Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
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RATIvE EXHIBITION.
Winners Persepolis -
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limited lady. What does she know of the
trial of Arab, the arrival OF Sir Garnet
Wolseley in London, the rehearsais OF
"Ls Roi S'amuse," or knowing, what
does she care, being go remote? How
utterly dampening to hear, on The
heels of all the excitement about the
fair Laugtry, that in three months time
she will play at the Grand Opera House.
Three months, indeed Perforce the
dweller by the Golden Gate tames his
great heart, tries to content himself to the
point Of living the worlds life through the
newspapers alone and for his own life,
without contemplating it too closely, since
we are told that happiness evaporases
under analysis, he goes, let US say, to the
Decorative Art prize exhibition to console
himself, in a namby. PANTY, Oscar Wilde
fashion, with handicraft and soft and rich
fabrics. Not that embroideries and paint.
ings are
MANDY PAMBY.
Heaven forbid that one should utter ouch
atrocious sentiments, only namby PANTY
when offered as a consolation for receiving
merely the last-spent ripple of that over
mastering and breaking wave of the world
which casts SO thin and light wreath of
foam on these California sands.
The Decorative Art rooms have removed
from Suffer street to 800 Stockton, and the
new place is, upon the whole, better than
the old, though not half spacious enough
to do justice to the display. Doubtless a
fit setting will come TO this excellent work.
manship 10 due course of time, however.
All about the front door is set frame of
stained or colored glass which lights the
hall pleasantly and In the room buxom
and pleasing dansel answers all questions
with cheering air of knowing whereof she
speaks. Turning to the right, behold the
three panels OF a screen not yet joined in
proper screen fashion, the designs painted
on velvet paper, the panels about five feet
by two. At the top OF the first and love-
hest, hanging as if they fell from the vine
growing at the back, clusters of the purple
wistaria seem almost to tremble against
the wiae-colored background, and at the
foot of the panel strut two saucy young
quails, capitaliy painted, with just the air
of would. be knowingness grated upon ex-
istln& innocent helplessness which makes
these little creatures very daisy Miliers"
among birds. The second panel is COM
paratively unmeaning; the third, under
the Towering bough of forest tree, shows
fine
SULKY HAWK,
Also very strongly and delicately touched
in. On the other side of the door is a panel
painted with various California wild. flowers
that have peculiarly free out-of-door
look SO, too, the yellow heart's-ease or
Johnny jump-ups, embroidered by Miss
Martin in beautiful yellows on a brown
satin portfolio cover they are like the
golden laughter" of the gorse in blossom,
OF which Swinburne writes in "By the
North Sea. In working the pansies Miss
Martin has seen fit to surround each bunch
with brown circle of stitching, for which,
indeed, there may be reason known to
the initiated, but not apparent to the casual
observer, and therefore somewhat detri-
mental to the impression produced. An
other portfolio, made by Miss Dean, of
San Francisco, is exquisite work. The out
side is wine. colored plush painted with a
spray of flowers. Opened, leaf of light
brown satin appears first, painted with a
bunch of dogwood blossom: when this is
turned, two fair pages of faintest blue satin
make the middle of the portfolio, and
across them in most artistic wise is dis.
posed branch OF the larch as it appears in
spring, when among the tufts of its young
green needles the little new cones fill them.
selves with red sap and are as velvet and
translucent as raspberries, in the sun. Two
humming. birds poise above this evergreen
marvel, and their little ruby bodies look
like the soft cones themselves, animated
and winged. One more painting, of an orr
ole, is the last treasure in this case Miss
j. NJ. Weld, of Jamaica Plains, Mass,
received the 500 prize for a portiere,
where a design of holiyhocks springing
from behind stone wall or fence, is EN-.
broidered, painted and applied-all three
sorts of work are used-upon reddish
brown turcoman," which closely resem.
bles Russia towelling, made of silk. The
same color,
DEEPER IN TONE,
1s shown in two table scarfs, where wide
plush band is applied upon satin. The
plush is painted with some curious somber
trumpet flowers, more like lichens than flow
ers, pushing up against musical staff with
wv Va eilASS MUGS u pun IL, JQS IT6Dle cleI
appearing upon one scarf, the bass on the
other. a tiny little foot-stool of greenish
blue plush would have been an engaging
obi sct if it had not been reduced to up.
speakable Responsiveness by some execrs-
bic little green tassels that stood out in an
uncultivated sort of way all round it like
schoolgirls unruly chang" The little
stool was charmingly painted with tulip
shooting strongly up between its two green
lances with an engaging naturalness WHY
upholster sught so pleasing with an IN.
kempt fringe of green tassels?
The necessary journalistic aid is not
wanting to this wonderful new move
ment, which bears the stamp of genius on
1t IN the one characteristic that its best
Is so feeliugly exquisite, aud its worst 80
weak and distastefully ridiculous. One
thought, though trite enough, one can
hardly escape while looking at the choice
and highly-wrought objects with which
the rooms are tilled-thIngs almost useless
In themselves, yet ministering to dis.
tinct want of this DESTROYS age One
thinks of the homes where much, most
perhaps, of these delicate satins and
pushes and more hardy turcomans and
broadclOths were made into the elaborate
forms they wear-grimy homes where this
was the one thing clean ugly homes,
where this only was beautiful poor homes,
where this shone the more respondent
through being the sole bit of richness.
" Aud shall We have time to go to Sanborn
* Walls, and
SEE PERsEPOLIsf
My companion remarks thoughtfully. So
we wend our way thither. "Persepolis I"
is an engraving twenty-six inches By forty,
from a painting by Riviere, an English
artist with French name. 1t is picture
of that wonderful terrace on which were
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