The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-28
TIL. MAST.
ELI PERKINS VISITS THE ARTIST
+ a#aa Az. AT HOME.

.tt u b. r.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Yesterday Il spent the day with nv
friend Thomas Mast, at his little brown
c"t'agel IN Morrisiown, New jersey. /
have had good deal to do with artists
laf' ~, as Mr. Lumley illustra ed nv "Sa-
raf"gs in 1901, and Mast and Worth, a
y"uFg ARTIST with tremendous future be-
tore him, are now lllustrat,r Iii, size
cartoons to illustrate my lecture.
lxty minutes from Christopher Street
FerrysoVer the New Jersey salt meadows.
and through the Morris and Essex Tun-
nel, and We were at the home of he great
cdrlcalnrIst Mast met us 1T the DEPOT.
"nd hslf-nile wa brought us TO his
charming little cottag, filed with pie
'uIcs home comforts, and four lovely little
angel bables. Presiding over all this har-
pine So was q young b onde Yankee wife,
with brown 'hairgraceul form, aad deli
cate dsmahk checks that would bring TIL
blush ia jersey peach. The childreu's
names are A4ble, the eldest; Thomas. i
oHght little boy OF eight, ard then Edith,
ana Juila' . LILLE toddling baby. Mrs
Nas', nee Miss Sarah Edwards, was born
~ Fhltadeiphia. She somewhat reseul-
''iFs Mrs t Buchanan Read, the wife of
'ht dead poet painter sa"
Mast left us IN the parlor a moment e.
g" to bis studio, and we were entertained
hy lt'tle Edith, a prattling tour-year old
ef, who talked about the horse eds
sreeze' and Morristown statistics gener-
Ally. Looking out from her German-cnt
hs'r, she wisely Informed us as size
touched the piano keys with her little
h"hd, mat HoorlstOwn was nice place
ana then, with an ezra wise look. that
papa had bought some new furniture for
the parleFs. atts|aa .-- s.. na
After twelve O'clock lunch, we wentuD
win, N g, co Ills little cottage studid-tht
room where he has worked nut all thtise
funnv political car ohhs for Harpcr's
Which have AMUSED the public, killed Mr.
greeley, and made Gram Precedent. In
the room Is 81 table where Mast draws
htss PIC ures on wood. The table is CIV
ere q WITH newspapers and photographs
ana bali flushed Cartoons. while an fI,e
walls the rnnln are sketches and fiSssV
ings by Etty, Leach, Dore and Turner
Out nothing suggesting the bold aud ter
RUE satire which We see in his own car.
looms After these cartoons are drawn
'hty are sent to town, when they are di-
Vlaed INTO several pieces, so that several
"ofkmeD can engrave or them at once
1t would take cite tugraver two weeks t.
tFIrgfaVe picture the size Of one page OF
hhfpers Weekly, and cost, | suppose.
Sloo' 10 day the artist was making n
sketch or Mir. Froude in the act of kue,I
ing to pluck the nett'e of Irish "a lure
ana dlscnntentment from Irish soil. while
IN the foreground, Columbia looks him
straight IL the face, and with dreadf,l
emphasis, points TO the burnlng Oruhan
Asylum ana to Priests expclIing the Bl
Die from he schools THIS cartoon Will
appear In Harper'a next week
Nasts very boIdness-hls terrible 40
gresslveness-is what challe nges adnira.
t'"n and makes Harpers Weekly q sue.
cess. ta .g
When l asked him if he dldo't think il
great undertaking to attack Mr.. Greeley
ne SAID:
Yes, but | knew he was an old hum.
bug knew | was right, and l knew
right would win in the end. was almost
alone, too. The people were fooled with
Greeley, as they are fooled with Beechei
and he Will tumble further tlIun Greeley
yet" nuta 1871 :
we had talk about Beecher and TIlton
and putting this with other conversation
with personal friends If Mr.. 'lIlton. and
with newspaper men IN New York, nm
satisfied tha5 a terrible downfall surel .
awaits the one who has erred and CON
cea ls It,
Everybody knows how George w. Cur
it's tremIAed in his boots Wien Nat
commented ma king fun of Greeley. Sum.
ner, and Schurz-how he went to Sum.
ner and apnl"g'Zed, and how he fused
afound like "a confirmed Sophomore" gen
orally. l heard from an OUTSIDE party,
but not from Mr.. Mast, that he went Ia
,te artist aud told INN to be careful :
that s. cartoon was black and white. and
that you u'dn't take 1t back as YOU
could All edltural This is good ike
for us, who know how the proper and
Chesterfieldian Mr.. Curtis, who wears a
swallow tail coat even to tn kea bath In
how he squirms and qualities every state
mert, instead of striking straight from
The shoulder like epigr@matlc writer's and
caricaturists of the period.
People say youtave made a good dea!
0fmonty out OF the cam paign, Ar. Mast"
| remar ed. ~ ieaA't
well that is great mistake. | have
never made cent outs ide vt my pre- fes :
sl0Eai pay, and that IS small enough s
s"smsll that can'taf ,rd to live in town
In fact, I'd like to visit Washington with
my we TINS WINTER, but l cant affprd it,
tnen la ike lo 60 to Europe, bu / cam
Whyswhen when we first came in Norris
TOW u, whlch, as you know. is very fash
iona0le SUMMER resort, some Of the pen-
pie asked US If we should stay in The
country till the winner fashionable season