The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10

attract attention, and have seen society
women lost in contemplation of them.
The one picture everyone sees because
everyone else does Is breaking Home
Ties, 10y Thomas Hovenden, a Peunsyl-
yania artist. If YOU want 70 be enter
tanned take seat nearest the picture and
listen TO the comments made upon IL.
Very often the person most intent upon
this favored picture viii be the man that
fortune has smiled upon and the world
careSsed Doubtless he left just such an
humble cottage, had Just such care
worn, over-worked woman for mother
aud went out INTO the great world with
her blessing and prayers. And, if the
memory of his early humble life has been
partially wiped out by his contest with
the world of which his mother knew so
little, the picture revives it, and he stands
before it, hands in pockets, living over
again the days that are no more The
Loan Collection, that is the pictures by
famous artists owned by Americans, is of
the greatest interest to those who have
made a study of art, though to the I'M
artistic the collection is not any more in
teresting than those of the American
school.
The Russian exhibit of paintings is of
an exceedingly melancholy character,
Dicturing such hopelessness and despair
thatyou are glad when you find yourself
in Italy, even if you are confronted by
such frantic subject as 'The Declare
tlon,' which hangs above one of the en-
frances to the rooms devoted to Italian
art
The sculptor has had various inspira-
tons for an ideal Christ, but the marble
conceptions of Him are even more disap-
pointing than those of the brush; and we
turn away from them wondering why
finite mind attempts to portray the intin-
lite. Over in the German building where
there is large display of sacred and re
hgious subjects. bronze figure of Christ
stands in the great hall and it has some
thing in it that the others lack, and as
saw little child reach up and put her
small white hand into the great cold
bronze one that is extended as if in bless
ing Thought that if the sculptor could
have watchedsher he would have exper-
fenced thrill of pleasure.
Any one who fancies carved worries
will find a large exhibit of them in the
Liberal Arts. They are so exquisite that
they have fascinated the eye of the mon
eyed and any number of pieces are marked
sold" But those whose pocketbooks
lag way behind their desires must be con
tent to gaze on their loneliness and try to
feel very fortunate in being able to look
at them, just as they should do when
they stand in all the dazzling brilliancy
of gem display, and behold the counter
parts of gorgeousness that are. owned by
the gilded humanity of to-day. As if to
allay all the temporal lodgings that be-
siege the heart at the sight of such splen-
dor there is here fitted up beautiful
sanctuary, where in the dim religious
light one unconsciously bows the head,
and men remove their hats as if in the
enclosure of a consecrated chapel.
For that tired feeling" with which
you are seized after an eight-hour tramp,
take a stroll in the the Midway Plaisance
and there lose yourself in contemplating
the comedy of existence and not the
wickedneSs with which it is said the
Plaisance is teeming. There is so much
that is instructive and diverting that
ones mind need not, from necessity dwell
upon its vulgarities-if such exist. Here
you may brush up against every nation
under the sun, and judging from the bust
ness-lil6e way with which some of these
very foreign foreigners depOrt themselves
they have been in the show business be-
fore. They seem to regard the average
American as a most gullible person, and
offer him goods with an impudent insinu-
ating assurance that the coins in his
pockets are to be had for the asking, and
| if you surprise vender by declining to
purchase of his gaudy trifles his remarks
are not always the most delicate. The
various curious looking sweetmeats that
| they sell find some purchasers, but they
always nibble them suspiciously, feeling
all the while that they are challenging
| Providence.
The only person I saw eating peanuts
was John Jacob Astor, who was strolling
through the Midway by the side of his
wife, who was seeing the sights from a
rolling chair. Undoubtedly he could not
withstand the persuasive voice Of an en-
| terprising youngster who advertised
''double-jointed hunchback peanuts,
| cents a bag" There were plenty of that
wonderful variety of "gabers' exhibited
in the California building, the only state
in the union that can produce that par.
ticplar kind.