Show A keen critic once said to a young wo about to begin the study of when at a picture do not say at farst even to yourself 1 I like it or 1 I dont like it try to see what there Is in it the advice was sound and it need not be stretched thin to cover a much larger region of life than that which belongs to art the quick instinctive like or dislike which many a woman conceives in the farst hour of her acquaintance with a person may be well founded or it may be ill founded if it justifies itself she remembers it and prides herself on her knowledge of human nature if it proves false she forgets all about it and in a year would deny that she had ever disliked the person or at best she would defend her mistake by quoting als safest to begin with a little aversion in point of fact the power of suspending judgment on book picture man woman or plan is the mark of a well trained mind the judgments worth anything are based on something stronger than a comans womans reason I 1 think him so because I 1 think him so youths companion |