San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-26

ii. and Catherine de Medicis with
statues but it takes the "Three
Graces" to win your heart.
The painting-walk right in, but
you will be dazed and dizzy-there
is so much, six in number, to each
picture, eight hours a day for a
month and you have not finished
or done the art of this wonderful
White City.
We entered room No. l, as good
patriotic Americans begin with
our own country. An immense
canvas is Just before you, Edwin
Blashfield's "Christmas Bells"
Prang copied it, perhaps it is
among your cards. Look it up for
the original is beautiful and the
painter ought to be remembered.
A turn to the right and you face
Gan Innocent Victim" by our own
Seymour Thomas. He has found
good and noted company to his
canvas shows, it is well merited.
1t is said "no picture is true or fine
that does not tell its own story"
Judged by this it speaks for
itself. A sweet faced sister of
charity, is wounded on the bat
tie field by a stray shot,
a fellow worker and sister with an
officer, bend over the sufferer. A
wounded private looks on in sor-
row. This tells the story but not
the genius shown in touch and
tone. The world will hear more
some day from this brush and San
Antonio will add another plume to
her glory. OF course, Bridgeman in
his passage of the Red Sea-" is
very fine. You rest your eyes upon
the works of the gamin artist; 81.
e. Brown, has prOtrayed them to
perfection, the names tell some of
the story. "The card trick" "The
stump Speech" "Training the
dog" name a few out of many. 1t
is hard to find adjectives when we
come to F. S. Church. In oil he
has "The Vikings Daughter" and
"PandOra"in water cOlors. We lin
ger at each picture and wish
they were our very own, but there
comes to mind the "Mother Goose"
jingle of childhood:
IF wishes were horses, we would ride:
If turnipS were watches, we would wear
one by our side"
So we pass on-our good fairy is
not a very rich one; in fact, some
folks would call her quite poor,
and on that account mot up to
date" But when she turns two
girls loose on the Fair, with
moderate sum, they manage to see
and have a fine time. Money and
''The Press" stand quite high on
the grounds. The word "Press"
gets as big as the Ferris Wheel. A
Press badge, worn by San An
tonian, seemed quite a "magic
wand" on the Midway. We were
kindly taken under it's wing one
and piloted through
some of these attractions. Here you
will lose your head and your
pocket-book-every cent-if you
are not careful, and when the day
is over you may be wiser but you
will be-mad, that is if you have
no wise pilot or have not unlimit-
ed means, your heart may also go
out to the Turkish and Algerian
dancers, but we doubt it. The
village will make you
think of cholera and all dreadful
ills, but we have the nation's-
"natural"-the Guide Book says.
So have your study if it suits,
some ought not to be missed. How
we have wandered from our more
attractive subject, but since we
are on foreign soil, Brideman's
"COast of Algiers" and "The Sur
prise" by Harrison, will be enter
tanning. For a Bible subject look
upon Growers "Thy Will be Done,"
and Gutherz' "Light of the Incar-
nation" A crowd stands be-
fore picture-we turn just
in time to see tears in a
woman's eyes. She bushes, as our
eyes meet, and we wonder whence
her emotion. The crowd parts, and
we push our way to HovendOn's
"Breaking Home Ties" We I'M
derstand the mothers heart was
overlooking before this scene. Per-
haps it pictured another one to
heroine in which her boy was
going from home to the far west to
seek his fortune. Perchance she
stood, with hand on shoulder Of
stalwart son, just as the canvas
mother does. Who knows? IT'S
a great picture, that speaks soul to
soul. II there be faults of coloring
or drawing, the multitude will