Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-06
ARTISTS AND AUTHORS.
THEY OPEN A rwo DAYS SESSION AT
THE MIDLAND HOTEL.
A Strong Paper on the Need Of n western
Magazine FOR the Writers of THAT
section-rrofessor Philips
on "Iriiby."

on "Trilby."
The artist. the lit,erateur and the molder
OF public opinion in shape Of the Western
Authors and Artists club are assembled
In two days session at the Midland hotel
Inc programme. as published announced
mat the first session would he held In
rarlor 5 at the Midland yesterday morn.
ing' but with Characteristic eccentricity OF
genius that the literary man and the arts,
III common Possesses 20 one was present
when the clock toiled the hour Of begin
ming. and 1t was o'clock In the afternoon
before any considerable number Of the
members got together
In the absence OF President Ewing Her
bert OF liawatha kas.. Vice President II.
! NJ Shcarinau presided. The customary re.
port OF the secretary, being largely a de-
| tailed account OF the last years meeting.
was read. approved and placed on file, ana
after the appointment of the following
committees. the club proceeded with an in
| teHgctual feast: Committees Mrs Alice
! 6: Jordan, Mrs. G. s. Crysler Miss Minnie
| Mclntyrc; reception q. w. Marder Mrs
w. B. Mumford and Miss Cornena Hick.
-. An ,oCrieinal, poem entitled, "The Hero"
! ~ Thomas, Brewer Peacock. OF Topeka,
| has, was the first production on the pro-
Eramme. This was followed by the read
ins e, 25aI 25 ryS,PSr ry,PSr by Mrs Mary j. Reid Of
The Necessity for Western and Southern
Magazines"
She said; every state IN the Union
needs local magazine quite as much as
~ needs local newspapers, local libraries
pressed upon the wealthy men OF every
state s,,ii ., tina. that good publishing house and
rnasazine stn of literary quality are quite as
essential to the permanent progress Of the
commonwealth as are railroads. libraries,
universities and art galleries. state thrift
daughters within the state boundaries. or or
what use is II for a state to rear a talented
have no marketable opportunities for lit
erary and artistic expression? If the art
Whn M q r Saya @ BS w gn ese
whebc Tor ihe b, bde,yel2bmsnt Of their talents
to be authors and artists.
1T is useless TO suppose that the East
will support Western literature. The West
i 70 act for itself 1t is Impossible for
Eastern editors TO watch the growth of
away, Several Of our gray haired authors.
Wei known IN the West. and, South. are
ors. We do not gain anything by railing
against these Eastern editors and pub
fishers The remedy lies with ourselves and
with tn" Western people. Indiana believes
at home, ThIs is a lesson for the. West.
Lawrence, kas., shelves devoted exclusive
y u, the writer's OF Kansas, and also
mSs Zine has fonTtb snSPbed IL f6eSS 6Ssd haEd @
pie OF Missouri have Missouri shelf large
enough 70 hold, every volume Of record
hy Thyn yGars Py iSw down irH to Miss Mary
a. ovens "Voodoo Tales"
But there are reasons other than these
why we should advance the growth of
magazines among US. Nearly every state
has an indiyldnai history and is t tnhae,
type. 1t is not unlikely that in another
half u century this dissmilarity Will dis
appear and that our descendants viii be
bcmoaning our carelessness in neglecting
TO permanently record historical events
an, ana to delneatSs types which to us seem
There Is n stronger reason, however, for
the foundation of a Western magazine,
for Sorelgn literature. 1t should he the
purpbse of the Western authors who are
manently record before it is too late the
lives of our American or Western con- |
temporaries. The occasion has to be very |
magazine to admit a sketch or criticism |
of living American writer. There = room |
one who will put behind him the labored |
academic style which has hamperod Amer |
lean criticism, and Will add to the learn
of Western wit"
In the discussion that followed the read
ing of this paper Miss Corneia Hickman |
thought that the present generation did
not realize the situation and that the only
thing TO do was to educate the rising gem
Grafton Mr.. Shearman thought there was
a lack of good art in the West Mrs. LII
ian Hale said that the writers Of the West
desired the best price they could get for
their productions, and Miss Eva Ryan, of
kas,, thought that the Western
writers We're too selfish to assist in the Cs-
adjustment Of Western magazine
Mrs Hattie Peeler of Severance, Kas.,
read clever poem entitled IF You Must
\ Well told romance, read bv Mrs. G. s.
Crysier OF Kansas cry, closed the after
The evenings programme did not begin
until ? o'clock, when the exercises opened
Win the leading Of a paper by Professor
jeCt, Does Fiction Elucatc?"
The writer proceeded along conventional
lines until he started into a discussion Of
he evils Of fiction writing as appiiei to
education. Up to this time Professor Phil
ips had spoken of various authors, ranging
through the works Of Dickens and other
great educational authors, but when he
lture which Injuries rather than benefits
le pfoceeugu IN bittcr eNCoriation Of Du
"Triihy" and IIardy's Tess dUr-
leNllIe :; condemnus these works as un-
II Tor the young to read, He urged that
he lovers of the pure in literature black
'al such publications and discourage Du
'iaurier. Zoa and Hardy from getting a |
oothOld In this country.
When mi. paper was. thrown open for
m her iget ana IN vigorous speech de- |
ended Tess; declaring mat this book de-
oryed a rank with the Bible, There are
wo kinds Of educatiou,' said Mrs sherry. |
one is he yelled education that says that
cad only the works hat treat Of the beau
ifUl. Until my children can be raised ur- | !
er the celestial dome ] want them to read
uch books as these and learn what Is good |
nj pure by reading such books that truly
epict life one or two other ladies ably {
cConled the remarks Of Mrs, sherry and |
lr. Shearmdn submitted a few remarks az
Q the iuartistic features of the TWO books. J
Walt Mason formerly Il Kansas news
aper man, but now Of Bea tricc. Neb
cad an ORIGINAL poem entitled, The Sci
nee Of Waiting"
He was followed by Roger Cunningham {
f Kansas City, who talked interestedly OF !
ri. lie told Of the artist Beardsey, who
rocured his ideas from the japanese. The {
.mcrican artists adopted Beardsley and :
time oUtstrippsd their teacher ana now
utClass the japanese from whom Boards +
y learned Mr. Cunningham had large '
umber of views that he exhibited.
W III. Cline, Of the East Side Literary |
oeiety. read a pleasing production entitled
The Mlllennium--a Dream" ana a pleas
Y short fiction story entitled Rob" by I
'lss Ella cowan, colsed the evenings pro- a
ramme. n
The sessions win continue through to- il
ny, concluding with a musical and liter p
~ programme this evening.