Is not even fit for brutes,
Yet to make his teeth still blacker
Smokes the rankest of cheroots!
Now it seems to me the purest
Seldom scold us when they teach,
For they know the way that’s surest
Is to practice what they preach!
—Geo. M. Vickers.
Word Pictures.
In fulfillment of our promise in a former number, we will now endeavor to give a few ideas upon the important subject of “suiting the action to the word.” Gestures are of two kinds, curved and straight, or emphatic and descriptive.