Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-26
B0sT0y CORRESPONDENT.

useless expense to appropriate money to the Mass
achusetts Normal Art School, which is supported
almost entirely by the State, and could not con-
tinue without said appropriation. If those farm
ers who ere members of the leg stature would but
pay visit to this institution they would change
their present ideas very greatly No one who
visits it can help admring the skill and energy
shown, aud the good which the whole State must
derive from such an institution 10 PLAINLY sppar-
ent, for do we not all wish to have only competent
and thorough teachers in our State, renowned al
ready for lis high intellectual standard and win
out thorough study aud systematic training good
teachers cannot be made. Such training Is gwen
hv the Mass ,chusetts Art School. The teachers
are all devoted to their work, and appear 10 ne
personally inerc sted in the progress oil every p"-
pill the gre atest attention and care being shown 10
each one, and consequently eatprogress Is mad E
Ia one room, (Class A. tue scholars are begin
ners. and are sketching and painting compare
lively easy models, while here and there teachers
are examining aud pointing ont defects and i'm
proyements. In another room is the studio, where
young men aud girls are drawing copies OF casts,
each one absorbed in his or her work. 10 another
room copies are being made in clay from pictures,
which seems to the uninitlated observer difficult
thing TO do-rrom a fiat copy making raised fig
ure. They were astonished at the amount oil
work done in a short period, the pupils evidenuy
being kept busy all the time. ln large room
we're about forty young people skeching from
life A lady sat at one end of the room where
the light from large window fell directly on her
face, and preserved in her apparently trying posi-
xyhi nd ed
me of the Spartan boy, SO renowned for his cour
age and endurance. Forty pairs of eyes were
bent first on her face and then the paper which
Law on the easle, while each tried to accomplish
the task of transferring her countenance to paper
in given space of time This "ske itching against
time" is favsrte study of the pupils. who be-
come accustomed by this means to rapid and &C
curate observation. The pictures shown US by the
teacher who acted as our cicerone, were very fine
and would grace any parlor in the country. Fash
ion does not seem to trouble the young ladies of
the Art School, all being dressed plainly, with a
view to work, not play and Irritation, long calico
sleeves or straw cuffs protecting the dress sleeves
from paint and pencil stains. The teacher re-
marked as we thanked him for showing US over
the school, that it wolld give him extreme pleas
ure to show the workings of the institution to
those members of the Legislature who opposed
the appropriation.
How provoked were those housekeepers who
had packed away all the winter clothing to be
obliged to haul it all out again this week, for of
all change able seasons commend me to the spring
We were wearing straw hats and complaining OF
the heat, parasols were waving over every feni-
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ried by exas perated females who growed At the
state of the weather, and men who agreed that
"the rain seemed never weary" and 1.-THE day is
cold aud dark and dreary."
All the dogs in Boston are muzzed. People
seem almost insane on the subject of hydrophobia
in spite of the fact that but person in Boston
has died Of this terrible malady, during space
oil eighteen years, and but two dur
ing twenty -four years. Still, it is we'll to take
all proper precautions, for no one cares to be the
"chosen one" out Of the next ighteen years, and
there is safety in precauion.
1t is said that the ladies of New York city de-
termiued that servants wages should come down,
and according ly they came down. Men are get
ting less wages, or working on half or quarter
time, and there is no reason why women should
demand such exorbitant wages, when they as u
general thing have only themselves to provide for.
and only clothes to buy for themselves, for a cook
or housemad has a comfortable home when she
goes out to service and all she wants to cat, and
no care except for the clothes which are to cover
her ungrateful back. But things are coming now
to such state that a Union will have to be formed
for the prevention Of cruelty to mstresses, for the
Irish and colored girls who hire out expect to
be treated with more consider alton than visitor.
heard girl say few days ago, 81 cant find a
place, for places seem to be scarce. There's one
can get in family Of three but they pay only
two dollars a week. and III rather starve than
work for two dollars
This seems to be the general idea, and they live
in rags, in dirty attcs in loathsome alleys rather
than live in a respectable house and work for a
reasonable sum. Some thing should be done, and
that shortly, too.
The Rev. Father Bofsh of the Cathedral chapel
Of the Holy Cross, bsptsed last Sunday two lady
converts, mother and daughter, natives of Ply
mouth and descended from the MayAower puri-
tans. 1t is said that lady will be baptised at the
same place on the 9th who was converted by read
ing prayer book belonging to Catholic servant
in her family.
Miss NJ. Paroa, authoress of the "Appedore
Cook Book, gave a highly entertaining lecture
last Wednesday morning at fremont Temple on
Cookery She first spoke of the digestive Or
gans, and what kinds of meats and vegetables
were easily digested and then explained her meth
cd OF boiling, broiling and baking. Charlotte
Russo, velvet cream, and Italian cream, were
made tor the purpose of practically illustrating
her system.
The famous little midgct., General Mite and
Lucia Zarate are to return to Boston next Mon
day, May 2Sth for a brief seoson at Horticultural
Hall, where they were so successfully exhibited
during the winter. They are the smallest people
ever born, and are well worth seeing, for the hui
man mind can scarcely conceive how small these
midgets are, and yet how perfectly they are pro.
psrtoned. They sing, dance and talk, the little
girl using Spanish and the boy English. They
appear jealous of each other, and have heard
that they do not get along very well together,
quarrelng constantly. The parents are well
formed people, Of usual size, and are not able to
account for the extreme niness OF their offspring