The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-06-24
What preparation for the wear and

! open II uOOT INTO some ldTScT realm tlldu
that in which our population daily
/ drudges. Or what good thing the half
hour Of artistic opportunity on the way
! home In the evening from exhaustion
! that demands recuperation for mind
| and soul as well as body! Who will do
for the city where you live what w. w.
Corcoran did for Washington and what
others have done for Philadelphia and
Boston and New York; Men of wealth,
| X you are too modest to build and en-
dow such place during your lifetime.
why not go TO your iron safe and take
out your last will and testament and
| make q codicil that shall build for the
city OF your residence throne for
| American art? Take some of that
money that would otherwise spoil your
children and build an art gallery that
shall associate your name forever not
only with the great masters of painting
who are gone, but with the great mas
tiers who are trying to live, and also win
the admiration and love of tens OF thou
sands of people, who, unable TO have
| fine pictures of their own, would be adj
vantaged. BY your benefnctions build
| your own monuments and not leave II
/ to the within of others. Some OF the
best people sleeping in Greenwood have
| no monuments at all or some crumbling
stones that in few years will let the
rain wash ont name and epitaph, while
some men, whose death was the abate-
ment Of "A nuisance, have pile of Aber-
deem granite high enough for king
and eulogies enough to embarrass
seraph. Oh, man OF large wealth. in
stead of leaving TO the whim of others
your monumental commemoration and
| epitaphology, to be looked at when peo7
pie are going to and fro at the burial of
others, build right down in the heart of
our great city, or the city where yon
live. an immense free reading-room, or
free musical conservatory, or free
art gallery, the inches for sculpture and
the walls abloom with the rise and fall
of nations, and lessons of courage for
the disheartened, and rest for the
weary, and life for the dead; and $50
years from now you will be welding
influence in this world for good. How
much better than white MARBLE that
NillliS Nou - YOU l'uN 'h' '''''' ~ -
when you touch it in the cemetery,
would be monument in colors. in
beaming eyes, in living possession, in
| splendors which under the chandelier
would be glowing and warm, and
looked at by strolling groups with cata-
] logue in hand on the January night
when the metropolis where the body
! sleeps is all showed under!
The tower of David was hung with
1000 dented shields OF battle; but you.
oh man of wealth. may have n grander
tower named after you. one that shall
| be hung not with the symbols Of car
mage, but with the victories OF that art
which was so long ago recognized in my
text as pleasant pictures" Oh. the
power of pictures! cannot deride.
as some have done, Cardinal Mazarin,
who, when told that he must die, took
his last walk through the art gallery
of his palace, saying: Must quit all
this? Look at,that Titan! Look al
that Corregio! Look at that deIuge of
Caracc! Farewell dear pictures!"
As the day of the lord of hosts. ac-
cordng to this text, will scrutinizc the
! pictures, ] implore all parents &c see
that in their households they have
neither in book nor newspaper nor on
canvas anything thar will deprave.
Pictures are no longer the exclusive
possession of the afiluent. There is rot
respectable home in these cities .hat
has not specimens of woodcut or steel
engraving, if not of painting, and your
70 h,,
| ing or depression. Have nothing on
your wall or in books that will familiar.
ize the young with sceHes of cruelty and
wassail; have only those sketches MADE
by artists in elevated moods and none
of those scenes that seem the product
of artistic delirium tremens. Pictures
are not only a strong but universal
language. The human race is divided
into almost as many languages as there
are cations. but the pictures may speak
20 people Of all tongues. Nolapuk many
have hoped. with little reason, would
become worldwide language; but the
pictorial is always Il worldwide Ian
guage. and printers types have no en-
phasis compared with ii. We say that
children are fond of pictures; but 10
tice any man when he takes up book.
and you will see that the ti,>st thing he
looks at is the pictures. Have only
those in your house that appeal to the
better nature. One engraving has some
times decided an eternal destiny. Tn
der the title of fine arts there have come
here from France class of pictures
which elaborate argument has tried 10
prove irreproachable. They would dis
grace barroom, ard they need to he
confiscated. Your children will carry
the pictures OF their fathers house with
them clear on to the grave. and. passing
that marble pillar. will take them
through eternity.
Furthermore, let all reforners and
all Sabbath school teachera and ali
Christian workers realize tlla., If they
would be effective for good. they must
make pictures. IL not by chalk or black
boards or kindergarten designs or by
pencil on canvas, then Ivy words. Ar
guments are soon forgotten. but pic
lures, whether in language or in col.
ors are what produce stronger effects.