog. I knew perfectly well what a farce she was enacting. But she possessed that gift of personality which distinguishes the true humbug from the sham one. Under the influence of her sublime de- ception, I cross the street, picked up the dog and brought it submissively to the person who taught me to respect a real humbug. T have never forgotten the lesson. Often since have I been disappointed in my humbugs. I had a right to expect from them, or, rather, in ther:, not only a personality of unusual charm and his- trionic gifts above the average, but the creative faculty miraculously active. The true humbug is a superior person whose capacities—misapplied, if you will —might have made him just such a nov- elist as William J. Locke, just such a poet as Edwin Markham. Only a nation highly endowed evolves a Cagliostro or a John Law. I do not mean that the humbug is to be idolized, but only that his presence is evidence of the existence of a national genius. Show me a land without its humbugs and I will show you a people destitute of poetical gifts, of histrionic powers, of glorious imagina- tiveness, of the conceptuality without which there can be no art. And in this republic of ours there are no humbugs. 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