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

an exotic young woman, with melting
dark eyes and a sweet, grooming voice,
made the veteran humorist laugh like
a child, and all his distinguished COM
pany of guests forgot time. space and
the everyday world of commonplace
reality.
In the wierd dialect of the Jamaican
negroes-a sort of cockney English
with Spanish coloring. a rhythmic rising
infection at the end of each sentence.
/ IA Ill al:c VIC DIS Gad iG.om5 spI Ilk-
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 Poach
Eggs which tickled the author of
THE Jumping Frog"
"A man stop at a cook shop 70
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 cmfwyp p
pay when he find him fortune. SO af-
ter twelve years his stop an pay six
pence fe de eggs he had eat twelve
| years before. But de keeper of de
cook shop say it was not enough, dat
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 rounds not six pennies. De man
| say he would not pay any more dan
| six pence. An de cOoll-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'
little boy came into de court house
An Aimb hab 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. sab 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 a book published by r. H.
Russell, varies her unique program of
| entertainment by singing old English
| ballads and songs in a steenth-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 ar this eff
| fective accomplishment But Miss
| Smiths equipment is also far out OF
! the common. Born in London. OF
American parentage, she was brought
up as young girl in Kingston. ia,
maica-that 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
responsible 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
personal 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
slew and, above all. William Blake.
Music is one of the most potent in
fiuences of inspiration with this Varl
ously gifted girl, so that in her worn
there is almost as much of CHOPIN
Schumann, Dvorak and Saint-Saens as
there is of the line and color artists
named above.
At those primitive, pale-gray galler
les of the Photo Secession. of Fifth
avenue, the recent exhibition OF ~ OF
Miss Smiths drawings and water COZ
ors was about the most recherche tha'
ever came down that artistic pike.
The young artist. modestly answering
ouestions about herself and her work
! said:
Stories to Sing and Paint
The music pictures are all III coloi
because chromatic chords NATURAL!
translate themselves into chromau'
tints Schumann's Carnival is full OF
the most vivid scarlets. crimsonS' Cd
nary vellovs and emerald greens. Iha'
Chopin ballad. The Fugitive. couloh
no ANYTHING else, to my MIND imam (
sombre purple. AS for these syiilpo
tbings-.Lot's Wife Death IN th'
House Rain and The wave -'he'
are ONLY readings out for broader ahc
asnecially for quicker. expression. Here
is New York for instance. eXp'eSSe'
in steam.
WHY. sometimes single coiioe
c,ivas mo as many as % or 80 IDEAS
and T have to put them all down Oh
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