The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

The boys always know, as if by instinct,
when top season has come or when it is
time for kites or marbles. There
is reason for flying kites
in March, or for wearing out
the knees of small trousers only when
the ground is dry and warm. The grown
ups, however, do not seem to allow the
weather TO regulate their amusements.
Lent has come very early; but. although
1t is still February, and spring will not
be on us for some weeks yet, out-of-door
sports will be much in vogue. There can
be NO question as to which is more bene-
ficial-an afternoon spent in a heated
drawing room, from which the light of
day has been carefully excluded, and in
which a number of women are crowded
together over card tables, or one spent
in the fresh country air, either on a wheel
or on horseback, If a girl does not care
for walking. 1t is rather unsatisfactory
TO try to reach the country on foot, for
time and patience are required to plod
through our unattractive suburbs and
dusty roads in order to reach the woods
so far beyond. one is sometimes inclined
TO think that every man, woman and child
Gncluding babies but lately out of arms),
has taken to the wheel 1t seems odd that
the golf craze has not yet reached Sa-
vannah, or perhaps II is too violent an ex-
ercise for this climate At the north. as
in England, it is the most popular of all
out-of-door games, and a great deal of
space has been devoted to it recently in
tho magazines. Society people who
still have yearnings toward cards,
or who aspire to greater proficien-
cy in the matter OF whist playing,
will practice quietly with a few friends
the American Leads that they learn dur
ing the week Others will form reading
clubs, or join literature classes. All will
be busy, but in change of occupation there
will be rest.
One organization that has just been
formed is important enough to require
paragraph to itself. This is the Art
League, of which Mrs w w Gordon is
president. and Mrs. Edward Karow sec
rotary, and which has been fortunate
enough to secure the services of Mr.. Hoc-
ace Bradley for an almost nominal sum.
He VIII give his lessons in the Telfair
Academy, which is admirably adapted to
the purpose. 1t is great thing
for a town like Savannah TO have such an
academy as the Telfair, and it is a great
thing also to have with us an artist like
Mr.. Bradley. The formation of the
league and the zeal displayed by the or
ganizers IN their efforts to raise the need
ed money, show an interest in art and in
things artistic that should argue good re-
suits. Perhaps SaVannahians do not re-
gian; that he was born in Rome, Georgia,
and worked in Atlanta a number of years.
He then studied abroad for some time, and
on his return was made president of the
Art League in New y DIRK 1t seems that it
has always been a longing of Mr.. Brad
leyS to promote the cause of art in the
south, and now he Will be able to fulfil his
wish. He will arrive on Monday from At
lanta, and will Immediately review the
work of the students and classify them.
To go from art as revealed by the pencil
~ brush. a Hon
kinson Smiths word painting is not even
a step. All who were present at the
Guards armOfy last Monday afternoon,
when Mr. Smith delivered to the league
and its guests his address on the pictur-
esque, must have realized that the ear is
as capable of conveying a beautiful pic
artist is as great as Mr.. Smith. We may
have read his La Canal de la Viga," but
It was not the wonderful painting that it
became, when the author read it for us.
One can easily believe that Mr. Smith has
travelled one-half the world over to find
the picturesque, and 1t is something gain
ed TO learn that it is quality which one
never sees in nature until she has been
rough-handled by man and has outlived
the usage.
The last german OF the winter season
was danced at the Guards armorg on
Tuesday evening, and though an unusu-
ally small one, was considered most de-
lightful by many of the guests present.
though perhaps not by the twenty-five
stays who We're left after y O'clock when
a number of young ladies observed Ash
Wednesday by going home Mr.. Arthur
Elliott led the german, and among those
present were: Mrs. T. NJ. Cunningham
Mrs. J. J Wilder and Mrs. Rauers, the
chaperones, and Mr.. and Mrs. Louis NJ
LeEardy, Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Hunter.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Randolph Anderson, Mr.
and Mrs. John MallOch, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Gibbes, Mrs. W. w. Gordon
Jr., Miss Gordon. Miss Mary Arnold, Miss
Katharine Hartridge. Miss Elizabeth
Haskell, Miss Sally Haskell, Miss Daisy
Bryan Mss Lima Walter, Miss Scotia
Waiter, Miss Nary Jones, Miss Hattie
Colqutt, Miss Elise Rauers Miss Conner
Miss Baldwin, Miss Wimberley, Miss Ma
mic Wilcox, Miss Huger Miss Lima HUI
ger, Miss Florence Nisbet. Miss Annie
Lyman, Miss LeOna Guerard Miss Kate
Guerard, Miss Josie Freeland, Miss Lily
ret Vernon Stiles, Miss Kathleen Hunter
Miss Otelia Johnson, Miss Marie Moynelo
Miss Jennie Sullivan, Messrs. Arthur Ell
Lott, w. w Williamson, John Morris
John sullivan Schley, Horace Hunter w
a.. Dudley, Anton Wright, William CHS
holIn Stewart Hincks, J. deBryn Hops
FRED Myers, Clarence Anderson, Jack X In
Zle Arthur Gordon, Trenholm Hopkins
swan Sullivan, Raymond Butler William
NILS 3. Lane, Edward Mercer. Gordon
Harrison, r. c. Harrison, F. s. Elliott.
ANON y. Johnston, +. O. Watkins. Ritz
lenhouse Moore, Edward Haskell Palmer
AAsgli, It. Lloyd Owens James McAIDfn
II. Mcrague Fleming, c. J. Hunter j. A.
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