The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-26
LILLIAN RUSsELL'S
IMPROVING PICTURES

Miss Lillian Russelps new home is
in Bay Ridge. on the Shore road, near
| Ninety Fourth Street 1t is an old
| Brooklyn homestead which she hired
all furnished, with it's hair-cloth furni-
ture, peacock-feather screens. and an
cient and improving pictures on the
walls.
| Miss Russell dotes on raising vegeta-
bles. AS everybody knows, she has had
/ a. farm for the last five years down in
| Cedarhurst, Queens, but at the end of
| season before last a careless servant
| threw a lot of corks out on the garden
patch and they got plowed in and ruin
| ed the soil so last year the beets would
MT come up at all. That's why Lillian
| decided to stake a claim somewhere
else.
It's all so restful,'' said Miss Russell
recently as she leaned back in hair
cloth rocking-chair and put her red and
gold sIippered feet up on a faded blue
and green crocheted foot-rest of the
fashion of the early sixties.
There is really nothing to say about
my being here. I have just moved from
Manhattan to Brooklyn for a rest, and
have taken this house just as it is, all
furnished. I wouldn't change anything
in it for the world. What, for instance,
could be more soothing than these pic
lures? There, just above your head,
is that fine old engraving of Eliza
crossing the Delaware. No, I don't
mean Eliza, but Washington. I got
that picture confused with the one
over the whatnot in the corner. That
is Eliza crossing some other river on
the cracked ice with the bull terriers |
after her. Just to the right of the sofa |
there is Little Eva teaching Uncle Tom |
to read as a sort of companion piece !
to Eliza.
IT have taken a great fancy to that |
picture over the divan, of a womaN
with the straight, damp hair hanging !
down her back as she comes out from |
plunge. 1t is called the Rocks of !
Ages. No, I read that wrong; the
printing under the picture is so faded
out. 1t is just one rock. The Rock of /
Ages That picture reminds me of |
James O'Nein coming out of a stage |
ocean and telling the gallery that the |
world is his. There is another rather |
pretty marine view over the mantel .
called the Landing of the Pilgrims
oh, this furniture and these pictures /
are so restful.
There is a very lively turf picture
over there called Paul Revere's Ride
The action of the horse is fine, but ac-
cording 10 our modern notions the
jockey is sitting altogether too far back
to ever get away from the bunch. r
should say that Revere's method was
the very antithesis of Tod Sloanes, for
instance.
Not only are the pictures in my
are all the other ornaments. There are
those beautiful wax flowers and the
tropical birds under the glass globe.
The flowers never fade and the birds
never chirp. And what could be more
peaceful after hard day at the races
than that motto Home, Sweet Home
done in worsted over the door, or that
crocheted word Rest in green letters
on that nice white tidy on the arm
chair.
But come into my garden. I just
love green things. and nothing pleases
me more than working among them"
Here she said. lin the front centre
are my early peas. I planted every
aisle of them myself Over there in
the right rear, where you see the earth
all ridged UP or sort of corrugated like
the metal ceiling Of a Broadway res
tauralt. are my 1dler peas. 4if6S are
not UP yet. and won't come on till the
or last of August.
That's the corn, over there in the
deep centre, extending in a kind of
semicircle from the right front around
to the left front as a high background |
for the peas and limas and beets. l got |
the idea from the opening formation of
the Amazon chorus in the old Black
Crook
II think the beasts are horrid," ex-
claimed Miss Russell, as she suddenly |
down in her potato patch ana
made a raid on bugs, her fingers loaded
with the diamonds which Joe Weber
once described as 'Tifany's window
..Some friend of mine she said, had
a lot of government agricultural reports
sent to me as soon as he learned that
I had moved out here in the country
I suppose that ne did it for joke, bu
they are real interesting. One report