West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-04-13
The Artistic Girl.
IAN tho Year Round .


/ Ii would be delusion to suppose that
she enters the room She is not one of
/ the soft, gliding creatures invented by
novelists, aud supposed to steal into the
heart rs into the presence of the hero.
Miss Daw bursts upon You at once. like
n well-trained hurricane. She is cN-
pansive, eloquent of voice and of ges-
ture-werc | quite sure that the remark
would not cost me my life, would say
she is noisy. Yet there is nothing about
her TO which exception can be taken
She speaks good English with an elegant
pronunciation. She is perfectly fresh
and frank, and has habit of saying
what she thinks, which, charming as il
is now, augurs i'll for the man destined
one day 10 call this thing of brightness
his own. She is this morning clad i'm
enthusiasm, and dark green of the hue
known as Morris green. Her figure,
very tall, slight and elegant is freely
shown through the tight robe actually
strained over IL; her fair hair is not laid
smoothly in any intelligible order, but
suggests that il has been brushed i'm OPP
posite directions by insane ladies' maids.
Rubens hat OF astounding grandeur
OF conception crowns this startling
figure. Miss Daw is armed with book
of sketches, and has Just come from
Heathcrley's or the Sladc School of Art,
forget which. She is full of art and
artistic talk-that is to say, of art of one
kind. Her yearniDgs toward music and
poesy are of very mild nature, as com
pared with her enthusiasm for the arts
plastic and pictorial. Miss Margery
Daw has made good progress i'm both OF
the latter. She has thrust aside painting
on pottery with scorn and derision she
has advanced from water-colors TO oils
draws and models in the life school.
Whether she will become second Rosa
Bonheur remains TO he seen. Probably,
AK she has both beauty and money, she
will marry broad-acred squire and hunt
three days n week i'm the season, but
wherever she may go, her artistic i'm
stincts will go with her. This type Of
girl has been greatly on the increase
since the death of fancy work--a species
of industry which produced, at great
expense of time and money, large
number of entirely useless and worth
less articles. Our artistic girls are by
no means free from the taint of esthetic
cant, and plunge into the mysteries of
decoration with rn2inching courage.
Ranged on opposite sides, they debate
with much vivacity and at great
length the respective merits of the sys-
TENS now in vogue, including the style
known as 3" decoration by plot," i'm which
everything is considered with reference
to the employment of blue and white
china. The artist girl is very proud Of
knowing distinguished painters. She
talks feebly 10 and of them, and has
views as to their method of work but the
summit of her ambition is reached when
Stodge, II. A., or Scumble, A. II. A., i'm
Produces her portrait into an Academy
picture with catching title, such as
ASK Papa" "The Mitten," "At Last"
and so forth Then she is supremely
happy, and having sworn the artist to
secrecy, quietly tells Jawleigh, who is
connected with the press" all about
the matter, knowing, the sly puss, that
the world will certainly be informed of
her identity with Stodge's or Scumbles
model