Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-19
1.-THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND TIMES: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920

have done more than a fraction o. ~
Brumidi had a number of assistants ""
they did about as they pleased. SOME y.
them were very good artists. ana sun
were very bad ones. Each apparently
painted whatever he liked to paint mus
one of these assistants was an enthusiast
about birds. He decided on his own aC-
count that the Capitol of the United Suites
ought to contain some good portralts :.
the native American birds. So he went on.
with u shot gun and made a collection OF
the local a%vlfauna, and put the lkeressts
Of the birds into his designs. And he ola
it wonderfully well. Tfis basic designs con-
sist of the usual peculiar curlyce"s ana
things, but perching all over these are all
sorts of birds, painted to the very lie. n
man who knows birds can identity every
one of them. And they do not look a. olt
old-fashioned, like SO much of the Capi-
tol painting. They are so real tnat you
almost expect some of them to open thclr
mouths and sing. They include not only
o great variety Of songsters but d lou OIL
game birds such as rails. woodcock anu
cartridges. When he needed q touch Oh
bright color, this long-forgotten artist
would throw in a parrot or a cockatoo Tor
good measure. His paintings are amng
the most interesting in the building, and
Yet few visitors ever stop to look at them.
Some other chap who shared. in the work
had a p%enchant for carnivorous ANIMALS,
and he put in a lot of little pictures of
! coyotes, foxes, wolves. and wild cats.
But his pictures are astonishingly bad.
All of his creatures look ferocious, but
that Is about all you can say for them.
There was still another artist whose tall
ent ran to small and dreary landscapes.
so he thought. At any rate he did a lot
of them. some when he was sober. and
others apparently when he was drunk.
In one he has cactus plants and spruce
trees growing side by side, as they never
do in nature, near a large purple ocean
which slopes sharply to the left.
These are only a few of the many in
teresting things that Moberly pointed out,
hut they are all We have room for. Mo-
berry loves his work and his building, but
he confesses that sometimes he gets dis
couraged. lie had hoped TO soc the build
ing decorated as he thinks it should he
decorated before he dies. But he has
| given up this hope. Congress won't ap-
propriate. enough money. Congressman,
enthusiasm for art.
institutions of learning which would fit
them for civil careers.
The institutions for higher education
in Japan are SO crowded that many
young mon are denied admission. They
often apply for admission in two or more
institutions and take the double chance
Of gaining admission into one of them.
One hundred and four men thus applied
for admission into the Military Academy
apparently not because they preferred a
military career as A profession but be-
cause they feared they might not he
a hla tn cot into rpe IF fbp tiuhar inGti-
buttons of learning.
Their action left 1o4 vacancies. The
academy admitted fourteen men from
among applicants who had been marked
rejected" and 90 vacancies were still
10 he filed. This is an unprecedented
record in the annals of the Military
Academy of Japan.