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Show not the only object of Delsartism, only its beginning. It results in the philosophy of harmony, its laws and their relation to motion, mo-tion, sound, color and form. DeJsarte, in one of his dictums, states "that noble and exalted emotions and thoughts are always expressed by gestures in curves and spirals," and which he declares de-clares are the lines of beauty. As the cultivation of beauty in all forms of expression, is the chief aim of Delsartism, its effect must be one of ethical elevation, and can therefore be classified not only as a fine art, but also a profound and beneflcient philosophy. Modern society is like the ''Tower of Babel," vast and complex, a confusion con-fusion of wants and demand. It is a loud clamoring for success and recognition, for wealth and fame. In this endless strife and struggle for finer shades of thoujrht and feeling feel-ing are hushed and the human voice has lost its melody, for its keynote has become as-sertiveness. as-sertiveness. The art of conversation is a tradition; argument and gossip in the garb of wit characterize our social intercourse, and those beautiful friendships of appreciation appreci-ation and blending into one another; thought and feeling are relegated to the shelf. A stern conventionality bounds us and teaches us the suppression of naturalness; perhaps this accounts for the augularity of the Anglo-Saxon race. We are growing daily w iser and a trifle sadder. Delsartism is a happy contribution to the fund knowledge and a revelation to the slighted children of civilization. A. Rolla Tibbits. . m . m ! EDMUND RUSSELL. k , r What the Great Exponent of Delsartism Teaches. In this age of marvelous discoveries and f progress, a disciple of art, however gifted, is no longer a flashing comet, piercing the Packless deep of the firmament. Yet in the jharming and artistic presence of Mr. Ed-imiDd Ed-imiDd Russell, we experience a delightful moment of forgetfulness at the glimpse he gives us into a new world, where all is won-drously won-drously beautiful and simple. A sweet regret re-gret steals into our hearts, oh! that we might once more be children, fondled on the bosom of mother earth, and fashioned into perfect meu and women, whose only law is beauty and harmony. Wo are the product of a high civilization, and from being simple human beings we have become complex beings and our relation to beauty is unbalanced" The everlasting fountain of beauty is nature - the restless and changing stream of contem plation is man. Man, with the keen, eao-er mind, reaching out so far, but speaking onlv through a frail and rapidly withering body Edmund Russell comes to us with the doctrine of rejuvenation, of recasting what tradition and habit have distorted. He ad vocates a doctrine of joy and ease, of har mony and self-command. He claims with conviction that years need not impair the suppleness and grace of youth.or blunt physical phys-ical enjoyments when the intellect has ma turedto the full power of understanding His art takes away the sting of aire, the sorrow of deformity and awkwardness, and adds to an aspiring and growing mind the strength of a well developed and harino-lously harino-lously tuned body. Great social and scientific problems crowd out all restful moments from our busy modern life and flood the brain with fever heated thoughts that wear and tear the tis sues of our physical economy, and raise in the garden of life, under the noon-day meridian, me-ridian, epitaphs over which a weary haad has traced the fitful thoughts of a wizard So this apostle of the art of harmanious expression comes like a holiday hour full of unexpected pleasures and attractions His mission is to relieve the cold gray of our mental sky and tint it with the warm clow of beautiful conceptions. Hu aims to soften all that is hard and unlovely, un-lovely, rigid and stiff, to revitalize the dyinr mugclcs of our bodies, to give them grace and elasticity, and instead of bracing and lacing, we learn to drape ourselves and thus give freedom to our movements. ' However, physical reform or culture is |