Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-08-04
a Pair Of Sleeping Rooms.

ported a French artist, Jules Lefebvre,
for the express purpose Of painting the
ceiling of the family bed-chamber in
the S3,0O0.000 Vanderbiltmansion now
being erected.
A correspondent thus describes the
work:
"Thc design represents the dawn,
but with graceful originality the
painter has chosen torepresent, not the
arrival of Aurora, but the departure of
the night. Personilied by the beaute-
Gus PbGbe, the sister Of Apollo, Night,
with the crescent moon upon her brow.
is drawn by two lovely nymphs, repre-
senting the Morning Hours, ard a sill
very car that rolls over the dispensing
mists. The nude and graceful goddess
has just launched Il shaft of moon
beams against a rosy Cupid, who, hover
ing in mid-air, shelters his laughing
face with one dimpled arm. Behind
the goddess eparting clouds show the
blue skies of morning. This group Oc-
cupies the upper half of the canvass,
while beneath is seen, repOsing on the
rose-tlushed mists, Il second and eXqui-
site group representing sleep. A beau
tiful slumbering nymph, her fair form
draped in transparent robe Of palest
lilac, floats upborne on her airy couch,
while one winged elf neStles fast asleep
at her side, and another with Outspread
butterfly wings bends over to awaken
her with Il kiss. At the lower right
hand corner of the composition the
rising vapors give glimpse Of the sun
Just showing his rim above Il tranquil
sea, This is the only vestige of prosa-
j; reality in the picture. All the rest
belongs, not to earth but to Dreamland
to the vague and divine realm Of the
Ideal"
Not only is the artists work Of un-
DOUBTED excellence, but the cOrrespOn-
dents description is most beautifully
written.
In poetic cOloring it reads like Il
chapter from the Arabian Nights.
We TO not possess the ideal talent Of
I
Jules Lefcbyrr, the eminent French
artlSt' whose Deallllui HeSl9h iof the
V"lluerDII Deo'clia'ioer Is iiNe 'he
dream of a poet who has sunk to sleep
under the stars Of June with an inyO-
ca'loil 10 Ihc uolucSS ol N'ShU "poh
his llpS; nor 40 we possess Ile aoO'c-
quoted correspondent . 'r't''Sce"uchT
powers Oh description, DuI It's we Ie'u
II, oIher pictures lIiI before our Nl5loh'
Wllici IN our own way we Will ch'
deaVOr TO paint
For instance, starting out with the
assertion that every cent OF Wander
bilt's $l3O,OOO,OOO that he has acquired
has been robbed illegally we cOnccle)
from other persons, we can imagine
that among tho5o robbed lhere are
many persons VINO are 'o,day SUi'ellhs
through want ANA starvation. hy CUT
ting down the pay OF ms railroad EN-
ployeS Oh one manu. ANA eEtorIH'S tne
highest rates from the publlc on IN
other, in order to make ms iaJ dlVi-
uendS II cannot DC otherwise t!lah tiaV
somewhere arc 10 Uc loUllu tllo'e VINO
have suffered. For every uoiiar tlllI
he has managed TO exc out oil MS rll'
road operations, there is somewhere
somebody VINO has suffered lhe WANT
OF That dollar.
Ihere are thousands OF men al Work
for the latdlvldend-paylng ro'ldS "llich
Nanderhilt controls WllOare not GeIllllS
more than Sl.lO to Sl.29 per day hy
pnching such men down to starvation
wages the great railroad KING mas
been able to reap rlch harve5ls oil dIYl-
dends. Let us take a l0oA INTO one OF
ther bed-chamOers, ana see now II
compares with the one above deSerloe"'
1t is small, with low ceilings, lily
ventilated and miserably lighted.
There are no carpets on the floors,
no pictures on the walls; there is Il
miserable lack of furniture, and the
bed is poor and hard.
In the winter the storm beats in
around the window, and the cold air
finds its way up through the cracks in
the floor
In the summer, throu II lack of
proper protection flies and mosquitoes
come in through the windows in
swarms; there are no shade trees, the
ceilings are low, the hot sun beats down
upon the roof and the heat is intense.
The wife and mother must 10 their