The Anaconda standard., 1899-05-16
THREE SPLENDID ESSAYS
High School Graduates Discourse
on Interesting Themes,
ROSE BONHEUR THE ARTIST
Her Work Eulogized by Miss Meade.
Misses Eleanor Crowley and Edna
Henderson Treat OF Subjects
In Mastery Manner.


the High School auditorium. Anna
Meade, Eleanor Margaret Crowley and
Edna Henderson gave recitations that
were very interesting throughout. Miss
Meade dealt with a subject relating to
| art taking sketch of Rosa Bonheur's
| life as lesson. The essence of her re-
marks follow:
Art, which is the love Of the soul, in
| the sense that science is it's law, is the
ornamental side of life. The style of
school is an aggregation of the forces
, of its masters, while in art, it is posi-
| tive, indispensable element, as charac-
| ter is to manhood.
I'VE have felt the influence of An
! gelo, Fra Angelica, Giotto, Leonardo da
| Vinci and Raphael down through the
| ages. The world is indebted to Italy,
| Germany, France, England. Flanders
| and America for these works of art.
Each country has produced it's genius.
Germany has given us Hans Halbrin's
! famous Madonna or idea of the
supernatural has found expression
through Italy's 'rDore:" from the old
Flemish school we have the portraits
| of Reubens, Rembrandt and Vandyke:
but the French school has given us
few artists of great fame. Prominent
| among the number is Rosa BOnheur,
whose work is not that of old masters,
but has merit of its own. Like the poet
! Wordsworth, who found the most artis-
| tic subjects in outdoor life. she, too,
| has given us pictures of Gods crea-
| tures-those animals that were fash
| loned by the diviner artist that made
| man. Rosa Bonheur showed her artis-
| tic talent when child. The stony of
her life is the old story of poverty and
hardship, but through it all her artistic
| soul and nature We're developed. She
| saw with the poets eye the country
about her and sought TO transform it's
beauties to her canvas But it is not as
a landscape painter that Rosa Bonheur
is admired, for at the age of 20 she be-
gan her enduring work of animal paint
ing. Her success has been marvellous.
and she has been praised without stint.
Her great ability was first shown to
the world her pictures. Goats and
Sheep and the Two Rabbits which
were accepted by the fine arts exhibit.
This was but the beginning. With per-
severance she toiled on, depicting on
canvas the domestic animals that were
the counterparts of the animals of her
childhood.
Her triumph came when she gave
the last touches to her picture, 'Cantal
Oxen For this she received a gold
| medal and the laudation of all England.
Many honors have been awarded this
woman artist. She wears the cross of
| the Legion of Honor. and she bears the
love and praise of all people. Her pic
lures bear the stamp of ineffaceable
genius that will endure as long as time
remains.
although the colorings of her pic
lures are soft and delicate in tone, yet
they show the firm hand of an artist
Rosa BOnheur has made name for
in "a world n q
of fame.
"'Ah, who can tell how hard it is to
climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple
Shines +"
Miss Crowley gave her version of an
ideal gentleman. which was the frank
admission of true blue American girl
Her idea of what constitutes the gen.
tleman is embraced in the following
well-prepared essay:
"The birth of the republic of the
United States overthreW a host of old
country notions, ideas, titles and all
their concomitant train of followers.
The immortal patriots fighting for life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
after achieving the greatest victory in
the worlds history, proclaimed to the
nations of Europe that all men We're
born free and equal, that no lordly title
tentate entitled a man to be the su-
perior of a free-born American citizen.
THE term gentleman first originated
in England after the NOrman-F French
conquest of the sturdy Saxons. They
originated different classes of society
according to wealth and birth, and
adopted various titles. such as counts,
viscounts. earls and lords. to distin-
guish such personages from the labor
ipg classes. The title gentleman. how
ever. was used to denote one above the
yeoman or peasant class. No matter
what the origin of the title was. we use
it in an entirely different sense to that
in use in the older countries.
''In the United States man is. the
arbitrator of his own destiny, without
any restriction placed on him by any
earthly power. The highest office in
the nation is open and eligible to the
son of the humblest laborer. We asso-
attribute of honor integrity and a sa-
cred regard for the rights of others.
Without these qualities we may toler-
ate him, but he cannot command our
admiration and respect as a true gen.
tleman.
notwithstanding the fact that the
apparel oft proclaims the man. this is
not always true, as the man clad in
the finest garments often cannot COM
pare in any respects of honesty, integ-
rity and honor that lies in the honest
breast of a workman clad in the rough
est garb. A gentleman belongs to no
particular class or station in life.
1.-The development of the human in
tellect commences practically when
child arrives at the age of reason, and
much depends on his surroundings as
to how the qualities which go to make
up the gentleman shall be cultured and
fostered. His life from an early age