The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-11
TIE FAIR.
What Some Country Boys Saw in
the Art Gallery.
November 9, 1881.

Editors Herald:
Please allow me space in your
valuable paper, just to tell some of
my country friends what my little
cousin Joe and saw at the fair. l
guess most of them have already
read about it, but want TO tell
them in my own way, because maybe
some of them may understand it
better. Well, of course we have
some country cousins, therefore we
put up with them. Besides, that
saved hotel bill, which we didn't
have. Wait a minute. I'm going to
tell you now. We went to the fair,
with fair unbaSked minds; paid our
fare and went in. Little Joe, looked
awful anxious, and I was afraid
that he would get in such an in-and-
out place. All the folks were star
ing at us because we were country
folks, but l never blamed them much
| for little Joe was dressed rather
queerly. And now we moved down
the broad alley, passing on the way,
show cases, and tea man talking
about China and Japan | do not
know whether he came from Japan
or not, but he seemed to know all
about that place. Little Joe wanted
to know if the tea were raised IN
Utah, but 1 told him no. And now
we moved on a little. Here we saw
long pieces of cloth, blankets, chairs
and lounges. Little Joe asked me If
people sat in chairs like those. l told
him big folks did. He said he
thought they were to large for little
folks. Next we came to lady knit
ting on a machine. / thought little
Joe would go wild. He said darn
if that don't beat anything l ever
saw. IfAunt Miranda had one of
them she would be most to tickled
to live Next we came to the pop
corn man who seemed to me to be
making more money than all the
rets of 'em. we bought our ball with
the rest and now we moved on. Joe
pulled me over to see what pretty
little graveyard there was, and
here we saw some lovely flowers
carved in marble and now we moved
on.
Oh me. you should have seen lit
tie Joe now. He didn't know which
way to look; for he had never seen
so many fine pictures before. Aunt
Miranda bought a chrome once
a little boy making face out OF a
squash, and his little sister looking
OH. We had not been in the gallery
but minute when little Joe pulled
me up to small picture ut the left
of the entrance. He said it was such
fine picture that he wanted me to
look at it. | saw from q bit Of paper
stuck in one corner Of the frame
that it was called, "LeaVeS from my
sketch book" by Kirkham, who IS
an artist who lives up north | be-
lieve. [ agreed with Joe right
straight for there was bit of moon
light init that was moonlight, and
Joe said it struck him as moonlight.
We considered it sweet little COM
position, and thought it did Mr.. Kirk
ham much credit. AS we became
erect, our sight fell on winter
scene by the same artist. This pic
ture pleased me at first sight. 1t
was painted in a broad style with
good effect. Joe said perhaps the
figures did not help it any, but take
the picture as q whole he thought it
was fine. And now we moved a
little to the left. Here we saw some
portraits in oil and same crayon.
Little Joe said that the people in
oil looked like they had had their
faces washed very clean and their
hair combed very smC 9th to have
their pictures taken. He said he
liked the crayOn ones best, Thought
so too, but could not see how little
Joe should know any thing iabout 1t
We both thought the cryon portrait
of Bishop Hunter good IN drawing
and we'll modelled, being full OF
character. Then there was picture
of lot of people playing some game
on lawn. Joe said IL was chrome,
but found out it was painted by
the same man who made tho crayon
picture, and told Joe so then he SAID
that the man had better let such
things alone and make crayon pic
lures. Anu uOW WO ulOfCO q AAeU'S
to the left. In moment Joe's eye
caught something that pleased him.
1t was a small picture that hung at
our feet Joe said it was a real pic
ture painted from nature, and while
we were looking it it, he said "see
the rocks are limestone; you can
tell by looking at them, and how
beautiful that delicate ray OF light
comes on them" I began to think
little Joe was getting rather poeti-
cal, yet L agreed with him, but
thought the water fall was cut up
some. Joe said 1t was an awful
pretty picture and he wished he
could paint like 1t. Then / looked
and saw the artists name was RlX,
and that he lived in California. and
as we again became erect, Joe'S
dropped on the large picture called
Sunset which he said looked very
calm and pleasant, and struck him
as being a Jolly thing. On either