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Show Newspaper Gets New Ideas About Culture of dissatisfaction wilh the world. Otherwise he might get to enjoying life as Uobert Browning did. Well, we always are glad to enlarge our experience and whittle down the edges of our Ignorance. Especially are we consoled to learn that when we feel most like the human crab, when we are unusually disagreeable, and full of spleen, then are we most cultured. I .Most of us have been a bit hazy as to just what culture is. We have perhaps generally taken our cue from Matthew Arnold, who had a notion that culture involved knowing the best that had been thought and known, that it was the pursuit of sweetness and light, and that its motto should be to make the reason and will of Cod prevail. But the address of Mr. John Cowper I'owys on the subject expands our Ideas, the Kansas City Times comments. com-ments. We are informed that the cultured cul-tured person is detached and sophisticated, sophisti-cated, that he defends himself from bounders by saying, "Keally! Indeed! How interesting!" That he Is capable of renouncing friends, family, church, business. That he escapes from the world by reading the classic authors. Finally, we Infer that a touch of Indigestion In-digestion Is desirable In order to keep the cultured one at the proper pitch |