Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-12-30

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like gemmen; de las game wus in dey
got to kickin' shins! Washington
Star.
THANKSGIVING NOT IN ART.
Americas Distinctive Religious Fes-
tival Thus Far Shunned.
Thanksgiving day, Americas distinct
i've religious festival of rejoicing, has
no place in art. Easter, Christmas, New.
Years day, Fourth of July and almost
every other day of celebration have been
made themes for creative genius and
have furnished the world many of its
choicest engravings, paintings and
sculptures. But Thanksgiving, though
in spirit and practice a day of gladness,
stands gloomily apart with almost no
one to depict its significance and
glories
This is the more remarkable from the
fact that in the east. which claims the
honor Of originating the day and the
further honor of being par excellence
the home of american art, the festival
takes precedence of Easter. and New
Years. and other days of celebration,
save the Fourth of July. The festival
is Puritan product and seems to have
repealed the lovers of the beautiful. as
did the stern-visaged ssticklers for
plainness who landed at Plymouth and
overran the adjacent territory.
The illustrated papers alone have
seen the day material for artistic dis
play. and have for many years presented
in pictorial form characteristic features
of the festival In these for the most
part the turkey has been adopted as the
symbol, if not the motive, as the lily
has been for Easter, and the holly and
mistletoe have been for Christmas.
Even in periodical pictures of Thanks
giving church attendance and family
reunions there has usually been
turkey in !. the foreground or back
ground, with its suggestion of death
and dinner.
Indeed, II has been said that Il it ere
not for the sorrows of the fowl, that
make them mark for humor and carl
cature, Thanksgiving would scarcely
have broken into the illustrated jour
nails. The serious pictures pertaining to
the day are declared to be a sentimental
modification of the humorous.
A canvass was made day or two ago
.of the leading art stores of the city, but
not Thanksgiving picture could be
found. At one store, the best they could
do was to s'offer picture with q
turkey in it." At another it twas de-
clared that the festival had never been
made theme for art, and that quest
for Thanksgiving pictures would be
fruitless. At the other stores the re-
port was similar.
t.The day." said one art dealer, els pc
culiarly and exclusively American, and
not universal in Christian communities,
like Easter, Christmas. and New Years.
Hence it would fall outside of the gym.
pathies of English and continental art
lists: It is strange fact, though, that
american artists have ignored it. The
festival has nothing dramatic or tragic
about it, but it does offer an.opportuni-
ty for the depletion of devotion and
family happiness, with fairly good
scope Of humorous treatment. There
may Be many Thanksgiving pictures
painted by artists for their own homes
or for individual patrons, but have yet
to see the first distinctively Thanksgiv-
ing picture reproduc for the trade and
finding its way into the art stores. :,
Chicago Tribune. g
Rare Sight on Lake Ontario.
a waterspout travelled down Lake On
tario at the rate of probably ten miles
an hour one day lately. It was
first noticed by some gentlemen
who were in the board OF
trade building, and was then about
a mile out in the lake, of the center of
the island The heavy, black clouds
overhead had approached down close
to the surface of the lake, apparently,
and sucked the water up. The water
assembled in q straight spiral column
right to the clouds and then spread out,
the clouds being blown rapidly down
the lake. carrying the Waterspout with
them. When nearly opposite the east
.ern gap the spout broke, and in an I'M
slant disappeared, while the clouds con-
tinued on their course down the lake.
It IS said to have been nearly 80 years
since uaterspolt has been seen on
Lake Ontario Toronto Globe.