THE COURIER
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ranged. At any rate the Brute Henry
has returned to the palace of the
Queen, who is still very ill. His con
duct has demonstrated that he lacks
sense, bravery and manliness. If for
her country's sake and for .Madam
Grundy the Queen forgives the Prus
sian animal she must pay, pay, pay.
The money is not of much consequence
and it was not the money that the
Queen cared for. It was the supine
dependence upon her which disgusts
any woman, queen or commoner.
Now that America is of so much im
portance in the world, I wonder the
queens and princesses of Europe do
not consider the eligibility of Ameri
can men. A real American gentleman
is the most loyal, chivalrous, self-controlled
of men. There is not a queen in
the world who would not be the better
for his advice. It is too late now, but
if Queen Wilhelmina had married an
American gentleman like any one of
a half dozen within every American
woman's acquaintance, she would now
be adoring wisdom, power, might and
chivalry embodied in her husband.
"'American men are the true knights
remaining from departed feudalism.
President McKlnley was a shining ex
ample of this kind of American, a king
with no visible sceptre, but enthroned
in the hearts of womankind who do not
need to be whipped into submission.
And speaking of German women, the
old-time subservience is departing.
They used to be grateful as dogs after
a whipping, but they have begun to
wonder if it is true that they are di
vinely appointed to suffer abuse and
to reverence a master.
William E. Curtis, the correspondent
of "The Ileeord-Herald," who has been
taking notes in the countries of
Europe, says that although "the women
of Germany are under excellent dis
cipline, the feminine will is beginning
to assert itself in a manner unknown
to the last generation. Social restric
tions are being gradually relaxed.
German girls are allowed larger liber
ties than their mothers enjoyed, al
though their matrimonial destiny is
still arranged for them. Education,
travel and the American example are
potent inlluences in accomplishing the
change from slave to woman. The ad
mission of women to the German uni
versities, the establishment of schools
for their higher education, the advent
of woman in political affairs and her
admission to the management of char
itable institutions have all combined
to give the sex confidence in them
selves and have inspired a desire to
extend their mental, moral and social
horizon."
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Kate Greenaway
Miss Greenaway lived most of her
life at Hampstead. X. W.. London. She
was born about lS.'O. Her father was
a wood engraver and gave her her first
lessons in drawing. From him she in
herited the sensitive hands of a wood
engraver. One of the greatest charms
of her figures is the sureness and free
dom of the line, a freedom and firm
ness not too often found in woman's
work. After learning his craft from
her father, she entered the South Ken
sington museum. She exhibited first in
IT the Dudley Gallery. 1S72-3. After this
ippearance she began making designs
' for juvenile books. Her designs were
instantly successful, so much so that
the style of dress for children copied
her models in this country, and in
England. "The Child of the Parson
age" appeared in 1S74 when little girls
were wearing hideous overskirts looped
shapelessly over their hipless bodies.
The style was heavy, mature and
hindered play. When Kate Green
away's little boys in smocks or with
trousers buttoned over their waists
appeared there was a breath of relief
first drawn in England and then almost
immediately exhaled in America. The
overskirts and the old man clothes
came off the little girls and boys, and
they were dressed in garments child
like, simple, with the weight hung from
the shoulders. Kate Greenaway did
not originate any fashions. Her
smocks have been worn by Yorkshire
lads and men since the shire was first
made famous, and the little short
waisted, skimpy-skirted dresses are
French, Empire. She did not originate,
but like Shakspere she knew a good
thing when she saw it. Her quick
recognition of the undying fitness of
the second empire styles for the beau
tiful forma of children was an inspi
ration. England and America testified
to the soundness of her judgment by
Immediately accepting her hint. She
did not have to start out on a dress
reform lecture tour, carrying trunks
full of new and more sanitary dresses
to try on some poor little borrowed
child in the view of an audience and
in the centre of a draughty platform.
She knew a better way than that. She
stayed at home and took orders for
illustrating children's books. The styl
ish people who began to dress their
children In Kate Greenaway gowns and
suits had no idea of hygiene. Ameri
can mothers did it because it was the
mode and because English women of
station had adopted it. English
mothers were inlluenced by the de
light their children took in Kate Gre.-n-away's
children. Both nations full of
mothers were inlluenced powerfully by
the real beauty, simplicity, grace and
essential juvenility or the mode Green
away. In 1S76 Miss Greenaway illustrated
"Mildred's Mistake" and "Topo" and
published "Kate Greenaway's Little
Folks' Painting Book." "Under the
Window" was published in 1S79. "K.
G.'s Birthday Book" in 1SS0. From 1SS0
to 1VJ0 she published constantlj.
Among the best known of her pictures
are those illustrating the Pied Piper of
Hamelin. Book of Games. Marigold
Garden. The Language of Flowers, Lit
tle Ann and Kate Greenaway's Alpha
bets. But the clever fingers grew tired and
the pure, understanding spirit faint.
It is several years since she laid aside
her drawing board. The men and wo
men who were children in the eighties
and seventies are grateful to Miss
Greenaway for her obedience to her in
spiration. She waved a wand and the
overdressed little children, especially
the girls whose ugly looking overskirts
caught in bushes and fences whenever
they attempted a frolic, came out to
play in smocks, straight-breadth skirts
and little mob caps. At Kate Green
away's will, gores, rullles and the airs
that accompany gores and rullles. van
ished. She is the true fairy godmother
of the XIX century. She set the princes
and princesses free from the spell of
the wicked drygoods fairy. And she did
still more for the men and women. In
her pictures the helplessness and inno
cence and touching purity of child
hood is evident. The men and women
who showed her pictures to the little
children yielded themselves more fully
to the charm, the witchery of child
hood. And for every such permanent
yielding a soul is saved.
Her art was in harmony with the
times. Otherwise it would not have had
such instantaneous effect in creating
an epoch in modes. In regard to it
Mr. Ernest Knaufft says in the Review
of Reviews: "Her art was in itself
a product of an inlluence which per
meated Victorian architecture and lit
erature as well. The writings of Bus
kin, the buildings of Norman Shaw,
above all, the furniture and fabrics of
William Morris, were more or less di
rectly responsible for the aesthetic
craze of a decade ago. which Gilbe't
and Sullivan burlesqued in their op
eras." Boutet de Monvel's children are as
artless and appealing and his technique
has greater depth and versatility. His
groups of children convert the most
crabbed individual if not to love at
least to a sense of the beauty, helpless
ness and purity of childhood. De Mon
vel has originality that is not yet ex
hausted. Miss Greenaway was a pio
neer and she was satisfied with
the first results of her talent. She
was not ambitious and accepted her
limitations. .Nevertheless, we owe
her much. Not among the least
of her pictures' charms were their
backgrounds: English hedgerows, low
cottages, village churches. Much of the
vogue attained by her books is due to
her printer. Mr. Edward Evans, and his
discriminating choice of inks. He also
engraved her designs. But no one not
on the most intimate terms with little
children could have drawn her pictures.
She had to become as a little child.
Therefore we know her heart was pure
and modest. We are sorry she has
gone to u world to which she was more
acclimated than to this one.
Great Poetry
Incomprehensibility Is a modem test
of poetry. In the current "Review of
Reviews" Mr. William M. Payne con
tributes live pages concerning "The
Poetry and Criticism of li01." The
author says or the only long quotation
taken from "The Masque of Judgment"
by Mr. Wm. Vaughn Moody, that It Is
a wonderful apostrophe to mankind:
"Oh Dreamer: O Deslrer! Goer down
I'nto untr.iveled seas in imtrlrtt ships!
O crusher of the uiilniaglnt'il grape
On unconceived lips!
O plaver upon a lordly Instrument
No man or god hath in mind to invent;
O cunning how to shape
Knulgeut I Ira veil and scoop out hitter
Hell
From the little shine and saltness of a
tear;
Sieger and harrier.
Beyond the moon, of thine own builded
town,
Cach morning won. each eve Impregnable,
Each noon evanished sheer!"
Mr. Payne says of the foregoing: "I
should not know where else In recent
poetry to look for the match to these
verses, or to the entire work with Its
melodious and sympathetic portrayal
of life's wild and various bloom, of
passion and aspiration, of alternating
defeat and victory, of the commingling
of sense and spirit that makes or our
existence so confused a web of self
contradictions, yet somehow suggests a
harmony of design that must be ap
parent to the transcendental vision."
Many kindly readers of these col
umns have in the past been benevolent
enough to supply the present observer
with keys to jokes and humorous read
ings of obscure passages. Comment on
this blank verse will be highly appre
ciated. Doubtless it is clear to most
readers, but I am sure there is a small
contingent who do not quite compre
hend it. For such as these outside help
is much needed and from a college
community like this it will doubtless be
furnished. Considering that the lines
"challenge comparison with the greater
achievements of English poetry," ac
cording to Mr. Payne, who speaks as
one having authority, the need of be
ing able to fully appreciate them is
apparent.
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Honest Money
Richard Croker insists that every dol
lar of the millions he has made since
he has been in control of the Tammany
machine is honest money. He can not
understand what the good people are
so excited about. To be sure he has
made money by politics. Politics has
been his only business Tor many years,
and when questioned by the chairman
or st competent committee as to the
reason he was in politics, he answered
without hesitation that it was his
"pocket." From his own standpoint he
is honest. He would not take money
as a pickpocket takes it. The books
accounting for the disposition or the
taxes balance. The most expert ac
countant can not find any item or a
subsidy paid by the ilty treasurer to
him and claimed realty from him.
Croker has made money by grunting
wharf privileges and franchises of var
ious kinds, for which he has been paid
In gilt edge stocks, by forcing the po
licemen to pay him the largest part
of the contents of the monthly envelope
which every saloonkeeper who sells Ins
wares on Sunday, every keeper of a
disorderly house, and all sorts of graft
ers contribute to the policemen whose
beat Includes their place of business.
All these contributions finally reach
Croker. Depleted by tribute to police
men and to the chief of police they
are still large enough when they
reach him to make his monthly in
come princely. All roads led to
'roker in New York city. It was of
no consequence where they started.
Yet t'rokcr was genuinely surprised
when he discovered that a great many
not especially scrupulous people con
sidered his manner of making money
disgraceful. lie asked members of the
committee whose duty it was to inves
tigate him what they supposed he was
in politics for if it was not to make
money. Croker Is not a hypocrite, but
bis point or view limits stealing to
picking pockets and putting one's hand
into tile treasure box 01 l lie city and
taking therefrom a part of the money
raised by taxes.
The people of Nebraska do not In
tend that illy, county, or state treas
urers should be paid and retain the in
terest for loaning city, county or state
monies. They do not consider that such
money belongs to the treasurer. It be
long to the state, county or city.
There is probably not a farmer, or
merchant, or lawyer In Nebraska who
will admit that a treasurere Is en
titled to such interest except the
farmer, merchant, or lawyer, who
has be.'ti elected to guard the city,
county or state funds. All such guard
ians are paid a salary as a recompense
for the time and energy which they
spend In taking care of the treasuie
belonging to the people.
When the man who was but now a
farmer and a taxpayer becomes a
treasurer his point of view and his
definition of honest money changes as
a little Jolt changes a kaleidoscope.
Considering the duties and functions
exercised by the state olllcials. their
salaries are too small and a rellectlon .
upon the generosity and fairmlndeduess
of this rich state. But surely the gov
ernor, who in his person represents the
state, should receive the largest salary.
State Treasurer Steufer has made a
notable and exemplary accounting of
all the funds in his charge showing
that he has complied with the law
scrupulously. H subsequent treasur
ers are as scrupulous, they will like
wise silence cavil and translate it into
praise.
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Studio open Monday,Tusday,
Thursday.and Friday afternoons
2 to 5 o'clock. Saturday morn
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