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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

tional1y treated are the Virgin and the
Child (by Qornio) and the Mother With
her Infant and Angels (by Lorenzo di
CredD. In these paintings the Child
looks older and less human. This effect
is heightened by the nimbus about his
head and around that of the Mother.
Much as these painters did, 1t remained
for Raphael to give the theme of Child
hood its noblest expression, and to paint
the Madonna and Child time and again
Like flowers in garden. in spite Of
their numbers. they have no suggestion
of monotony. They are possessed of SO
many moods and feelings.
The most cherished of these are the
Madonna delta di Foligno. the Madonna
della Seggiola and the Madonna di Sin
Sisto. In the Madonna detti di Feligno
there is a playfpIness about the Child
as though he wished to break loose from
his mothers arms for merry play. In
the Mother di Sin Sisto the mother does
not hold the infant TO her, but rather
as though she would give Him to hui
manity, saying: He is your King; re-
ceive Him.
But the simplicity and serenity OF
child-life is depicted with consummate
skill in the Madonna della Seggiola: the
child rests in his mothers arms as
though he felt her devotion and love
Tranquility is the keynote of their coun-
tenances, though the Baby Johns face
is full OF. sorrow. These great master
painters are no more, but the theme that
inspired them to their richest fruitage is
in the world today and is celebrated by
Christmas as IL was centuries ago.
DELLA AUSTRIAN.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

in La Virgine col Divin Figlio' of the
Uffizi Gallery. The artist here clothed
his theme in simple natural beauty. The
Christ Child and the Madonna are sur
rounded by lovely cherubs. Two of them
are placing crown on the head of the
Madonna, while the OhriSt-Child looks
toward his mother with yearning and
inspiration.
Remarkably different from those of his
predecessors are the representations of
Andrea del Sarto. His Christ-Child. like
many of his other masterpieces, possess
remarkable beauty, but they usually
lack the soul-like beauty which the
great painter did not possess. The ex-
cepton to this is found in the Madonna
del Aepi. which is in the Uffizi Gallery.
There is a JOY and purity in the ex-
preston of the Child and Mother. as
well the Angels at either side that
give a superb tone to the picture.
The great Corregio treated this same
theme similarly: his angels are always
portrayed with grace, charm and smiling
faces. But it is in the Virgin with the
Infant and the Assumption of the Vir-
gin that he created his two great mas
ter-paintings. In the first picture the
mother kneels in alteration; her head is
bowed and her hands are raised in
prayer. The soft light from the child
is reflected on her countenance. No less
beautiful is the Assumption of the Vir-
gin. The picture represents the Madon-
ma and her child waited heavenward in
blissful ecstacy; sweet-faced cherubs
follow in their train. thrilled with a
feeling of glory and joy.
No less loving, though more conven-
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

- HE beauty of the Christ-Chld is best
represented by the great paintings
~ of the European galleries. In the
gradual budding and poisoning of art
the theme of the Christ-Child has lent it
self as source of inspiration and artistic
expression. Great italian painters from
the early days of the Thirteenth Century
through the renaissance. when art
reached the most perfect development
selected the Christ-Child as their favor
lite theme. Without this source of In
spiration the greatest master-works of
Rotticeln, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael
and Michael Angelo would have re-
manned undone.
Though many artists have used this
theme, they have treated 1t in many
ways. AT times the Christ is alone or
seen playing with the baby John: again
he is with his mother. or they are &C
companied by St. Anne and Elizabeth.
One of the earliest painters to present
these groups was Grotto. as is revealed
by the frescoes that remain in the Santa
Croce Cathedral. in Florence. Though
they are now partly covered with white
wash, they show traces OF past beauty.
But the simplicity and naturalness of
his genius are shown to best advantage
in the Coronation" The work has a
brilliancy of coIoring and expression of
joy that are delightful. When Grotto
laid his brush aside there was another
painter called Botticelli ready to take
up the masters work. He had no desire
to give great physical beauty to his
Christ-Child; he wanted him to appear
human and natural. This is clearly seen
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

nate as himself I'm the matter Of accumu-
lating money. 1t is considered. generally
speaking. questionable TO live on the
East Side except for a certain stretch up
town.
The real East Sider-the down East
Slider who speaks English as she sounds
to foreigner-does his shopping on
Grand street. which Is away down In
the old section of the city. amidst many
busy factories and warehouses. But the
real East Slider does not do very much
Christmas shopping. for he is generally
a jew. Men who work down in the
financial district OF the island do a
great deal of their belated shopping
down on Lower Broadway. between the
historic old City Hall. where Nathan
Hale was hung, to about old Trinity
Church There are also many shops with
alluring price-tags and signs In old Mas
sau street between Wall Street and Park
row. There always has been shopping
Fifth avenue, but Ii has been OF such a
character in pride that you were sure you
would paw two prices for the value of
one thing. although what you buy with
Fifth avenue mark upon it Is dependable.
Lately 1t has grown TO be more of
shopping street between Twenfy-fhird
street and Forty-second. Over In Brook
lyn they do their shopping on Fulton
street. Now there are subdivisions again
IN all these separate sections In which
the New Yorker makes his Christmas
prepaTati lions, but to go into them leads
10 paths ad infinitum- I have told about
the main districts TO give you an idea OF
the magnitude of New Yorks prepara-
lions. And how the New Yorker does
prepare. Down In Wall Street. to begin
at the end OF the island. they literally
juggie the stocks so d TO make some ex-
ira money to put in Jinmie's or Maudie's
Christmas stocking At the Battery pee
DIE are waiting for their friends and
their relatives whom they expect to land
in this country In time to spend Christ 4
mas With them.
Up of the Bowery, In Pell street and
in Mott street where the yellow peril
runs fake horrors for the deIectation OF
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

portions of the cargoes simply pass
through New York, which acts sort
of mercantile clearing house. Vast por-
lions of these cargoes remain to be
bought by those $4,000 900 which are
expended before Christmas. From Ger
many come over so per cent. of the toys
and Christmas tree ornaments which are
sold in this country. Every toy and
every ornament from Germany or Austria
passes through this port You can al
ways find the stamp Made in Germany
somewhere on the toy you purchase. l
asked the largest toy dealer in New York
and probably on this continent why he
sent TO Europe for these things. He
said that We could not begin to compete
with the Germans; that they made toys
so exceedingly cheap that in spite of
high duties II was profitable to have
them shipped over. In Nurnberg, he
said, the entire population was engaged
IN the manufacture of toys from the
child M. and 20 per cent. of the dolls
and goods which are manufactured there
are annually shipped to New York.
From France New York gets large car
goes of china and glass ware designed
especially for its Christmas trade, and
England sends over woolens and leather
goods, and Ireland sends linens made
peciaiiy Tor the holidays Every country
on the globe contributes something for
TINS monster city TO purchase when its
giving mood comes on. And all this stuff
comes into the little Isle of Manhattan.
Inc oranges and the raisins and the
grapes which come from Italy and from
Spain are taken In hand by the COM
mission dealers, who purchase them
they are suctioned of at the boat as
they are unloaded. OF course. the larger
number of oranges and bananas and
other fruit come from California and
from the South These are received on
the Jersey side of the city. from which
New York Is separated by the Hudson
River. which along the Manhattan end
or lis course they call the North River 1t
Is estimated that New York on Christmas
Day alone consumes 1000 600 oranges. 1t
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

many ways Is the equal of many In this
city. 1t has been there longer than
have been In New York, yet | was not
even aware that it was in existence. Down
in Harlem, which is that section of the
city below the Bronx bounded on the
south by thread of stream called the
Harlem. which separates Ii from the Is
land of Manhattan is where the socially
ambitious of rather abbreviated means
live It's a pleasant section of New
York. with broad streets and In spots a
Teutonic geniality and elsureiinesg of
habits that gives a distinctly local char
acter as different from Manhattan as
night is from day. The immigrant of
Little Hungary or Little Italy, or the
Ghetto or Germany, always aims to have
a home in Harlem when his means per-
nit The Harlemites do all their shop
ping on One Hundred and Twenty-ffth
street II they have any local pride.
The street is fully as busy as any shop
ping district down town. One could
spend many minutes In Harlem, but
there Is much TO see and to speak of in
New York. and SO you cross the river
on one of those curious drawbridges over
which the Elevated runs. You don't
strike anys particular business section on
the island until you get down to Fifty
eighth street on the East Side; but IL
isn't considered important, so one con-
tinues on the elevated road until one
reaches Thirty fourth street. From
Thirtyfourth and Sixth avenue to Four
teenth street Is the shoppers mecca
Here you viii find the Bronxite and the
Harlemite and the lady who lives in a
Fifth avenue palace rubbing elbows with
the lady who does a turn at Keith *
Proctor's- It's the shoppers democracy
On Twenry-third street there is a square
from Sixth avenue TO the intersection of
Fifth avenue and Broadway made IA
nous By Madison Square and the Flatiron
Building. which has a coterie of semi
smart shops Down on Fourteenth street
from Sixth avenue TO Broadway Is where
the East Side shops. and when the New
Yorker speaks Of the East Side he means
those people who have not been 50 fortu-
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

eats 100000 bananas and over 1000. 600
of apples Its consumption of candy Is
estimated at over ZOO. 600 pounds, which
would make a mound about a city square
in diameter and three stories high. Its
nuts. which come from all sections of
this country and every country where
nuts grow. amount TO over 100000
pounds Christmas Day alone. and In
this estimate have not considered that
1t continues to feast rather longer than
other American cities. New York plays
hard and works hard. 1t has abnormal
vices and almost unearthly virtues. 1t is
n city of tremendous potentialities and
figures in every way you take IT Is there
any other city of which you know which
can dispose of four million pounds of
turkey In one day? These turkeys are
carefully gathered up actually and in
prospect months before Christmas time
and are brought In by the commission
people from all over the country 1t is
said that Armour practically controls the
turkey supply. Cranberries so with tur-
keys as man with woman. and 1t Is esti-
mated that 100000 quarts are sold for
the New York Christmas dinner.
| tried 10 find out how much ham was
purchased. but they could not give me
the figures and they did not dare to esti-
mate In spite of the great quantities
Of beer and ale which are taken on Christ
mas Day. together with cider. and wine
men told me that 1t was very conserya-
tive to say that 100000 gallons OF wine
of every description is poured down the
Threats of New Workers on Christmas
Day. This wine has accumulated in the
city for months and months In anticipa-
ton of its tremendous demand. and comes
from California. from the various states
of the Union and from abroad | was
curious TO know how many pounds OF
raisinS are used, and was told that co.,
600 pounds was last years figure. and
would be far overtopped this year.
poultry man who Is particularly inter
ested in chickens estimated the consump-
ton of this variety OF fowl ut about 1000
600 pounds. There were a great many
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23
slow A Great City Prepares for Christmas.

the seeing New Workers on the tall auto
mobiles and very genuine horrors for the
other kind OF seeing New Workers, they
don't make any preparations for Christ
mas. Farther up, around Mulberry Bend.
you come upon Que section OF little Italy
whore they take Christmas very seriously,
unless they have become acciimated to
our way of taking IL. Here they make
1t fiesta OF flowers and solemn devotion
without gifts. for the Italian gives his
gifts at Easter. Also somewhere about
here Is the great Ghetto. the largest and
most important community OF Jews IN
the world. where they do not recognize
the holiday at all. When you get up In
Little Hungary where the Austrians and
the Magyars have set up their cones
shops and their fragrant bakeries. yor
come upon q real center Of Chrfstmas
preparations. Here is where the holiday
Is kept in it's most genial and full ~
fashion. And then. still farther up. where
your pure Teuton lives. you come to much
Industrious scru5bing and washing, and
the land Of delicatessen shops books II
It's denizena were cleaning for prize.
This is where on Chris ffnas Eve you may
see late at night. those many Christmas
trees we saw over on the fat cars on the
West Side. all blazing with those many
colored candles which the Standard On
Company monopolize IN manufacture. One
day counted over 500 cars full Of Christ
mas trees In the YARD OF the New Il
Central This was only portion of 2
trees shipped TO this city. Almost all
the Christmas trees New York gets come
from Bath. Ne.
In describing how New York prepares
for it's Christmas one must never forget
its ubiquitous street hawker- There seem
TO be millions Of him. He Is everywhere
and everywhere is he driven In herds
from one pavement TO another by the po
lice And he will grow In numbers as the
Ct-fo
will in bis proportion be just numerous
as the thousands, even millions Of good
narured people who throng the streets.
To see the New York Christmas crowd 10
a sight one win never forget.
ARNOLD hRUCKMAN.
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other things / wished to know, but II was
manifestly difficult to get the data even
in approximate figures: but | was very
curious about the consumption of cigars.
and was told that at least 5000, 900 would
be smoked on Christmas day. My in
formant did not say just how many would
be of the doubtful quality associated
with the Christmas cigar, but he prob
ably had some such idea In mind when
he suggested that if you were to burn all
these weeds at once the odor would as
phyxiate ordinary town of the interior
of New York state. After you take into
consideration just a few of these items
and the enormous quantities that are
used on Christmas Day II is not difficult
to understand that SIS 600, 600 is not such
a preposterous sum Of money for New
York TO spend.
OF stores and establishments which
would be of very great Importance in
other cities there is no end. ii Is simply
impossible TO count them. But there are
80 department stores scattered through
the various portions of the city. which,
with their mail-order trade and local
trade. are estimated to do an aggregate
Christmas business of So, 600. 600 each
This includes all the sales beginning with
the LIST of October This 500. 100000 worth
of business is done in that division called
Brooklyn. In Manhattan. In Harlem and
in the Bronx And this brings me to the
fact that there are monumental depart
ment stores in this city which New York
ers themselves have never heard Of When
was gathering the tangled skeins of
this narrative l wandered up to the Bronx
in my effort TO get an approximate esti-
mate of department-store business. The
Bronx is that part of the city where the
rent is considered to be most reasonable
it is the section where the small comfor-
table householder who has great social
ambition lives. You ride from 40 10 CD
minutes on the elevated TO get there. The
subway probably clips this time OF By 10
or 90 minutes. Third avenue is its prin-
cipaI business street. On This street |
found large department store that In
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23
Yuletidc in the Metropolis
%

- HERE are some 5000. 900 odd persons
In that group of communities known
- as New York city. 1t Is estimated
that each of these persons spends SD in
excess of their ordinary living expenses
before Christmas and pertaining TO Christ
mas. This makes a total of 75.000.o0o
OF good American dollars. Just stop to
think that In one city OF this great
commonwealth more than $4,000. 900
change hands during the six weeks
preceding Christmas. The sum is In
conceivable. so far as our power of
graSping what IL really means is concern
ed. and If you had had the assignment OF
hnding out how the New Workers prepare
Tor their Christmas by spending this
money you would realize why I felt so
hopeless when ! tried TO get at some
tangible facts. Your average Westerner
and Southerner are usually very. much
disappointed when they first come TO New
YORK FROM everything they have read
ana heard they expect In some vague way
something SO tremendous, something so
Colossal 10 all the senses that they can't
understand. as they wander up and down
the streets of little cd New York where
nv the New Yorker means Manhattan Is
ianul. that THIS Is the famed city which
they approached with bated breath. 1t
really doesn't seem 10 be so very much
different from those large sprawling cities
OF the West. But when Won have lived in
New York for a while and understand
what its real line is-what is around il
and what New York city means-vou will
understand why, II is such a tremendous
city. and why In such an effort as / am
making Il Is SO hopelessly daz!ng to get
Mt exact facts.
First. you must understand that there
Is what is called New York proper or
Manhattan Island. This is the original
settlement where the good old Dutch
made the beginning and here ia vhsra
our stupeudous commerce with the world
h carried on. This is the part or New
York where the ships run III during the
ak months proceeding Christmas from all
parts of the world laden with everything
that your imagination can picture Vast
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enforcing st. Ferris has enforced b.
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The New York World says II
has been thirty years since COVER
nor Of the first rank sat in the eNecu-
tive office at Albany, yet Grover
Cleveland ana Theodore Roosevelt
held The governors office during the
last thirty years. In what rank does
The World place these eminent gent
lemen2
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IN exchange says: "One half the
flowers brought to the average funer-
al would have made life much more
pleasant if given a few months ear
lier.'
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-13
Cemetery AssOcia tiOn.

The cemetery association met in
the court house Tuesday of last week
with president III. II. DeLong in the
chair. The. reports of the secretary
and treasurer were presented and
examined and referred to a special
committee who will report the same
back and will be published. The af-
fairs of the association are in excel
lent condition, and under the new
management show a steady improve
ment.
An assessment of 81 was placed
against all lot owners for the purpose
of taking proper care of the cemetery.
After discussing the affairs of the
association and plans for improving
the cemetery, the following officers
we're reelected for the ensuing year
H. H. DeLong, president; Martin De.
Long, treasurer; Jacob Kehm, secre-
tary and seaeon. Mrs. Thomas Thor
son, Mrs. @. b. Kennedy, Mrs. N. G.
Nash and Mrs. Arthur Linn were re.
elected as a board of directors.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-13
Telegram Didn't Go To Kit.

'TiS said a prominent machine man
had a magnificent telegram all ready
to flash over the wires to Kit telling
him of the grand machine victory in
Canton, just IS soon as the ballots
were counted in the recent caucus
for mayor. Everything hinged on
the first ward, but the result of the
first ward showed a defeat for the
machine and the dispatch for Kit
was never sent. 1t was just awful.
Gen. Lee had dispatch all ready to
send jeff Davis as soon as Pickett
pierced the Union lines at GettyS-
burg, but Lee never sent his dispatch.
He was whipped-defeated
lized. The machine in Canton was
as badly demoralized as Lee at Get
tysburg. The people in Canton be-
lieve in government of the people
and do not propose that lot of men
who are backing the corporations
shall rule this town. The machine
fight was made under the cloak of a
mayorality contest and many good
Crawford men were deceived into
voting for the machine under this
disguise, hence the bitter result of
the defeat.