The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 13

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as observant as he naturally .that there was a newness and a fiankness sve seen that men who knew about them that was out of the ordina nt and do it well did not em- He saw the luminous coloring,. the accu rate study of the universe and the con- In putting the color on bhis palette as he sisteut element of human nature ¢id he obtained what critics call th> That such a man, gifted as he andoubdt- “mosaic effect,” but what a woman called ecly was, should have had such a short l_l(.‘ “wool work.” And really nothing de is @ deplorable fact. He decided Lo paint scribes his work quite:as well. Kvery one two large triptychs. one of which he has seen these funny Mitle wool dolls nearly ‘completed. while the other was with the worsted put on in little pieces but rudely sketched. For months and like French knots. ““The Spring of the months he worked with a orin Aips” hdd for all world precigely this ing mnearer to completion ¥ eflect = ture’ and “Death —— This wonderful bit of natyre, by the In September. 180, he dgelded to add a way, has more than a passing interest. few touches to them where they hfd born It was ordered by a San Frencisco boy painted. He might have neglected” some- whose merry pranks have been Lhe top's thing; someting might have slipped his of many a dinner since he has won memory. The wotor was well advanced, fame and renown in all lands on ac- and he had return=d to his home fa:cher count of his clever paintings. To say\ down the mountain. but nothing daunted that Toby Rosenthal ordered a picture he resolved to go up again and add a would-be the same Lhing as saying that few finishing touches. 8o he engaged the work was splendid. eise it would have me hardy herdsmen to carry the pan- remained unseen and unhcard of back to a louely, deserted but, and Rosenthal was an ardent admirer of checrfully went into the glistening snow Eegantini, While' traveling obout Ru- to study the grandeur of mature, which rope with an old friend he chanced to he tried so hard to perpetuate. 2 s,enk of the remarkable work sccom- - Everything was clad in an jey mask, pllshed by this Jtalian, who passed his and, while it was beautiful and awe- t'me in the Alps, and in this way he inspiring, it was anvthing but heajthy. pizead an order with Segantini for some- Afier two days, In which he was®orced thing of peasant life. That was the sole (o drink melted snow for water, he was stipulation made. W the work was taken !1l. He had gone up there with about cor Segantini v ~ to Rasen- the idea of. taking one meore look at and thal and asked if he would kindly pay putting down nature as nobody else had, him a isit. He d and refused to be carriel home until pert bout whick his work was done. But as .one thing speak followed another, he fnally sent for Wher ca ve medical aid, Peritonitis had set In, and top Alpine home he was gravely asked to the two German dectors. who arrived Z e painting. To look at it would after a periloys trip, were of no avalil. \ > t fgvor, by vitlcize far On the 28th, just ten days after his hope- greater plimént ter the nvas ful ascent intg the heights, he cressed I ha ivered in this couniry Rosen- the borderiand from which no man re- | thal received a small picture. turns. Il elf, with 4 note from Seganti And so passed ane of the greatest men e s'he call of this age-a man childlike in his ex- treme simplicity. but possessing an eager, t he would see more of wistful heart. He passionately loved all re. In this wuy began a things beautiful, and gladly gave his lifg was lasting and that was in his valn endeavor to understand, and as well as a benefit to knew the things timt have been and are yel a mystery to all men, him, guod suggestions and s works, many of them pa‘nt Now that he has been gathered to the” 1 s freezing on the canvas, lana of his fathers, his works are eager- y i t.e ly sought out and purchased at princely | ment. alzed prices L BY MRS. E. P. SCHELL. third teund from moderate strength is a icate undertaking. A great many ar- great many ha gue that in cgses where the legd is from ntative rumiy four trumps, headed by an ace, it is per- f the cards mijscible, cr even obligatory at times, (o r round atonce permit adversaries to win the second f the first trick roupd, thus insuring the retention of the vponents, when one lcud when the ace fs led for the third ther round of trumps reund t much risk. ' When In prac HERE ce this rule seldom proves as # of a third round atisfactory as thut which is bgsed upen &s to be considered sufficiency of two rounds, with the : to when the lcad =till in hand. a plain suit lead being 1. espevially then the safg resort. While advising cau- 1 of less tion regarding the third round under 1 would doubtful ccnditions, the writer desires at it or the same time to impress upon the stu- clearly marked, even though advers may be known to hold a losing trump For the same reason that a third rou at South has none ag, for if the er the of trumps ond rou tive is 1, however, the parently justifiable, in the extreme, ar only when the situation is c and partner’s possibie holdi re-entry and Bis ding earts not yet de to be abandoning ap partner a me thro should be made arly rked in trumpps & purposes a the posaibl uth leads a low heart, r makes the king and returns a Adversaries may have started trumps u i der the mistaken impr that his South holds the trick with the partner was calling fc lead, but a forces with the ace. West must 2 a heart, whi takes with hi of diamonds, a nd would be !°2 safer Inference ia that his benefited by having trumps exhausted ace, and makes his jack An interesting deal ice of two tricks TABLE No. 2 North S8 4 Tk. N ¥ 8 w H.—K 7d «Qd 74 3d D ss y S *As Ke A 7"r1F » SOE&RAN TINT \ THRT IS pow AN FrRRANCIICO >ceed without money, and with no education, made u s 1w whe here's a will there's a way,” ot ‘e 314 do. At @nd he worked st anything that chanced preferable along and studied as best he could and picture was painted on a sugar bag dipped in oil and stretched on r frame, and the colors were given a mise a kindly grocer for whom he nt sign. This picture was ol ‘Choir of the Church of Sant’ Ane é y 0.” There was a something about ig w str - rming was new, a brilliancy heretofore un- r ged o ainabie, and these who know say the Frasmce w eaches boy made a giscovery second only to the pped at a bubbling employment of perspective. This picture, ring to drink, but as village after vil. mind you the first he had ever painted, p gt 19 wag exhit era, in 1579, and . hot, the road received 1 ] ar g= began to get ray the lives and ' sre.. The ck was P ¢ that he knew At length he lay well. He u‘?’»r.\l;;nd m; L 4 £ % ’ Thade B & AN R ey < that comes after hours o & : W=> 2 TR SRR RS, T3 » rash of the storm what it was to drag one CAE= f over ad leader t after another, he knew the Y RLOUGNHING iy of Giovannl utter helnlessness of their lives and he ’ Seg the rugged folk knew perfectly their sorrows and joys Segantini’s works were nearly all large - was ever pisin to gnd his ideas were simply immense. - Heo sult in loss, but for good reasons for a e S5 thussht fittle or Hotbing of putthas ialken wise course a sufficlent excuse, while 4 S 3s ar He into one painting and the straight lines poor reason for timidity is most exagper- A e s g tors were, an” that he so successf employed would ating. When an original trump lead i C-Q 18 9,2 Q oAD - and in lan- be absojutely appalling to any one but » made grom five or more the question of D.—A,J, 10, 4 3 §h Jh s were of master. the thlrd round is - greatly simplified . five clubs; South to lead. ¥ West North and South a r selling flowers His style of work was strange and new. Partner may have been able to announce TABLE No. 1 Trick I—The jack, according to modified Otk bistblnr Pur tudenge, i he winied fo e his halding ir tyumps, no opportunity for W. inferences. signifies a suit containing ace usne w t of his life, and g'dn’t mix it first on his palette, bug a. echo having been afforded, or adver- 51 jack. ten or king. jack, ten: it is also led alone, the placed the yellow over the green, and saries may have false-carded, and it be .J\, from the top of suits of four or more with & T folks and constant then cut it down and rubbed it off untl N fmpossible to read the distribution of the .\j_ the ten: never as the head of suits of three f the color shone through just as he want- trumps out against the leader. With such = “Ke ied by the ten ed it to. In this way he held o the vivii iditions existing 1t_comes down to a "As an “atta his work was wonderfully clear matter of deciding what is to be gained s ment.” The situa not strike c of presenting a muddy urky 'y a third round, or how much it is pos- 3"3 in the same wa t older of ; = tibie to lose, provided the trump lead is 2h his cards at the who properly The “Spring of the Alps,” which hange FRITH INOORROW discontinued. f Jed trumoe at this t . € a private Art gallery in thig city, was ¢ Holding a strong plain suit requiring Trick 7-South’s play at this stage is . green a m cut down i rubbed off four times be ¢cond round of trumps and cause no gent's mind the distinction between pru- little effort to secure Its establishment. a h 4 clever. His partner has nothing in dia . ! e fore he considersd the tone and finish Serious damage (o one's general strength Geuce and timidity. The former dictates third round of trumps can do no especial East and West 19; North and South 3. me: or spades. Should he draw the oo - - d ric s R, his might seem & long, round- by their leads, a third round of trumps C4re when one has started out with the harm, even if partner is the only one to Trick 1—West commences the “attach- jack of trumps and find North weak in grew e the e nature about way to obtain the desired result, will surely draw one from each adversary, !dea 'n view of “looking over the ground” follow. From a hand in which the plaln ment” to show no more diamonds when hearts, he makes his aces. at most. but sympathios § 3 ty all suffering. but it was his means to an end. Whether and if partner is vold it will give him ©n the possibilities of the hand. The lat- suit strength is eveniy distributed, again it is completed. 15 Novth Holds (s Mourt trich sn ® . ey sting affection Seganthi would have gone about his la- the chance to declare his suit by his dis- '€T indicates lack of courage when a for- the third round is wise, as offering the Trick 2~In the modified system the king a diamond, the possibilities of . all thing n o1 in a different fashion had he been card, would be advisable without ques- ward game has been opened by partner safest continuation of the development or led shows ace or queen in a long suit; if hand are considerably increased t in e arvelous su instructed in a modern school is u matter tion, especially when the lead would stiil OF one’s self and nothing of any momen! as likely to piace the lead to advantage. ¥rom a short suit either jack-er ten. Trick 8—South evidently does not read . 1ssed he had an in- for conjecture. But one thing is certain. be retained. If the lead were ‘lost. the D&8VINg occurred to cause a change in tac- Having opened the trumps on general Trick 3—With the spades solld and stop- his partner as having held four originaliy s « s step-sister and to Even while he had but little book lore he play may even then be justified by one's tics. principles, with no plain suit werth work- pers in each of the other sults, Bast leads or he would have covered with the ten t Milan sgain. His foster people, ai- was at perfect liberty to haunt the gal- holding. or by the development alreadv Both take under consideration partner's ing for, two rounds should suffice for the trumps. As a matter of fact, he has lit- drawn the jack of trumps and made an see b 5, did leries of fine arts as much as he pleased, secured. As a general ruie, however, a support or acquiescence. Either may re- time being when partner’s holdink is not tle choice. He cannot touch either heart extra trick in diamonds.

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