Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . But notice that you must sit in thehearth circle. If you sit at the side ofthe hearth you will invariably look atthe opposite side and not at the fire. At a vaudeville show I once saw thefollowing. A man, on the eve of hiswedding, sat smoking before a fireplacein the centre of the stage, —he was sup-posed to reverie the past and dream ofthe coming wedding. Up above thefireplace the scene opened and by a ser-ies of living pictures his thoughts weregiven to the audience. To me, the whole effect was spoiledby having him look away from the fir
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . But notice that you must sit in thehearth circle. If you sit at the side ofthe hearth you will invariably look atthe opposite side and not at the fire. At a vaudeville show I once saw thefollowing. A man, on the eve of hiswedding, sat smoking before a fireplacein the centre of the stage, —he was sup-posed to reverie the past and dream ofthe coming wedding. Up above thefireplace the scene opened and by a ser-ies of living pictures his thoughts weregiven to the audience. To me, the whole effect was spoiledby having him look away from the it is in the fire that you live somein the past, very little in the present andmuch in the future. You have a reverie or you sit in cow-like contentment of the present or you-140-
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