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J. 1 7 c ; 4 . THE U8E3 OF DIVERSITY. By B. G. Chesterton. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. ir. and Mrs. D. H. Farnsworth have iftorned from California, where they limc Howells had a pleasant habit of se- lecting an apt phrase from Shakespeare wherewith to name, a novel. Chesterton, who knows the uses of perversity, selects a phrase from Shakespeare and twists it quaintly to make a name for his latest book of essays. Obviously the title is from the Dukes speech in As You Dike It Sweet are the uses of adversity. Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet ja precious jewel in its head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. Perhaps the author has some idea that his diversity is like the dukes adversity, in that it finds good in everything. Certainly we have sermons, good, bad and indifferent, on a wide variety of subjects. For the most part Chestertons writings are good though his flashing paradoxes begin to hypnotize one into a state of dazed indifference. Or, to put it more bluntly, the paradoxes pall. But, be it said by way of giving him his due, his humor nearly always taps the of laughter. Mr. Chesterton has not expressed objections to spiritualism. Indeed he says that the exposures and explosions of spiritualism are enough to drive any one into that creed, but at the same time he wishes that the spirits would be a little more consistent, not to say intelligent. Here, for example, is a well-sprin- spent the winter. i klnpillr. and Mrs. Ruel G. Halloran are kajfcseiving congratulations over the ar rtral of a son, born Friday. Mrs. R. C. Scampton has returned from California and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. W. Fleetwood. ; g fh v --H" Why did Abou Ben Adhems name lead all the rest? ; guess they must have arranged j the names alphabetically. I , Doris Yes, she was furious about the way in which the newspaper re r, I ; I c. ported her marriage. jelen Did it allude to her age? Doris Indirectly. It stated that ; - I- Miss Olde and Mr. Yale were married, the latter being a well known collect tor of antiques. Houston Post. ; To call a policeman if you notice a West packing up your silverware. .To wear a bathrobe when routed out of the tub by an alarm of fire, f 'To raise your eyebrovrs if one of j the hosts children pulls your chair i from under you at dinner. ;j L It is Not Correct To deposit r dark cigar ashes on white piano keys. To offer an avowedly Dry guest alcoholic refreshment if you have only enough for yourself, j To park your limousine in front of en approaching express train. gs spirit message: bv;? tf ;A down, that the whole of our human evil is Instantly and utterly cut out of us, and all at the moment of death. If a man suddenly and supernaturally loses about of his ordinary character, not be described as a great might it does so enormous a conWhy change? vulsion happen at the exact moment of and not death, if death is to be considered? The Spiritualist is here contradicting himself, not only by making death very decidedly a great change, but by actually making it a greater change than Dante or St. Francis thought it was. A Christian who thinks the soul carries its- sins to Purgatory makes life much mere continuous than this Spiritualist, who says that death, and death alone, alters a man as by a blast of magic. The article bears the modest title of The Abolishing of Death; and the spirit does say that this is possible, except when he forgets and says the opposite. He sel-d- o mocntradicts himself more than twice in a paragraph. But since he says clearly that death abolishes sin, and equally clearly that he abolishes death, it becomes an interesting speculation what happens next, and especially what happens to sin; a subject of Interest to many three-quarte- rs Ches-tertoni- an heir Marsh Coal '.IIIIIIIIIUlHMUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIlIHUIUUIUUUIIIIUIIIIIUIllUllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIUIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIimil? ar-iro- rn home to her friends b'lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIg AMONG THE NEW BOOKS William F. Rawlings entertain- jnbers of the Aurora club Thuraternoon at My Shop. eC: 9 You make death an impenetrable fog, while it is a mere golden mist, tom easily aside by the shafts of faith, and revealing- as not only continuous, but as not cut in two by a great change. I can -life not express myself as I wish . . . It is more like leaving prison for freedom and happiness. Not that your present life lacks joy; it is all joy, but you have to fight with imperfections. Here, we have to struggle only with lack of development. There is no evil only different degrees of sviirit. The interrogator, Mr. Basil King, who narrates his experiences in an interesting article in Nashs Magazine, proceeds to ask whether the lack of development is due to the highly practical thing we cna They sin. To this the spirit replies; cut It were, as the evil, come over with souls. out, and leaving blanks in their These have by degrees to be filled with good. Now I will waive the point whether death is a mist or a fog or a front door or a fire escape or any toher physical metaphor; being satisfied with the fact that it is there, an dnot to be removed amuses me by metaphor?. But what him it is both about the spirit is that for there and not there. Deaths is in one sentence, and of the most afterstartling Importance six sentencesour exwards. The spirit is positive that istence is not cut in two by a great But the change, at the moment of death. lower spirit is equally positive, a little non-existe- nt non-existe- j Company 335 I 3 South Main Street I r nt Exclusive J Distributors for Peerless Coal ( - of us. 13,045 B. I T. W. per pound Tel. Was. I 1306-130- 7 Mlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllilliiiiiliiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? , his The domestic pig stirs enthusiasm. He does not see why a pig should be considered in any way a nuisance. There are less attractive oddities than the pig that engage the attention of rich and reputable people: ROYAL MARKET 50 f WHERE YOU - t The author does well to take a tilt j f GET ROYAL I never could Imagine why pigs should, not be kept as pets. To begin with, pigs are very beautiful animals. Those who tli'nk otherwise are those who do not look at anything with their own eyes, but only through other peoples eyeglasses. The actual lines of a pig (I mean of a really fat pig) are among the loveliest and most luxuriant in nature; the pig has the same great curves, swift and yet heavy, which we see in rUshing water or in rolling chud. Compared to him, the horse, for instance, is a bony, angular, and abrupt animal. I remember that Mr. H. G. Wells, in, arguing for the relativity of things (a thing over which even the Greek philosophers went to sleep until Christianity woke them up), pointed out that, while a horse is commonly beautiful if seen in piefiie. he is excessively ugly if seen from the top of a dogcart, having a long, lean neck and a body like a fiddle. Now, theer is no point of view from which a really corpulent pig is not full of sumptuous and satisfying curves. You can loo'c down on a pig from the top of the most unnaturally lofty dogcart; you can df not pressed for time) allow the pig to draw the dogcart; and I suppose a dogcart has as much to do with pigs as it has with dogs. You can examine the pig from the top of an omnibus, from the top of the monument, from a balloon, or an airship; and as long as he is visible he will be beautiful. In short, he has that fuller, subtler, and more universal kind of shapeliness which the unthinking (gazing at pigs and distinguished journalists) mistake for a mere absence of shape. For fatness Itself is a valuable quality. While it creates admiration in the onlookers, it creates modesty in the possessor. If there is anything on which I differ from the monastic Institutions of the past, it is that they- sometimes sought to achieve humility by means of emaciation. It may be that the thin monks were holy, but l am sure it was the fat monks .who were humble. Falstaff said that to be fat is not to be hated; but it certainly is to be laughed at, and that is a more wholesome experience for the soul of man. East Second South Street TREATMENT 9 Bargains in Meats all the week S PRICES THAT SAVE YOU MONEY We specialize in high-grad- e Sausages Phone Wasatch 940 TlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllS at what is called popular scienco and tho arrogance with which scientific writers convey their prejudices to the world under the guiso of knowledge. I have just read a hook which has been widely recommended, which is introduced to tho public by Dr. Salecby, and which is, I understand, written by a Swiss scientist of great distinction. It is call&l "Sexual Kthles, by Professor Forel. I began to read the book, therefore, with respect. I finished reading It with stupefaction. The Swiss professor is obviously an honest man, though too Puritanical to my taste, and 1 am told that he does really know an enormous lot about insects But as for tne conception of proving a case, as for any notion that new opinion needs proof, and that it is not enough, when you knock down great institutions, to say that you don'c like them it Is clear that no such conceptions have ever crossed his mind. Science says that man has no conscience. Science says that man and woman must have the same political powers. Science says that sterile unions arc morally free and without rule. Science says that it Is wrong to drink fermented liquor. And all this with a splendid on Page 13.) |