Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-02

IL the shoe does shine. What [ want
is the "shine" in the face, and few men
have ever lived who could paint and
paint In detail" and yet have the face
retain the character.
In that painting of mine notice how
the tie and the coat are worked in and
youth really see what mean.
When you stand in front of q Van
Dixie or Rubens or an Angelo, or
some of those, your eye goes at once
to some zone" spot of the painting and
even it you know absolutely nothing
of art, yet nine times out of ten that
spot will be the face. You'M very
seldom see the hand and other details
painted in wita the same care that You
will the more important parts.
Now another thing on art. Never
like Rubens because 1t Is a Rubens:
never like Beethoven symphony be-
cause it is Beethoven; never Wag-
ner opera because Wagner wrote it,
but instead. like it for what it contains,
and not for who painted or wrote it.
Oae of the things like most of all
have seen here in Rome Is q figure of
Christ being taken from the cross, and
l have no idea who did it, but l do
know 1t is modern. Now there is no
one who loves the old school more
than 1. yet I really don't see why a
man can't love both schools. Some
people there are who have an idea that
because thing is modern it is
trashy" but when see or hear any.
thing that gives me rest when am
tired, or gives me peace when am
worried, or comforts when am tron-
bled, that is all ask. care not Ii
it's modern, classic OF ancient.
SO it is in all art. Now most people
love st. Peters church because it Is st.
Peters. | don't; I like it for what il
Is Yet strange as 1t may seem there
Is another church here prefer to st
Peters 1t is Saint Giovanni in Ca
terano and it's there always go when
l want rest. Yesterday afternoon, af-
ter l had worked hard all day and
things didn't seem gong right,
stopped work and went up the.e;
stayed only an hour OF so, then came
back and, mother dear, you have NO
idea how it rested me. The church is
one founded by Constantine in 3O4 and
is the most important church in all
Italy. It's like all the other churches
here, is just one mass of art Itwould
take me a year to tell you all there is
IN there; yet there is such rest and
peace there. that l always 90 there
when am tired.
There are three or four heads that
love, and really sometimes it seems as
If that cold, cold marble had soul
and you wonder why it doesn't speak
But really it does speak and so mnct
clearer and better than it would were
1t to use common words. 1t speaks
with bigger meaning than it evel
C 'uld if it used words. but can,
tell you of all that's there so I'll no,
try to tell you of any.
Now mamma, do not know how
far along you ara with your car
study" but this is the key -note of al
art and 1t makes no difference who
nor what they are. You will never
see any more in painting, You vii
never hear any more In a piece o1
music, than you take to it. So if one
expects to see something he must take
something to it. You can't expect {
person who never had q fine feeling il
his whole life to stand IN front of tn,
TRANSPORTATION" of Angeles and Sc,
anything in 1t. You can't expect ,
person who has never given a. kline
word or kind thought to anybody, tt
hear Beethoven senate or Mozar
symphony and expect them to fee
anything in 1t. They take nothing
t, it and expect to take something
away, but such is not the case. II 70,
have something to take to work O
art, when you go away from it 70,
will find 1t has grown. 1t has givel
you some new idea, perhaps some bet
ter thought of life; made you Sc,
where you haven't treated your fellow
men as you should, or perhaps 1t ha
opened within vast something
that was there, but was asleep. But Il
see anything, the first thing to do is t,
take something" with you. Now
don't mistake that something. It doe
not consist of knowing how to pain
or how to play, but of thinking goo.
thoughts, of doing good deeds 1 an
reminded of q story told on the lat,
Rob Ingersoll. He was one of tn
greatest lovers Of music our day hs
known and on being asked why 1t wa
that he, who couldn't tell one not
from another, or knew absolutel,
nothing of music, should be 80 fond o
it, answered, "My friend, do you lik
c4ke?" The friend did. but he coul,
not see the connection between cak
and Chopin nocturne. But Ingersol
asked again, "Can you make cake !?
TIE idea struck. So 1t is, one doesn'
have to know how to paint or to pla,
to love art, but they do have to bull,
themselves up along lines of apprecia
ton. When one sees some gran,
building like st. Peters, or the Trinit,