Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-09-05

ever seen done by living painter.
That is the idea. The main theme is
a young woman sitting on one end of
bench nursing her baby and looking
away in the distance, looking for some
one to come, hoping for some one to
come, praying for some one to come.
The expression is just something won
derful It's awful hard to look at the
face without crying. You can tell
something awful has happened but
whstlt is you don't know, neither does
Gill. asked why that face was
breaking. why that heart had broken,
and he answered me. la Mor,e in
vita" (the death in life). then he started
in to tell me of those who were dead
and who yet lived. Wonderful painter,
and king of good fellows. I'll en-
close to you q small picture of him
Keep all the photos l send you.
Shall need them all some day. Don't
mislay one for shall prize them
even higher at some future day than l
do now.
It's q strange language Gill speaks.
He generally starts In German, then
into Italian and always finishes up in
Spanish. While Spanish is q great
deal like Italian, yet there are times
have to do some hard head-pound-
ing to find ont Just what he MEANS
Heis here doing some special work
for the Prince of Altromento and day
before yesterday he. Murillo, Cohan
and | executed what l thought was
about the loveliest chunk of gall man
ever executed, yet found out later
that 1t was o. k. We went first through
the beautiful gardens of the Prince
and to say they were beautiful-Oh,
we'll, quit. I'll just tell you of one
thing. 1t is water fall. Starts way
up on the mountain side and comes
down q monument of the most won
derful building, all in different kinds
of sculpture. It's place 500 or 600
maybe older and they have made no
change in it during all that time. I'll
send Della a card (postaD, and you can
see by it just the base of the water fall
1t will give you some little idea of
how beautiful it would be if you
could see it all.
Now the gall" After that we
vert to the palace of the Prince and
took charge, not IN half hearted sort
of way, but took full charge lhave
since found out that the Prince gave
Gill free run of the place. l went to
the music room, played the organ and
the piano. We sang, danced and Lord
only knows what we didn't do Then
we took charge of the billiard rooms,
then the library. What day it was
with servants following us all the time,
wanting to know if there was any,
thing they could bring us. The
boys, Murillo and Gill took couple of
champaigns. say q couple because
along some certain lines am modest.
COhan and / took fruit. Oh, such
fruit, and bon bons until We played
our string. oh, there is nothing like
crowd of painters. We stayed until
the sunset, and such sunset, so help
me. l can't see how people can look
at sunsets like they can see every day
and doubt that there is u God. Any
thing so pure, so beautiful, so holy l
should think would inspire within
them thoughts which come only when
one is in the presence of power so
almighty, so overwhelming, SO grand,
wonderful, that to me it is the grand
est mystery of life-how man can
doubt that there is God. Something
never springs from nothing, and such
works of art as we see in grand nature
must come from some power, some
head whose understanding surpasseth
all human knowledge" I need no
mere than nature to know there is a
God. of course one wants more and
needs more than just nature, yet am
afraid il he don't open his eyes or his
heart to nature he'll never open his
heart to the other.
But back to the crowd, OF Murillo
have spoken so often that by this
time you'll be considering him one of
the family, so Ill not bore you with
him, only will say he is making some
splendid works" here and shall have
one or two to take back home with me
The other of the crowd is Nordini
an Italian. another engineer. He is
Cohan's first assistant; charming
fellow and very we'll read and, we'll
dear folks, take it all together we have
q great crowd-a Spaniard, German
an Italian, Mexican and United
Statesman. The language we speak is
something that would require crow
bar to pry into unless perchance one
has about dozen languages. They
start out in German and end up in
French; start in Spanish and end in
] English. Well l want to tell you il
keeps your Uncle James coming all
the time to keep from getting lost and
at that the times get lost one could
not count on their fingers and toes.
| Yesterday 1 met q young Prince who
is spending the SUNNI or here. Muir.
lilo told me he had fine voice, and he
invited me to come up and play fol
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