Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 18, 26 November 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1911.

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LES OF PIONEER IDAYS TO BE TOLD I AT MEETING HOOSE

Centennial of Founding of i -New Garden Meeting Will fAttract Hundreds to the f Church, Sunday. ;- (Continued from Page One) 4(m depredations the white settlers noted a blockhouse at Richmond in which Friends in the neighborhood of Nenr Garden took refuge, except Obadiah Harris, Sr., who remained with his family in his cabin, putting bis trust lH'41vlne protection, the Indians thus finding him to be a man of peaceable disposition did not molest him. Francis Thomas, however, remained in the blockhouse but a short time. Not feeling easy in his mind to put his trust in such protection he returned to his cabin and fearing to trust himself that be be surprised by Indians took the lock off his gun to make sure he would not use violence. . No Harm By Indians. Suffice to say, Friends had no harm from the Indiana. ; t -The first meeting house erected by the Friends of New Garden which was mall and quite primitive in style log cabin and dirt floor was replaced by good aised frame building, which the increasing members of the Friends made it necessary to enlarge by addi-

' tioni on the three sides. This was the I . meeting house where I went to meet-f--lata until I was grown and it stood ' where the present one now stands, be- ? ing moved off its site to make room ; for, the new brick building. c-,, In, the old frame house on the first day of yearly meeting two sessions . one at 10 and the other at 3 o'clock jSfchlch were a part of the yearly meett "inflp'were held. To these people of f the surrounding neighborhoods used to

Otoe visiting ministers of note, from New Kngland, New York and Philadelphia from Richmond and deliver sermons of life and powr. Sermons of an hour and half were listened to even by us young people with interest throughout and such was our enjoyment that when the sermon was concluded we wished

i that it had been longer. 1 could al- ' most outline one now that I heard . preached in that old frame building by ' Lindley M. Hoag, then of New England when I was a boy. It was after- ; 'noon of yearly meeting Sabbath and Vpuat have been more than an hour and m half long, but nobody seemed to wish . tt shorter. j ... And in my boyhood years and on ; ap to soma years after I had a family, Z New- OardeA Quarterly meetings were

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great occasions. Our meeting house would be filled both on the seventh and first day, and we usually had visiting ministers such as Daniel Williams, Enos G. Pray, Aunt Anna Ilobbs, Sarah Ann Linton and many others that might be named, whose ministry was in the power of the spirit and not unfrequently under such preaching have I seen members of the congregation melted to tears. It would be a great mistake to suppose that prior to what we term the revival in our church and before the introduction of singing, music and Bible reading in meeting there was no life and little to attract the young. I am a witness that some of the meetings of that period were among the most impressive 1 ever witnessed. Even during the silence and sometimes meetings were held in silence throughout I have seen the fathers and mothers who sat before me brushing away he tears. My own heart was often touched. Could any doubt that the Saviour was fulfilling hia promises to be in their midst ?We could not return if we could wish to do so at all the customs of those departed years but certainly we can be as reverent. We certainly ought to be as devout in our meetings for worship as were our fathers and mothers. To lean more on appliances of whatever kind than on the Holy Spirit cannot promote the life of a meeting Music

both vocal and instrumental should so be held in a subordinate place as not to draw the minds away from Him whom we meet to worship. " 'Tis not in artful measures in the chime and idle tinkling of a minstrel's lyre to charm His ear whose eye is on the heart." Those days of which we have been speaking were characterized for hospitalities among Friends. How will some of us remember that yearly meeting. The week through was an occasion of our houses being filled with company; when beds would be spread on the floor and our stables filled with horses and no Friend thought of charging. And at Quarterly meeting we felt that we were almost slighted if we did not have a lot of our quarterly meeting Friends. I remember on one such occasion when we were expecting three which my wife had invited on first day for dinner we had thirty. Up to comparatively recent times Friends maintained their own schools. There was a reason for this at that time in the fact that the public or district schools both in their school houses and in their grade were of a very inferior rank. The schools of New Garden from my earliest recollection had for those times an excellent reputation and were patronized by Friends who sent their children from other quarters. These schools were taught by Friends and were under the care of the monthly meeting committee who used to visit our schools in their official capiciiy. not so much to inspect our progress in our books as to encourage us in right behavior; to mind our teacher, get our lessons well and to be kind to our school mates. Well do I remember these committee visits when the

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teachers would have up put our book aside, fold our arms and sit very juM sometimes through a silence of v. eral minutes till one by one the committee would solemnly deliver their sage counsel. Such religious opportunities, as they were called, would no doubt seem strange in our schools now but who of us can tell if it had not been for this care on the part of our ancestors to give us a guarded religious education in connection with our school life, how much farther we would have strayed from the path of recitude and virtue? It was required of teacher and scholar in those times to attend fifth day meetings each week at eleven o'clock. Promptly at the approach of this hour the teacher would tap the desk and Bay, "All nrenare for ming." Then we would file out two by twu; gins lirst, tueu iuc uj, ed by our teacher, who sat on the facing seat so be could see if we misbehaved. If meeting held long it shortened our playtime for that day which did not much please us. When the pebble-dashed school house was found to be insufficient a quarterly meeting school was held for a time at New Port and Fountain City. It was afterwards removed to New Garden and to accomodate which, a brick house was built, one-half of which is still standing. Very excellent schools not surpassed by the high school of the pre

sent day were taught in these houses. Lest I should prolong my sketch unduly 1 will draw it to a close, leaving it to others to give names of ministers missionaries, etc., who have been connected with our New Garden meeting. It must impress us very deeply to review the past century with its marvelous changes, geographical, social, religious, and political, the advancement in art, science and invention. The history of the world has not had its parallel, I Bhall think of you, Friends and neighbors as you are assembled in this centennial occasion and would enjoy being present. New Garden and its environment is to me in point of hallowed associations and sacred memories something like Jerusalem to the Jew or Mecca to the Mohammedan. It is the place of my first and my second birth. Its woods and its fields, orchards, its brooks, the cot of my father, the schoolhouse; these all cluster with sweet memory and linger with me like the farewell radiance of the summer day. How sacred to me is that spot where "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." The burial place of my own dear parents and brothers and sisters, and so many acquaintances and associates of days long gone. I do not wish to divorce from my heart the fond memory of these things which my recollection seems to interweave with my very being." Swimming lessons at Y. M. C. A., Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. Join! fri&sun Platinum is increasing in favort greatly in the manufacture of jewelry.

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GRAFTON'S PORTRAIT OF GEORGE AOE

Indiana Artist Paints Celebrated Writer in the Latter's Home in the North of the State. The Picture of "Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The psychology of portraiture is curious. Oscar Wilde once wrote a weird, uncanny story on this subject if it could be called a "subject" which he named "The Picture of Dorian Grey."Dorian Grey was young, beautiful, untainted, white as the first snow when a great artist put bis Image on canvas. As Dorian Grey accumulated years, his face changed from that of radiant and exquisite youth, of divine purity, of that which expressed the fresh and dewy heart, to that of a voluptuary, to one given over to the indulgence of the senses, finally evoluting into a hideous blear-eyed roue shudderable, unbelievable, gross, bespeaking all that is lowest in the human animal. And as his face changed so changed the face of the portrait until If the story is recalled correctly the painted image reflected all the evil passions of that of which it was a, replica and became a repulsive things from which people turned away with averted and horrified gaze. ' Many great painters Whistler in instance have painted portraits of people which the latter repudiated when they 6aw them in completion, because the layman and the artist see at a different angle, from opposite poles, on the hither and nether side of the footlights. Artists some artists, for these are "others" are intent on the picture. The sitter on a photographic reproduction. Hence the dissatisfaction often expressed by the latter. It is, if one cared to look at it that way, a dangerous procedure sitting to a portraitist horrible word, by the way if the man who is impinging you on canvas happens to be in any wise occult, is able to penetrate behind the mask. Photographs, oddly enough, sometimes freakishly reproduce some fleeting shadow of deeply buried trait or emotion. An artist may, unwittingly, brush in an unrelenting expose of the soul. Geniuses are rare among artists, however. Seers .rather, one should say. The usual portrait is generally a good likeness and that Is what Mr. Robert W. Grafton has achieved with Mr. George Ade, who needs no explanation. George Ade is one of those human entities who concentrate in their literary expression, the great average viewpoint. That humour which is not sectional although so In the seeming but is as universal as life. The kindly but the sarcastic. The mellow but the poignantly sardonic. The efferves of $10.00 $ 1 1.25 $12.50 $15.00

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cent whose bubbles are constantly sent up from the murk of fate. Not so visually and blatantly cosmopolitan as Mr. Tarkington his contemporaneous Hoosier confrere he is in fact far more so. He has that peculiarity of the great artist In insular expression he achieves universality. Ade's "Fables" depict not types but humanity. His is an art as catholic as it is subtle. This writer is not, or course, a master. Neither is Grafton. But between them they have evolved, as Bitter and painter, an interesting picture of Mr. Ade. Mr. Grafton, as has been said here before, does not wrest the soul of his subject from its mooring and dangle it in color be forte the gaze of those who attend exhibitions. He is content, seemingly, with recording those familiar externals by which men are known to their fellows.

You say "Ah an excellent likeness." And yet, curiously enough, this artist will sometimes, in the painting of the obvious, get at the truth of personality in a surprising fashion. Mr. George Ade, in this particular instance, however, looks the country gentleman as understood not in In diana. The pose a characteristic one, perhaps, at least so it looks is easy, a careless attitude with hat and stick in one hand, the other hand hooked into his trousers pocket. The figure has a certain negligence peculiar to representations of Mr. Ade. A sort of "devil a bit" air if it might so be put. A lounginess, a kind of world-languor. As though one would settle back on the bleachers and watch the game with a "damn it all I am on to the fraud" attitude. Mr. Grafton has chosen a rather unusual background a cabinet, appearingly, with the head silhouetted against a platter resting on the cabinet's top. While the dark-hued background is intended apparently to throw the llgure, clad in grey, into vivid relief, it does not succeed in doing so. As in the Lyons portrait, there is a certain flatness, a lack of anatomical substance, which may be due to the arrangement in the composition rather than to the handling of the medium or the drawing of the figure. While the color is what painters call a trifle "hot" it does not serve to project the figure into the foreground. In and of itself the background is well painted and an interesting experiment, perhaps, but it does not convince of its raison-d' etre. It is the same fault that is seen in $35.00 Suits for $40.00 Suits for $45.00 Suits for $50.00 Suits for

the Lyons picture Mr. Grafton not being as successful in his backgrounds as he is in the principals of his compositions. The artist has. however, very successfully transferred to canvas that intensity of gaze and slight, but not repliant frown, with which the poblic is familiar in pictures of Mr. Ade and

which may, of course, mean a thousand things or nothing at all. The psychology of this celebrity is an unknown quantity to the casual observer of his portrait. But technical merits of the painting are undoubted in certain manifesta tions. The brush work is broad, the color laid on with a deft and sure touch, the balancing of light and shadow held in equilibrium. The texture Is admirably interpreted, the . suggestion of reality in the folds of the coat, in instance, being skilfully presented. In the painting of the necktie Mr. Grafton has, in a way, achieved a triumph. It is a very palpable tie, it has a silken texture, it has. if it might so be put, a perspective, a definite shadow throws it Into relief It is, in short a necktie. There Is no reason, either, why a necktie shouldn't receive as much attention as the man that wears it, say. In the case of Mr. Ade, to be sure, the man comes first. It might be, in other instances, that the necktie would be the most absorbing part of the composition. Sometimes clothes make a good part of the man. This is merely thrown in in passing and not for malicious or padding purposes. Mr. Grafton, in a way, Is doing a public service in painting Indiana celebrities on their respective native heaths. Of course he is not a philan thropist, but if he is doing it for professional emolument he is nonetheless doing it. And, also, while be is not a great artist and his portraits show no indication of inspirational spurts, his lifelike and truthful expositions of personality are a contribution to the history of the commonwealth, not only in its artistic phases but socially. Some great genius should paint George Ade and wring Ade out of Ade but, in the meantime, that genius has not happened along. Perhaps never will. In the latter event Mr. Grafton has presented the public with an excellent likeness of an Indiana writer and dramatist of international celebrity, who lives in his own state among his own people and, for all anyone knows, may do so enjoyably. One charming note in the Grafton portrait is the little blue jar on top of the cabinet which gives a piquancy to the whole composition and points the color to luminosity. Perhaps this may be one of those objets d' art which Mr. Ade is said to have accumulated in his wanderings about the globe and perhaps hot. It gives, however, vivacity to what might be a tendency to monotony. $ 1 7,50 $20.00 $22.50 $25.00

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