Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-26

brought to this city, and not to see the
pictures that are at the addition to the
high school will be to neglect great
opportunity. We can hardly reahze
what it means to have SO fine n showing
here of the best of modern French art.
Not only modern but pictures of artists
who are working now, and who have
gwen these canvascs to help the orphans
created bv the war. 1t Is truly Paris
Salon, because these are pictures that
have appeared in the salons since 1912
a review of the last few years. We may
we'll flock to it, as we do to the reviews
of the stage, that give us light amuse-
ment for an evening. The exhibition
will give us amusement and make us
pause TO think of its meaning TO-DAY
ouite different from the meaning OF
the usual exhibition 1t brings much
of France to us-stretchcs of landscape,
old uuavs and street turnngS. gardens
and children playing IN them, Normandy,
Brittany and some of the southern
provinces. boulevards of Paris. stage
coaches and hunting and varied scenes
of life in France, most OF them OF today,
but some in periods of hundred or two
hundred wears ago, There are some
allegorical subjects, too and some m
teriors OF quaint French hearths and
mother and children gathered there,
or the family at the evening meal, that
appeal more to us now than they ever dId-
il is those interiors that have been
DESTROYED so outrageously and that
once meant home TO the orphans for
whose support the pictures are being
sold. that make us feel intensely sym
pathetic with every canvas and with
those who painted them. They have
brought France here. the appeal of the
helpless children and bereft mothers
and they tvpifv what France means IN
the intellectual and artistic development
of the world France leads IN these
things as America docs III finance. and
our money would we'll be exchanged for
some os these exquisite things that arc
being painted in France, despite the
terrible things that have been happening
They carry on. even artists and m
trlloctualS, amid distress and distraction.
II WOULD not hc possible to mention
NAM II the artists represented IN the
Shtv They arc all members ot tho
rene trtistS Society or they rave some
degree IN the Legion Of Honor. and all
have exhibited in the salons, and many
have gotten various kinds Of medals aS
rewards They ar" tho foremost ct
today they arc even now putting their
PANT to canvas and that lends lie and
vlvacity 10 the collection The picture
X moro interesting # something shout
tho artls: cen be had list for tho asking
Some things have core II new ior the
exhibition here. for instance two cavaliers
bv AndreI. and some studies of streets
IN Paris by Laloue All very worth while
THE PRESIDENTS PAINTING.
In the fover of the building amid The
flags Of the Allies Is placed painting
Tho Fight for Liberty. that is e be
gwen 10 Preslden; Wilson Il Is sym
bolIc Of Amerlca : entry INTO the war
II shows the Goddess of Liberty. still
mIchty AMI unharmed. the ruined spires
Of Rheims, and American soldiers With
the Stars and stripes marching into
Trance II Is such !; cammemoratlcn
Of America entry INTO the var, a PreSl-
dent Wilson deserve b have gwen hlm
something to be handed down as an c-
during symbol q the croa. fight f3r
Liberty.
rHE HJ> ATTIC, lrI4..
Pacif,sts who 90 "a -eoT II German
atrocities may VOL remain t. pTaH pardon
for their ,inbchef There are cnll a few
of these pictures. but thcv ale sufficient
- give sIckenlng real,z.tin of what to
Huns are capable ot Paclfsts clam
that love will work With thc Germans
every time les. EcrlE he EInd nt
love that goes from throatS of mighty
guns \ nation of InnumantV can IN Ter
stand nothing else To sec these sccn S,
painted by those rhn saw and heard
and from Official sources If information
should be cnoaph To convince the most
doubtful. and there Is nothing n the WAY
of torture or savagery that the Hun has
not committed
There are other pictures of nc war,
too-a hospital ncar \ercIl.n and some
relief subjects. and one ot the soldiers
graves on the Narue. with the poppIes
growing on them that might be an IL
l,.stratIon iron Captain AIcCroa's In
Flanders Fields.
There are some very delightful people
representing he exhibition who have been
STAYING IN Wilmington for . month
Jules R:.tzskow~ll dlrecte,u dies Ix-
position du Salon &c PcIntrcs Francais
Members dc IL SocIetIe dies Artists
Francais de la Socictic des BeauH Arts
heads the commission and with him arc
VI. and Madame Emmanuel Ihu~ NJ
Elias being a representative of the
official mission Of the Fatherless Children
of France Madame Ratzskowsh re-
mained in France TO do Red Gross work
and Vi. Ratzskowsbi has associated with
him here his secretary Madame Beck
hurst Of New York City Madame has
been in New York since 1914, shortly
after the war broke out ana she is much
pleased with life in america
The war orphans work IS one Of the most
important Of was re'cf agencies in France
'papa Joffre active president =
and President p. care rs vice-presidcnt
NJ Rat zsllou III has bad wide experience
- director of exhibitions Of the fine arts
he is a soldier TOO. and fought in tle
Battle of tie Marnc. the first one 4 ear
ago he had exhibitions of the same KIND
in Montreal aud Qucpec and then utnt
back to France ia May He returned
recently. and has lad exhibitions IN
Boston. New 1ork Philadelphia and
Atlantic City, and from here he is going
to Chicago Los Angeles. San Francisco
and New Orleans After his tour is over
he will arrange All exhibition Of fine art
in New York City
TRI-coLoR BRAssARDs.
On Monday evening the patronesses
will wear brassards Of the tri-color and
The committee who have charge of adj
missions and sales, Of which Airs John b.
Bird the treasurer is al tho head will
wear the Red Cross, because Il Is sharing