St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-07

1--WE called it a draw" said Mr.. Hudson.
HIGH ART IN ST. PAUL.

HIGH ART IN ST. PAUL.
| At present painting is the fashionable
craze for ladies'. 1 do not wish to be mis-
understood; am not referring to personal
| decoration. 1t would be blessing for the
public at large if some of them would be
content to cease their labors after decorat
| ing their faces. Dut no, they must dip into
high art, Or rather their idea of high art.
No two of the fair creatures seem to be
| able 10 agree upon the color of the same
flower. After their skillful (?) manipulation
our common field daisy might be taken for
| almost anything from sunfower to
| banana tree. When the craze seizes them
| it is quite remarkable what havoc they can
| create with few harmless appearing tubes
and brush plucked from the tail of that
frisky, graceful animal called a camel. If
| he knew to what base purposes his tail were
to contribute, l feel assured he would
promptly refuse to wear one, and fall back
upon his camers hair shawl to Wag when
| pleased.
| In few short days your quiet home can be
made to look like a Fourth of July celebra-
| ton. If red is a favorlte color, the inside of
he house appears to have been on a pro-
longed spree and everything looks noisy.
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| Whatever you do, never attem pt to criticise
| any work of art that is displayed for your ap-
| proval. 1 had no kind friend to advise me
| i'll this manner consequently went hungry
for two days and wasn't on speaking terms
| with my artistic wife for week wished
to be polite and admire her work, which she
! exhibited for my benefit. But, alas l went
too far. Curiosity getting the better of my
! judgment, 1 could not resist inquiring why
she put so many balloons in her picture of a
| balloon ascension. Imagine my horror and
| remorse when L discovered it was not a
balloon ascension at all. but quiet
| country scene, and the balloons were
| pumpkins! What L took for people
were corn stalks. When 1 humbly asked-in
the tone of one thirsting for knowledge
why the farmhouse was so much smaller
| than the pumpkins, I received look that
| bored to the marrow, and she forciDiy re-
marked, as she arose in ner wrath-and her
Oscar Wild tea goWn-''she thought that peo-
| pie who understood absolu tely nothing
whatever about perspective best keep their
ideas to themselves and not criticise their
spperiors;" and she swept out of the hole the
architect left in the wall leaving her victim
buying the handsomest gilt frame l could
find for "it'' Now the horror hangs in our
parlor, and the creator thereof is wreathed
in smiles. 1 anXiously watch the faces of
our guests and keep plenty of strong stimu-
lantS on tap. [ fear the first shock when
they gaze on those pumpkins may cause a
DEATH and | am not looking forward with
pleasure to being hung as an accessory to the
murder.
Now. when she permits me to intrude into
the sacred precincts of her studio and asks
how like her latest production, l put on
wrapt expression and gush forth, 'Beauti-
full, how very natural!' This is a safe ex-
clamaton and 1 find it fits almost every
thing. 1t never failed to please but once
that was when l unthinkingly made the same
remark as l gazed upon little red devil she
had just painted. She looked very sus-
picious didn't understand how | could
know whether it was natural, and it wasn't
intended to be beautiful" But am a per- |
son OF tact, and explained meant the beau
tlful' to refer to the style of execution l |
shlver whenever enter that studio. Some |
day my opinion will be asked and will fall |
into hole from which nothing less than a |
sealskin cloak or diamond ring will extri- |
cate me-
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Where upon this earth, or under it, do they |
manage to discover some of those wonderful |
colors and combinations with which they |
plaster the helpless canvass? Where do they |
put the colors on in that peculiar, haphaz- |
zard, polka-dotted manner, and why, oh why. |
do they always co yer every vacant spot in the |
house with wild roses and cat tails? Only |
one in fifty ever gets beyond the wild rose |
stage; and we wish she hadn't-it is very |
much like choice between delirium tre-
meIs or hydrophobia.
~
If it isn't wild roses, it is blue water lilies |
brown geraniums and pink forgetm nots !
A short time ago an enthusiastic parent ex. |
hibited her daughters latest success for my |
approval. Her first animal study, Cows at |
Pasture" she triumphantly explained |
''Cows at Pasteur's'' would better have suited !
it. for whatever kind were originally made to |
adorn this work of art must have gone mad |
from thirst and escaped. Not COW could | |
find. There appeared to me q collection of |
apple-green grass, with numberless brown |
stumps scattered promiscuously through it. |
and what was supposed to be a watering |
trough and pump 1t would have 10 be a |
circus calf that could stand on its tail to |
drink out of that trough, and a pretty clever |
cow to work that pump; no wonder they de- |
serted that meadow. made my usual non |
committal remark, which so delighted the |
parent that | was generously treated to a little |
moisture. hope that girl will continue to |
plaster canvass and that will often be called |
in to criticiSe.
l saw Minnesota prairie painted by New |
York girl. Shall l ever forget it! have
CIV linz to do for b,,t
the recollection of it gives me the nightmare
1 live in continual dread that she will pre-
sent it to us; knowing that we reside in the
West, she may think we win value 1t. 1t
consists of a vast expanse of canvass
sprinkled with cultivated flowers such as
Gala lilies, palms, tuberoses, etc. To reIiev We
the monotony she had put in an occ asional
cornstalk, with what l took to be a bird of
Paradise perched upon it like crow eati ne
wheat off the corustalk am surprised that
she didn't pull cyclone in one corner and
blizzard in another.
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Our amateur artists have not the slightest |
regard for nature. If they wanted to dec
crate blue room with dogs heads they
would not hesitate to paint blue dogs. Nor
would they be above painting green sheep or
purple geese. Women must have something !
to amuse themselves with. If decorating the
dining room wi tn impossible fruit pieces
keeps them out of mischief let them alone
Bear with their eccentricities until your wife
begins on your portrait then apply for di-
vorce and any right-minded judge in this
country will grant your prayer without a
murmur. ERR
B. j. MrEaney. of Minneapolis, and form
erly representative of the GLOBE in that city,
has gone to Chicago for the purpose of ac-
cepnng position on Sports aud Amuse-
ments. a lively weekly now under the man
agement of Mr.. Caples, formerly sporting
editor for the Kansas City Times and man
ager for Jack Dempsey. Mr.. Mullaney will
conduct the theatrical department.