Show A LESSON IN DRAWING A distinguished teacher of drawing referred yesterday to the belief beler of a distinguished savant that the birth of so much poetry among tho Scotch was due to the imagery which the serious reading of tho InS Bible through many generations had impressed upon time people surrodndcd as they are in na llvo land by mountain scenery hills and lakes and a llllle a lle beyond the splendor of old oceanand the solemn rhythm of her surges as they beat upon the shore In tho same line of reasoning reason-ing this teacher expressed tho belief that the scenery hereabout would find expression eventually in such artworks art-works as depend largely upon the harmonious har-monious blending of colors for colors are too a form of expression in high souls and their perfect selection Is often due to influences which have C come down through several generations genera-tions of men and arc often materlall 2atlons of Ideals that may have been for generations seeking in vain for aj full cxpreEaion Tho presence of o deep religious fervor and reverence is characteristic of all high Scottish po etry Reckless and matter of fact o Burns was thero aro a hundred reflections reflec-tions of this in his poems It came t him unconsciously by regular descent from some prayerful old Ancestor Then men who spend their lives in tho valley have no such thoughts as have those who are familiar with mountain scenes with the changing tints of sunlight on crag and in dell and who all their lives have listened to the voices that the storm lakes on when It lashes tho mountain tops makes the pines its I solemn harp and canopied with clouds goes out with Infinite complainings to feed the springs In the his I Here the eyes of children receive dally lessons In all the coloring that can b wrought by the sunbeams on I valley on lake and mountains and there is enough of grandeur in every I days display nbt only to reveal coloring col-oring in all Its combinations and va rlcllea but lucre are pictures which ought to exalt the souls of dwellers here as no dwellers on the wide stretching plains are ever stirred with I More here than anywhere else should drawing in the schools be made 3 specialty for drawing Is much more than an accomplishment for the hand there Is C direct coordination between I the hand and the mind it is one of the forms through which thought finds expression ex-pression and it in turn exalts and feeds the thought In Utah are thousands of young people who are descendants I of oldtime Bible readers Intellectual I germs often remain inert for two or three or four generations when something some-thing quickens them and they spring I into exultant life There Is I no telling what the children of Utah may not aspire to under the sunlight amid the 1 scenery and breathing the exhilarating air of the favored State |