Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-12-02
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On December Is will begin four-days'
exhibit Of paintings at the studio of Har-
vey Joiner, Louisvilles greatest artist.
This should be attended by the art-loving
class. and by those who know nothing of
art that they may learn something. We
are too slow to appreciate the great artists
who are living among us. If instead of
hiding handsome wallpaper with copies
of wood cuts, mockeries of steel engrav-
ings and chromos, we would call on our
living artists and buy living pictures we
should be doing a good thing. Nothing
shows ones good taste to such advantage
as buying good bits of oil painting. Then
besides it gives the artist a chance to live
BY not encouraging merit we starve it
out. What is more to be deplored than
nation without landscape or portrait
painters? Centuries have declared this
to be the soul of art-the correct repro
duction of nature on canvas. What agi-
tation pervades the connoisseurs of
Europe and the East right now over the
fear that the Sistine Madonna worshiped
for ages as being the work of Raphael
may be only an imitation of that master.
Even the poorer people of italy and in
France, in whom the artistic sense is more
developed than among us, are troubled
about their favorite picture. In no city
of the Atlantic slope are there better mas
tiers of the art of painting than we have
here. Joiner, Revenaugh, Marechal,
Bremen, each has a large following, and
the works of all these true artists are
spoken of and sold in all the large cities
of the Union. Truly, we must go abroad
in order to appreciate the prophets we
have left at home.
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St. Francis Hall and Library continues
to be crowded every night by young folks
who patronize the magazines, journals
and books of which there is such store
The kindly custodian, Mr.. Thomas Justa,
says there is room for many more yet.
Though there are couple of hundred
chairs there now, he is perfectly willing
to order an extra hundred or so more if
necessary. He issues a cordial invitation
to all to come He is thinking of having |
a sign extended across the yard bearing !
the cheerful inscription, Welcome" on
one side and "Come inn on the other. !
This is positively the last announcement.
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The inconvenience of having rich rela-
tives is often spoken of and written about.
No one will take an interest in a man, no !
matter what his qualifications, because it |
is inferred that the rich relative has am
pie means to help him and will assuredly /
do so if necessary. The unintelligent,
selfish, case-hardened mass miss-called
"Christian" men and women of many of
our christian" circles should stop and
consider that these rich relatives would
not have money enough to satisfy their
own greed if another Montezuma should
arise and fill room from floor to ceiling
with the yellow metal the love of which
has so eaten itself into their souls-if they
have any. Telling a man to go to his
rich relatives for an ordinary favor which
any one is under moral obligation to do
for another is only way out Of the
bother. and shows. pessemistic nature.
wherein honor, kindness and confidence
are dead Such man belongs to Gods
niis-fit counter, and should be sold at
sacrifice to the devil.
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The love letters of Victor Hugo to
Nine. Fournoy who afterward became
his wife, are soon to be published. They
were written during the years of 1919 to
1922, and will serve to illustrate the deep
poetic nature of the philosopher-novelist
of after lite. Nine. Hugo will place them
before the public during the early part of
the coming year.
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Many people find it hard to forgive.
"Can you forgive herr" was asked of his
readers by Anthony Trollope over thirty
years ago. That he answered in the
affirmative only showed his genial good
nature. Today the novelist Amelie f.
Barr asks, ISIS it right to forgive3" with a
seriousness that, as a contemporary says, |
warns us that she is facing social prob
lem and marshaling the characters of her
story into witness-box. That we should
forgive is true in the abstract, but mighty
hard in the concrete. That those who
should love us should be not only en-
tirely Indifferent to our well-being or to
our decease, but do likewise strive to
harm us-well, this is enough to make one
decline an affirmative answer in a very
positive manner. But He taught forgive |
us our trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against u.s." Now the man in
New York who jumps backward over a
high chair, landing on eggs, without
breaking them is doing an easy thing
compared to the bother of keeping this
"as" in the right place when it stands in
our way, compelling US to forgive If we
hope to be forgiven.
ANNIE NEvIN CUNNINGHAM.