The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-15

tience and pious integrity of man ever compounded, But it must be taken | right on the spot where 1t is made and directly into your "krug" from the Pass" The imported article Is as un- | like 1t as Hartford old maid is unlike Litchfeld sixteen year old beauty, The subject of beer should not have | been introduced into these letters. There are @ great many good people, very good people, pious people, Center church people, who judging beer by the vile connections made in and imported into our suffering country, and noting the sad effects of such connections upon man and woman, have come to regard beer as mild and cheap form of rum. \ They therefore will surely take eXcep- l tion to anything said or written in praise of an article they condemn. Nor | would it be possible to convince them that anything is good they know to be | Injurious; that anything can be most | wholesome they know to be most hurt | tul; that anything can be delicious they | know to be most vile. Therefore let the subject be dropped with one word to the unprejudiced mortal. Pack your bag. | Start straight for Munich. Have some one point out the Hofbrauhaus. Enter.
 See exactly how the others do it. Do it. | That's all.
 Munich is lovely city and the Bava-
 rians are attractive people They seem to combine many of the good qualities of French, Prussians and Italians, with
 few of the bad ones. They are good,
 without being hard and formal. They
 are lively without being wicked. They are kind without being sentimental,
 lackadaisical or passionate. Is it the
 beer? Center church forbid the
 thought!
 But the beer and the disposition of
 the Munich people seem to go admira-
 bly together
 The art student will be disappointed
 in one thing There has not been an
 important addition made to the great
 Munich collections in the Glyptothek
 and in the Old Pinakothek in thirty years. It Is a great pleasure to see the
 same old works you adored a quarter of
 a century ago. But you wish Munich
 could have had a larger share in the
 additions which are continually enrich
 ing the collections of London, Paris and
 Berlin. The old Pinakothek is especial ly rich in Brouwers. Brouwer would
 most certainly not have met with Gen.
 ter church approval, for he passed most
 of his short life in taverns, and most of
 his pictures are of such scenes as were
 witnessed in Dutch taverns of his time.
 But what a master of drawing color
 and expression; of death, and, above all
 else, of shadows! His shadows are so
 clear that when one of his subjects
 opens his mouth with yell of pain or
 pleasure you can look down his throat
 and count his back teeth en passant.
 To paint shadow clearly and distinct ly is the most difficult accomplishment
 in the technique of painting The diff
 faculties have never been absolutely
 overcome by any artist in the entire
 history of painting. The first and nat lural notion of a shadow is that 1t should
 be dark. So it should. But there is l more and stronger local color in shad-
 ows than in lights. The brighter the light that strikes surface the less col
 or does the surface reflect. The most
 difficult shadows to paint are the deli
 cate shadows of the human form.
 French artists do not paint naked Wo-
 men simply for the purpose of repre-
 senting nudity, but for the purpose of
 showing forth their mastery of shad- ows. Munich just now is sad. How
 can it be otherwise! The tragic death i of the Duchess d'Alencon recalls the
 equally terrible death of the late king
 to whom at one time she was betrOthed.
 Besides, the present king, the late kings brother, Is an utterly helpless
 and hopeless idiot. How can people
 who have always been so attached to 1 their sovereigns as the Bavarians be
 gay under such sad circumstances!
 They are like a united family in whose
 house a beloved member is slowly dy-
 ing. Still the opera house and the the
 aters are open and the people make a ; brave show of pleasant activity.
 There are two places in Europe where
 the United States should be dplomati- cally represented. (Mem. for J. A. P.) ) The two are Munich and Dresden. , Many Americans live in these cities. Munich is growing all the while as a , center for art instruction. Where the United States has no diplomatic repre- l sentative there Americans are socially ; handicapped. Not one American In a
 thousand cares for the bother, trouble and expense of being presented at court. But that one presentation gives the Otn6r nlHe Huuuleu social position which they can obtain . by no other method. If one has been . presented the reasoning is that all may; l and in Germany the social lines are very sharply drawn between those who may and those who may not. A consul } is a. commercial agent, Where the Uni . ted States is only represented by con- ) suls, there American citizens are } ranked with shopkeepers, Socially, } Saxony and Bavaria are entirely inde- pendent of Berlin and they naturally 3 resent lack of social, independent re- I cognition on the part of the United = States.
 l At Lindau on Lake Constance there t was. years ago, a good hotel where you . could pass a few days in comfort; but 9 now it is sadly changed The walters = are not clean. You are solicited from : morning till night to eat when you are t not hungry, and to drink when you are not thirsty; and the whole house seems upset every time a train or a boat l comes in or goes out. You naturally l get away as fast and as soon as possi- ble for Constance. On the way you can