Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1910, Page 13

i { ‘ E'-H % oomnt v o™ x r i A ‘ A L4 -y » DON Winter _Exhibition of the Royal ~Academy. WORK OF LITTLE KNOWN ARTISTS LONDON; Jan. 12.—For forty consecutive years there has been a winter exhibition at Burlington house and with three or four exceptions the collections have consisted of old masters and deceaged masters of the British school. Latterly has been added ¥oom full of the work of sonie artist re- cently deceased. The first exceptions were made In favor Of Watts, Millals and Lelghton, and in each ©case the reputation and the number of the works of the artist justified the proceed- ing. ' Last year a departure was made that calléd forth a good deal of adverse eriti- clsm on the part of experts though the interest of the public was by no means abated and there were as many visitors to the winter exhibition when the entire col- lection of the late Mr. McCulloch was shown as there usually are. There is gomething to be sald both for and against showing a collection such as that of Mr. McCulloch. For one thing it indlcates the taste of private collectors, and it glse gives the public & chance of seeing piktures that it could hot seé other- wise, such as’the beautiful portrait by Sargent of Mr. McColloch's son, and of renewing acquaintance with old favorites jguch as pletures by Millals and | Burne- /Jones. But on the whole the MColioch pictures were not of a very high standard, and those academiclans who had been spe- clally patronized might be accused of self advertisement. This. year the | academicians have re- verted to their usual custom, and it must bé sald that the present show is much better than it was two years ago, and this in spite of the splendid collection of old maste! drawn from private sources, the loan collection, which is stlll open at the Grafton galleries. The order of the pic- tures Is the same as usual, early Itallan, Duteh and Spanish leading up through Rembrandt and Van Dyck to Gainsborough and Romney, and one room filled with ple- tures by E. J. Gregory, R. A, who dled last year. The early Italian pictures are especially ®oad and (Include one or two fine examples by the ‘less known men of the fiftienth century. Among these is a “Virgin and Child" by Pinturiechlo, notable because of the treatment of the Child, which beéfore Raphael, was the weak point in so many pletures of the same subjest. The Child has a charming expression, and chamring alsa is the way he Is holding out his hands| as It wanting to play with the cherubs which encircle the group. ) ‘In his last work, Pinturicchio Is sald to have been assisted by Raphael, then a young man, and it may be that he caught some of the latter's graclousness of style; or it may be that, in the evolution of painting, he was the link between Raphael and the more primitive men. Near this “Ploture hangs a “Virgin and Chiid,” by Bottoeni, the virgin seated on_a bank with a beautiful stretch of landscape be- hind her, and an open book lying by her side. The coloring 18 rich and harmonious and the distant scene full of atmosphere. “The Nativity” by Luini s the most important paintings in this gallery, for the “Virgin and . Child” by Botticelll, the “Poftralt of a Man” by Giovanni. Bellint and the “Virgin and Child with St. John'' by:.Leonardp do Vinel are all open to disoussion. The color of the Leonar do is heavy In the halftones, especiglly in the flesh, but in the enigmatical siile on the Virgin's face recalls the “Monna Lisa." There is a “Virgin and Child and St Joseph” by Francesco Melsi, who Is sup- posed to have been a pupll of Leonardo, and the expression of the Virgin is- very like' that in Leonardo's picture mentioned above. ‘It is not surprising that so/many plotures of -whose authorship we have now no authentie knowledge should be attrib- uted first to one artist and then to an- other, a#\ puplls nearly always In thelr early days Imitate.thelr master's work. In another room Is a picture called “The Portraits ‘of the Painter and His Wite, which Is supposed to’ be by randt, but It {s more probable that it is by Phillp Koning, Rembrandt's pupll. Again_there is & portralt of a man now. attributed to _Rubens which 1s more like the youthful work of Van Dyck, who was a pupll of Rubens. To speak of all the early Itallan plctures worthy of note would be to copy the cata- logue, but the “Entombment” by . Tin- toretto, the “Daughter of Herodias” by ‘Titlan—a replica of the picture In the Doria palace—and . “Susanna and the Elders” by Veronese, must be mentioned especially. In comparing Itallan with mod- ern work one |s struck with the superior way In which blue is treated. It Is always rich and luminous, from the deepest ultra- marine to the palest gray blue, and s in harmony with the reds and yellows. In: “Susanna and the Elders” by Ver- Onese, there is'a marvelous deep blue sky which ‘falls_perfectly into place, although the rest of the plcture Is a scale of reds snd warm yellow grays. It cannot be due ‘entirely to time and varnish, though ‘these would do much to help. " the Spanish pictures s one b; Velasquez of “Our Lady of the Immacu- late Conoeption” which one would like to see m'm‘nmnm quite as much a8 the celebrated “Venus.” Beside ft hangs “Portrait of a Child," lent by J. Pler- pont-Morgan, which is simply catalogued as “Spanish School,” but has all the quall- ties of & Velasques. By the same master are “St. Jobn Writing the Apocalypse” and ‘““The Steward” & painting of stll life, {he contents of a larder, in which the figure of the steward is merely an inei- dent. Murillo's paintings are always disappoint- ing when detached from the churches they were originally intended to decorate. “The Paralytic,” which shows Christ healingthe lame man at the Pool-of Bethesda, was one Church of La Caridad, Seville. It was car- ried away by Marshal Soult, from whom it was bought by an Englishman. T t. Augustine of Hippo,” in which the saint richly dressed In robes and cope 18 ralsing his hands In a theatrical atti- tude toward the vision of a flaming heart appearing in the skies, looks merely theatrical In an ordinary plcture gallery. But imagine that picture hung in the re- cess of a chapel of a large Spanish church dimly lighted from outside by stained glass windows and Inside by candles and think what would be its emotional appeal to a crowd of kneeling worshipers With the ritual of the Roman Catholic service ac- companied by swinging censers and the rolling notes of a decp toned organ! Most of the Dutch pictures are hufig in the water color room, and among them is to be found a delicate silver gray “Por- trait of & Girl,” by Albert Cuyp. This ar- tist is so much better known by his land- #oapes with cattle, winter snow or moon- light scenes, that this picture and the spirited portrait of Willlam II of Orange ‘when & boy, with a dog and gun, come as & surprise. Cuyp’s work is more appre- clated in England than in his own country, where little more than a oentury ago his pictures could be bought for thirty florina. Now they fetch at much as £3,000. In this gallery, as with the Itallan pic- tures, it is impossible to mention all that is of—interest. One plcture that will at- tract & good deal of attention is Sir Peter Lely's fine portrait of Jane Lane, who helped Charles II to escape after the battle of Worcester, he riding disguised as her servant. Inserted in the frame is an au- tograph letter from the king, addressed to “Mistris Lane” and stgned “Your most assured and constant friend, Charles R." The picture of an ‘“Interior with a Woman Pumping,” by Nicholas, is & splen- did example of this master's work. It fig- ures in & plcture in gallery V by an un- known artist, where it is_represented as hanging on the wall of the picture gallery of the British Institution, Pall Mall. In gallery III one comes to the eigh- teenth century and the rise of the British school. Here are to be found two full length male portraits by Gainsborough, both very fine. Morgan, lent by the Equitable Life Insur< arce company, of which he was president, and the other is of John Hid, Esq., of Selghford Hall. The latter is lent by the governors of the Statfordshire General In- firmary, which Mr. Eld was instrumental in founding. There are a dozen portraits by Reynolds, of which the mobt attractive Is the one of Lady Willlam Gordon. She {was the mother of the child who sat.for the celebrated pictute of “Angels' Heads" in the National gallery,"and she has the same dellcate beauty. Romney's work always looks shin and flat beside that of Reynolds', aid the big portralt group of the Beaumont family is no exception. There are five people in this /group, but they are all detached flgures ‘and each would look equally well if the cativas’ ‘weré outisinto -stripd.. each framed by (tself. The only two who seem to belong to each other are Elizabeth and her husband, Lieutenant General Bernard, for he Is leaning on the back of his wite's chalr. The more one sees of Hogarth's ple- tures’ the more one admires his genlus. The “Lady's Last Stake” is a perfect plece of work. The subject is interesting. The lady has lost all her money and jewels gambling with an officer and the moment ‘chosen 18 where he offers them back In returp for her homor and sh wavering st hik sult. And the painting is so good. Everything Is perfectly rendered and yet 'keeps its place in the whole scheme. This picture is lent by J. Plerpont Morgan, who has also lent an ‘“Annunciation,” by Lorenzo Costa; the “Portrait of & Child,” alréady mentioned; “Depositing Glovanni Bellinis Three Pictures in the Church of the Redentore, Venice,” by Turner; the self-portrait of Mme. Viges lo Brun, “La Devideuse,” by Greuze, and the portralt ot *Mme de' Pompadour,” by Van Loo. It is interesting to note that three portraits by women, Mme. Vigee le Brun, Maria Cosway and Angelica Kauffmann all hold thelr own in such a fine collection. The latter was an Academician, the only other woman to/have that distinction being Mary Moser, the flower painter. B. J. Gregory, the lately deceased R. A, whose work fills the last gallery, was one of the least known of the academi- clans, He was a shy and retired man and his output of work was not large. He chose as a rule simple subjects, working with equal skill in oll and water colors, and his plotures of girls in boats on the upper reaches of the Thames are full of the delight of the river.on sunfiy days. The finest picture of all belongs to Mr. Sargent. This is called “Dawn.” A whole story is written In the figures of the man 4nd woman In evening /standing be- side & grand plano, the woman turning away her head while the cold light of dawn creeps slowly through the venetian biinds, combating the hot yellow glare of artificlal light. 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We are making an unususl REDUOTION FROM REGULAR PRICKS this DESKS, OMAHA Phone Douglas 346; and TABLES, ‘E.INTING CO. 918924 Farnam | 5t of a series of elght pictures painted for the One 18 of Bir Chulu‘{ the painting is as exquisite as In I.h.ln THE UMAHA TELLS OF NINEVEH'S GLORY Valuable Record “Received by the \ British Museum. BIT OF ANCIENT HISTORY Cylinder of Baked Clay Inseribed im Cuneiform Recounts the Greatness of Seanacherib and His Work in Rebuilding the City. LONDON, Jan. 8.—Sennacherib, the war- rior kong of Assyria, was not in the lehst troubled with modesty regarding his | achievements, and the latest treasure placed In the British Museum is a record which he had inscribed for his descendants, re- counting all that he did for Nineveh. The trustees of the Britigh Musenm are greatly pleased to have recelved this elght- | sided cylinder of baked clay, which con- tains the fullest acconnt of Hennacherib's work In Nineveh and elsewhere yet discov- ed. Thege are 740 lines of cuneiform | characters on it, which makes It just 23 likes longer than is the famous Taylor cylinder found by Colonel B. J..Taylor in 1890, The new baked clay record supplies his- | torical matters of the greatest importance concerning two of Sennacherib's military campaigns, gives a very full account of the king's enlargement of the eity from 9,900 cubits to 21,800 cubits, and of the build- Ing of his palace, and contributes a very valuable plece of lnloWn to the exca- vators who are working there: that s, a list of the fifteen gates of the city, with their relative positions. P The cylinder, which is about two feet In helght, occuples the place of honor in a case filled with examples of the Ninevite cunelform and 1s considered the Tinest spec- imen of them all. It Is In very good condi- tion except that on one s elght sides the clay is slightly chipped o that some of the lines are obliterated in part, “but not enough to make the translation ditficult. As soon the cylinder arrived it was glven at once to two of the officials of the museum, Who are experts at reading this| cupeiform writing; a cayeful translation pas made and the cylinder was placed in ts present position in the room devoted to Assyrian and Babylonlaw antiquities. Sennacherib did for Nineyeh what Neb- uchadfieszar later aid for Babylon. Nine- vehfs great rival clty of the Chaldeans In the’ western Aslan Assyrio-Babylonian em- pire founded by Nimrod. He made it the greatest city of the time in the then known world. He s chiefly famous as a mighty warrfor king, and the Old Testament tells of his campaign against Hezekiah, which resulted in the disaster still unexplained which lost him the main part of his army and saved Jerusalem., Here on this cyl- inder, however, he is shown as a great buflder and the record seems to have been inscribed with the special pyrpose of point- ing this out. It was buried 4n the city wall and was doubtless placed there after some ceremony commemorating the completion of the wall, very much as nowadays in England daily papers are buried under foundation stones. In his introdudtion to the section of the cylinder relating to the bullding operations, Sennacherib complains that there has been {none among “the former kings, my fathers, to widen the city’s dwelling places, to build walls, to make straight the streets and to dig a canal and plant plantations.” Neither had any of them turned his attention to “the palace therein, the dwelling place, the lordly habitation, whose site was become 100 narrdw, whose construction was not peoples of Chaldea, the Arameans, the Mannal, the men of Kue and Ciliela, the Philistines and Tyrians, “who had not sub- mitted to my yoke, I carried away and 1 set them to forced labor, and they made bricks.” He tells first of the rebullding of his “Bull colossl of white stone * * * they quarried for supporty for the doo: thereof. In order to concfruct rafts great trees In the woods throughout the whole of their land they cut down. In the month of Ivyar, at the time of the spring floods, on mighty rafts they brought them across with difficulty to the other side. In the orossing of the quay wall the great vessels sank deeper and their crews groaned and were distressed in spirit, but by might and tribulation they brought them with diffi- culty and set them up In thelr gates.” It 1s a wanderful picture of the building of one of the great cities of old when huipan labor 80 cheap that Nebuchad aerzar, for instiice, was abie to bulld a magnificent-temple In fifteen days. Sennacherib’s tale continues in this tashion: “I altered the wpfcture of the palace and enlarged its Site. Palaces of gold, silver, bronze, malachite, breccia, ala- baster, ivory, cedar, cypress, pine for my lordly habjtation I eonstructed. Bewms of cedar and cypress, whose scent is pleasant, the products of Amanus and Serara, the snow-capped mountains, I arranged in place @bove them. Doors of cedar, cypress, pine ang sindu wood, with & plating of silver and copper, 1 found. Female colossi of alabaster and fvory, wearing horned head- dresses, having bent talons, clothed with strength and vigor, full of spendor, I set up in their doorways and made fhem a wonder to pehold. With brickwérk, Ka stone ang lapis lazull I decorated the ram- parts, the cornices and all the copingh” It is a vision of barbaric spendor that\up- proaches the description of Solomon's tem- ple. - "The palace that has no rival,” Senna- cheriB called his habitation. ¥ The Kking's proudest record is of the casting of bronze lions, colossi which had been moulded in clay “as in casting half shekel plecés.” It was evidently an un- precedented achlevement. Further on he says: “The neighborhood of the palace I made beautiful. A great park wherein all kinds of herbs and fruit trees and trees the product of Athe moun- tains and of Chaldea, together/ with trees that bear wool were included, beside it I planted.” After finishing the palace he turned his attention to the city and! built an inner and an outer wall; then “I, enlarged the area of Niniveh, my lordly city, its open spaces’ 1 broadened and made it bright like the Qay. Above the city and below the city I lald out gardens.” A description of the warrior King's meth- ods of punishing rebelllous vassals follows: “Kirua, the prefect of Hjubru, a servant who was subject to me, whose god forsook him, ‘caused the troops of Ciellia to revolt and \offered battle. ‘The peoples who dwelt in Ingira and Tarsus supported him and they seized the Ciclllan road; they stopped the traffic. Bowmen bearers of shields (2 and lances, chariots and horses, my royal troops I sent against them. The troops of Cicllia who supported him they de- feated in the midst of a difficuit mountain. They conquered Illubru and Tarsus and carried off thelr speil. He himself they besieged in Illubru; his stronghold, and they cut off egress from it. With the as- sault of slege engines, great flles of the wall and * * * and the attackof foot soldlers they (defeated him and captured the city. Kirus, the prefect, with the spoil of his cities and the peoples of Cicilla who had supported him, together . with asses, oxen and sHeep, they brought to Niniveh into my presence. Kerua I flayed.” Lastly Sennacherib enjoins that “in after beautiful.” So I, Bennacherib, the king of hosts, the king of Assyria, to carry out that work according to the will of the gods, turned my mind.” That decislon was bad for the nelghbor- Ing states, for he goes on to tell how the. days among the kings, my sons, when that wall shall have grown old and shall have fallen into decay, let him repair the ruined parts of it, let him find inscriptions which recorded my name and let him offer a sacrifice and restore each to its place.” HERE s an old saylng that “Doctors differ and patients die.” The doctors are differing Just now on an important ques ‘tion. That is, the music “dof- tors” and the university *‘doe- tor For example, and towit: Here comes President Harrls of Northwestern univer- sity, Chicago, and he is reported in the prgss as having sald these words: "It Is & regrettable fact that music plays such a little part in the education of the people, and it is a shame that college graduates know so little of the sublimer works of musie. * * * A young man who goes into the world without having some idea and appreciation of music is poorly equipped r(or his lifework, for he is forever barred trom the uplifting qualities to be derived frol great musical compositions. ® ¢ * Education 1s too (#1d and it will be ma- terlally improved by the addition of mu- sical studies In connection with other col- lege courses.” This Is very encouraging conversation, coming trom President Harris, and it would Qoubtless have been accepted without a murmur had it not been for the fact that President Harrls of Northwestern made another remark which stirred things. The president is quoted as having said: *The rican people are musical barbarians, d the function of the American musician is to clvilize the people.” / . But the “doctors” differ. And so, here comes “doctor” Walter Rothwell, the con- ductor of the St. Paul Symphony orchestrs, who says that President Harrls, the “doe- tor from the Northwestern university, is wrong. The deflant, differing “doetor” of the' orchestra says: “Any person who makes such a statement is not well in- formed. Mr. Harrls has chosen a poor lo- cality for such an attack, as the musical entertalnments In Chicago are almest suffi- clent to disprove his assertion. Chicago is enjoying a revel of music,’ etc. Mr. Rothwell then proceeds to discourse upon the ‘various presentations of ‘‘The Messlah” in Chicago, the projection of an opera house for grand opera, the subscrip- tion lists for “symphony concerts’” And then he cites what is being done in St. Paul through the appearance of grand opera stafs in and recital. He says: “If mo other country In the world could an, organization like the Sym- phony orchestra be possible In a city the size of St. Paul. And these orchestras are supported by the personal guarantees of men who back them for the pure lové of music. The same s true of Minne- apolls, Spokane, Cincinrat!i, Denver, San Francisco and a great many other cities." Then “doctor” Rothwell of the §t. Paul Symphony orchestra goes on to spesk of the many musical organizations, elubs, socleties, compenies, ‘etc. Ho speaks of the demand for great violinists, pianists and soloists, (presumably he means “sing- ers') he congludes with the statement that “America 18 the must musical country on earth.” —— Naw “doctor” Rothwell may be right. When the Doctors Disagree Diagnosis of the American Attitude Toward Music by Two Eminent Experts and Some Comment Thereon Concerning the Case as Developed by the Actual Facts. But let us look & little into his diagnosis. Mr. Walter Rothwell says, speaking Chicago, “The musical entertainments.” And he says that “Chicago is enjoying a revel of music.” But is music a species of ‘“entertain- ment,” or an “enjoyment” to “revel” in? Most emphatically not. Here the musl- cal editor of The Bee distinctly disagrees with the teachings of St. Paul. (through its conductor, Mr. ' Rothwell). Music is not a pastime, it is not an entertainment, It 1s not merely an enjoyment to revel in. It is a glorious, God-given, upiifting holy art, to be studled, to be enjoyed in the highest intellectual and spiritual sense, and not physically “revelied” in, Would you speak of being “entertained” by the wondrous art of the ‘‘Sistine Madonna” of Raphael? No, No! None the less by the “Messiah” of Handel. Would you speak of the coming Mozart testival at Salzburg as the “ehjoyment of a revel?” No, No! No less should you speak of enjoying the revel of symphony eoncerts, waether in Chicago or in St Paul.\ 4 Therein lles the kernel of the nut. The tendency of the average American listener 1s"™to enjoy, rather than tp discriminate: to revel, rather than to reason: to be en- tertalned, rather than to be educated in muste, Discrimination and Discernment are the two great things lacking in our great pube lc today. The question should not be: “How much are the people of Chicago being entertained in musical ways?” but rather, “How much are the Chicago people dlscerning in a musical way?" / It 15 not a question as to how much there is to “feed.upon” musically, but as to what s “digested?” There {8 the qrux of the whole matter. A couple of ybars ago, one of the leading critfos In America v rote some. very pertinent sentences upon this subject. Here'ls one of them: “We are Importing most of our art, and nearly all of our music. We are devouring every- thing, Later on we ‘shall feast less, ana subsist better. We. shall become epicures and select with daintier appetites This eminent critic, who has-been watch. ing husicl history, as {#/1s being written in the Unitod States, longer than Mr. Rothwell, has spoken well and wisely when he stated that “we are devouring everything” and that .later on, ‘we shall feast less, and subsist better. . —— And so, again, as to Mf. Rothwell's sim- ple statement, {ssued In 1; locent guileless- neds, namely the wonderful proof of musi. oal growth afforded by the visits of Grand Opera stars in concert and recital. His dlugnosis ds not accurate. 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These consist of CLUNY LACE CURTAINS, BRUSSELS NET, BATTENBERG, DUCHESS, RENAISSANCE, SWISS POINT, We have decided in order to make a clean sweep, to offer sale price, per puwir ....85,00 all productions herewith quote: $20.00 Dresser, genuine quartered oak, golden finish, 42 inches long, has 24x30-inch French plate mirror, exactly like cut, sale price . .. slz.so $46.00 Curly Birch Dresser, with Toxdd 1n, ate price”. . $29400 $31.00 Select quartered oak Row at s $17.00 $12.50 $19.50 Quartered oak Dresser, sale price, s $66.00 Genuine Mahogany Chif- fonfer, with\scroll pilasters, also scroll pilaster mirror 332 50 o support, sale priee ... $83.00 Genuine Mahogany Chif- fonfer, with pilasters, colonial design, sale price, now At oo $35.00 $41.00 Quarter sawed Oak, French rolled Bed, a very choice piece of furniture, sale price, ,20.00 LUES IN ST $25.00 Brussels Rug, sale price $20.00 Brussels Rug, 8-3x11-6, sale price . $11.50 $16.50 Brussels 8x10-6, sale price ...........$10.50 $21.00 Brussels Rug, 8-3x10-6, lo price . ..$10.50 $16.00 Brussely Rug, 8-3x11-6, sale price ... <o - 89.50 $16.00 Brussels Rug, 8-3x11-6, sale price . . , | $16.00 Brussels sale price ... .o , | $28.00 Wilton Vesvet Rug, 10-6x12-9, sale price ..$18.50 $32.00 Wiltgn Velvet Rug, 9x11-9, sale price ....820.25 , | $22.60 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-9x12-6, sale price ..$14.00 , | $33.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 10-6x12-9, sale price ..18.25 varieties, the entire lot at one-half regular‘price. $7.50 Genuine Brussels Net Lace, sale price, per pair ....$3.75 $3.20 Cluny Lace, sale price, per pair, at ......... .$1.60 $4.80 Cluny LAce, sale price, per pair, at ..... P .$2.40 $7.50 Irish Point Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ... 8875 ,| $12.00 Irish Point Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ... -$6.00 $15.50 Irish Point Lace Curtains, J sale price, per pair, ....87.75 $16.00 Irish Point Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ... -$8.00 $4.50 Novelty Lage Curtains, sale price, per pair .,..... -$2.25 Large, stock of Nottingham and Cable Nets; ranging In price, per pair, 413.15-17 Seuth Sixteenth Stre January Clearing Sale Our January Clearing Sale, with its great price reductions, offers portunities not to be found elsewhere. the closing out of an immznse stock of Bed Room Furniture. A grand assort- of the best manufacturers. One of the strongest attractions is $43.00 Curly Birch Chiffonier; Iatest By ."". iy 322.00 price, $64.00 Genuine Mahogany Chif- fonier, swel front and wood drawer knobs, sale prioe, 8t . civon .e szs-oo $18.50 Quarted sawed and Oak ' Chiffonler, sale price, at ....... slz-w $28.00 Quarter wed and Oak Chiffonier, sale 81‘.00 price, at ... $45.00 Gent's Mahogany Auto Chiffonier, with five bins, two drawers and hat compartment on one side, and wardrobe on other 6lde, with doors closing the front, sale prwe, szo oo o now at . $30.00 Quarter sawed Oak Gent's Auto Chiffonier, five bins, two purtment, saie price - - $20:00 OCK RUGS $26.50 Wilton Velver Rug, 9x12-3, sale price ....$16.00 $35.00 Wiiton Velvet Rug, 10-6x12-9, sale price . .817.75 $28.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-3x10-6, sale price ...$12.00 $21.50 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-3x11-7, sale price ...$13.00 $31.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 10-6x11-6, sale price ..$19.00 $16.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 6x7-6, sale price .....$10.50 $15.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-2x8-3, sale prive ... .. 89,50 $19.50 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-3x8-8, sale price~....810.75 $22.50 Wilton Velvet Rug, 8-3x12, sale price ....814.00 $24.00 Axminster Rug, sale pride .e...$13.50 $13.50, Axminster Rug, 8-3x12, sale price ............$9.00 ) N\ $6.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ........88.00 $7.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair .,......$3.50 1$1.80 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ceveeee D0 $8.00 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair . $4.00 $10.00 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ., $5.00 $14.50 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair ., 7.25 $16.00 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price, per pair - $8.00 from ..........81.75 to 85 quently the remark: “No, I am not going to hear her: I heard her once!’ b Furthermore, our people will go by hun- dreds to hear a grand opera star in a song recital, and pay & good stiff price for their seats, and ofttimes when théy get there the cupboard is bare of real intrinsic sing- ing-merit, faults\are heard which would be reproved by, any singing-teacher of ordi- nary good musical character in his pupils, and the most atrocious vocal crimes are committed—and condoned—because it is & prima donna. But these same people of ours will be utterly indifferent to local musical endea- vor of the very highest and best kind, or if they support it at all, 4t must be under?’ the form of “patrons and patronesses.” And even then the musical, the genuine musioal, worth, will- not be the causing motive, but thej far nferior one of “local pride.”” And just as likely as not these same dear people of ours will lend their support and thelr Influence to something which is dolng more harm than good to the com- munlty, through a perverted judgment, or the blind following of & jealous activity on the part of persons who will stop at nothing in their efforts to thwart a good work. This is true, in the highest degree, of almost eyery city of any musical pre- tension in fhe blessed and beloved United States. This is the warfare of the true musician everywhere, the Battle of the Standards! The musical editor of The Bee knows nothing of the performances of the St. Paul symphony orchestra, for the simple reason that he has never heard them; he takes it for granted that they are good, be- cause he has noted with pleasurq Mr. Roth- well's work along orchestral linés in other directions; neither does he know what in- fluence is being exerted in St. Paul to de- velop things musical, so that St Paul may be considered & musical cenfer; but he does know that Mr. Rothwell i reckless when he says that “America is the most musical country on earth.” Mr. Rothwell 1s reckless when he points to the supposed fact that Chicago is a musical center, as compared with other cities of the same size and significance in Europe. Mr, Rothwell s reckless when he dlag- noses our musical condition as being the healthiest on earth, when a little study of the subject would convince him that we devouring the spurious as hangrily as the sincere; the meritriclous as gréédily as the meritorious; the loathsome as much as the lovely; the trivial as heartlly as the true; the vulgar as freely as the, vir- tuous. We will continue until we havé a bad case of “nerves or some other mentally recitals depended strictly on the merits of thelr work and not on their names? Thy prima donna regital 1s a business affair pure and simple. Curiosity is far more powerful than pure merit. People go lurgely out of curiosity'to hear the “great” pecple, because the names are known. It this is not true, why does one hear so fro. and psychically disgestive disturbance, and let us beware, lest in the differing of the “doctors,” the patient dle! But let us return to the other “doctor.,” Prosident Harrls is quoted as having sald: “It Is & regretable fact that music plavs such @ litte part iu the education-of the people. * * ¢ Education is too cold and it will be materially improved by the addition of musical studies,” ete. Did you notice that word, “materially?” “It will be materlally improved.” Now that should appeal to the business man, Who wants the most for his money. It would be ‘“materially” {mproved. Most people who are engrossed with business cares consider musical studles as a sort of “frill,” as & specles. of ‘“‘sentithental’ matter, without any practical ebd; but here comes a noted educator who says that “education s too cold,” and that it will be “materially improved by the addi- tion of musical studies,” Foot ball and other college sports have been tried, and have proved unavalling. They are jentirely of the physical. Some mental work Is necessary, of course, but it is not of the higher order; now let the “material improvement” of musical study be introduced, and let us watch for results, The foot ball game is a revenue producer, say you? But is the university to be- come a business proposition? It so, then we will sec fewer “grants” to universi- ties. Universities should stand first, foremost, and finally fot the highér education, and It universities and the general public will persist In fostering the foot ball game, as @galngt maintaining a musical nucleus, then the evidence s in favor of President Harrls of the Northwestern University of Chicago, who says, in his dlagnosis, that the “American people are: musical bar- barians.” THOMAS J. KELLY. —— Musical Note: A musicale will be given at Unity church, Wednesday, January 2, 1910, 8:15 p, m., when the following program will be pre- sented: Organ solo, alrcho Religieuse. ...Guilmant Martin Bush, (8) Andante v Jom xS sodlen +eree DA ore anmort, mollnf Mr, (a) Don .Yuln"glr:nllz . ot (b) Requiem. 2 Polonalise Jeu des O Invocation., Violin_ obligato, Mr, ITyman at the plano, Andante Rell; Mr. Henry Al > organ. aust) .. The following program was #tven at the Young Woman's Christian association on Monday evening by Miss Lillian Fitoh, reader; Miss Luella Allen, violinist; Miss Grace Hancock, planist: Scene de Ballet. Miss Luel Reading—The Youn; Miss, Mis: Bellad of Bast and Wewt. Miss P Romance ...,.... /A plano recital by the advanced pupils Of Miss Alma 8. 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