Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-05-06
Toreoran Gallery Of Art.

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Coreoran Gallery Of Art,
The Ccrcorau Gallery Of Art has Just puF-
chased and placed on exhibition seventeen por'
traits BY Healy, originals and copies, embraolns
fifteen Presidents, Martha Washington and
George Peabody. from the collection OF 1. b.
Bryan, Esq., Of this city. All the Presidents
from Washington to Llucolo, ore represented
excepting Gen. Harrison, and 10 good time his
portrait and those of later Presidents will be
supplied. sThe portraits Of Washington and
Mrs, Washington are from Stuarts original
studies in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Those of John Adams aud Jefferson are also
COPIES from the same masters work. Healy
follows With bis owo originals or replica, or
,Johu Ooiuo7 Adams 1858. Jscksoo, l845. Vsn
Bureu 1857, Tyler, Polk 1916. Fillmore 1857.
Pierce 1852, Buchanan 1859. Lincoln 1850, sod
MIR. Peabody. Gen. Tsyor's portrait - most
admirable copy from ono ry Amans. IL IS ID
military dress, aud is considered the best llktI
ness ever taken OF old Rough and Il sady.
The Jackson was p,inted by Heay at the
Herm,sge Just before his death, when ne could
scarcely sit up for the work.
The finest of the orgnsl portraits are those OF
the latter end oc Fillmore are in tho Prsaldents
house, where the Buchanan was painted In Sep
tenn Der, 1852 TIE portrait CT Lincoln was
painted 70. Mr.. Bryan In 1869. just after MS
election. It Gifsrs from other portraits VI nlm
in being without beard or WhisRors. 1t is tact,
that before he came - Washington he had al
lowed both 10 grow, in consequence OF the "a
vice of lady, who, seeing his puo.o2raDh, Wrole
advising him ths. beard and whiskefs "ou,o
improve tl' face worry much Mr. ass!y Iaiu!'
II.
Philippe of France, for copies to b placed Ia
the gallery Of Versailles.
This interesting anG valuable series Of portraits
of our Presidents. together With the IecsIt par
chase of Mr.. O.. houn. when Secretary OF "sT'
painted BY Z. B. King in 1925, and Of the excsi'
lent miniature on IvJIy o. donry Clay, oy
Blanchard, in l34!, ones belonging to the late
joseph GaeI esq.,, show tho detrmin aunn OF
Mr.. Corcoran and the trustees to make national
pottrsiture y strong point IN the gsllsty. As
our great men pass away. 1t Is Wall not only 70
have su.heatic portraits of the II. but to gssner
them in such an abiding place AS the Corcorsn
Gallery of Art, here in the metropolis OF the ns'
ton, where 80 many Of them figured IN IL. ms.
tory ever I" re'asn on free eXnloiNon % tue
public Wash Star.
MENTAL Observation-Disclosures pros!ratIoa
az a prolonged physical disorder, Is complaint
of comparatively recent date. but one much
more prev,ieot than any one who has not looE
ed into the matter clo have aoy idea q. Years
AGO people were said 10 have the 4" 1zets,
| which, 10 slEe Instances, may hsV' dsscfloed
the same troube 9hl1h now passes under
| longer name, though, ss rule, what IS hoo"o
as nervous prosr .tioo is found 10 N ,rs or less
CON plete exhaustion OF the system, rather than
| 10 easily excited displays OF DarVou5 a'tlon.--
| By far the greater pun0er ti sufferers lrju
| this troutls in our oT1 cou1try are youag w.
| men OF good soclcal position. 10 TINS oty al
tho present time thare are hu1dr, DDS OF Wsli to
| do women to whom Ills Ia burdeo 10 conjt
ouspcs Of uelvous weakness. 3eenlngly signt
| bodily effort or tria OK mental exartIoa proVeS
to be greater load lhso they can carry, aud
ia followed by slecpless nights or extrems phy'
sical debility Aud yet it is often the case thai
no outward indications x st Gf this lnWlrd tGo1'
BILE, The persou so I'll cted may apparently
be stropg aud vigorous and may lave most
excellent appetite, and fur these reasoDs they
| sometimes fiji 10 receive the consideration
which their actual condition enltles them. %
the other hand, the outward chnracterstlo' OF
the disease are so misleading that the work OF
i'm posture is made easy, and hence, to that 90
hanpiIy large class who dislike 10 be thought
veil it offcr, large advantages which It Is TO De
feared have not been PASSED by. As years ago
Il was considered rcther credtable than other
wise m have tho pou!, 30, for scno tune, neI
Vou, prostration has been fashionable ODD
njaiot' taxing the plierc, aud ski Of thoae
nhys;ciaps whose practice - among orr wealthy
classes, There seems 10 be no settled Do'hoa
of treatment, though one or tWo medlcal men
might bs named who have gained qGlte repu'
tatiou az specialists on account ct thtit eucc ;5s
10 effsctpg cures. The disease itself IL 'or the
most part attributable to 40 lgnoraot VIOLATION
of the ordinary laWs OF health at time 10
life when a strict following OF them 10 OF ino
utmost i'm mportauce, and to that mental &c
nrpssicn which uomarlicd youug women often
experience in locking forward 10 seemingly
pro6tess future. !, is singular TACT ina!
working womeo and married wonen are cur
seldom sufferers from nervous pro5tra!ioo. Nv.
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