The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-02-17
Correspondents,
Gotham GOSSIP.
Now York. Feb. 9Th,

uualS " iilo NaiblNaA sbanOh VINO
the grand fancy dress ball of tho
Liederkranz Society, at the Acade-
my of Music on Monday evening.
1t was the thrlieth annual ball OF
this famous society, and am free to
say that it was tho only masked
ball OF the season worth seeing.
The costumes were noyel in design,
rich in material, and magnificent in
make up. There were diamonds by
the basketful, | might say, and the
opening pageant was a masterpiece.
The churches this year propose to
attract people to penance and nedi-
tation by very elaborate musical
programmes, In other words they
intend TO disguise the proVerbial
sack cloth and ashes rs much as
possible TO make People take them
up. In one leading Episcopal church
which prides itself on IT'D ehaneel
choir number OF old manuscript
works of Bach and other composers
of sacred music are to be brought
out. st. Stephens Roman Catholic
Church will produce different
Miserere every Sunday evening, and
in fact every church will have some
special attraction. If under these
circumstances people do not take to
the road to Heaven, which is no
longer narrow and thorny, but broad
and well kept, they will never get
there.
Up to throe or four years ago the
theatres used to be very subdued
during Lent. True, they all kept
open, but the plays were familiar
"old timers" and the attendance u.s.
ed to be very poor Now, perhaps
more care is taken to provide ORA.
matte pabulum during the Lenten
season than for any other term, and
as a result, the theatres do better
business these forty days than per-
haps during the preceding tour
months. There is not a manager
present who does not look forward
to a better bank account.
l met leading picture dealer the
other day, on Broadway, and dur
ing long walk had All extended
talk with him on art and artists.
"This is the season of the year,"
said he, "when art sales begin, but
81 far rneY have been p,tifuiiy had
@ttended a sale the other evening
BY one of our best auctioneers, who
generally succeeds in gathering the
best class of buyers about him. Well
his sale that evening was veritable
slaughter. Compositions which
ought to have brought three or four
hundred dollars went for from TWEEN.
ty TO fifty Enthusiastically as much
as the frames were worth. One lit
tic gem by we'll known artist, f.
male head full of beauty, concep-
ton, fneness Of drawing and charm
OF coloring, was picked up by a
lucky follow for eight dollars. The
artist could have disposed oft a few
weeks ago for one hundred dollars
at priv ate sale, bat he thought it was
worth two hundred dollars and
hence sent it to the auction sale.
Now tho frame on that canvas cost
thirty.hvo dollars, so you may i'm.
agine what the poor fellow Of an ar
list lost on his work"
] recently called on an artist who
during the past year or two has
earned quito n reputation as por.
trait painter. His price was $500 a
picture, and he had all the work ho
could do. His studio when | called
WAS filled with canvases of all sizes,
"but, said be, "tbere are no buyers.
Times are very hard for us poor
knights of the brush. Very rich
people 60 abroad and buy Bouger.
aus, Makarts, Me,sonniers, and such
like works, and pay all the way from
two to twenty thousand dollars for
them. Hore, if a man docs not
paint from life, and particularly the
nude no cannot sell at all, and then
II no gets hundred or two for the
work OF perhaps couple of months
he may consider himself fortunate.
Any bod carrier or longshoreman
does better than that. assure you,
had to begin life over again /
would devote all my ability to the
art of manipulating apick.oxo and
shovel"
1t IS for this reason that so many
artists Law aside tho brush cntirnl,.