Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-21
FREEHAND NOTES.
The Healing Balm-Itsms OF Artists and
Their Pictures.

SAN FRANCISCO, July Is, 1888,
Even the creeping things have their use
in Gods world. By very Shiny trail l
was shown the other day that my last Sat
urdays letter had given great deal of
pain and aroused gpieved indignation
among estimable and gentle people-gsntle
in both the feudal and modern eense. The
romance of the life sketched in the letter
seemed fitly rounded by touch of gloom,
which was put in-as it now appears-at
the expense of truth itself in one instance
The lady mentioned in the letter is not d.
vorced at all. A sad misfortune which,
through no fault of her own, she was called
upon to encounter has been borne by her
with dignity, reserve and heroism. She
lives in the shelter of her fathers family,
as noble as respected, as beloved SO in the
days of her brilliant girlhood. For the
fippant use of names and the juxtaposi.
ton of those names with that of princess
of the footlights, '' Philip Shirley" pleads
the bad habit of not reading over copy
once written, and pleads. too, heedlessness
and thoughtlessness and-well, verdancy.
A misstatement can be corrected, and
mine have corrected. A cruel intention
makes mere than hall the sting of q wound
ing speech, and | here declare my inten.
tons free of guile, and the current of my
"Notes" only turned awry by that rock
that threatens the course OF every tyro-the
desire for an item, climax, q we'll turned
sentence.
" Let my dsclaiming from purpnsed evil
Free me so;far in Your most generous thoughts,
That I've shot mine arrow Ger the house
And hurt my brother"
Meantime the
ENTERTAINING At THE COUNTRY HOUSES
Goes Cd, our Washington visitors being
recently married Washington belle. Two
members Of the British legation have also
been wandering about Monterey, and en-
joying various hospitalities, civilly profess.
ing themselves pleased with what they
gee. One of them has been appointed Min.
lister ad interim TO Central America, which
he has accepted, and the other has been Of
fered the Ministry to Onto, Ecuador, but
it is said that hessill not accept it, as he
prefers his position as First Secretary OF
the Legation. Just now he has gone up to
Oregon, whittier all the world seems drift
| ing this year, but where the mantle of
| smoke which the forest fires have sent to
hang over Portland is disturbing the holi-
day of our city's gifted young composer,
Edgar s. Kelly, whose overture to Mac
beth is soon to be sent to Mr.. Thomas
for examination, and probable production
in Chicago or Cincinnati. Mr. Kelly also
designs illustrating the play of Macbeth :"
with incidental music-the striking scenes
like the banquet, the witches caldron
and the sleep-walking scene, as Mendels-
sohn treated the Midsummer Nights
Dream"
Theodore Wores has finished his
PICTURy OF THE CHINESE ACTOR.
1t is more than half of life size, and repre-.
sents a Chinaman in the character of q
General making his first entrance upon the
stage with q conventional gesture of sa-
lutte. The floor is covered with mating
whose texture is excellent, but whose
sameliness of surface made a perspective
difficult to obtain The effect, however,
is satisfactory. There are four Cinnamon
with musical instruments in the back
ground, that being the position of the or
ohestra in the Chinese theater one Of
them, a stout, prosperous. looking person,
comfortably smokes his pipe in the interval
when he is not required to beat his drum.
! He is sort of leader, and better paid than
the others. Over the door through which
the actor is supposed just to have made his
entrance is a gilded monster, which bears
some resemblance to a vampire. and Of
which, while Mr.. Wores was painting it,
| his Chinese models invariably remarked,
"Allee came clips F" but any explanation
of this enigmatical statement they seemed
unable or unwilling to supply. At last q
| Celestial of more enlarged vocabulary pro-
| pounded that this bat in Chinese decora-
tion is the emblem of the suns eclipse, the
myth being that when the solar luminary
is darkened it is because
HUGE VAMPIRE HAS DEyoURED THE PLANET,
Or part OF it. The robes and hesd-dress,
with its long, curving feathers, which
form the costume OF the large figure in the
foreground, are painted with fine artistic
fidelity to texture and coler-the crude,
strange, barbario hues OF Chinese rich
ness. The face of the actor is also of the
higher type of the race than that usually
seen about the streets. Not so the Or
chestrs. Their faces, though full OF char
acter, are, with the exception of the
leader, of the haggard, sordid sort, which
we see most among the race. The picture
is to be exhibited first in one Of the gal
leries in the oity and then sent to New
York, to Goupil's. Mr.. Wores had in his
studio the picture of the head of an Arab
Sheik, painted by one of his pupils,
young lady who has not been long an art
ist, and yet whose work is full of spirit and
| imagination, and certain freedom OF
handling which women artists are gener-
ally long in attaining. Fred. Yates hav-
ing finished his
PICTURE OF GRANDFAFHER's STORY,
Is now at work on very beautiful in
terror, the bachelor hall of one of his friends.
It is an evening scene, and all the life and
romance of the picture censers in the
table where a shaded lamp sends light
showering down upon a rich green cover
and upon the figure of q man in an
easy-chair near by. In the foreground is
| another table with fruits and flowers
upon it, and a decanter which catches
CLEAN from the lamp and obsrishes it in
the rich, red heart of the wine within.
II one might, how charming to have
room dear by association fixed forever in
its own colors by a sympathetic artist.
Beside the tintA and shades and mellow
lights Of the brush the photograph shows
coldly enough. If he is spared, the city
is to be rich in another artist some day.
The second son of Charles Webb How.
| ard, the President of the Spring Valley
Water Company, has sent home from his
school Eojourn in Boston some sketches
that would be
THE PRIDE or MANY CANTONESE
OF years and established name The young
gentleman ia only IA years old. One of
the most finished of his pictures repre-
SCENTS DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes hasten-
ing to the Dslmonico breakfast with some