Evening star., 1899-03-04

pressionistic. Who ever saw a woman with
green hair, my dears? Now. impressionism
will go out of date in time, will it not? OF
course, 1t viii! And then the world will go
back to its old ways of thinking about dec
orations-fat Cupids and things, YOU know
| and RED roses trailing along, and that sort
OF thlng. TIE world is bound to get back
to its sane way of thinking about art. and
then whatH be done with these women
with green hair. and these-these half
clothed chaps with their tridents and shell
to posterity for us to inflict faddy styIe
or art on them? Whatll happen when saw
IN twenty years or so, the world sees that
tnis style OF decoration is all wrong?'
My dears" didn't know but a young
chap who had overheard the old gentle-
mans speech put his hand up to his mouth
and mischievously whispered to his com
panion.
''Posterity can paint tie whole bloor,n,
thlng over again if it wants to, can't it?''
Object Lessons in History.
The oracular elderly lady with the fin
tilted eyeglasses and the general air of the
seminary teacher is often seen convoying
party of half a dozen nfce-Iookinp voung
women around with her Whenever thew
evince a disposition to lnger over some
picture that is merely pretty she rounds
them up suddenly, and gets them all before
some bit of decoration that is damned fnlJ
OF instruction, and also of opportunity for
structing " VI III
-. Now. young ladies'" she says. (comically.
lke, 1t must be admitted, the taIkative
chap in front of the side show tent wbo
de:icants upon the won6rous rotunlity of
the fat lady)-"Now, my dears, this is DieI
man s mosaic panel representing History
me hgure in the center" etc. etc. The
young women never look as if they were
hanker1ng to hear much of history. but
When they wander off, one by one to see
Ter themselves little side bits that interest
.iein !. ..atty tney are always brought to by an
Attention, young iadies!' from the lips of
the oracular elderly lady that has almost
the snap of the drillmaster's command
From the Rural Districts.
After all, the young woman who thinks
each ana everything she sees is 'beay-
enly,' and "entrancing." and "just grand"
and so NOBLE is the most frequently seen
and heard type in the library But the ell
derly womeI from the rural districts, who
have not quite been educated up to the free
and frank effects of modern decorative art
nave their many innings during the course
OF an exhibition day, too. 1t would really
be dlfhcult to exaggerdte the actual shock
which some of the library decorative ef-
iectS lnflct upon various of these kindly
If not entirely up-to-date elderly persons
in skirts. The writer was in the wake of
one of them from the time she drew near
the building the other morning She was
pialnly from the country, down to the
front of her. The elderly man with her
had twinkling eye and trousers of the va
riety known colloquially ''high-water"
From what happened afterward it ap-
peared that Joef'-which was the name by
which his wife addressed him-was much
more willing to endure the passing shocks
incident to an education in modern decora-
tive art than his spouse.
She took alarm before she got to the IL
brary steps. The figures in the fountain
basin were the cause of her alarm. Candor
compels the statement that these uobly
carved figures of men and women of a fy-
pothetical world are not clothed in accord
ance with police regulations governing hu-
man beings of the present era.
Joel Didn't Mind.
why, Joel Babcockr' the old lady said,
and she averted her gaze behind the black
bag she carried
joel didn't seem to mind the bronze fig
ures in the basin a little bit, and he exam
ined the sinuous-limbed young person with
the flying bronze hair with interest until
she pulled him up the steps.
There was nothing in the main entrance
hall to excite her fear as to the contamina-