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Show 13 FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE appeals to my understanding and imagination, I long to make that dead form live, to raise the dead black and white symbols of a printed page into life, that it may give happiness to those around me, and I "take possession of that form" under the title of methods -the power to translate the printed page into thoughts and feelings of men-substituting my will for the purpose in the heart of the author-"inherent cause"-That Is Art. Fitness. What does Delsarte's "fitness" mean? Fitness-fit; to high ideals, occasion Is it not a most encompassing term which is not so well expressed by the phrase "good taste"?· Good taste, which means to know instinctively the "fitness" of things, is, many think, an inherent gift. True, though it is a most subtle quality, difficult to develop or train, yet through instinct, association, and environment one may attain this be in harmony with time, most desirable attribute. with the instinct of .. Most fortunate "fitness." like bright colors-loud colors. are those who are born Dr. Woolbert says, "Certain people The same people prefer noisy sounds colors, and delicate, refined music; see what differences you can detect among the preference of different people. The more cultured too. Others sounds. and prefer quiet, subdued Notice neckties and refined the person to whom you speak, the more quiet reserved you had better be. activity or too much sound. Such a one and will not like too much He has been trained to notice finer It is evident Dr. differences: that is why we call him refined." Woolbert considered the sense of fitness, of taste, to be a matter of training, which gives hope that all who will, may attain. Jazz and Movie. Jazz and the movie attract because they ap peal to the lower emotions; they do not stimulate the higher, satis fying emotions, and for that reason they are most baneful. An indulgence in such pastimes, just as an indulgence in alcohol or any other stimulant-since movie and jazz give the same false impres sion of pleasure-will deaden the finer sensibilities and kill the ideal reactions to better things of life. Just as surely as the birds, which Tyltil and My til caught in the blue garden of "Night" (Ignorance) died in their hands as soon as caught, so surely will 1 1 Chas. H. York, 1920. Woolbert, Fundamentals of Speech-Harper and Bros., New |
