The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-29
Slle Albalsg 2egister.
Ths Young Artl.s.
mr. vIBaiNIA DEroREsT.

aud lively, but not volatile. She did mot
J9y ef from pursuit, nor even an amuse-
ment, until she had accomplished her
purpose, or played out the play" With
a character Of great energy, she was
perfectly ingenious, and as docile and
ohedient as many yeung Indies are, who
have, as Pope slanderously says of most
OF our sex, sno characters at all. !"
w hen she first came to the ssyoung
ladies' seminary where we were school
fellows, she commenced drawing and
Nr. Mason soon pronounced her one of
his most promising pupils. She was not
content with copying the productions of
others; and her judicious instructor en-
couraged her determination to learn the
art of designing by drawing from real
objects. So when she had exhausted all
hts models--his wooden globes, and
cubes, and pyramids, and cylinders, and
piles of blocks, and bronze figures of
greyhounds and lyons, she Forthwith
commenced sketching landscapes from
nature and wherever we went visiting,
Maying, or botanizing, Fanny always had
her sketch book or her Bristol boards
and pencil; and while the rest of us
frolickcd, she drew pictures. This went
on so constantly, that at last she came to
be designated among us as ssthe Sketch
er, just in the same way as we denomi-
mated Marion Raymond .sthe Poet, and
( fFanny's sister, Harriet, ssthe Pianist, =
because they took the lead of us all, in
poetry and music.
So long as Fanny confined herself to
sketching landscapes. We thought it q
mere matter of giriish fancy; but when
after severe course of drawing the
human figure from models, she actually
took up oil colors and painted good por~
traits Of her sister and myself, We began
to think there was some serious object In
view, although the large fortune of Col
onel, Farquhar, her father, entirely ex-
eluded the idea of its being a mercenary
one,
One day, when we were above in her
little chamber, puzzling ont a hard Latin
lesson, took the opportunity to qucs~
tion Fanny about it, in bantering way,
as though it were just for idle gossip.
"Pray, Fanny" said I, sswhat could
possess yon to soil Your delicate hands
and spoil / don't know how many silk
aprons with those horrible oil colors! |
never heard Of such thing"
s'Oil colors are more easily managed
than water colors; and they certainly
produce much stronger effects
81 should think they would, at least,
on ones olfactories, -turpentine OIL !.
pah r
ooh, that is nothing. 1t is very easy
TO keep ones studio nice ifone only takes
pains. You perceive nothing offensive
here now, believe :
4Ceftainly not But see no signs oi
painting, except your little easel there
in the corner"
'sBut all the materials find necessary
for my purpose are locked up in yondel
closet
ssWhat world OF trouble it must be tc
clear them away every time you paint. ]
can not conceive what should induce you
to carry this matter 50 far"
10h ! ! hkeit. Besides it pleases my
father"
s.Wen, it is very odd, y said I, resort
ing to that stupid remark which one is SO
apt to make when one does not very well
know what TO say next-
aPapa, she replied, has some pecul-
lar notions, indeed. Do you know that
when he placed Harriet and me at this
school, before going to Europe, he said
Now, girls, wish each of you 20 have
truly liberal education in the bellies,
iettres and sciences but do not wish
you To fKittex away your time on varie
tY oK frivolous omplishments. If ons
of you win learn drawing well enough te
design clsvorly, and the other will learn
the piano thoroughly, I shall like i
naueh better than for y0u both to attempt
fYatH half 1farn Il sf}fxen different thinos n