The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-06-16
Disgruntlement.

81 murrain seize this vulgar age!
Beating my breast. cry aloud.
Art, music, literature. the stage
Are cheapened by the madding MOB.
They make a most ungodly row,
Ard one is deafened by the din.
Culture was worth while once; but now
The Philistines are crowding in.
They overrun the concert hall,
And boost the price of choicest chairs;
While ], who lack the wherewithal,
Must Chamber up six flights of staira
And even in the gallery
A decent seat is hard to win.
Allow, aloft the bourgeoisie-
The Philistines are crowding In.
G. Bernard Shaw is all the go;
But once had him to myself.
His plays, unknown then. stood arrow,
Weil-thumbed. upon my study shelf.
Now, il try to see those plays
can't get in, bulletin
Announces S. r. o. for days.
The Philistines are crowding In.
Grand opera, too, the mob devours;
They flock like sheep to see the Ring"
have to stand in line for hours
To buy a seat for anything.
The age Is vulgarized. one touch
or culture makes the whole world chin.
And culture doesn't count for much
When all Philistia's crowding in
Have you joined the See America
First Association" the mission of
which is to turn the American tourist
tide westward? See Naples and die!"
If you must, but ''See America first!"
The news that 'sThe House of Mirth''
Is to be dramatized will be hailed with
delight by all lovers of the drama. OF
course it will be necessary to add a
pot, but any stage carpenter can sup
ply that, and what action the novel
lacks can be furnished with q pair of
low comedians and male Quartette.
Letters Of An Art Student.
1t will be recalled that Charles Dana
Gibson sacrificed a tremendous income
few months ago, to 60 abroad and
study art. How successfully this ex-
pertinent Is working out is shown in
his letters to his friends at home, q
few of which we have been privileged
to publish.
My Dear Chambers:
Your splendid appreciate of me ir
Golfers finds an echo on this side Of
the Atlantic. seem to be as We
known in Paris as in New York. SEQ
myself pointed out in the cafe or OF
the boulevard, or wherever may go.
With that modesty which you hav,
spoken of as one of my traits, / pre-
scented myself humbly before the OF
French Academicians. informing then
that wished to study art from the be
ginning. l feared they might take m,
| at my word and set me to drawing tn,
| figure, but they finally acknowledge,
that they could teach me nothing abou
drawing, and advised me to begin q
once on color. This found extreme,,
interesting, and all that / had ina
gined 1t. l have made great man,
experiments on my own account, wit
startling results. Yesterday / discov
cred that by mixing red and blue on
gets rich purple. 1t was revelation
In impressionism. fastened to the oil
masters, my teachers. To my disap
pointment they were not surprised
Yes, they said; red and blue undoubt
eddy produced purple. They had hap
pened on the same discovery In earle
years; bu. alas! they had forgotten i
After studying the figure indoors 70
years and years one forgets almos
everything else. am sending 70
some of the purple by express. Don
you agree that 1t would be a stron
tonic color for landscape? You wi
note that 1t is the exact tint Of Robel
Reeds automobile. 1t was Reed VIII
said to me at the Players club the da
before l sailed, when In doubt, m
boy, use purple"