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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1901)
THE COURIER. Mi endlessly "Change under the clunge colored arches of changeless morning and night." "Uninterruptedly the measure of words, meaningless to her, Iran on and on, until at lat incessant repetition wove the spell by which and child and the roofs of the city of Tunis are also very interesting. Her pictures are not fussy. They seem to have been painted readily and with simplicity. Charles Austin Need ham paints busy marts. He has two pictures here, "Winter" and "Holiday fectually attained. Miss Cora Parker, formerly In charge of the art depart ment at the University, contributes two impressive results of her sum mer's work: "Afterglow" and "Mid summer." The former Is a clump of bushes with the sun setting behind thought is suspended. Stumbling un awares upon the means, she had put in a Park." The former is the corner them, and there is not a more radiant, her busy brain out of action and re- of a park with a cabstand on tlie other more inspired canvas in the room. lars a week at an underestimate to any paper at present edited by ob viously untlt editors. A good many of these born writers finally do get on a paper and begin to orate "along these lines" and use the loosely fitting words and phrases that otlier writers that resemble them In inspiration have worn threadbare. Schools of leased l.er spirit. In her ears was a rushing sound for a little and then darkness-slowly drawn like a large curtain- gathered about her. Pass- side of it with the snow blowing in "Midsummer in Central Park" Is journalism do not seem to have cf- thin, smoky, clouds off the smooth painted witt: the same sympathetic fected any change in the material of tops of the cabs, and drifted in feeling. There should be a word cor- the managing editor who is seldom patches on to the blanketed horses, responding to "musicianly" for the exacting In regard to the English his ing from out of the darkness into a City snow is so quickly converted into same correctness, sympathy and chas- reporters use but has a modest aiu- great light, she found herself face to what has the appearance of very dirty tity with the brush. If there were bltlon to expurgate the most glaring face with Cadenhouse. Siie knew not meal that Mr. NeedhanTs very fortu- such a word it would tit Miss Parker's banalities from the pages he edits, what haven she had reached, upon nate selection of a park and the tops work. A landscape by Souza-Pinto Is Because of the lack of exact think'lng what further shore she stood, but of rabs for his snow effects indicates a canal, old enough to have tall rushes and speaking the language Is losing there they met." Then Babs was sure the discrimination that all his pict- and sedge grass leaning over it, to be useful phrases and words that it can Lorraine would not marry Caden- uresshow. His technique is broad, bordered by populars and navigated by not easily spare, thus forcing people house, and the story ends and nobody his color is clean, and Ills drawing is mossy boats. Rhoda Holmes Nichol's who do not like soiled words to use gets his deserts, which is even more irreproachable. 'The Red Shawl" by Narcissus, a slender boy on a bank of a liberty than Scheherezade dared Alf red Maurer is a brilliant and very over a Narcissus pool, is a new treat take with the traditions of story satisfactory study of color. I over- ment of a very old subject. There arc heard the remark that one might as only three nudes in the collection, well drape an India shaw1 because the The half-draped tigureof a young girl woman is but a model for the shawl, reading, by Mr. Fry of New York is True, only verv few could interpret beautifully modeled and the color Is telling. jt Exhibit of Nebraska Art Association. The exhibit this year surpasses pre vious exhibits in quality variety, catholicity. Those who prefer pic tures on the order of colored photo graphs with outlines clearly drawn and only slightly obscured by atmos phere and shadow, are pleased with Dolph's dogs, the "Unbutton My Shoe" by Maria Brooks, the Burbank Indian portraits which have an eth nological value, or Kappe's "Bad News." There are others of the pleasant story-telling character, which satisfy the occasional visitor who has small idea of a painter's aspiration to attain atmosphere and foreign ones. Comparatively few read books. The newspapers are read by everybody. Tlieirstyleis the peo ple's style. Their vocabulary Is the people's vocabulary. The inlluence of newspapers on the magnificent engine, language, is primary, vital, an India shawl so tenderly and reveal clean. The model In the studio is constant. I hope the people of the so indubitably its oriental secret af absorbed in a newspaper and is just new century will demand that their color. The three pictures sent by as interesting in a different way. daily news be furnished them in pure Mr. Chase are not related in subject "Twilight after Rain" by Chas. War- English and stop a paper which habit- or treatment. "His First Portait" is ren Eaton is a quiet little lane going ually uses slovenly English. If pub- a picture of a very tall woman with to sleep after a bath, full of repose Ushers can discover what the people her back to the audience dressed in aud unobtrusive sentiment. "Night really want, the are eager enough to the parsimonious folds of a kimona on the Maine Coast" by Miss Groth- furnish it and the demand would be and holding a baby who looks over jean has a glass over it and it is dif- met immediately with a supply. her shoulder as unconscious of the Hcult to get it in the right light but occasion as the kimona. The woman when this is accomplished it is an ex is very tall and I feel that the painter quisite bit of color and phantasy, has slighted her and denied her her These are only a few of the pictures woman'srigbttocomplimentarytreat- which impressed me in an afternoon's ment for the same reason that Wilis- inspection. Further loitering will vibration. But most of the painters tier does but sketch a woman back of discover many more. of this year's exhibit have confined themselves to color, form, light and vibration and the infinite variety of the aspects of nature, and have left literature, romance, moralizing to writers and preachers. It is commendable and shows a laudable desire to disseminate culture in those laymen and artists who have volunteered to teach Nebraska peo- a muff and wastes no time on her feet but draAS them with one long burnt umber stroke of his brush, that care lessly leaves them several inches too long. He may have said that he was not drawing a woman but a muff and he needed her only to hold it in place, but the public cares nothing about the explanation. Mr. Chase uses the woman in the kimona to bold the j J Real Estate and the Pest House. The neighborhood of a pest house Mrs. Fiske. When Becky Sfiarp soliloquises be fore the tire after her spiteful, angry guests have gone, she opens her mouth and the vowel sounds are full and the consonants have their full value. But Becky Sharp in all the other scenes of the play speaks her lines through her teeth very rapidly. Herjesturcs and would depreciate the value of the expressions are admirable ant' illumi- most accessible and beautiful building lots. It is questionable if a city hos pital would have so disastrous an ef fect. Men avoid a plague or a pest, but a hospital is one of the regular nstitutions of a city. nate her meaning, but her words are unintelligible. Her character must be a mystery to those who have not read Vanity Fair. She is a great act ress, and her work has the integrity ii tne private ,.r ., ,...n,iiri ...:,! u , ,. ,. :.. Ul I I.UUU1U IUI UUi IUSLUUI3 LU IUIZ 111 pie which pictures are wortn.est tne.r u up, uu x liiihk ne ignores ner to hospitais already in operation in Lin- congruous and inconsistent she should attention, but after all, all visitors JJS coin were called by a name which sug- ZSZTTiTlZ prefer to make their own choice with- Autumn in the Shinnecock Hll.s is gested a plague spot, unquestionably nke Thackeray Thesolilouuv scene out too much advice and explanation, altogether delightful; mellow sun- their vicinity would be as cheap as J h r?ultS to iT FleN Considering which blessed peculiarity shine on helds of great beauty. "Still dirtassooc as the name became cur- f! t ,' JZ. ultZr bviu 'Viuiuuiiii wa opvuiw im. liuiogil. of human nature a review of a picture Life' is a conscientiously painted exhibit is rather supererogatory. Un- picture of fruit and copper very con fess it be kept in mind that it is only ventional a little hard and not at all ;the opinion of one person and is not characteristic, prooaoiy selected by tand has no intention of being ex wr.unaseas very iiKeiy to piease a cathedra. Because the ocean has always jseemed to me the grandest, most mys fterious and most fascinating of any- western audience. Think of it! a man who has painted, "Alice" spend ing his time on hothouse grapes and copper studio vessels. It reminds me temperament. She sneaks i rent. If the council would quit talk- ner deceits, her treachery, her ing about a pest house and discourse schemes to get into society with such upon the advantages to isolated lots contemptuous frankness. Becky Sharp of a dignified commodious city hos- wasbornwltli those pitilessly keen pital there would be fewer and short- eyes that see through shams and com er petitions against such a building prebend instjntly the motive for us- thing on earth I like best the picture of the encores of "Home, Sweet by William .7. Bixbee of Boston Home" which great musicians sing to called "Foam," a large wave breaking us. on ocean-tanned rocks, where the Mr. Chas. C. Curran has sent ten water shows the light green streak pictures of the Swiss mountains rep- that proves it is but a thin aspiring resenting a year's work, in the from fastidiPiis .icighborhoods. Even Mr. Mod.ett might be concili ated if the council should offer to call it "The Mockett Hospital." sheet, with the sunlight sliming through it and just ready to take its place. The Lions" by II. O, Tanner, a colored man, who has received Hon orable Mention at the Salon, and va rious other prizes and medals. The pink morning light, under the gilding torily because no dictionary gives the light of the moon, in cloudy weather in the cold September daylight, light ed from below by a setting sun, in as after glow and at high noon, the same group of mountains are scarcely rec ognized in the different atmospheres, ing them. Huch minds often belong to cynics like Becky. The clear sight of evil is demoralizing and Becky saw it clear as a child. She was never unsophisticated and faith never had a The Influence of Wordf, chance to work on her. She alone un derstood herseif and she alone truly estimated and weighed the other characters of the play or book. Raw don Crawley, her husband did not un derstand her, Lord Steyn did not un derstand her. Miss Crawley, the A foreigner cannot use our language perfectly or understand It satisfac- color which words acquire by usage. For instance there is the compound word young-ona, made by two euphon ious and dignified words. Yet the """" ""'" "ue.siuuu ner uesi. ,,r,iit!, vnhKirism and iriiniilr.iis hut she gave her credit for a roman- teachers and parents avoid it. Unob- tic love, which we know she never ex- words have Pjr,eutt:u- A! L,,e greaie&u American g trageuieuue sue deserves a more wholesome role than either Becky Sharp or Tess of the D'UrbervllIes. .. .i--i .. i .. ! -i ?., . . i in, .:-. nivisk Hmrwma rt linn is nil nil ml: wimo seems uu oe a lur. uurraui nuuiL ui viuw must nave jctnunauic uiuunm; Siinnincc ninnl in n ripcprf. nvpr riiflts hppn frnm an nnnnsite nionnt.nin n; been Stained ana SOIiea 10 d llllillCH. UJwA " VWW w . w- -www wvv. .---... .-- v.,t,wv..v .V..V... w without vegetation enough to support high as those he painted and the ser- gree which unfits them for the use of TanvMiini? worth a lion's while. The ies is a most interesting and scientif- discriminating natives. Wholephras- great beast is painted witn lew ana ic stuay oi tne euect oi aiuerent at- es nave utx-u u iuk "-" u o ""- i powerful strofces. His stealthy, vel- mosphenc conditions and under dif- nection, tiiat tne language is impo- jvet footed climb is felt and the at- ferent positions of the sun and moon, erished by their loss. The ordinary To Spoil His Business. (Biosphere is hot and quiet. The other on the same mountain forms. Charles newspaper reporter is accustomed to u.,n is hut. .- slianfi in the background. Francis Browne's -Summer Skv" is a say in a certain part or ins report or o, i am t got no more or mat oiue Elizabeth Nourse has two pictures of warm afternoon with trees and obsequies that the body was consign- ribbon," said the country storekeeper, ?ascinatinir children. Innocence, un- meadows reciprocating tenderness, ed to the tomb or to studied pose, achild'sanxiety to please "Moon rise over the Sea" is hung in and be good, exquisite modeling and a the traditional place of honor at the Tefined tresh tone characterise them, end of the gallery, facing the en- liThe tone is unusu-il, and so thinly trance. It Is an exquisite study of SSttiut on that the white canvas behind moonlight on the waves, a very ditfi the earth. It leaning across the counter, conhentially. was therefore with a shock that I "1 ve had two pieces of it and sold it read the other day of a bride being right out in less than a month, so I see consigned to her husband. There Is it wa'n't no use to got any more, for I not a man, woman or youth In Lin- can't keep it in stock. I shouldn't have coin who is not convinced that his or a thing in my'store," he added, firmly, seems to have faded it. Her mother cult and elusive effect and most ef- her services are worth a hundred dot- "if it eold out the way that ribbon did.