The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-14

Don't aspire to umpire the game UNI
less you're versed in its finest points.
There's no virtue in a diamond In
the rough.
| Its value lies in the light it sheds
after it Is polished.
| Some people pride themselves up
| on their uncou,hness, their disregard
of social conventions and the minor
strength of character or something.
| The only thing 1t does show is bad
manners.
| People are judged by externals.
! Very few there are who have either
time or inclination to probe round be-
meath the surface in a search for true
| worth They judge by the exterior.
That's the reason manners assume an
| Importance in the scheme OF things
| that they do not intrinsically possess.
| Those who have nice manners and
are uniformly courteous are accused
| sometimes OF being hypocritical and
| insincere.
| What of that? A polite brute is nicer
to have round than common, ordtn-
| airy door-slamming brute.
pie you care very much about anyway.
You like a lot OF people we'll enough
but you love but few" Sometimes not
anybody much. 1t is. therefore, too
much trouble to bother with the rude
ones. So you cut 'em out and they
say how disagreeable you are, when
| the truth is it was the fault Of the
party of the first part"
Courtesy is such valuable asset.
| wonder it is not more universally
practiced. This is some leagues dis
tant from Governor Cruce and his
dress suit-or lack of it.
But its an even bet that Cruce is a
good deal of a brute socially and con-
graduates himself on being a plain
man" You often hear about these
| plain men," 1t generally means an
impolite man. Or woman either. The
women are just as bad when they start
out to -be plain Only don't tell
them so or they'll never speak to you
again. But for a different reason.
Cruce is probably inflated with his
own importance. He Ia doubtless
solemn and portentous in manner CIV
en- to elaboration of speech and much
preliminary clearing of the throat.
But this is enough of the Governor
of Oklahoma.
One of the most delightful painters
of still-life in the Middle West Is Mrs.
Winifred B. Adams, wife Of J. Otis
Adams, the most brilliant Of the resi-
dent Indiana artists.
Mrs. Adams is represented by .
| small flower picture in the current ex-
hibit in the high school building
| which, while not as striking as many
of her other canvases of this class OF
subject, is still interesting and charm
ing. 1t is called Prom An Old Fash.
Toned Garden" and is cluster Of gar.
den flowers of varied hues. Mrs.
Adams uses brilliant pigment with q
certain abandon and yet with artistic
restraint, and composes effectively.
| This little canvas is not, at first.
striking, but the eye returns to it and
| finally is fascinated by the arrange
| ment of color and realistic presenta-
ton of it's detail.
Mr.. Adams Is represented by one
of his colorful landscapes-"When the
Redbud's in Bloom"-which possesses
that harmonious tonal quality found in
this artists product.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams have taken up
their permanent residence in THE
Hermitage" which they once occupied
| as summer home with MIR. T. c.
Steele, who has now built bungalow
in Brown county, where he stays sev-
eral months in the year with a colony
of Indiana and Chicago artists.
Steele is represented by an indiffer-
ent example of his work this year.