The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-02-09
A CHALK TALK TREAT.
John T. McCutcheon the Famous
Cartoonist In Town.

Local characters and local cond,
tions were caricatured Friday nigh
by the master hand Of John #. Nc
Cutcheon as he talked to a crowd
ed house, as a number of the Uniol
Lecture course. The pictures wer,
in the same kindly numor that ha
made McCutcheons name stand 70
c~heeriness.
Oskaloosa as the i~nterurban cente
was depicted in the cartoonist's aas..
VI es. The city hall formed the basi.
Scr the .ctured voter who coult
sea- cely decide. Again it was depict
eG IN the smoke-dreams of one com
fortably resting in an easy ofic,
chair. A strong and decisive woman
and McCutcheon's club women arr
always strong and decisive,-stood
facing the problem Of the .hitchracl
around the square. In the lines Of
the woman's face showed the legend
read in the cartoon, 1T Must Co."
Lesser things came in for the car.
toonist's gentle fun-making comment
That it is time for Y. M. G. A. con.
tributions was readily seen by the
sketch of Secretary Lacy in the act.
A portrait of DR.. Nathan Brown, and
the sketched skaters at Penn caught
the fancy of the audience.
The frozen lagman was perhaps
the happiest bit of the evening. The
c~artoonist began his sketch with a
little sign-board and a big 'D--i''
Below, beating himself wildly in or
der to warm his body, stood the
stamping flagman. In each line there
was the humor that shows in the Nc!
Cutcheon suburbanite. The finishing
touch was the most whimsical and
humorous. The artist amended his
s~ign-board. AS he finished, it read
ID Street."
Since his installation, Flagman XII
kendall, of the d street crossing of
the c., r. l. & p, has been forced to
stand all day in the open weather
with no shelter. This at 80 degrees
below!
McCutcheon's lecture is McCutch-
cons cartoons in talk. The same
jerky sort of style, the same gentle
humor, the same happy spirit that
laughs with you even while laughing
at you, characterize the lecture,-or
talk, if you will.
McCutcheon said a few things last
evening showing the scope and the
standard of the cartoonist's work,
This he has said better in print, but
last night he showed with chalk and
paper the making of a cartoon, far
better than McCutcheon, the war cor
respondent, could write Of it, and far
better than McCutcheon the lecturer
could talk of it.
The cartoon of today is essentially
Cutcheonistic, or the McCutcheon
is filled with the spirit of the newspa-
per cartoon; or both. The humor of
the man, the pleasant habit of laugh
ing with you, though at you, is the
first quality of a good cartoon. Rad
has no place in the gentle,
ness of the successful newspaper car
toon. Though some papers still cling
to the bitter cartoon Of political DAYS
gone, the successful newspaper car
is the man VINO appeals pri-
marily to the human heart, whose
work never rankles and whose gen.
tie humor is preservative for the
milk of human kindness.
The cartoon of the modern newspa>
per is a pictorial breakfast food"
says Mr.. McCutcheon. In a morning
paper 1t must go we'll with breakfast. |
1t should start the reader Alright in
the morning. 1t should make theI
dyspeptic speak kindly to the cook.
IL must be a gentle %jollier. Calami-
ties and horrors have no place in the
cartoonist's materials. They are notI
conducive to an appetite.
Mr.. McCutcheon told Of several ex-I
perlences in the cartoonist's life, both
before and after attaining his pres-
position Of absolute success. Hell
gave the history of the McCutcheon
'dawg" and of the Small Boy series,
n connection with these stories his
'halks busily illustrated the features
the work. In the course of his
ak Mr.. McCutcheon illustrated the
'u~burbanite, the boy and girl at COM.
nencement time, the Doodle alder
nan, the trust, the domestic man.
President Cleveland, and the
mai boy and the McCutcheon
dawg."