The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-06

That all my great, deep wealth OF
love
Was thine.
| was not good,
But through the weary years
| struggled hard to be.
And my souls food.
Was thy sweet love
And my deep love for thee.
l did my best. dear heart,
And through it all | loved
And worshipped thee
I suffered much,
But now and then CLEAN Of heav-
emily light
Was mine:
Your gentle love
Brought to my hungry soul
A glimpse of love divine,
And when I die. remember well. dear
That all my soul and life and love
Were thine
In after years,
When thou art loved and petted,
BY loves throng,
Look through thy tears
And know that / was thine
Through all the journey long:
And when | died,
My soul was sOOthed to peace
BY thy loves song.
The Independent.
Girls and boys who do not wish to
draw should not be compelled to do
so. but when a natural disposition
exists. strong enough to render
wholesome discipline and patience,
every we'll trained youth should be
taught the elements of drawing early
and accurately.
To teach them inaccurately is. in
deed. strictly speaking, not to teach
them at all. or. worse than that, to
prevent the possibility of their ever
being taught. The ordinary methods
row so widely used simply prevent
the pupil from ever understanding
the qualities of great art through the
remaining years of his life.
1t will be found that the best sys-
TEN is not the one which has been
practiced for many years in the pub
lie schools
Please dear reader. do not think
this statement capricious or pre-
sumptuous for there are reasons
which can be given specifying the
errors existing in this popular sys-
tenn
The first error in this system is
forbddng accuracy of measurement
and enforcing the practice Of guess
ing at the size of the objects. 1t is
well to outline at first by the eye
and then to correct the drawing by
measurement. but under the present
method the student finishes his in
accurate drawing to the end. and his
mind is thus, during the whole prog
ress Of his work accustomed to false
ness in every contour. Such practice
Is not merely harmful-it is ruinous.
No student thus accustomed to false
outlines can ever recover precision of
sight Nor is this all. lie cannot OBJ
tain the first conditions of art judg-
ment: for when true contours are
voluntarily and habitually departed
from. the essential qualities of every
beautiful form are necessarily lost,
and the student remains forever I'M
aware of their existence. Another
error existing is the execution of fin
ished drawings in light and shade, be-
fore the student has acquired deli
cacy of sight enough to observe grad
atoms 1t requires the most careful
and patient teaching to develop this
faculty, and it can only be developed
by practice from natural objects, dur
ing which the attention of the stu
dent must be directed on the
shadows alone and not on the meth
DDS producing them. He may be al
loweu to produce them as he likes. or
as he can, the thing required is that
the shade be of the right darkness
of the right shape. and in the right
relation to other shades around it
and not that it shall be prettily cross
Matched, At present the only virtue
required in the shadows are that they
shall be pretty in texture and pic
turesuuely effective. and little
thought is given that they should b.
in the right place or of the proper
depth.
The greatest troubles are thos,
that never happen. How many mel
and women will admit that this i
true. Life. as a rule, is made twic
as miserable as it need be, simpl
by imaginary troubles and woes. TIL
disposition to worry is one of the III
fortunate traits or habits with whic
young person can start out with i
life. 1t is generally such a needles
burden-yes, it is as needless as tn
sack of meal which the farmer ca
ried over his back as he rode hon
l.; II irL lolc