The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-12-25

). Comrade r. P. Scott. Commander of the
DE- oartment of Pennsylvania, G. A. r.,
Butler, Pa. has been in the city visiting
his son, Geo. H. Scott. young man who
passed very successfully the examination
for Assistant Surgeon in the United States
Army, and received his commission last
October He is a young man of fine
promise. Comrade Scott served 46 months
in the 18th Pa. and 4th U. S. Cav, and
has been for many years an agent OF the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad.
Generally speaking, Mr.. Clevelands
rhinoeeros epidermis was flint to the at
tacks of criticism, but when the Cruelty
to Animals people got after him he Wlited
This was when Watts's great picture,
Love and Life" was brought home from
the Chicago Exposition and hung III the
White House. The eminent artist pre-
sented it to the United States Govern
ment, and it was thought for long
time that the picture would be hung in
the Capitol, but it was showed around
from one place to another till 1t finally
landed in the Red Corridor of the White
House Later it got place IN one OF the
parlors. 1t is said that the painting is
great work of art. 1t certainly is a strik-
ing exhibition of nature unadorned. There
are two nude figures, a man and woman,
and the models from whom they were
painted must have been of the lean and
hungry kind, for the figures are thin to
scrawniness, and neither of them would
have to 60 far to follow Sidney smith $
desire to "sit down in their bones. There
is cliff and some clouds, and that is all
there is of the picture. 1t is said that the
flesh tints are wonderful" The tech
nique superb" the perspective magnifi-
cent" The pose" is styled by those who
know, OF think they know, which is just
as effective, extremely natural The
twv figures stand, the man little above
the woman and the higher one seems to
be dragging the lower one up. Which is
knows.
There was a State Reception at the
White House. just after Love and Life"
was hung The whole force of White
House Police was needed to clear the way
before the now celebrated painting. For
three hours it had to stand fire of
lorgnets, and g. stream Of comment.
There were q lot of dowagerS there, wo-
men whose mature charms spilled over
the tops of corSages cut on an economic
plan, and who would have better graced
an all-enveloping kimono. These dow
ayers studied that canvas from every
point of vantage, and then with a shrus
of their beefy shoulders declared that it
was indecent and that their innocent
daughters should not enter the White
House while the horrid thing hung on the
walls. But they spent days in carrying
their friends to call on Mrs. Cleveland.
and Incidentally to view the dreadful pic
ture."
In less than a week the Jenkinses Of
the Yellow Journals were wiring yards of
opinions from official swelldom on the
dn1il.ffut IF Mr. ('1ovalaud
hitting this near-to-Nature's-he picture
to; hang on the White House walls. The
dowagers who were 'have beens" Of long
standing got another inning, and how their
tongues did wag. :. 1t was positive joy to
them to see signed stories" of their own
opinions in the papers, and when in this
connection a photograph was used, they
were positively delirious with joy. But
when you came to compare the low-cut
picture and the "Love and Life" the lat
ter certainly had the call for beauty The
:. figures in Love and Life" are at least
young. and the faces beautiful. -.
sEosis s;'g: ss2ss : gl1~c
S7d Finally the women's organizations of
one kind and another made it too hot for
even Mr.. Cleveland to endure, and he or
dered tie picture taken off the wall of
the Executive Mansion. He said he did
so because the canvas was too large and
did not show off to advantage. Every
body knew better than that, however
Pretty soon the picture turned up in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, and has been one
of the great show pictures there ever since
President Roosevelt has now hung the
canvas on the White House walls again
Life will be strenuous enough for the
Chief Executive for a time, but his back.
bone isn't made of putty.
There are people in the world whose
regulations and claims to aristocratie
aseendency rest on such slender founda.
tons that they are eternally on the look
out Tor snubs. and are persistently naughty
and disagreeable to those whose position
in the social scale seems inferior TO thei,
own. The true aristOcrat knows that hi
. stands high above all criticism, and dare;
to be natural, kindly and courteous. ever
to the lowest mental. You can nearly al
ways; set it down that the naughty dam,
who draws her skirts aside from contac
with the scrub-woman in the street car
has somewhere in her past a scrub-woman
. or worse, for an ancestress, and she i.
afraid that it will be found out.
-" There is nothing of the snob about Mrs
Roosevelt, however. She is SO absolutely
snre Of her position, that the beggar OF
the street gets just as gracious smile 70,
: sadorial Corps. AT one of her recent re
Z! ceptions, Mrs. Roosevelt had a chance q
show the metal she is made Of. She has
about her lot of Official women, wo
men whose husbands's fortunes have il
. many instances lifted their better halye
many sotches higher in the social seal,
than they had ever been before, and VIII,
are so tOploftical that nothing below th,
head Of bureau can reach them in tn
way of social recognition. Along the lin
came beautiful woman, elegantly gown
ed, and with breeding in every movement
Mrs. Roosevelt greeted her pleasantly. n
she greeted all. and the lady, wife of .
wealthy man high in official life passe,
down the line, meeting averted faces, o
cool mods, If any recognition was accord
ed her from the rest of the women. Yer
de We're from head to hem, the lady paus
ed awhile in the big East Room, and q
soon as the receiving line broke up, star,
ed to leave. Mrs. Roosevelt had eyidentl
noticed the remarkable reception accorde
the lady, who is from New York. an
swiftly passed down the room to her side
Slipping her arm about her waist. Mr.,
Roosevelt expressed her pleasure at Sc,
Ing her in Washington, and gave the Ne,
York woman fully five minutes of he
time.
The lesson was quickly learned. for Sc,
erai of the naughty danes FASTENED
speak to the New York woman before sb
got away. 1t seems that Mrs. Rooseye
hrst met the lady when she was sho
gil in big New York store, and grew
Ike her She was educated refined and