El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-10

CARRIAGES and kings have been
outdOne by cheese and art
Those persons who have read
Alice in wonderland will recall what
connection cabbages had with kings
It was a connection similar to that
which existed between King Constan-
tine OF Rome and his back yard
garden. Old COnstancy, retired from
Ringing TO cabbage raising and found
among his vegetables that surcease
according TO Washington correspon-
dents. can't even be found from league
Of nations annoyances on the white
house lawn
what you may be pining to know,
has this 70 do with cheese and art-
II has Just this: it is quite as pos
sible TO find recuperatiOn from the
fatigue produced by bartering cheese
and kippered herring IN the soothing
domain Of art as it is 70 find repose
". L Herbert, 1410 Wyoming street
viii testify 10 that and Mr.. Herbert
ought to know
All. Ha! The Story UnfoIds.
In the day time Ar. Herbert is
clerk in the J. Il. Nations store. 2Zo
Mesa avenue He can slice OH a
pound OF cheese with the precision Of
a surgeon He can weigh out plat
ter OF blind robbins with an IN
cauny accuracy kalter Aufschnitt
and Wienerschnitzel. pretzels and
schmierkase or dill pickles and sauer-
kraut. They are all the same to him
in his diurnal delicatessen routine
He inherits the knack from a father
who was a hotel and restaurant man
back in philadelphia There Is, how
ever. another side TO his existence
Among the cheeses and the pretZels
and the herring he makes his living.
But his life-ahi there IS the reason
for this story.
When the last famished burgher
has paid for his cheese and HE'D him
lays aside his apron and goes out in
the cleaning 10 catch a car home
But in this cleaning there are no
mirages Of cheese and pretzels. He
sees the sunset and the dance of color
on the distant hills. Within his mind
be paints picture.
After Sentiment Of Cheese Cutting.
After his supper is over and he has
had a half hours rest and a cigar he
begins that other life OF his and puts
on canvas that picture he has seen
dancing spiritlike through the hills
as the sun brought 10 an end the day. I
de goes over 10 his big arm chair and Z
takes from his palette those almost
elusive hues that make the western
plains and peaks enchanting in their
and puts them on TO the
white surface propDed before him on
us EaEEA W mere AsAEN " Al remain 10
bless and cheer and thrill the scores
who are fortunate enough TO see them.
The walls Of the parlor and living
room Of the Herbert home are covered b.
with the creations OF this cheese
salesman And such beauty and soft
ness and such refulgence and splen-
dor and such accurate detail Of re-
production can't be imagined save by
those artists who are skilled in the
welding Of the most fragile brush .
scenes OF the southwest predominant
The rugged hills OF Arizona and New
Mexico are favorites, with here and
here Few OF the grander and more
lustere mountains OF the northern
Rockies. Upper and lower valley
scenes tmpulsiFely, yet carefully done
iou1ber and bleaker northern scenes
rom the country OF the artists boy
lood have not been forgotten. Here
! snow scene, intensified by towering
md naughty pines is set adjacent TO
he mellow, hospitable warmth OF a
andy and mesquite-covered expanse.
Ind they are all done with a zest Of
man whose life has never had
heese and pickles in II.
Inherited Ability.
1fr. Herbert not only inherited his
.bilirT 70 weigh and measure edibles
nd make correct change but he IN
erited this other nature-his artistry.
hat he did II because he loved II and
hat he loved It because II wasn't
What he did for a living. William F
Herbert, the father, was also an artist
4 note IN Pennsylvania When the
irst signs OF genius developed in the
on he was sent TO the masters at
fifteen and there began his studies. i
The younger Herbert sat at the feet ID
4 George Cope, OF Herman HerZog II
nd OF the great Rondel His pro- I
iciency acquired, he did not paint for 4
.pplause or for money. He painted
or the same reason that happy 4
women sing and contented men 4
he wanted to and l
ould not help i.
Eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Her T.
,ert came 10 Fl Paso. Since then he 4
las specialized IN southwestern j
Genes. His pictures have been ex-
libited modestly here and there. 4
ringing him more praise than fame. 4
Vow and then a tourist has seen one 1
md sought out the painter, only 10
e. astonished at his vocation and TO
SIX him what he was about when he /
night be painting for a living. Once 4
noted artist came 10 town and tried Il
che Hu@ - = &C. .I