The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-22

nerry-making of ali kinds II IL wasn't
for this eternal bread-buying.
This talk of college is foolishness.
Let a young man begin by supporting
the old man, and when he has sup
Piled him with the luxuries that the
father went without in order that the
boy might have bread, and inciden-
tally has learned a great deal more OF
the world than they teach at most col
leges, then let him take a term or
two at Harvard. so as to give him the
ability to move easily about In one
of those high-priced stores among the
princesses. But the knowledge OF the
world should come first along with the
daily roll for the old gentleman.
And If after reading this any one
can see through me 1t proves what l
started out to, prove-that I'm invis-
IDLE.
n CERTAIN enormously wealthy
IN parvenu. who thought he had
love. for art, but who bought by name
and fame only, expended $4,000 Dor
which he secured five small. but nne,
examples of the Barbizon school. And
as soon as the French pictures were
hung in his drawing-room there APP
peared to him out of the everywhere
a man who said:
"You have i've magnificent paint
ings for which you paid magnificent
prices. It will doubtless console the
painters, who are wandering in Shad-
owland, to know that the work that
would hardly buy them bread when
they were upon earth will now keep
an art dealer in plenty for lifetime.
But why have you not bought beau
tiful American pictures? You are not
French. 1t is true that art has no
nationality. but you should foster the
art of the men who live under the
same flag as you. even as you profess
to protect the interests of your work
ingpen."
| And the Parvenu said: Il am an
American Of the Americans and be-
lieve in American engines and Ameri-
can pluck and American brains, but
those French make business OF art,
and l am told that American artists
are merely imitators."
"Fool!" said the ghostly visitor.
Look"
And q vision appeared before the
parvenu and he saw lover of art
clad in the peculiar fashion OF 81
years hence. And he was buying fivs
small American pictures. for which he
willingly paid $4,000.
And when the parvenu saw the
prices they had fetched he said:
when were those painted and by
whom, for they must be beautiful to
be worth 20 much"
Beautiful were they before ever e
price was set on them." said the
Rhostly visitor. Beautiful, also. were
these, for which you have expended
fortune, when their creators finished
them and sold them for handful Of
francs to keep the pot boiling. These
pictures that you see being bought So
years hence are the works OF Ameri-
can contemporaries of yours. To-day
they are picking up living In the
west. in New York, in New England
and are thankful to keep body and
soul together that they may work a
the art they love. Fancy what they
! would think II millionaire Of feeling
having eyes to see and an understand
ing to appreciate the poetry Of theil
landscapes, should pay generous prices
for these painted poems that are 90
ing for little more than the cost OF the
paint that IL in them. For then, my
: friend, these artists would not need
to wait until they reached Shadow
land before they heard that thai
names had become famous"
Lord. give me eyes to see." SAID
the parvenu, as the vision vanished
~OU were thinking yesterday, my
y good woman, that you were I
. little better than the lady who calle(
, ON you although she has moro none.
, than you.
! But are. you really better than she
> Your husband IL salaried man ant
her husband II an oil magnate.
OF course that does not nscessaril
, make her any better than you, b
/ cause we all know that your husban'
: had q college education ana her hui
-. band was q day laborer.
But why should your husbands 81
I ueation or her husbandS wealth hav
/ / anything to do do with jon or her
!. Let US cut the. husbands cut Of tn
d question.
Welt, them she has more none
% than you
Does that make Jon any better tina
y / she? II the hack Of money An ri
4 mixed blessing carrying with It .
\ ciaf superieTityf
!, cha with n certain touch Of VI