New Walks in Old Ways 



other provincials from Chicago, Osh- 

 kosh and Kokomo, we had first taken 

 in the conventional "show," where 

 some supposed "comedian" sings and 

 dances through three acts, while girls 

 pose and parade as frequently as the 

 time required for a change of abbre- 

 viated costume will permit. Now, 

 let no one imagine that just because 

 one may see the beauty of a wheat- 

 field or a hedgerow that he need 

 necessarily be oblivious of it in other 

 fields. My only quarrel is with those 

 who only care for it in certain par- 

 ticular forms. The fact is that the 

 more ready one's response to all beauty 

 in the natural world the more certain 

 is one's appreciation of it in the lilies 

 and roses that now and then burst 

 into flower in the garden of humanity. 

 That is not to admit, however, that 

 I saw anything in Forty-second Street 

 that New York night that compared 

 very favorably with our larkspurs, 

 catbirds and rugosas. At least the 



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