Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-02
AN EVENING WITH ART.
The Art Parlors OF Hardin College
Thr0nged With Admirers Of
the Beautiful.

Correspondence Of the Ledger.
MSxIco, Mo-, May 31.-Thet third
of the series of Hardin College Com
mencement entertainments Of 49,
was held in the spacious art rooms
and broad hall ways of the college
building, for space was bountiful
there and it was known that room
by the acre would be needed,
for the Art Levee of Hardin College
is an entertainment longed and
looked for as an exhibition of the
highest types of arts most perfect
specimens of work by young artistes.
The magnificent building, with its
four full stories with hundreds of
rooms, was all ablaze with electric
lights last night, for the "beauty
and ~chivalry" of our city and lovers
of art from all prominent points in
the west, were there. The two
previous entertainments of this
series had held their vast audiences
spell bound in rapture and delight
as the magnetic power of true elo-
quence and the grace and beauty OF
female form moved in mystic fig
ures and perplexing evolutions be-
fore their eyes and the almost divine
notes of harmonious chords of
sweetest symphony swept over the
large listening throng; but in this,
the art display, the silent spirit of
the magic art that makes the canvas
talk, weep and smile, and brings
music out of the pictured purling
stream, voices from the rocks, glens
and landscapes, and makes the life
less lips you gaze upon speak the
praises of this heaven-born art,
had silent sway. We are lost
in wonder and amazement and
praise the power whose artistic
touch brought them into life as they
speak louder than tones from harp
or dulcimer the praises of the god
.dess of this delightful art. The dis
play of art work this year was far
more elaborate than ever before.
Everywhere our eyes rested we saw
from floor to cornice, in hall or art
parlors, hanging beautiful pictures
silently praising the work of studious
pupil and faithful teacher, work in
oil, crayon, colors of every hue, in
dicating various degrees of proficien-
cy. AS numerous and crowded as
they were they were all the work of
the art students of Hardin College
for the year 1892, and many beauti-
full paintings are still unfinished, al
though the young ladies worked dill
gently upon them even before the
early breakfast hour and at every odd
moment, so they could not appear
in this the grandest art exhibit ever
held at Hardin. Miss McMaster,
the very proficient and gifted teach
er Of this great art, told us in a per-
sonal talk on the hopes, trials and
triumphs of an art teachers life,
that in many years experience she
had never been so completely baffied
as when it became her painful duty
to say which of her pupils most de-
served the beautiful art medal. So
close we're several of them hat a
choice seemed a distinction without
a difference. The occasion was one
of delight and the large and highly
cultivated and appreeiative audience
fingered long and in silent admira-
ton drank in the beauties so mar
velously wrought by the artists
brush and pencil. No catalogue
having been printed we cannot give
name or description of prominent
pieces of most excellent workman
shin. J. V. w.