Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-10
SATURDAY SALAD.
"Over our hearts and into our lives,
Sh3GOw5 must sometimes fall:
But the sunshine IL never wholly dead.
And heaven Is shadOwlesS overhead,
And God is over ALL"


In Philadelphia they have an Ugly Girls Club.
The members are great theater-gOers. They
may be known by the big hats they wear.
branches of the organization are being estab-
llsned in all the principal cities Of the United
States
The fact that Russia has invited American
artists to submit designs for monument which
she proposes to erect to the memory of the late
Emperor. Alexander H. within the enclosure of
the kreEnlin at Moscow. may be no special COM
pliment in itself. but it shows that she regards
them as entitled to consideration. and worthy to
enter the lists with the best i'm the world, and
i'm this sense it is not without significance.
Plans, specifications and descriptions of the
contemplated monument have been deposited
in the Department of State. where they can be
Inspected by those intending to compete or
those who may be interested in the work.
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Mr.. Edgar Parker. Of Boston. is engaged
upon life-size full length portrait of the late
President Garfield, which he has been COM
nissi0ned to paint for the collection in Me-
Charles Hall, Worcester.
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In her PRESERVATION of ''Julia," on Thursday
evening, Miss Anderson unconsciOusly illustrated
how difficult it is to be great artist, and how
far she yet falls short of being one. In that alb
sOrbng scene in the fifth act where the bewil-
dercd. heart broken heroine makes last impas-
stoned appeal to Master Walter to be spared the
sad fate apparently before her, one of the jewels
in her hair accidentally became detached, and
fell upon the floor. Now, a high-bOrn lady. at
supreme moment like this with all the happi-
ness and hopes of life hanging in the trembling
balance, would have had no thought of her fine
clothes. She would have swept over all the
diamonds OF GOlcOnda, grinding them into the
earth like pebbles, reckless Of their value, if
not unconscious of their very existence. An
artist who truly enters into and feels the spirit
OF the character is bound to be equally ObviOus
of all minor distractions, or the illusion is lost;
yet at the close of this OutpOuring of an over
burdened heart the half-dstracted tear-blinded
daughter OF noble house committed the Pile
beian gduchel-ie of stopping to pick up her miss
ing piece of jewelry and place it on table, thus
causing an awkward delay in the reply of Wal
ter, and marrng the effect Of one of the finest
situations in the play. IT was little thing but
how much it told. Imagine Rachel or Cush-
man or RistOr or Bernhard doing it.
Siemerling. the Berlin sculptor, has signed the
contract for the execution of the equestrian
statue of Washington, to be placed in Paramount
Park. at Philadelphia The Society of the Gin
cinnati will bear the expense of the work which
will cost about 500. 600 The time specified for
its completion is ten years, which, with the
amount to be paid, ought to secure most ex
cellent result.
There are signs that the impressOnSts in art
are losing something of their hold upon public
taste, with indications of a reaction toward the
once popular academic style in painting. Evil
dences of this tendency may be seen in the fact
that figure-pece by Hassenclever, who used to
in New York few days ago for $500. while a
very little bit OF water color by Turner brought
800. Another sign is to be found in the pur-
chase few days ago by a wealthy California
lady OF two OF LeutZe's paintings ashingtOn
at Monmouth. and Washington at Valley Forge
Tor $2O,CUO. -Four or five years since these pic
lures would have brought no such figures.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher kept an audience
in New York waiting more than an hour, one
evening last week. because, as he explained
after his arrival. the lecture committee had
failed to send a carriage for him. One would
think that a well paid professional lecturer has
or ought to have the intellectual. physical and
financial ability to procure a carriage for him
self in pinch. But. however that may be. to
SO tritle with the rights, patience and comfort
OF several hundred people on such pretext is a
piece OF inconsiderate impertinence, of which
no true gentleman would be guilty.
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Mr. William NJ. Chase has completed the full
length portrait of cx-President Hayes. which is
to be among the historic pictures Of Memorial
Hall, Harvard University. The picture will
soon be exhibited in Boston.
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Now that active steps are in progress to raise
money with which to prepare the base for
BarthOlGfs proposed colossal statue of Liberty
in New York harbOr. the lal,-de-dahs in art
criticism are opening their tuppenny batteries
upon both the project Itself and the design
adopted by the sculptor. Some Of these gifted
creatures do not hesitate to declare fiatly that
the proposed location of the statue should not
be permitted. while others essay to damn it with
the crushing observation that the whole affair
is so thoroughly bad that it is sure to be finally
erected in America. where we never have
anything good. You know. OF course after this.
all proceedings in the matter ought to stOD at
once and however. But. lust as likely as not.
the dreadful thing will be finished and placed ali
the same: and it will probably even come i'm
time, to be regarded as a really fine work of art
Thus it has been from the beginning and SO it will
De to the end. The history of such works shows
that nearly all the achievements in art which
after generations pronounced great were damned
and demolished over and over again by the
critlcasters OF the period, who had no hand in
their projection or execution. The BarthOIdi
Liberty in New York and the Washington Monu-
ment in this city are likely to be no exceptions
to this rule. BY the way, if their censure had
only lasted as long its objects, how amusing
and instructive it would be to read i'm these
days the awfully utter things that must have
been said of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids
by the contemporary aesthetics of Egypt while
those majestic marveis Of all the ages were in
course of construction.
There IS no laughter in the natural world
or beast CT fish or bird, though no sad doubt
OF their futurtty TO them unlJlrled
Has dared to check The mrth-cOmpel!in- shout
The lion roirS his soe.nn thunder cut
TO the sleeping woods. The eagle screams hercrv
Even the lark must strain Il serious throat
TO hurl his ble>t defiance at the sky
Fear, anger. jealousy have found a voice
Loves pain or rapture the brute bOSoms swell
Nature has symbols for her her.pobler lows
Her nober sOrrows. Who darenfOreteil
That only man. by some sad mOckery
Should learn to laugh who learns that he must die,
Poems Or Ih'Oteus
1t having been represented to THE STAR that
it did injustice to somebody or something in
its remarks, few days ago, on the inward
opening doors of schOOl-houses, the writer of
this paragraph visited what is generally under
stood to be the model schOOl-buildinp of the