Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-12-16
WEEKLY SHORT STORY
TUE BUSINESS ART.
BY Jerome X. Jerome.

This brings me 20 my real teAt- lou J.
see how quickly I ann acquiring the
language OF the pulpit. how ecclesiasti- 4
cal communicaucus corrupt lay man
lers AIy real text is tLe business Art .
The business OF art is 90 rev cal Oh,
beauty underlying an Things. IL has
been sueccstCd to me tLat under al
He circumstances : could n,t do cet-
Ter than speak to sou on O. az. ln tne
Rfks Museum GO AUstC. DIAM. hangs
Nicolas Macs wCrll-tamlu picture.
old Woman Saying Grace rather am
odd subject fer "a painter 90 choose. a
worn old crone. with wrmhed skin
and gray. scanty locks. Were there no
laughing. brielt-eyed girls in all gay
Amsterdam fo~ Nicolas Macs 90 draw
Yet. as we look. we can understand
the poor. worn face grows beautiful.
What is the mystery A common
place tvue. we pass such in the crowd
ed streets. hardly noticing them, gray.
silent figures. trudg.ng. bent beneath
their burdens. tollluE in the fields.
through open cottage dOorways, thin.
blear-eyed shrinking shadows of hu-
maufty What can there be OF beauty
about suChg And as we look all that
T the artist has seen comes gradually 20
+ Doe revealed Co us, the beauty under
f lyiuE-the beauty oi those long years
f 90 patient labor for others. the beauty
90 that ufe az daily seli-sacrihce.
/ These mothers O. the poor. The long.
+ heroic battle for bread, not for them
selves for the children. The long.
brave fight DIS nearly done. She sits
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% ~. ,.T NJ se. her beautiful mother
o f,-.,5 --,1s ,feu1o christ the heauti
F. rI CE~fe- ~ given the sDend-r %
30 49, C-t .+ ms from The dul
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4 h ~. treirees IN arr ro reveal him
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- 4, ,l,e conc more unfortuuat.. n
~ r.~sesrb- "a more bundle of we
I'D, r.re a. the noat 4 woma
-rgebior,es 81 slenderlv. voune and 5
f-s~~ Ege draus aside the fouIues,
sl-o,ys ,rs tie fragedv of the moo
- he the INV OF in AM IN
,,CrosD ~ The st-eetg-under her pain
s,F te,.J-r. emery our little Sister ,
So~roy,s Neither do condem
rbeef~ To the artist there is nothlu
a. Gods universe mean or conteml
ffble re sees Gods beauty ever,
wbere. To Robert Burns even n
eeId-mouse. wee. covering. tim 'rol
beastie . was "fellow-mortal." a lit
thing of homes and fears. with a lit
beafing heart strangely akin 20 h
Dc own. For there Is no true sympatl
that does not embrace the whole rouI
A world. The tallworn cottar. mere clio