The record-union., 1899-08-20

lection have been appointed for the
cities of New York, Philadelphia. Ros-
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago. and Miss
Sarah Hallowell the agent of the Art
Institute in Paris, will send large
number of works by Americans which
have been shown in European exhibit
tions.
E. A. Burbank, who has been paint
ing Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge. has
gone from that place a distance of ]. 600
miles to the agency near Barry, Wash.
in order to paint Chief Joseph and 9TH
ers of his tribe before they begin pick
ing hops, an occupation in which they
annually engage. Mr.. Burbank has
painted Chief Little Wound, who has
the largest following of any of the
Sioux chiefs, and later will return to
paint Red Cloud and other Indians who
are now in the show business at the
Omaha Exposition.
The American Bronze Foundry is
casting at Grand Crossing a bronze
shield for the battleship Wisconsin, de-
signed by Paul Kupper of Milwaukee.
The shield is to be placed on the turret
of the vessel, between two of its largest
guns, and consists of the arms of the
State of Wisconsin, with a figure of
badger on it's crest.
All! for the good old times when ar
tists-real artists-could be persuaded
to design a costume. One of the prin-
cipal items of expense to lady of old
Italy used to be the retainer" she paid
to a Da Vinci, a Bramante, or some
other artist of note to furnish her with
designs for her court and other dresses
of ceremony. To-day some one who
can draw is given an idea by Gus
tomer-that is, by some one who has
made or cut dresses under some other
customers tutelage. Neither one has
studied or cares aught for art proper
ton, harmony, or the other supertlui-
ties: they are customers, what have
they to do with such details? A Won
derful assemblage of ideas is the re-
suit, a "confection' in silks, Satins,
chiffons and laces. These ideas and
materials are beautifully and painfully
drawn upon paper, and draped upon
an alleged female figure at least seven
feet tall, with head slightly turned,
auburn hair, sylph-like waist, a large
stage smile, and background of palms
and ferns. This drawing being repro
duced upon thousands and thousands
Of sheets, 10! a fashion plate is born
with the name of the great designer
in the left han dcorner-the pass word
the hallmark. Every woman (or rath-
er, nearly every woman) studies it, ad-
mires it-and, be she lean or fat, tall OF
short, her next dress must be like that
Perchance her dresSmaker has not
signed her soul away entirely, and pro-
tests feebly that that special style is
not adapted to her patrons particular
figure; but for her effrontery she may
lose a customer That dress has to be
made in that way and in none other
Self Culture.
Mr.. Orchardson, r. A, is painting the
portraits of four generations of the
English royal family and has made
considerable progress with the work
The portraits of the Prince of Wales
the Duke of York and little Prince Ed
ward are practically finished, and tha
of the Queen has been roughly sketche6
in and needs only few sittings to be
completed.
Stockton Record: North Carolina be.
ing very anxious to have a statue o1
the late Senator Vance to be places
near the Statehouse at Raleigh, tbs
committee sent out invitations to sia
we'll known New York sculptors to com
pete with designs These artists claim
that there was distinct understanding
that the competition was limited to
these six men. All of them prepared