Richmond Palladium (Daily), 19 February 1904 — Page 4

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RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1904.

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THE BOY ON THE FARM. It is often too often the case that the fond parent, in forecasting the life of his son, leaves out of account the dignity of labor. This is true of the wealthy farmer who has labored late and early and has been prosperous. He wants his boy to have an easier time in life and looks to the city as the place in which to live. The boy often enters one of the overcrowded professions and is a failure because a modiocre and has to be supported from the farm. He would have made an excellent farmer, but is a second-class lawyer or a quack doctor. The idea prevails that aivyone can be a farmer. In fact the boy who quits the country school, before completing the work, will tell you that he has enough education to be a farmer. This is all a mistake. It really requires as much education t be an up-to-date farmer as it does to be an up-to-date doctor. The farmer ought to be a horticulturist, entomologist, microscopist, chemist, physicist, veterinarian, and, above all, an agriculturist. Supt. Cotton of the department of public instruction has said some very sensible things on this subject in his Bulletin No. C. These bulletins are issued monthly to the teachers of Inana. "It is just in his ability to do things that the boy on the farm has a better chance to succeed than the town or city boy. And it is because the boy on the farm has work to do. He is well trained in the expressive side of life. It is expression, too, that amounts to something, and in it he gets the notion that there is work to do in the world that life is not all play. Now, if you can use these gool qualities in your school work, well and good. And if you can use them in building in the community a larger regard for labor and a supreme respect for the farm and its problems that will keen the boys in the country it will be all the better for the boys and the nation in the years to cme. Of course, if a young man really believes that he will have better' opportunities' for himself and for what he would do for humanity by going to the city, he could go. He can succeed, as scores who have preceded him to the city are succeeding. But let him remember that farm work is just as important, just as honorable, just as clean, that it requires just as much ability, and that it is just as remunerative as any work he will find to do." Supt. Cotton thinks the teacher in any community is a powerful factor for good. He is right, too. The teacher with a heart and a conscience can do much to mould the habits of a community. He asks the teacher : "What can you do for the industry of the community? You can make your school a busy workshop, where the hum of industry is the standard of order, and where each pupil respects the rights of every other punil. But you can do more than this. You can teach the nobility of honest toil. The greatest thing that you could possibly do for your boys and girls and for your community would be to build into them the habit of doing good Avork. The world is full of slip-shop mechanics who slight their work. You can , teach the children that any task worth doing is worth doing well; that success lies in the here and now and not in the far off; in the little duties of today instead of the big .things one is going to do tomorrow. And you can teach them to stay on the farm and to wxrk out its problems. It will be a sad day for our national life when all our yiMing farmers come to town; when the small, well-cultivated homesteads give way to landed estates. The boys on the farms wield the nation's destiny. Emerson says: 'The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1S0.", it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.' The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only-country which came to town day before yesterday that is city .and court today.' The problem of getting this thought before your ' boys and girls and before your community is worthy of the best there is in you. The friction between capital and labor, the almost universal lack of respect for property rights ono-ht to serve as great stimuli towards the intelligent study of ag

riculture to which it would seem constantly increasin; turn." "

Hon. B. F. Johnson, chief of the bureau of statistics, is in the city today calling on the editor of the Palladium. Mr. Johnson is serving his second term as state statistician and has given most excellent satisfaction in that office. At the solicitation of many of his friends, he has derided to be a candidate again. Many of his predecessors have served more than two term?, and, while the present incumbent does not feel like making any tight to secure a renomination, he will be a candidate for reelection. The" Palladium wishes him success in his laudable ambition to succeed himself as state statistician.

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AS 8KCOND-CLASS MATTER numbers must OPEN CHURCH PROGRAM. The Earlham Cleen club will give the evening's program at the South Eighth street open church tomorrow evening. There will be songs by the Glee eltib.piano solos and readings. It will be under the direction-of Miss Papworth. A week later, City Engineer II. L. Weber will give a "A Scheme for City Improvement," and the next week Dr. S. R. Lyons Avill give "An Evening With the Poets." All who enjoy such things are cordially welcomed at the church. Thomas Cale has changed his route. He now has the run from Indianapolis to Richmond, which latter run he has had for nearly thirty years. He is known to all the persons along the way and he will be missed by his regular patrons. William J. Brannon leaves tomorrow for eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania to be gone several weeks for the benefit of his health. For the next few weeks his address will be Quaker City, Ohio.

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ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE The nineteenth exhibition of .the Architectural League of New York now on in that city and consists of architectural drawings in plan, elevation, section, perspective and. detail; cartoons for stained glass; sketches and paintings of decorative subjects; work in bronze, wood, stone wrought iron, mosiac glass, and leather; models of executed or proposed work, etc. There are to be competitions for gold and silver medals and prizes of a various nature and the jury is composed of well known artists. The exhibition of the Boston Architectural Club 'was recently held in the Twentieth Century Hall of that city. ' This column has recently expressed itself forcibly concerning the proposed pavilion at the Glen, stating that if it should cause the felling of a single tree or interfere with any landscape feature of the park it should not be erected. The Secretary of the Commercial Club last Tuesday evening called attention to the city engineer's plans for this structure but there has, of course, no definite action as to location been taken.'' The open, place which slopes down from the west driveway in the Glen was mentioned as a possible location but such a cousumation would be deplorable from any point of view except that of convenience in erection. This plaisanee is one of the most striking features of the glen and should be left as it is. A building on this spot would be an artistic crime far worse than the closing up of the road round the cliff. The only logical place for a building of this sort is on the site of the hotel, one of the most charming in the park and one upon which the public is already accustomed to a structure. It is certainly to be hoped that the aesthetic and not the material aspect of this question will be brought into prominence It makes no difference how decorative the building may be in itself, it should not cast a blight upon any beauty of landscape. Within the past few years this column has in the public prints of Richmond pointed out the beauty of the view from the top of the river bank south beyond the viaduct on Fifth Street and its natural evolution into a part of the decorative scheme of the town. A speaker at the meeting at the Commercial Club rooms last Tuesday evening referred to Mr. Kelsey's comments upon this portion of this city especially with reference to Liberty avenue, suggesting that allthe buildings should be torn away and the place made attractive for future ornamental residences. The fact is that this bank of the river should never be made a site for residence. If the buildings should be taken away, they should be taken away permanently , and . the whole bank from the viaduct down converted into a part of the city's park system. This column has animadverted upon this frequently and it cannot be too insistently emphasized that this is the logical end of this part of town. ' It is to be hoped that no misguided A LINGERING COUGH The cough that holds on in spite of all remedies needs energetic and above all thorough treatment. A mere cough mixture won't do. Root out the cold that causes the cough. t How? Scott's Emulsion. Why Scott's Emulsion ? Because it stops the irritation, soothes the tissues and heals the affected membranes. When? Right a w a v. Scott's Emulsion begins to help with the first dose. People who have used Scott's Emulsion will not be satisfied with any of the numerous substitutes that arc offered in the form of wines extracts, cordials, etc. When life and health are at stake il is unwise to experiment with unknown and untried preparations. We'll send you a sample free upon request. SCOTT & EOWNE, 4"9 Pearl Street. New York

enthusiasm, either real or alleged, will ever bring about the "improvement" of part of Ft. Wayne Avenue. This is one of the most picturesque portions of the town, at least from the artist's standpoint, Mr. J. A. Seaford having made many stunning sketches of this street and its immediate environs, and it would be a thousand pities to have it "improved. ' ' The fact is there has been a good deal of aimless and impossible talk about Avhat was really essential in this rather vague movement for "civic beautification." If the city had a well filled v treasury to draw from the talk about "focal points" and the like might be of some moment, but, considering the depletion of the -city's exchequer, it would look much saner to first turn attention to the inexpensive, simple things that could be made the basis of the initiative. There is a; great deal of reference to the "gridiron" and "ring" systems of plotting a town all of which can be. easily read in Robinson's "Civic Art" in the library and doubtless has been but it is with conditions in Richmond as they are, not as they might, could, should, or woull be, that the citizens have to deal with. Prof. Sackett's remarks anent the gridiron talk were certainly pertinent anl the most , sensible made by any speaker at the Commercial Club meeting. If we could keep the few remaining trees that are in condition from being butchered and hewed to the point of mutilation, and the city would enforce Jvarious ordinances like that concerning the disposition of waste paper, a fair beginning would have been made toward civic beautification . and we could rest well content to walk round three sides of a triangle as we do now to get to various and sundry places. The other evening in the amusing comedy "The Earl of Pawtucket" the English hero is very much mystified over the American expression "hot air." The sort of talk that this colloquialism applies to, however, is readily understood in the home of its creation. Good common sense and the seizing of the comparatively simply means within our power at present are the two things which should be b rough t into play in the movement for civic beautification. -'.'. The Editor of the Fine Arts Journal, Chicago, an ever increasing partisan of the Indiana artists, notably Mr. J. E. Bundy and several of the Indianapolis painters, has this editorial comment to make upon the display of the Society of Western Artists, which has recently closed its Chicago season. "Why will such men as clever and intelligent as the group of Indiana artists seeri in " the1 exhibition allow Chicago to . dominate its exhibitions with stuff that has been seen time and again at the local and American' Artists' exhibition, previously held in this city? Why should Chicago artists dominate an exhibition supposedly on such a broad and far reaching basis as the title ' Western' implies. Does the 'West' stop at Chicago1? The whole idea of what constitutes a 'western' society of artists is wilfully wrong as catalogued in the 'eighth annual' of the society. Each year it is getting worse, too. The artists who should have representation are thrust aside for the honor and glorification of the same clique that had to evince signs of shame in the manner in which it dominates local exhibitions even it it did not really feel shame." Further on the editorial says: "In the Western Artists' exhibit the laurel should be awarded the Indiana group for poetic andscape. J. Ottis Adams, John -El wood Bundy, W. Forsyth, L. II. Meakin and T. C. Steele are names to conjure with." Meakin, is, however, of Cincinnati and not of the Indiana group. ' , Richmond has had somev of the "clique" pictures exhibited here in the past rank some of 'em were too, altho' there has been much that is good here from the brushes of Chicago artists. But the most of it was the work of those outside the "clique.' But then there are always cliques everyhere. Of course not in Richmond, Indiana, because we live in a high, pure, moral and artistic atmosphere if unselfishness and activity for the public weal. But in Chicago it is different. As Field might

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Vocal and Instrumental Music Taught. have put it in his" most amusing "Primer" "how glad we shoujd all be that we do not live in Chi cago Mr. Bundy sent to Indianapolis this week Mr. Conner's and his pictures which are to be passed upon by the jury for the Indiana Building at the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Bundv had some stunning things in this collection, and the three sent by Mr. Conner .ere some of the best canvases that pai nter has yet displayed, done during the past summer, as Mr. Conner has been unable to paint much during the autumn or winter. These landscapes are, however, delightful pieces of work, both from the standpoint of the technician and the picture lover. One of them Mr. Bundy pronounces the best thing Mr. Conner has yet done. Mr. Girardin is still in Cincinnati where he is meeting with great success in the sale of his pictures. ' .Readers of "The Journal" doubtless saw this week an account of the visit of Mr. Waters to Indianapolis, Mr. Waters being a well known English water colorist, according to the papers. No doubt he has an interesting collection of pictures, but as a matter of fact artists of reputation do not indulge in "personally conducted" tours. This column has in mind the visit to this city some years since of a famous (?) English water colorist who was welcomed with much joy by local connoisseurs and given exhibition room in one of j the public school buildings. Ihis person said he was a certain English water colorist, who, upon investigation, was found to have died, several yoars previous to his advent in Rich:ro:i;:, having shuffled off at the ripe old age of eighty or thereabouts, the visitor to Richmond being a comparatively young man. It is, if not ever thus, occasionally so. Six hundred out of two thousand paintings submitted, says a contem-J porary, were selected by the jury in Paris to send to the St. Louis Expo- i sition. The works sent by one ar- J tist were limited to three and the dis- . play in the Frencli section of the fine arts department will far surpass that at the Chicago World's Fair. In addition to the pictures and sculp ture, the latter including Rodin's tfTa PnncQni. " tllOVO will hfi SOT11P. two hundred objects in jewelry, glass ware and pottery, and two hundred j and thirtv modern engravings. Al-1 together this, exhibition will be well worth seeing. fc To all those who care for effects procurable by the landscape gardner, a recent article in The Fine Arts. Journa with reference to the beauti- ; ful home of the French artist, Paul de Longpre, "Hollywood," in South-! ern California, will be of interest, j Another interesting article in a re- j cent magazine is one concerning the charming park system of Kansas City, with illustrations. Mr. Kdsey told the writer when here t.iat a;)hsas City had appropriated .f.Ti.OOO for its representation in the "model town" which he has in charge at the Exposition. The Portfolio Club, of Indianapolis has this year put out a stunning program as to format, it being printed at the Ilollenbeck Press which does much beautiful work. This is one of the oldest art organizations in Indianapolis, to which belong most of the local artists and connoisseurs. The prizes awarded at the79th annual exhibition of the Academy of Design were as follows: The three Ilalgarten prizes went to Charles W. Hawthorne for his "Girl in Green;" Louise Cox's "The Little Misses Emerson;" and S. J. Wolfe's "Finale." The Inness Gold Medal Avent to Charles Warren Eaton for his "Old Mill at Crecy Moonlight;" "The Contest," by IT. M. Wolcolt took the Thomas B. Clark prize; and the new Proctor prize of $200 was awarded Robert W. Vonnoh, for portrait of his wife Bessie Potter Vonnoh, the well known

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