The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1896, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1896. 17 Y7 OMEN art in id in this as he more 1 Hill and H s and depth 1y relish the ARAW Fisher may haunt of the Yosemite, " is true 1 y of the lily. be said i nce to the wild lowers that every spring with their varied hues and tints, sides and the ficlds, and even the ways and by the men more lana- the women is not exactly sublime and One finds among inte choo beauti p: maun the 1, both from prefer- | because woman the g all the according were never over oth ing than e will be ays are ¥ and re- n order to scene achieve a triumph in <k from higher ridges than were ever ascend- ed by paint fore, w becomes a hermit, nself, as it were, from the world of civilization for weeks and months. The inspirati him meets no di When the ideal view it his own, s it til effaceably in his mina a on his ori 1al sketc lated into a glorious realism. Now, as to his sister-artist exercise her talent or even genius in regions not so difficult of access, or she may pursue her stud of nature member of a summer pleasure part when it comes to a long, lonely, individual tramp through some unfrequented and rugeed piece of country—why, thatis quite another thing. is mi she will as a KE SARAH B F ROSES, BY | tion of a scene in the Coos River country, wealth and abundance they usurp grain- fields and line the tracks and roads al- most from one end of the State to the other. Insome localities they bloom all | the year round. To-day, if one chances to visit the Cliff House, little poppies may be found thereabout without any trouble. Miss Kendall has made caretul studies of many species of wild flowers and has a gallery ot original art works that are as creditable as they are highly interesting. ender is known among artists the ‘‘poetic flower-painter.” v although her work has a wide range. Her painting of a lot of superb Bon Silene roses and agrippinas has won much favorable comment, although not more so than her attractive picture of violets in a glass. he rose painting above mentioned was nally sketched from flowers plucked in May, before Eastern rcses are in bloom. 1t might be observed here, too, that the garden flowers—even those that are intro- duced here from the East—grow larger and more beautiful than they do elsewhere. Miss Bender has also done some fine work in California pinks. The sketch by Miss Adelaide Hanscom | of Berkeley is a meritorious representa- | Oregon, about fifteen miles above H)c! mouth. The mountainous country there | is thickly timbered, and the nnderbrush is | so dense that one is forced to cut his way through it he does not take a beaten trail. Fir, spruce and cedar trees abound. In fact, bears and panthers make their in that region, which is wild in more than one. Miss Hanscom was a member of a camping party that spent the summer of *94 on Coos River, and her col- lection of sketches taken thereabouts is | something of which any young artist | might well be proud. | | as lets and roses are her favorite subjects, Mrs. Susan Sroufe-Loosley has traveled nsively both in this country s Europe and she is free in the expres: ence, although such a view does not look able. The preference, in ny instances, is similarly for the sublime, but in the way of the desire of the fen artist is that question of accessib above referred to. Perhaps all such pr lems will be successfully and satisfactorily solved when the scepter of the new woman wav the land. It is not an easy matter to do justice to the devotees of art among the women of San Francisco. Some have won honors in the East and in Europe. TuE CaLL to-day furnishes sketches from a number of them. The time will douotless come when, by some process vet to be discovered, the daily paper will he enabied to picture landscapes and flowers it colors on short notice and without the large amount of trouble and expense that attends such efforts at the present day. unreasc ale The sketch by Miss Lillie L. Kendall is | that of a bunch of California poppies (eschscholtzias) and wild oats. The fact that the eschscholtzia is the California State flower causes especial interest to at- tach to it. These poppies grow wild and often nearly cover the landscape. In the soring of the year when they are in great ' begun to discover the urnumbered scenic attractions of our own State,” remarked Mrs. Loosley. “One might spend years in that portion of the Colorado Desert which lies in Riverside County and be contin- | iy finding new and delightful as well as 1d and impressive scenes.” The sketch by Mrs. Loosley is that of the waterialls in Tahquitch Canyon, near Palm Springs. The latter place is eight es from Palm Springs station, and to hita desert of fine rock and sand is crossed. The palm groves that appear here and there for nearly 300 miles up into the mountains make a splendid sight. They are from twenty to seventy feet high and have black clusters of | fruit. Many of the trees have charred trunks, the Indians believing that by char- | ring the trunks of the trees they make the | palmiruit sweeter. The notion is a foolish | T | one, of course, and the Indians in so doing | are simply hastening the death of the very trees they depend oa for mucn of their | choice food. In the black canyons near | Palm Springs are many cacti. } Mrs. Loosley has ted Alaska,and heri collection of curios is a rare and valuable | one. In connection with her studio is | quite a museum, wherein may be found THE BARROW OF ROSE BY ALICE B. | Cu | the impressionist s | a native of Boston, but for twenty years | the | give a large portion of it to the Soci | the | colleges. treasures of art, antiques and curios from all parts of the world. There is a fine case of mineral specimens. Here is the eye of a whale, and there are a whale’s ears petri- fied. In a cage in one corner is a Gila monster, whose bite is deadly poison. It lives on eggs. The figures that nature painted on the Gila’s back remind one of an Indian hieroglyph. Mrs. Loosely makes a specialty of land- scare painting, although portraiture and tlowers, etc., are among her works. Miss Alice B. Chittenden’s sketch is that of a wheelbarrow full of roses. The orig inal may be seen at the Hopkins Art In- stitute, where it never fails to attract favorable notice. It may be said that Mise Chittenden has made, perhaps, the most extended study of wild flowers of any California artist. In her studio may be seen sixty paintings, each representing one or more native flowers. Each paint- ing is a work of art in itself, It isthe in- tention, ultimately, to have a volume pub- lished, with illustrations of native flowers based on this collection. Miss Chittenden | has also won encomiums for portrait paint- ing; but she takes especial pride in her floral work—roses and chrysanthemums | being her specialties. She paints these flowers out of doors and there is a fresh- T | the most excruciating pain while in har- | ness. Its active and _effective work is | among the ignorant and inhuman owners \ of unfortunate animals, accounts of whose revolting brutalities have recently ap- \I.emd in the daily papers; fiends who have invented ingenious cruelties so dia- bolical that I fear to describe them lest some heartless person should remember and again put them in practice. These cases were prosecuted, but the offenders | were let ofi] in the justice courts with a | trifling fine. These Justices are morally as | brutal as the brutes they seek to shield.— [Obser\'er. | MOVED EUGENIE TO TEARS. Mrs. Cora Potter Relates a Pathetic In- cident of Her Stay at Cowes. “A pathetic and never-to-be-forgotten incident occurred to me while stopping at | Cowes, the great English yachting center, | in the summer of 1886, writes Mrs. Cora | Urquhart Potter. *“What is called the "‘Squadron week’ was in full swing, and the beautiful Solent was crowded with | yachts belonging to the princes, nobility ! of England. {and wealthy commoners | Conspicuous among the magnificent craft assembled was the Osborne, the royal acht, on which his Royal Hhighness the B al the Princess of Wales | and their family were spending the time. | “Entertainments were the order of the CALIFORNIA POPPIES, BY LILLIE KENDALL. ness about them that smacks of the sun- light and the open air. Miss Eva W. Withrow has attained dis- tinction as a por t-painter. The sketch on this page is from a portrait of J. Frank rier. who was Miss Withrow’s teacher in Munich, and who is one of the t of hool. Mr. Cu r is 1as made enter. German art ng his home in the His painting, “The Whist Buoy,” created something of a sensation in the art world a few years ago. Miss Withrow takes a promment rank among our portrait-painters. Some years ago she painted a sketch of San Francisco, look- ing toward the bay, from her studio. It attracted attention, and was sold and taken to England. The owner of this painting recently died, and now Miss ion of ainting, and has made overtures to purchase it back. Withrow is eager to regain poss To Make People Kinder. If I had a million to give away I shouid v for Prevention of Cruelty to A Is. That this society is sadly in need of ben | day at Cowes, for the session ends there the 12th of August, carrying all the men | north to the moors for shooting. I had received an invitation from H. R. H. the Princess of Wales to lunch on the Os- borne, and at the hour named I stepped on the launch awaiting me at the castle steps and steamed out to the ht. *‘It was one of those glorious summer vs when nat eemed to have put on as bright, beautiful Arri at the great k's gangwa ved by the Prince—whose courteous mannerisa b; word the world over—and soon found my | self the center.of a brilliant party. con- spicuous among whom were the King of ireece, the Crown Prince of Austria and | the King of Portu al. and, ] , the | sad-eyed but beautiful Eugenie, Empress of the French. d he: a doc e ‘‘After lunch, and during the idle hour | before tea was served, the Princess asked | me if I would recite something. I had | often_recited for her Royal Highness by fore, but on this occasion she wished | to do so specially for the Empress Fuge: whom I now had the honor of meeting for the first time. I was not at all nervous, for no people in the world knew better how to make one feel at perfect ease than those among whom I found m =X d the Princess if she had any choice pieces, and she said no; but suggested I VIEW ON COOS RIVER, OREGON, BY ADELAIDE HANSCOM. factions to carry on its merciful work is a reflection on the humanity of opulent hilanthropists, who seem to bave iallen into the habit of confining their gifts to These colleges devote a portion of their benefactions to promote the inde- fensible study of vivisection. Cornell University boasts a large class in vivisec- tion and teaches students to gouge out the | eyes of living cats and scientifically note their slow death by the watch. Recent bene- factions to our own university have rend dered the study of vivisection a possibility of the immediate future. The Humane Society will not be able to reach these highly educated offenders any more than it has the fashionable people who dock their horses’ tails, and, in_the attempt to make cheap animals look stylish, check their heads so high that the animals suffer should give one of the many characteristic little American poems she had heard me recite before. So I stood up. “The Empress was close to me, right | before me, and I gave ‘Kentucky Belle.’ I saw the tears gradnally gathering in her great, sad eyes, and fall silently down her pale cheeks. I had touched and touched deeply a chord that reverberated through the chambers of her memory, and took her back to a scene far away in Africa, where her dead boy lay, pierced to the heart by the assegais of the savages, to | whom he dearly sold his lite. “When the last words of the poem left my lips the Empress rose, and, coming up to me, folded me to her heart, and, with a voice trembling with emotion, said: ‘God bless you, my child. You have made me feel as I have never felt since my poor boy | class of e { wooden SKETCH OF ). F. CURRIER, BY MISS EVA WITHROW, was killed—God bless you! I shalil never | forget this day.’ Then she kissed me, | and, drawing me to a seat by her, holding | my hand in hers, she talked to me for a | long time, and I felt keenly what the loss | of that son meant to the sweet, gentle woman besi me, who haa once been Empress of the French.” —~Boston Herald. 2 SElad n for Entertainers. A worthy sian tradesman who in- vited his friends some time ago to a soiree dansante has had a bad experience of the iners whom George Gros- ety clowns. One of his | smith where Romeo does not die till Juliet awakes from her trance. Mrs. Kemble con- sidered this a finer end from a dramatic point of view. It certainly is.” Isit? The scene on the stage is terrible enough as it is, and the emotions of terror and pity are as intense as an Aristotle could wish. How, then, could we bear the agony of a scene between the dving Romeo and his awakening bride? It is horrible to read of, but to set before one’s eyes would be, in' my judgment, intolerable. In the story meant for reading it is ap- propriate, and arouses the feelings of com- miseration to the highest degree. Shake- (2 THE FALLS IN TAHQUITCH CANYON, BY MRS, LOOSLEY. | friends recommended him to secure the | services of a certain young man to amuse uests. The tradesman took the ad- :, and the young man was among those nded the soiree. First, the young man g an imitation of Pa then be- gan an imitation of Mme. rah Bern- hardt. So far, all went well. The per- former then said: “I shall now give you my celebrated sketch of the ‘gzentleman who takes the piano to vieces to find a_halfpenny he has aropped inside it.”” First he took off the e, then he proceeded to un- screw tke instrument, piece by piece, and to pile up the pieces on the floor. There was much laughter when, after all this, the voung man said, “I have it,”” ana ex- hibited a halfpenny. When it came to putting the piano together again, how- ever, he declared it must be sent to the maker's, and there was therefore no dancing that night. A hundred francs damages were awarded by a court of law to the outraged tradesman, who very naturally pleaded that when bhe invited an entertainer to make h was not in order that they should be made to laugh at his expense.—London Daily News. ROMEO AND JULIET. Shakespeare Changed the Construction for the Better. In one important matter Shakespeare has followed neither Bandello nor Porto, but Boalstuau and Brooke. Inthe drama Rome is dead when Juliet awakes; in Bandello and Porto there is a terrible scene between the dying husband and the waking wife. And I cannot for- bear to offer a few remarks on this matter, because many have considered Shakespeare’s version inferior. I do not think Shakespeare has always improved on what he has received from others, but in this respect, assuming that he knew the other version of the dying scene, I think he has; or, to put it in an- other way, I think the dramatic version is the better onme for dramatic purposes, whether our English poet madz a de- liberate choice or not. *“Mrs. Fanny Kemble,” says a writer in the Sat- urday Review (September 24, 1892), “pre- ferred, apparently, Garrick’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to the original. “Garrick returned to the finale in the novel of ‘La Giulietia,” by Luigi da Porto, 7 speare has reached the same end, though Romeo dies first. Both are right, I con- sider; the story for a story, the drama for a drama. Faultless and infallible the English ZEschylus was mnot, but to side with Garrick here and to offer Shakespeare ‘“‘the show of violence’’ would be ‘‘to do him wrong, being so majestical.”’—Gen- tleman’s Magazine. 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