Telegram-herald., 1889-10-30
DAISY RIyEs A GENIUS.
Wonderful Drawing by the Sister
Of Amelia RlYes ChanleF.
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ocslntv Va about 80 miles trsa Washing-
Con. Is e. ca KlrEi>iA plantation, Which
stretches over 8 beautiful tract of rolAng
eoautry VIII tbs ragged hlss a ne Blue
ri8xe NJ its rear Ihls ol1 place has ooos -
ful share toward sEgeS1lpg rs fame - TIE
rou ~ori3 fslaeus Aloe1I4rle plppln. a. aI-
pc - luscious tat Il Is sxpQFlea IA lArse
quantities for consumption in EArope- bat
tie prelty p5nk ard white plppin Is noi hy
any means the choicest ana D4ost totie pfoa-
uct q this plantation II has raised two x
the reuarkable geuiuses u the day. oae ~
them ne world already knows and Adrllres
Pew women have bscorne famous ~ qalckiy
as Amehs Rives. nov Mrs. Jobn Armstrong
Chanlsr. sds l. known and discussed wher-
ever Enghsh fiction and poetry ale Rad. The
other genius i Amells's sister. OF her the
world las not heard though II VII bear.
Amelie Rives Vas born pet and artist.
ana lot surprised % her that for time size
has stopped writing and turned Ter GTtentlon
% art That she VII Win fame as a. artist
do not doubt for the artistic sense ls strong,
overwhelming ia her, As u Is ia al crus poets.
Without having ever taken laSSan OF The
least bit Of instruction. she eau already draw
and paint with extTaordinsry skill
II Is a. al artist that TIE vein " genius
which seems "a run through the lAyes' fanl-
ly-foE the mother Is a reInaTkable woman
and the father al engineer 80 able that the
Panama Railway company pays him Szo,OO
a year for his serVices-hnds expression Ia
Daisy, AmeLe's l5-year-old sister Daisy is
sweet and shy, hater q books aud lover
of nature and solitude Horses and all ami
mals she dOtes upon More daring she than
Amelie ever Was IL jumping brooks, hedges
aud fences horseback. IL Daisy has noI
horse u ride she vii ride mule And
when she is not upOn the back Of aquadruped
she is playing with one, pony or dog.
When she was younger, and before she had
acquired any notion of being pTim young
lady. il was as much as her elders could do 10
keep her from living In the stable. Before
breakfast and after breakfast, before dinner
and after dinner and till bed time she could
always 10 found oat with the horses. II she
had had her way about il, probably she would
have slept beside Pretty One the gentle mare
whose mistress Is the author Of The Quick
or the DeadF' or with JackanapeS, the fiery
thoroughbred we have all read about in
Virginia Of Virginia" Nor am 80 sure
that Amele Rives did not have her pretty,
wild young sister Daisy IN mind when she
wrote the story of that luckless beroine, just
as she had her own love story, the wooing OF
herself by young John Armstrong Chanler,
to parsphrase in The Quick or the DeedP
Daisy Rives never saw a drawing master
nor even text book on drawing. But she
has studied the animals she loves. She knows
nothing Of art, but everything OF nature
animal nature-which after oil, may be the
same thing Daisy Rives draws horses, dogs
and mules like one inspired. She is a Rosa
Bonheur with a field restricted 10 the domes-
tic animals which she knows Her horses
appear TO move, live and have being. Here
is one neighiDg, another kicking; here are
two playing, there one muuching his oats
every one like life itself
Two or three years ago, when but a miss
Just out of pinafores, Miss Daisy drew sew
eral pictures of horses in motion, horses
walking, trotting, running, single-footing,
Looping. At first glance one would say they
were badly drawn pictsPes, that no horse
ever twisted himself into such attitudes, that
the whole thing is absurd. But compare
them with instantaneous photographs OF the
I horse in motion-with the famous Whey
/ bridge pictures, for instance-and the genius
/ of this young Virginia girl stands out most
/ strikingly. She has every twist Of the limbs,
every bending Of the joint, just as the pho
/ tographs have them. And when she drew
/ those pictures the girl had never seen an 20
/ Simultaneous photograph OF a horse ia mo-
| ton and did not know such a thing was in
! existencel
''Well, Miss Daisy, would be willing 70
/ buy horses on your pictures of them without
ever settin' my eyes on EN-"
a remarkable feature Of this young anna
teurs work is its narrow range. Horses, mules
and dogs are all that she can draw. She can
! delineate a horse that you would say was fit for
a king TO ride, but she cannot put the king on
| his back IL she did he would look like the
/ pictures Of men the little girls make in kim
dergarten schools. She cannot even draw a
saddle fit 10 cover the back Of a respectable
/ horse
| A deliberate and studious effort on her
I part 10 delineate an old mule, his negro dri-
yer and the rumbling, wobbly cart resulted
In failure. There was the mule, 50 natural
/ that you could almost see bis ears wsg TO and
fro, and tempting you instinctively To keep
away from the end OF the picture containing
/ the animals business legs; but the cart was
/ so little like a real cart that it might easily
have been mistaken for an old fashioned spin
ming wheel, such as there are fine specimens
| Of in the store room Of the Rives mansion, OF
! FOR a wrecked frigate, or almost anything
/ else In the world
Struggle as hard as she viii, the girl finds
! it impossible TO delineate anything but her
| favorite animals. These she draws almost
without knowing how. Place before her
/ paper and pencil, and suddenly a horse,
/ horse of character and Individuality the
/ portrait Of some horse she knows-makes It's
/ appearance almost without effort on her part.
and she reluctantly consented. This Is the
| pig she drew can redraw It from memory.
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