Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16

every hampshire most naturally
treated. and the harp is so staccatO in
drawing that IL requires little fancy
TO hear il thrilling with the plaintive
song of "Tarra's Walls; and the face
is plaintive in beauty. Miss Marcia
Oakley Woodbury. turns also from fruits
and flowers. and furnishes Itch Rustic
Smoker, who is busted with pine.
and exstatically watching "the dim
shadowing clouds floating over him."
as the poet Halleck puts it.
ST fancy" said an cnlOOker at It.
chat Miss Woodbury. has tried tho
pine herself with Turkish tobacco. in
order to realize her connection so we'll
prOrrayed of the happy smoker.
Miss Clara McChesney furnishes a
picturesque matronly cleaner in a mar
vest field and Miss Maud Humphrey two
ladies representing Gossip and Van
ity.' These artistes have recommended
Rusku's saving that choice of sub
ject is the best half of every picture
with treatment as the moiety"
CHArNCEY DEPEW on A BUST.
Art lovers have had another treat
during the week in viewing on exhibi-
ton a marble burst Of Chauncey Depew
bv an English sculptor. Albert Bruce
joy. already famous in London for his
statues Of Gladstone and Salisbury;
whereof the critics said it is easy to-
see by The treatment towards which
one of these statesmen his symp2thies
ran.
Let me put into sonnet form my ideas
OF the Dapew bust after studying it.
and merely prefacing it by saving that
the chiseling is exquisite. and the
worble recalls the exquisite line in
Go'dsDith's Traveller
"The pregnant quarry teemed with hui
man form"
Vain sculptor who designed TO fully
trace
In marble lines the humor on that face
And left it sobered into board-room
gracei
To represent him in post-prandial
place,
Or entered for the oratorial race.
The lsht Of Chauncey's soul should
shine
BROUGHT from within upon each CHS
eled line.
All, Soul no uarhled efgv can know:
into immortal domains could not 60
N@ill of Pr3Viteles. or Hiram Powers.
Who posed the Greek slave as in chains
She covers
It's from within our Ch0uncey flows
the wit
That seems an topics to so deity fit
Tho b,,-+ e-oc- e.-+ 20 +ro A,,7o,,,..
ENhibitic~ az London. whore The sculu-
tor has studio. and next permanoutlv
enters orr Union LeaSue Club. Of which
Mr. Derew was So long president
DFPFW As A POLITICAL FACTOR.
by the way. f. is not so distant an
idea that his name nav constitute
dark horse e7trv I'm the Presidential
race. or become Vice President. If. for
instance. his rartv should head the
81. Louis ticket with Allison.
A FIFNFT AVENUE FPTr FPSY.
Upper Fifth avenue year 10 the man
sio0z of the Vanderhuts and Secretary
Whitney has what 7 may term on ar
chitectU~9' epileDtic ct. consequent Nd
on capitalists threatening the location
there Of m emporium FOR the Gtsrlav
and sale Of dry goods and the alto
eether.' Remorseless trade has push
oil beside residencv all the way from
the Marble Arch at sixth to Fcrtv-
second street, along Fifth avenue. II
had been fondlv hO0ed that the inner
tinenJ tradesman would go no further
westward but here ne is threatening
the HOLY Land Of NiIliaredom.
a VANDERBILT BLTNDFR.
Far-s.ehted Commodore Vanderbilt
when son William first purchased
building lots this side of Central Park
was Of opinion. that ne should have TO
go opposite 10 the Park. believing that
business would never reach frs boun-
dary. But son William and his am
bilious children were not averse 10
forcing all carriage folk and pedes-
TRANS going parkward 20 PASS admir-
ingly their palati2l quarters. But the
Astors and other milli0naires were Of
Commodore V2nderbilt's opinions. and
erected mansions opposite 20 the park.
Where only mi'lioDaires can live. for
The very few lets remaining there are
v2lUod Ike Wall street property bv
the foot and a building lot there would
cost rs much as q lot and a fine man
sion erected anywhere else on a cross
street in the park vicinity.
THE EPIDEMIC TOURIST FEVER
I en- reminded by a club friend who
rs I'm the Transatlantic steamship bust
ness that the tourist fover has already
broken ont and is likely 20 become du-
ring the coming season more socially
endemic than ever. Nearly all the
swell lines have. before winter ends.
the majority Of their staterooms en-
gagged. end even fin return for the sum
mer. The rates are higher than usual
UNPATRIOTIC TOURISTS.
But how MANY Of the tourist on ar
irving abroad will be able 10 talk about
the wonders. the uarvcls and tho Fcme
eDjoymcrts Of their own Co--'S- I
have met Americans abroad enthusiasts
tic over foreign sights who confessed,
end without humiliation. 10 never hay
ing seen those Western AIMS, the Rock
les. or the Mammoth Cave. or the
toundless rrairies. and even Niagara.
They would v0unt Carlsbad while
Struggling shoulders at the Hot Springs
of Virginia. and pirate about Swiss
lakes while ignorant of those far more
picturesque ones i'm New England,
Midland New York or i'm the North
west But when or where was there
ever a patriotic goddess Fashion?
A. Oakley HALL.