Omaha daily bee., 1886-06-29
CHICAGO ASASUMNER RESORT
The Balmy Lake! Breezcs Struggle for
Supremacy with Bridgeport Fumes,
LIFE A SPECULATIVE RAGE.
Business on the High Pressure Plan
The Studios OF Prominent Art
lists ana the Music Schools
Side Scenes.

Vealcd only the fact that even that human
whirlpool can be quiet. To those who
have broiled under a Nebraska sun, Chi.
cago, with its cool, moist temperature,
would seem sort of oasis in the desert,
and as far as bodily comfort Is concerned
the perfection of a summer resort. But
| Chicago people, like those of most other
cities, are infected with the migratory
| migratory restlessness that comes with
midsummer, and at this time of the year,
those whose pocketbook makes it practic.
able have taken themselves to various
haunts of idleness and ease. The neigh.
borhood is well supplied with resorts, and
Green Bay and Waukesha have become
the temporary abiding places of snowy
daughters and portly mammas, while pa.
terfamilias down in the city Is busy with
the mighty question of turning pork into
money till Saturday night comes, and
then he joins his family for day of re-
creation.
1t is matter of surmise whether his
brief holiday is rs welcome to the ma
chine of speculation that the Chicago
man of business becomes as the Monday
morning train that bears him back to his
congenial desk. To those who have stud.
led the faces of the great mass of business
men surging about State street at 8 a.
m. II seems doubtful that anything can
usurp their devotion to grubbing and
their deeply imbedded respect for lucre
The average Chicagoan is not dude or a
slim. He hasn't time to coax his mus
tache into a seductive curl or paste his
bang with bandoline, but he is well
dressed, well fed and intensely respecta.
BILE. he has an air of solidity ard sub
stance that must fill the heart of the i'm
pecuious man with admrlng wistfulness.
He is too preoccupied to be a masher, and
he seldom looks toward femininity, how
ever alluring, unless he happens to stub
his toe against it. The fragments of his
conversation that float to the ear of the
passerby is all of corn pork and spec
ulation. The Chicago female of wealth
Is scarcely less material than her
husband. She is seldom handsome, for
beauty seems to have been sparngly al
lotted to these tleshyi beings, and from
the window of her close carriage she
looks fat and overfed, as if prosperity
had been too much for her. | noticed
more pretty girls one rainy day on State
street than ever before, They were evil
IDENTIFY of the middle class, and biph Ev-
They were hurrying along in various
stages of discomfort and dishevelment,
but only one Spartan female was noticed
to possess heroism enough to gather up
her skirts about her waist The reckless
ness of the balance was due to the fact
that every awning was crowded by the
morbidly inquisitive of the opposite sex of
all ages and conditionsy from the vicious
baldhead to the jeering small boy; from
the dude to the gamin,a 1t was sad to no.
tice the precoeity of those boys of fifteen
in seeking out and commenting on the
ankles of the discomiited passers-by, and |
suggested the evil influence of metropo-
lis life in misdirecting the young idea;
but children were ever imitators, and if |
their grandfathers insist on setting the |
bad example little can be expected of the |
sprouting generation.
Art circles are very quiet just now, and |
IN the way of the thousand trities of dec |
orative art there is for once nothing new. |
People seemed to have exhausted them
selves on woodenware, and there are few |
OF the rolling pins, shovels and knick- |
knacks OF all description that used to |
CT ovid every fancy work stall. There are |
as many queer artists in Chicago as |
there are boarding house keepers. law |
yers and theatrical agents. Show eases |
and windows are gaudy with fearful and |
wonderful denominations in lustra |
Dreadful peacocks that the proud barn
yard original would strut away from in |
disdain, perched upon the high branches
of trees that have no classification
in the botanical kingdom, glare
at the shuddering passer-by till his eyes
actually blink. Inotfensive and inartis.
tic little daubs of pansles and wild roses
on white doeskin, chalacterless repre-
sentations of winter scenes on shoves
and butter bowls, are part of the rubbish
that pretcntious and Inexperienced daub-
ers force upon the public gaze. Yet these
cheap limitations arc often more success
ful in pecuniary sense than those
whose real merit entities them to hon est
recognition. In that city of commerce
everyone who has taken half dozen les
sons essays to turn it to account in some
way, il it Is only in the way OF lustra,
and as the only requirements for that
branch of decoration, / won't say art,
are solution OF bronzes and the capac,
ity to follow chalked outline. the prob
ability is that the inventor of lustra is re-
sponsible for having launched many an
artist upon the world who might have
found some useful occupation.
1t would not be fair to maintain that
Chicago has no real masters. In a stroll
through the studios some really meritori
Gus work was noticed, especially t hat of
Miss Lizzie Tuck, "A lady whose natural
genius has beSn thoroughly developed in
the best schools of Europe, and twenty
years of practical experimenting. Her
work is not of the tlashy French pattern,
but is more after the style of the old mas
ters than any modern school. Her heads
show a correct and wonderfully happy
of fesht tlnts. They are gen
nine fieshes in olls aid resemble life
not chrome, as does SO much modern
work. Animals are her speciality, and a
head of lion, tainted from living
specimen in zoologtcaIL gardens IN Lon
ion, is so lifelike as tomake one feel un-
.i,e IL
In window on Wabash avenue are
.wo specimens worth commenting upon.
)ne is gem by a local artist j. fl.
Beard, entitled, Il Don't Believe One
Word of It." Three White bull pups are
,oiled on ragged red blanket spread
,ver some straw ina barn. One is pro-
oundly obliyious ia everything in sweet
sleep of-infant puppyhood, another half
'aised on his side ip preparing to do
likewise, but his attentlon is claimed by
he third pup who. wears the confidential
OF gossiPipg garrulity, and he
5 evidently retailing some great secret,
nut the look of sleepy disdain on the face
II his listener hears out the idea that he
don't believe one word of it,"
fEha otk l., Erannh | ,