Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-12
WOES OF THE ARTIST.
-us SPRING EXHIBITION LENDS HIM
FRESH GRIEVANCES.
- pictures Are Hune--A Pious Pub
chs, aud . Clerical sianss,r--A Peep
at o Dade's belongings.
,O..-o,Donacnce Of the Richmond pispasch.I

yoRx. April 1.-The spring academy
ooIv been open few days. yet the wall
- ,ho disappointed artist is heard in the
"a Thirteen hundred paintings were
I'sbmi,,ed for judgment by the Hanging
c,,omit,oe. Only 400 were accepted. Thia
ting e,.,no down Of the usual number of works
~ yea. largely owing to the fact that
So .a,v Of the accepted paintings are Of
80 size One is so big that its frame
bo knocked of and taken in piece
bs' 90 cot the whole through the ample
door o y, among the 900 rejected were
VI oyccllent canvases, and as matter
FL though not OF course. good many
Of IL mes are shown by senile academiciaps
VsEove long since parted with what talent
We ever possessed, but have the undoubt-
", VI G,,chi o. exhibiting pictures. and ION
81 line" at that. II.
"golo wrote no gueerer tale OF tho jury OF
"psr,s salon than could be written of
We ,.a5emy Hanging Committee IN New
~ =. Inc tired group of artists viewing
lUo,s,,e ester picture until too far spent by
I.. ,vsical exhaustion to render lust
Nt invent upon the thousandth: tho aged
t stalking in marking out with chalk
Nsroces he means 10 fill upon the wall
l13 ,Icn stalking home TO paint the
s 81, 10 ell them; some horri-
n. NIGHTMARE Of glsring misooloration
i,cp~6t up by the perspiring. work
Wv, to be vigorously hlssed by the jury,
u.'l cone one Of them who has seen the
et..,a,ure cries, stop. stop; that's a."
nj ,bou 10 be hung in triumph; the hang
- D., and rehanging, arrangement and ar
~ --T,out. tho final desperate skying of
is-A-,d pictures which won't fit on the
Ind placing there Of bad ones which
IN the wonderment on opening-day of
W. 'rublic who do not understand all
Ne W. little difficulties. 1t is comedy and
..,'sejy. Insanity turks behind the artist
W. cannot sell his pictures like poor
Blskelock..
q, IN. A." who was once rejoiced by the
'.f,,mat.on struggled out of committee
~, Iis picture was well being hung on
we Inc. Before vanishing day, however,
~ The pictures were all arranged be-
i.,oJ landscape by an ncademician which
L., 10 hung on the line came in. Az
~ would have II IL was the exact size of
-. L. f-iend Is and of no other. Encouragement
IS ~ impossible. The N. A. got the place;
,,r friepd was skied in the corridor to his
"rspeskable establishment and disgust. and
hos vino saw his picture there, or tried
m soc H. sand: That must have been an
svlully lad picture TO get so poor place."
Truly, an artist has also his trials.
SILVER THE RAGE.
IA male exquisite has his calendar set
:, q frame OF Furnished silver, wrought
"-rliv INTO fantastic wreath-like effects,
mi prominently displayed in his room, he
reei never miss the day of the month:
Hbe has upon the back of his watch hrs
monogram set in silver and studded with
flashing gems. he need never be ignorant
q the time of day.
he mas his private flask of Angelica or
o,bsr dudish LIQUOR covered with solid
c,.ne Of silver wrought in arabesques, he
ueei never 60 thirsty.
II his cigar-bOx is heavily mounted with
silver work and stands upon the mantel In
fslyer cradle he can economic by filling
II with tiye-cent cigars.
II his comb and hair-brush are backed
With solid silver decorated in high relief,
hehas the best of excuses for personal neat
l.sS go
This writing-case CLEANS with the same
sfml-preCiOus metal, his correspondence
need not get in arrears.
II his lavorite window plant is ported in
ss,lyer vase, it need not wither from ne
II ms clothes-brush is heavy with silver.
bis valet may well wage upon dust an end
les warfare.
For all these belongings and many. manv
others Of silvery sheen are in the height OF
fashion. and he who possesses them shines
IN their reflected lustre as q man WHO
knows what is what. 1t is silver age and
We are rapidly laying up trash for the
meltug-p0t when the fashion changes.
TIE PRESIDENTS INFLUENCE.
Something Of the religious tone of the
Cthg7j magazine is undoubtedly due to
tie personal influence upon its columns of
the president OK the publishing company,
Roswell Smith, O man whose share IN
making the Century what u is has not been
sufficiently appreciated. When MIR. Smith
assumed an enormous debt to get control
Of the magazine he at the same time made
large subscription to the Memorial Pres
hyttrian church, of which he was a de-
voted member. Friends shook their heads,
bat both the debt and subscription were
paid long AGO. and now Mr.. Smith lives in
one Of the Willard palaces on Madison ave-
nue.. which shows that magazine-publIsh-
irg PAYS better than railroad-promoting-
once IN great while.
To the influence of Mr.. Smith are as
embed the articles from time to time pub
lshel IN the Century from the pen of DIR.
NAAl4c1 =. hbUiuSOL4. his bnStOi ohh IL ioHNf
on church music and the numerous other
features Of q religious nature.
The new dictionary which the company
iSpublisbinr Is said 10 have cost %oOO,0O0
before dollar came IN return. Mr.. Smith
was asked one day how he expected to get
oil that money back.
OH said he. "Pve never thought OF
that
M. Smith" said the other, II believe
you DO literally cast your bread upon the
waters"
But the bread is coming back with but
elOuii.
ACLEEICAL THEATRICAL LIBRARY.
Everybody knows that Manager A. NJ.
Palmer looks like clergyman with his
cfan-cut, intellectual face and gray side
vhiskers. He talks Ikea clergyman In so:
ct,y with u total avoidance of theatrical
Slang and shop-talk, speaking earnestly
and using correct and well chosen Ian
euage. His library might be clergy
mans 1t Is in the big back room on the
second floor of his pretty house. on
Madison avenue and contains about
200 books, selected for use rather
than show. and Uttered about in tn,
confusion dear to book-lovers. There arc
costly editions Of Shakspeare-but these
Clergyman might have-encyclop@dia s and
Dictionaries 10y the dozen, q little stage
Aierature-here the clerical tone disap-
lte:s-and Ignatius Donneliy's Great
CypiogTam" in big fat volume which
i9oks altogether too comfortable upon the
saeltto be disturbed. Cibber and Sheridan
AID Hutton and tha h,Gforiana of the stage