Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-23

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
NEW YoRK, April 17.-The usual
spring desire for visiting studios and
dining in bachelor apartments has taken
firm hold on the fashionable girl. The
possession of studio docs not necessi-
tate that the host should be very much
of an artist. Indeed he usually simply
dabbles at painting, buys other mems
pictures, makes his apartments veri-
table house beautiful, and he is always
pretty certain of having the girls he
knows drop in to visit him. They come
in twos, in threes, and in greater num-
bers. They discourse learnedly about
harmonies, symphonies, and drink his
tea, or choke over his Turkish coffee,
and go away feeling that they have
given fresh impetus to art, and that in
the years TO come they will be looked
at in the pictures painted by this man
and greatly admired
THEIR coUNTERFEITs IN ART.
Next to having photograph taken,
a woman likes best to be painted. II
would seem that she ought to like being
perpetuated in oil best of all, but she
doesn't. What she like is to have it
done quickly, and the innumerable sit
tings required for a painting are rather
upsetting to her She can never under
stand why an artist can't copy her from
a photograph, and no matter if her
knowledge of art extends, as the darkies
say, from A to lizard, she cannot com
prehend why living model is preferred
to a paper one. But to return to the
stndio-which my young woman often
does.
STUDIOS WHICH AFFECT THE EGYPTIAN.
1t has its Egyptian room and it has its
French room, and the picturesque girl
may pose as languid Egyptian or as a
chic Frenchwoman, as seems most de-
sirable to her. The Egyptian room has
its walls hung in red-deep burning
red, and the cushions are the same color,
with here and there, by way of contrast,
lyellow one that shines like the sands
of the desert, The pictures represent
4 the sphinx in every view possible, and
all the dreary, tiresome desert scenes
with a solitary figure, or property
camel in the foreground, and everything
that belongs to the yesterday of thou
sand years ago. It's impressive; but
when it comes to question of living in
1t, you might as well go to the tombs of
the Ptolemys and have q wake. Ii is
woefully, wearifully, and wickedly de-
pressing; and the young woman who
seeks the brightness of the French room
has healthy frame of mind, and is
likely to find great deal Of pleasure in
life.
THE EGYPTIANS IDEA OF A GREAT TIME.
/ do not wonder in the least that the
Egyptians did so much killing. When
ever they wanted to have thoroughly
good time they went out to kill some
body; whenever they wanted to have q
better time, they looked at their enemies
being embalmed, and whenever they
wanted to reach the height Of bliss they
went and sat where all the mum
mics were and looked at them, have
often wondered if there was any con-
nection between the Egyptian and the
Irish liking for funerals--if some rela-
tive of Cleopatras could have married
an O'Connor, or an 'Shaughnessey, or
Moriarity who introduced little live
illness into their funeral manners.
IN A FRENCH ART CORNER.
But the French room, the artistic
French room has its windows filled with
boxes of bright flowers There are
pretty little tables with bits of fine china
upon them. There are easy chairs with
pale rose and white cushions upon them
and there are delightful yellow covered
books here, there, and everywhere;
while on the walls there are pastels and
water-colors, and oils that are pictures
of people, not sphinxes, not sands of the
desert, but what you and lilSe--people,
men ard women. You can stand in
front of pretty ballet girl. laugh for 10
minutes over her coquettish attitude,
then suddenly realize how perfectly
correct her figure is and how well tho
eolors arc laid on. You can find delight
IN group of merrymakers who are hav.
ing picnic, and after you have noted
each special figure, it suddenly dawns
on you how well the trees are done, and
you think that man, if he hadn't the sense
you know him to possess, might have
given you tiresome old landscape with
not figure in it, When will makers
of books, and makers of pictures, and
makers Of plays realize that what man
kind wants 10 read, and see, and hear is
the never-tiring picture of humanityt
that landscapes grow tiresome, tha I
desert sands and animals pail upon cne,
but that the picture of living moving
breathing man or woman, presented us
it may be, showing intelligence and
heart, is the most interesting thing in
the wide world, and one OF which
nobody ever tires.
HOW TO WRITE FOR PosTERITY.
The books that have lived have beer
heart stories; the pictures that were
painted generations ago, and which to.
day are revered, are almost invariably
portraits of men and women; and the
plays that hold the stage year in and
year out, and of which the world never
tires, are not stories of motives, are moi
analytical studies, but are speaking pic.
lures of the passions of men and women
portraying their sutferings and theil
joys, telling of envy, hatred and malice
but also of hope, goodness and love
Most of all about love. My dear soul
it not only makes the world go round
1t makes everything else 60 round
every other planet A Frenchman says
"speak OF love and you love- He says
nothing whatever about writing abou
it, specially about typewriting ii, so one
may rush in and not altogether count
ones self fool.
THE WISE WOMAN IN LOVE.
Love has been defined as a torment,
delight, bore, a bother, the sole tast,
of either paradise or--the other place