The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06

Angelo Whyte turned his wide dreamy
/ stare upon the Colonel as though debat-
! ing the color question in his mind, and
/ Lady Hilda walked down to the boat. her
head very erect. She wore a bunch Of
! pink clover In her belt that day at lunch.
| col. bruce left for town directly il was
over.
! They were at Bosnian, a village which
/ most artists know by sight and smell ex-
! ceeding we'll and nobody else knows at
all; a quaint, primitive little place, all low
/ proved. red-tiled cottages. grouped about
the head Of one of the various arms of the
sea which still fiji the burrows in what.
of erSt, was Chichester harbor, and with a
grand, old pre-Norman church, in the nave
of which one of Canute's daughters lies
/ buried.
The popularity of the place is that ow-
| ing to the level fairness of the grassy, tree
clad shores forming the ancient harbor-
bed the sea at low tide disappears alto
gether, leaving behind it a plain of shin
ing iridescent purple-green mud enam-
elled near to shore with a variegated pat
tern of lobster shells, tin cans broken
emma, and the other ejectamenta of viii
lage life, and with craft of all sorts and
cookie shells of dinghys, standing upright
IN II or heeled over on one side as though
| lald up "en permanence" from all thoughts
Of future service; while an hour or two
later, when the tide has risen, that same
eXpanse is blue and sparkling harbor
covered with frothing wavelets which
throw showers of salt foam over the green
daisied meadows sloping to their edge. or
reflect in calmer moments the red roofs
and tall elm trees of the little village as
well as every slender spar and snowy sail
OF the boats now riding gaily on its blue
expanse
Artists are very fond of Bosnian. which
is pafntable from every point of view-the
church, the tiled houses and grey-stone
causeway which just keeps them from
sinking bodily into the mud, the bare-leg-
ged, seml-amphibious children even the
mud itself; and the Bosnian folks have
got used to them in return. and take little
notice of the sun-tanned, shabbily-clad
paint-smeared individuals who squat pipe
in mouth, behind their canvases at most
valuable corners.
But never had the Bosnian mind been
exercised as on the present occasion when.
instead of these well known and hard
working brothers of the brush-these men
OF the Wyllie, Herkomer and
Hattie schools-Mr. Angelo Whyte.
the lmpressionist' painter, the
most audacious of color-poster de-
signers. the regning craze and favorite of
fashionable drawing rooms and the New
Art Club, came down for fortnight at
the end of July. in company with his Doet
friend, Beverley Brooke the man whose
sensitiveness is so great that devoted la
dles take 1t in turn to supply him with
house room and pay his washing and tai
lors' bills. lest the quality of his poems
should suffer from his mind being called
of to such domestic brutalities with
MRS. der-Mitchen, the lady at pres
ent honored with the performance of these
sacred duties, the Ladies Hilda ana Mar
garet West sisters of the present Duke of
Strathgyle, with their maid, and ia ge-
boy to clean the BICYCLES Miss Apiohn
the daughter of a deceased bishop, who,
having very little money of her own. CEN
orally lived with Mrs. Verinder-Mitcheu
in the capacity of "ame damnee. to that
sanity lady's poet-latria; the Hon. BERTHE
HiIlard, an undergraduate nephew of Mrs
Nitehelfs husband, and an amateur art
ist friend of his, also hailing from Alma
Mater; party of eight in all. under the
leadership of Angelo Whyte and calling
themselves a sketching and reading club.
out winch might have numbered eighty.
and been christened after a society erst-
While famous in the annals of Medmenham
Abbey, by the tutter of excitement and dis
may created by their doings in little Bos-
ham,
MISS Apjohn smoked cigars. rode her
bike in the tIghtest and briefest of ''ra-
tonaf' costumes, and drank brandy End
water half and half" The ladies Hilda
and Peggy, only smoked cigarettes and
rode in Park habits;' but drank uulim-
tied champagne cup, which the page was
Kept making all day, and drove a
| butchers cart into Chichester to visit the
| Cathedral(D while Mrs Verinder Mitchell
who chaperoned the party, reclined under
| the shade of a huge red parasol on the
! deck of the lugger which they had char
! tered for the term of their stay. because
the poets nerves needed the soothing Of
| ripping water; and that parsonage Law
stretched on cushion at her side. and al
lowed her to fan the flies off him, or thruln
soIt accompanniments on her guitar to the
| broken murmur of his verses
Their headquarters were at the VILLAGE
inn; but, excepting for dressing and sleep
Ing purposes, the party troubled it little.
unless when making "apple-pie BEDS In
each others rooms, or turning night into
! day with hot lobster suppers and comic
! songs sung to the strains of Berthe Hill
liards banjo and a whistling accompani-
ment by Miss Apjohn.
At other times they were all over the
place, 'scorching along the level roads at
the cost of riding over one old woman. an
Initiating flock of fat ducks; and upset
ting Lady Peggy into a ditch full of wa
ter; bathing all together from the lugger
| in wonderful eX-Trouville costumes. with
much shouting, diving,and pauses TO make
| sketches of one another in the water;
| swinging on gates, marching four abreast
arm in arm up the village street al mid
night, singing choruses from 'Tannhauser'
| interspersed with such lyrics as SHE was
one of the early birds and l was one of
the worms disappearing in couples 1.-TWO
of these couples being generally Lady
Hilda and Angelo Whyte and Lady Peg
gy and Hllliard, doing impressions of
each other and the natives in every posi-
Bile costume and attitude; smoking whist
ling, chatting. flirting; till the Boshamites
stood aghast, and the fame of their do
ings not only spread over the county. and
| got into the society papers but even pene-
trated to the duke, making him gnash his
teeth and use bad words over his salmon
fishing In Galway
Il wonder you allow it," said Col.
| bruce.
The Duke turned on him savagely.
ALLOW! How am | TO prevent it2 Hill
dan be Of age In three months. What's
the good of my stopping now what she'll
be fyee to do If she pleases then? And
even you'll admit that it's better she
should have Peggy with her than not. NV
HH Na h i