Show SENTIMENT Its Varlons Degrees and the Extent to irhlch I Should 0 A3IEItICAN F nir Jan 13 ISM 13 IS9 Special l Spl correspondence cf the crlondenCC ct DESEREVXEWS What a charm EWSJWhta cha Ing quality o the human mind Is I sentiment Howit illuminates the i prosaic gleam tnt envelopes the lives of mot of ub How It refines refnes our natures and squeezes out t the last drop Ufe milk of human kind nt sJ How enlarges Itenes our mental vislonand deyelnpes our elop compxaion ate traits And how It polishes i polshes off ot the rough surface ruh surac and brings out all the Inner virtues bv Lrng i f I touch I deeply pity that man or woman who has been born 1 without bn brn this gracious possession They a not perfect human beings because It is sentiment alone that gives to eats hence its chief char You might ex robthe rostof I exquisite fragrance and ten hop to get I all lion for color and form alone Tho aon I lose i a beautiful tower but its hue Ia not 8 striking as Its fragrance fra-grance The dahlia Ion queenly flower but It has no fragrance and who wol tempera the dahlia t the rose If there Is l I ther I any such h I note Is devoid of smell and be I IJudgta by the eye alone It I E J with sentiment The worn wIthout wIth-out sentiment cuts a sorry figure in this world bccauKtbe lack all those I finer phases of worUanly character wjiichglve Idthosellfiti prlridlpal charm A woman without sentiment senti-ment Is outside the pale of womanhood woman-hood There arc men wlthoutsentl ment because this lovely < juallty la p more of a feminine than amasculln attribute But the man without sentiment lives in a shell as hard as that ofa turtle It may not bo Ito I-to the ey but Uie thell encloses I him quits as effectually Tlirre are digrew of sentiment and It must econfessed l that beyond certain lines yentimcnt becomes a disintegrating Maudlin sentimentality senti-mentality Is sickening The sentimentality senti-mentality w hlch leads w omen to forget for-get themselves e far OS to shower It which lavota upon a murderer and prompts men to raise a brute to tIle proK > rtions ota hem Is not healthy sentiment but a illitnU It has its origlii In tu workings 01t a mind that i not evenly balanced There Is no man so obsequiously polite as one who 1 a titus tipsy He will outrival a French dancing master in his bowings and scrapings Yet that same man In his sober hours may te l S rough that his conduct becomes boorish Maudlin sentimentality senti-mentality has no more claim upon the term healthy sentiment than has this drunken gallantry upon the term true politeness The politeness polite-ness of the bacchanalian llti not accepted m tbo genuine genu-ine article because those who seethe nun also understand tile secret springs of his action I I not s with unhealthy fenUmeut b I cur there 16 I no outward tlan In i the edit of tho maudlin sentimentalist sentiment-alist of the diseased condition of the imagination That this maudlin sentImentalism is a disease a mild doubt form of dementIa there can be little Observation and experience prove It There have been murders of peculiar atrocity committed by both s xes some of them really repulsive in their hldeougncts Xo t that every murder I not hideous but there a degrees ofenormity In crime and wherever there Is a murderer there you will generally find an apparently ap-parently refined woman carry lug t tIe criminal in bis cull flowers books bonbons and delicacies to tmpt his late tal l-ate Ih fact doing everything for him blmthatklndncscausuggest There is some lurking disease In the minds of these persons Ineverytbingelse there may b a reasonable and notional no-tional working of the mental organism organ-ism but her is a weakness unaccountable unac-countable and Inexplicable Such I sentimentality call U not by its euphuUUc name call it morbidity or anything else Whatever I Is I excItes not only the surprise but the disgust of those n hose moral percep tion Is 1 not fo blunted that they cannot can-not distinguish the right from the wrong This diseased condition of the Intellect takes diverse forms UltrasenUmentulism is weakening just as this morbid sentImentalIsm is absurd and wicked Ultrasent mentallsm destroys the fabric of the character and converts many a man and a woman Into hysterical and whining creature There la a wide difference between I healthy and unhealthy sentiment fentment A true sign that tile imagination is diseased Is theseutimentalism Is followed by foolish ends The mind may become ill as well as the body aud the evidence of that sickness sick-ness is as marked in one as In the I other The mind that is In Its normal condition shows no rccen trlcitle Its operations are as regu I Jar as the ebb and low of the I There are no shadows to penttrate pnetrate While we cannot see the cause we realize that the effect In natural and louiml and ihnt ti relation between the two is as transparent t trans-parent 1 crystal When the mind is in this condition we know that it I healUiy but let Its operations b come ht turgid muddy and opaque Inch 1 Is a rhetorical I r way of saying that one cannot seti far enough Into Uie mind to comprehend Its tIl phenomena phe-nomena and then nomelaDI we know that the brain is diseased and not responsible respon-sible for the eccentric conduct to which it prompts The brain is the centre of life it is the engineroom of the by It moves every member I Is not ones legs alone that arc suddenly seized wIth a desire to take t lr tke strides and carry one hither and thither Is the brain the seat of volition which quietly sets them going which and their points movements out the nil place tend to I Healthy sentiment Is tbe product of pruct in healthy mind Morbid sentiment I I tIle outcome of a morbid mind R let us leave this morbid sentimentality senti-mentality behind us and deal only with < the sentiment that Is sound and sensible There Is rwbl The no more de lightful trait in the mind than sentiment senti-ment Sentiment and sensibility ulhlty r almost interchangeable ten for the sentimental man is ever tIle possessor of fine sensibilities and the owner of fine sensibilitIes in turn is always the man of sentiment senti-ment I Is not an easy matter to get through the world and enjoy life If one Is wholly tie void of sentiment senti-ment There h i enough of the rrac tC In life without seeking for It and raising I above all else BenU i Snti ment I not theclilld of the Intellect I is the offspring the lenagina ton I Is the rosy hue of thc mind that tinges everything no matter how barren otherwise with a pretty and a charming color One might as well try t live without sunshine as to live without it10 uTe sentiment I Mntment write this looking at Uie suUect from a purely Intellectual point I prely intfletu of lcW One exult not Iolot happy If he were t go through life with a rule and square measuring every object Fun thoughLby the same inflexIble eeCo finei One does not like to lbl look at the flowers and analro them with the cold science of the botanist each into its component part ° thereIy the pistil and the stamen and the petals Tlitre Is more totbeflower Uian that There Is a subtle es ubte sence In w bleb lies the great charm Ift One does not want to look Into the < depths of the firmament of heaven hclen and seethe planets and only com lute their distance from tie earth cm antI their relation to the pfciet which we live orl not this Thought ou subservient to tbat greater and mighty hIgher thought hand and that an thin omnipotent Is a I rower ia the creation at the universe Cannot the Imagination under the influence ef these IntucnCC thl specu lations carry us onward and upward until we feel the greatness of the human mind and the ennoblIng In fluenceof the Imagination When one reads on epic he does not want loconfine limsef to the analytical art of the criUc He should do more than to discover the fret and mor tigate the rhetorical finish If the idea Is great hediould I belou give himself up to U and let his soul ek jSSSS here I may find Joy and iaUsfac Uon anti conceive images ladepond enty and C or Itlol Idepn The very best part of mans or J inlsm is his imagination I It is that which marksmfniVa reaUve being I Is that which lifts him IIC up and brings him Lrng almost to the gate heaven I Is that from which te he draws ail the inspiration of lifeit U I tho fountain which keeps us all al youngthat elixir which prrserves the mind fresh and the bofly buoy lint The mental nature Is ted hy thIn quality It I a fact that the a man whose mind is refreshed last by a longer lIeslay than the one I from retred whose lIfe It is scrupulously Tied L crupnoDly banished sentimental man will keen jung iong after the other has be come parched and Ions withered away I have particularly noticed this at that the brightiyed and rosycheeked eed maturity is not very tr rem ° TC5 from sentimental din position Not that the one Is the cause and the other the effect I But efet for some reason nature rm Incomprehensibly ln yet which In telligenUy generally directs that tt the two characteristics shall ccterUc g to gerber b t This I the relation between tentl ment and the Intellect The intlet con ection between sentiment and cn emotions i more direct and d0 So m lives > time powmaor ofaS e emotional nature who has h not sentiment as well The two are as ar nearly allied as 4 tho fountain of laughter and the eollrb fears f it H the custowof practjeal people to laU r CI M aentl mentalityVJU rr noh Worth > of praise or tvWwsIon and as It the sentlnjental man were a hefpfC andniofclesjbclug Hut tliBTO I realtj > q blug this ridiculous view I tab tfrjerf 1 tof alrtrfy alluiM to thft oct that healthy fen time jfkeerytiie mind fresh It oils tbesftrlhgsoltiurniental macnlnerv and as for Its cllcct upon the physical Id cal nawrelt I t the difference be tweed the troglodythe and Uie Jark > pr toJJravr a plainer como parlsolj toJ thiebt and the mole and the eagle and the Ibis co rrmn can t Into the empyrean of the Imagination with strongVlngsfunless UB is tbeman of tcntluVent ftr sentiment Is the beloved be-loved < Slid qffancyUbelms notsen tlmetthe cannot fly Into the realms of thought cn that In I 1 landfill thought thouht tlt at nil but hunuist grope among the more material thlns grlamong the molt burrow through the earth Too uu > b ruUnieut It not good for o body onthe toul but n proper amount is a help to the a arid a tonlo td the spirit Buala iVaturr wins Its marked t 1 oonipens Uou OUI not give all Jh ttst l gifts of life to nuyj one person With love it mixi jealou yso that even Incur Joy weiwrnotlmni feel a poignant angul b 1 Grace Is often accompanied accompa-nied by indolence strength with cruelty brilliancy of Intellect with selfishness and to we find that the sentimental man and woman have highly wrought and refined natures fuglt They sjIcr more as they enjoy Jjr more j Schilfer greatest of German poets jn antjicellent arabesque of Tellt aIna umpbaslzeu the same Jill < Oh lf Unnubiawcarl < om boilr Hhlflr Ml < l < m the roie of eojojnenl idira 4 m And tie bartu 1 oontit amleto lb flower 1 alirtri to InUo b toadied by lbs Hi i tbcal1t1 liulnlioVbuldfacrlrtcetheBiretU of sentiment olMCrlctheSlf companied byextremesemsIUvencss to the Cull pnxulc owlllko life of the man who has I not For what jiuriiuR does the sun shine to the owlT rcr whsl purpose are toe beautiful f tMnr in u the man without senUmenl I 1 l f E ISAICSON I |