The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-27


an exotic young woman, with meltins
dark eyes and sweet, grooming voice
made the veteran humOrist laugh like
a child, and all his distinguished com
pany of guests forgot time. space anf
the everyday world of commonplace
reality
In the wierd dialect of the Jamaican
negroes-a sort of cockney English
with Spanish coloring. a rythmic rising
infection at the end of each sentence
Id .~ibaric We. DIS and il. .oms SD. INK
led through it that must have come
directly from the voodoo worshipers
Of the African jungle-she told fairy
folk tales of de long-ago before time
when Queen Victoria didn't yet rule
over We"
This is her story of DE Six Peach
Eggs" which tickled the author OF
"The Jumping Frog"
man stop at cook shop fo
something to eat, an dey bring mn,
SIX poach eggs. An he eat dem an
ne say don't got any money to pay
fe dem; but would come back an
pay fe dem. dc ,iiyii cmfwyp cmfwvp .
pay when he find him fortune. So af-
ter twelve years his stop an paw six
pence fe de eggs he had eat twelve
years before. But de keeper of de
cook shop say it was not enough. dat
if de man had not eaten de eggs dey
would have grown up to chickens, an
de chickens would grow up to hens.
an de hens would lay more eggs, an
dey would grow to chickens an dat de
six eggs would be worth more dan SIX
ty pounds, not six pennies. De man
say he would not pay any more dan
six pence. An de cOok-ShOD keeper
say he mus, An so he take de man
to de judge, an de judge didn't know
what to say While he was tinkin'
a little boy came into de court house
An limb hab a bag under his arm. an
de judge say. What you got? An de
boy say, 'Parch peas, sab What you
goin' to do wild ito An de boy say,
Plant it, sah.' An de judge say; But
parch peas won't grow An de boy
say. An poach eggs won't hatch!' De
man didn't have to pay. De boy got
his reward, tho an was rich before
him go away with Death.
Dis story prove dat No catchee, no
liable"
Her Unique Artistic Development.
Miss Pamela Colman Smith. who
tells these Jamaica stories and who
has drawn the pictures illustrating
them in book published by R. H.
RUSSELL varies her unique program of
entertainment by singing old English
ballads and songs in a s'teenth-century
costume, also by lifting such modern
Irish poems as W. B. Yeats Dream
of the Wandering Angus in the man.
ner of We ancient bards and trouba-
dours.
Temperamental imaginative genius, of
course, is at the bottom of all this eff
fective accomplishment But Miss
Smiths equipment is also far out of
the common. Born in London, of
American rarentage, she was brought
up as young girl in Kingston, ia
historic paradise spot of
the British West Indies which has
just suffered the worst recorded visi-
tation Of earthquake and fire.
London and New York are Jointly
for Miss Smiths unique
artistic development. Many of the
most famous painters. musicians. ac-
tors and actresses and literary folk,
both English and American, are her
friends. She studied drawing
at the Pratt Institute Brooklyn. Her
real masters, however, in line and col
or expression would seem to be Whist
Ter, Sargent, Nicholson, Aubrey Beard
sley and above all, William Blake.
Music is one of the most potent in
fuences of inspiration with this Varl-
ously gifted girl so that in her work
there is almost as much of Chopin
Dvorak and Saint-Saens as
there is of the line and color artists
above.
At those primitive, pale-gray CALLER
les of the Photo Secession, of Fifth
avenue. the recent exhibition of ~ or
Miss Smiths drawings and water col
Ors was about the most recherche that
ever came down that artistic pike.
The young artist, modestly answering
questions about herself and her work,
said:
Stories to Sing and Paint.
The music pictures are all IN Color
because chrOmatic chords naturally
translate themselves into chromatlc
tints. Schumanns 'CarnivaI Is full Oh
the most vivid scarlets, crimsons, ca
nary vellows and emerald greens. Ihdt
Chopin ballad 'Tne Fugitive. couldn
be ANYTHING else, to my MIND, thah
sombre purple. AS for these sympol
Wife Death IN the
House Rain and The wave -thes
are only reachings out for broader ana
,specially for quicker, expression mere
s New York for instance, expressed
in steam.
"Whv. sometimes a single concell
gives me as many as % or 81 lueaS'