Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-23
Ahaut ~sanitarY Fairs.

lew 4o0 NCEc NrCTcliE HIl!IE your
bosom the while-"not with the sweet
smiles of the maidens who filed pockets,
and emptied your poeket-bookss" Fie
to deny it-well then, say it was-and |
know it true-with the thankful tears of
joy-blind soldiers, who shall gather com
forts from the tree of blessings roofing in
could not fail TO be. If our people lack
Ell ability and heart to conduct such
affairs, then We should not have our
million soldiers for whom 10 labor and to
pray. This thought is only the door TO
another, which is that as we have sen:
our full corps Of noble soldiers, thus PROV
ing that we are worthy Of defence; SO let
us prove worthy OF our defenders.
TTumbull County should hold a Sani-
tary Fair. She would not receive the
many thousands of dollars that Northern
Ohio poured in at Cleveland but eve
one thousand, is worth an effort that shall
bless cheerful giver, and glad receiver
Many who could not visit Cleveland Fair
would thus have opportunity of resting
eyes that weary of life's daily cenes
with glimpses of sweet pictures, tasteful
decorations, fragrant flowers and curious
relics. Recrestions in which an under
tone of mercy tempers the gay song of
mirth, cannot be oYer-yalued. What is
done for our soldiers could, however,
more truly be called works of justice and
LOue, rather than mercy"
June-"the month of roses" will show
US a dry grassy Fair-Ground, where build
ings already await us. There are no
fountains there, L regret to say, but the
Agricultural Society ought to add some
new features to the grounds, and in our
days of pumping engines, could not even
fountains be made a refreshing reality in
Old Trumbull.?
We should have 10 imperial central
figure, as that of Commodore Perry, in
our Floral Hall, but then our failures
would be less apparent. As for rich yerd.
ure on the walls, lovely wreaths and glow.
ing stars Of flowers, we need not hesitate
to pledge them, with a cluster of canary
cages shaking with songs, pauseless and
full of volume We can create lovely,
b ell-adorned grottoes; and from Oul
hills that offer their varied stones. We car
learn how to arrange mimic hillsides.-
Beautiful ferns margin u springs, oul
moses are ~unrivalled. In h~ouse-plant'
F we can more than rival the Cleveland ex
lhibition. {Of course this season has toe
many freaks of temperature to invite con
servstory plants way from their cosy
nooks.) Have we no naturalist who
could show us specimenso of animals, fowls
and insects, both living and preserved
t Wicker chairs and Wsyside Inns are ne
cessities at Sanitary Fairs. In the way
of Fine Arts we may do much if our souli
flower out TO the work. If we cannot
have Rossiter's washington and Lafay.
cite at Mt. Vernon" we shall not there
fore be discomfort. Ii covers II ii feet
of canvas, and shows a pretty garden
scene, ! know, as well as a lovely glimpse
of river stween some groups of noble old
trees, while the light is gently meliowed
the finish is fne, and two figures that
your eyes long Finger over stand in mutu.
al difference in the old NJ. Vernon porch,
Mrs. Martha Washington, absorbed in
reading a letter Is very beautiful; snd
here begin the defects. Her position is
not ali grace, then her children are psint-
ed as rather younger than they must
have been at the time bat the saddest
defect is that Nary Washington bears 10
mark of age; and were il not for the stur.
dy outlines of her figure which re all
recognize instantly. and a matron's ker.
chief and cap, one would not think posi-
bic that is Washington's mother. Her
face Is fresh and full with no line of care,
or grief, or age, and her hand shows as
fair, soft, plump and dimpled, as it must
have done in girlhood; while her illus
trious son shows his years more plainly.
As she was our country woman, and
George Washington wac the father OF
our country" so he must have been his
mothers father, Ell? ! know it auda-
cious TO indulge such gossip over RossitePs
twelve thousand dollar picture. Rossiter,
who SO sweetly painted Ann Hathaway
at Shakespeare side; but seeing his
"Arnold Taking Leave of his Wife"
where a fair woman in blue, is half pros
trate on the upper landing, while a dis
tract looking man rushes wildly down the
stair, with his hand to his head, as if his
angel in blue had been playing blue-angel
with his hair,-you grow bold.
Yet if the masters are not at our serv-
ice, there are still many dainty landscapes
scatte red now and then, among many
not so dainty or so fine, that collected
and t~astefully arranged, would be pleas
ing in effect. Let not the word Statuary
appall US. I.could but think when in
Cleveland Fine Art Hall, that beside that
high word, n ought to pencil, Erratum,
for Statuary read Statu -ette-ary or Statue
nary as the pieces although not all des-
picable, were such small figures. Imay
be pardoned light words of a few things
in Cleveland Fair, since its near approach
to perfection rendered deficiencies the
more apparent.
Audience Hall lies in our power too
We certainly can present ar Amateur
Dramatic Performance" an "Old Folks
Concert" a "Floral Concert by children"
and a lecture by some master of the TO-
rum-possibly some poetic readings.
A Museum is easily accomplished
Each one has only to gather that he can,
whether petrean, ore, fossil or shell spec
linens. autographs, ancient sketches, aged
wares. and the like. But first bring the
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