The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23

| intimate, crank. Perhaps the young
Trainer was crank. | don't believe he is
alive now. He was one of those i'm
| petuOus souls who wear out rapidly Per
haps the lady of the kindergarten was
| another crank. If so, my blessing, at
least, on crankdOm, and may its gentle
tribes increase.
WHERE DO THEY GO?
Where do the old pianos go when they
die
New York is the greatest piano produc-
ing capital of the world. It's great piano
firms are numbered by dozens They
practically control all the concert bust
ness. They have sprinkled the middle
portion of the town with great ware
houses.
Five million pianos in the country, an
expert tells me. Ten million people who
''can play a little" A few hundred who
can play great deal.
Did you know that fats have revolu-
tionized the "style" in pianos2 Thirty
years ago folks who couldn't afford a
grand piano bought what they called a
square one. Upright pianos were dis
tinctly old fashioned.
Now square pianos are out and the up
right is in again, keeping company with
the folding bed in the Characteristic
homes of the metropolis, where, as St.
Clair McKelway says, dogs wag their
tails up and down instead of sidewise as
in other cities.
And the old pianos are in boarding
houses and all sorts of queer places. You
can get one for $15-at auction. I've seen
'em in queer placeS-the cabin of canal
boat, a shanty in Shantytown, a negro
cabin on Crow Hill
THE ACADEMY
Don't believe it when they write to you
that the spring academy is "as bad as
ever" 1t isn't. 1t is a splendid show
and there isn't single pipe, tobacco and
pack of cards "still life' in it to my
knowledge.
These things are noticeable
Young Tarbell, who won the Clarke
prize in 1880 by a marvelously light and
graceful out-of- door scene, with two young
girls sitting in the checkered light of the
trees, has set the pace. Everybody, at
least all the youngsters, are painting in
the plain air. style now, and in shades
and colors almost monchromatic.
Kenyon Cox has little study in pro
itileT Of red-headed and red-checked girl
in a red dress against red background.
Curiously enough, it is charming.
Bruce Crane has dropped snow. Too
cold to hands. Now he paints yellow
against harvest, with streaks of vivid
green through it.
There are frames in greenish tinted
wood, and in honest brass, as well as
gold.
I've chopped wood myself, which is why
/ laugh at Morgan Rhees' big "Youth Of
Abraham Lincoln" Rhees has the felled
tree CHOPPED entirely through from one
side, instead of half on one side and half
on the other.
Women are strong in the exhibition.
CLEvELANDIC WOES.
Poor Mrs. Cleveland! Her laudable
wish to ''keep Baby Ruth out of the news
papers, is not being realized as might be
wished.
Washington is full of sketchers and
camera snappers anxious to get a glimpse
of the FIRST baby of the land"
They're putting Baby Ruths picture on
the inside of watch cases now, as well as
Baby Ruth's Washington jewellers do it in
lots of cases.
The "Baby Ruth Sunshine League" is
TO have a booth at the Press Club fair.
1t is evidently going to be a Baby Ruth
year, whereat there is true grief in the
white house
SPANISH CITY.
Jumping all Latin-Americans as Span
iards because they speak the language Of
Columbus, there are enough Spaniards in
New York TO mako by themselves very
respectable city. And their number