The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-11

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childhood, a wild wood in which duel
lists fought, melancholy people hanged
, themselves, and Primes Of the blood sho
: harcs and rabbits. The desperate char
acters Of the city also made it. i'm fin,
! weather, their sleeping quarters. Ray
? mOnd BOnheur lccturcd. and punished
: and told fearful stories about little girls
who bad been murdered, when caught
walking there alone, and whose bodies
had been thrown into the river. The
naughty child was frightened. But the
impression soon wore off, and back she
stole to the wild wood. Her father, in
despair, took the extreme course of
placing her with a seamstress who made
dresses for the concierge, and lived a few
doors off. Had Rosa been docile she
might have grown up to sing "The Song
OF the Shirt" But absolute want had
never broken her spirit. Her mind was
too busy thinking about sylvan sights
and sounds for her TO profit by technical
instruction. On fine days she pouted,
cried and spoiled the hens that were
turned down for her. The seamstress
lost patience, called her a miserable lit
tie Ood-fOr-nOthing, and refused to be
pestercd any longer with her. Raymond
BOnheur next got a schoolmistress to
receive his unpromising daughter, as a
hOh - iI5 pupil luSbtdh " pay NE "
her, he was to give as many drawing
lessons as might be wanted Of him. The
school was on the ChaillOt side of the
Champs Elysees and near the Arch Of
Triumph, was highly genteel, and filled
with young ladies of great middle class
expectations. The drawing Professors
child Mortified them. Her hair was neg
lcctcd. She was dressed in coarse and
lncOngruOus clothing; her face was tan
ned like a gipsy's. II was evident that
no careful mamma or governess had ever
made her wear u poke bonnet. h
hands and arms were red and scratched,
and, in short. the idea among the young
misses was hat Rosa was common ana
unclean. Her most unkind school-mate
was the child of a London dentist, who
has since married Il Russian boyard.
The motherless little girl was ignorant
not only Of ia Petite Gr~ul,ntaire,' but
Of writing and arithmetic. b
Her school experiences made her the
quiet but irreconcilab.e enemy of aristocrhtic
and genieel PhilistinIsm In the chronicles
OF the fashionable world, the name of Ros,
BOnheur has not yet appeared. The equ |
Of Paul Potter goes her way IN silence and
keeps aloof from frivolous lion hunters.
She has much honest pride, no vanity, and
never had a t.sfe for those triumphs which
ladies' most desire. In all her life she has
not solicited the patronage of n great MN,
or asked Il journalist for a puff. Nobody is
scandalized ut her independence. perhaps be
cause she chooses her own friends, and will
not be acquainted with any one who does
not inspire her with sympathy If her man
ncrs are frank, she is reserved in her habits.
When Rosa Bonheur returned home from
school, she allowed herself to be persuaded
that she was a bad lot. She repented of her
past naughtiness. The old woman died, !
nd Raymond Bonheur could not afford to +
another servant. His eldest daughter
Ook pity upon him and put her shoulder to :
e wheel She replaced the dead mother. :
Brothers and sisters fell i'll Their state de-
the affections and the will of Ros,. :.
Who had naturally u deal of character. A :;
Sc of responsibility grew mp and brought
precious wisdom to her. She became the :.
Of the youthful band. But her Il
cquirements were very limited. The only d
hing that she could do well, was to use her Il
uencil. A family drawing class W $ formed. Il
ioSa WAS the teacher. In the evening her L
Ither looked over her sketches and u
hose of his younger children. She also had 81
turn for modelling. The discovery of a {
Of pipe clay in the ditch near Chail- ii
,t, enabled her TO find material at no cost. W
lie VI uGl DlOlilclS grew up W W 81 SOulplOl1 "
mother is an animal and landsc pc painter. lie
he second sister directs the School of De- p
ign in La Rue Dupuytrin. Rosa has al tc
-Ays, from a feeling of generosity, abstained %
ON exhibiting at the Champs Elysees since h
er brother Isidore began to send there b.
leep painted in the highlands of Auvergne bc
The Bonheurs, from Rosa dOwnwards, are W
and painters of animals. 1t was az
he famous eldest sister who impelled the tn
ouuger children in this direction. Circum- til
ances aided. Her young charges were W
uni Ishmaelites, well enough of to be in
ependent, md too poor TO be placed under h,
control. Neighbors were keenly al
to their defects. As no sympathy was n
be obt ined by them from strangers, and in
they had no kindred beyond their imme- =
tie circle in Paris, they could only SYM rs
lthiZc with animals. They made friends 60
it'll some wretched mongTels, with sheep IN
Grazed on the waste land ct Chaillot, tr
with a goat which supplied them with vi
ilk. Their flat was a garnet, with d broad ~
rrace on the street side. Here they kept ~
e goat, for which they went into all the =,
lid spots they could think of to G Their for :,
re-. When It was d kid they carried II TO -
rows-. and they often managed, after 1t =,
-ew up. to steal il in and out the house, -
lknowI to an ill-tempered and despotic :.
,rter Capricorn was the living model for "
e budding artists. They drew it in every 49,;
,rnt of view. II learned TO stand still when vi
was being sketched. Kids born on the W.
race were also subjects Sheep and 60
igs were then draw, and painted IN oils. &c
eighbors began to respect the Bohemian SD
mily Of the drawing master, and some old
dies paid the brothers and sisters to exc re-
tie portraits on canvas, and in pipe clay, d'
their famine fayotites. The best prices pc
commanded by Rosa, who, at sixteen, an
rs a master Of her art. Six years later De SIT
-orny advised the Countess Lehon to in ar
st. as a good speculation, in a painting in
hich Mdlle. Bonheur exhibited at the us
There was no bravado in Bonheur's la
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