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CHINESE ART.
Two Distinct Methods In Depicting
Scenes of Nature and Life.
Chinese paintings are subjecte
that until very recently were but
slightly known to occidental stu
dents of art. Vet. recently light on
thia subject shows that some of the
Chinese artists a- early as the first
crusade had created paintings not
only cleverly drawn and masterfully
colored, but filled with that subtle
artistic sense that is universally un
derstood ami appreciated by cultur
ed mankind.
Chinese temples have furnished
the best examples of Chinese paint
ings, just as the great cathedrals of
Europe have given to western civili
zation the best pictures from the
brushes of the Italian, French and
Flemish artists. These paintings
are mostly Chinese landscapes, al
though the hunting picture of Chao
Meng Fu, called “Mongols Hunt
ing,” is one of the most famous Chi
nese pictures. Nature studies, espe
cially of birds, are frequent.
But the most singular and inter
esting point about Chinese painting
is perhaps the fact that the two dis
tinct methods were used. The first
was called the “kakemono” method,
in which the view was supposed to
be the same as if one stood on the
♦op of a hill and looked down on
the painting, in place of standing in
front about on a level.
This method, coupled with some
queer views as to perspective val
ues, is what causes Chinese paint
ings to have their weird appearance
to foreign eyes when the beholder
has never studied Chinese art meth
uds.
The “kakemono” method is some
times used, and in these paintings
the method used is practically the
same as in our own schools of art.
'Die finer elements of painting, such
as feeling, repression, color schemes,
etc., are said by art critics to be su
perbly demonstrated by a number
of th<> finer Chinese artists. —Spo-
kane Spokesman-Review.
Another Prescription.
The middle aged man who was
giving himself a half hour’s walk
la-fore breakfast had taken his ten
year-old boy along. “Papa,” asked
the lad, “do you like such a long
walk ns this?”
“Nat particularly.”
“What do you take it for?"
“1 thought you knew. lam doing
it by the advice of Dr. Ringgold.
Ho says it is the liest exercise in the
world and every man ought to de
vote half an hour before breakfast,
if he has the leisure, to”—
Honk, honk 1
Heeding the warning, they step
ped out of the way of a huge tour
ing car, which whizzed past them at
the rate of thirty miles an hour.
The man who was steering it waved
his hand in greeting, and the middle
aged man responded rather stiffly.
"Why, he knows you, doesn't he,
jiaj'ii ?” asked the boy.
“Who is he?”
“Dr. Ringgold.”—Youth’s Com
panion.
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THE PRODIGAL
BUTTERFLY.
She Played Her Part to Good
Purpose, as It Proved.
By MARIE DENSMORE.
(Copyright, 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.)
At the age of twenty-nine Bessie
Pryor was forced to sit down and take
stock of herself, her acquirements and
her future. The money her father bad
left her, which she had foolishly be
lieved would last forever, was gone,
with the exception of a few hundred
dollars.
She bad had a good time with it. Aa
she looked back over recent years
and considered how she had spent It
she had to admit that abe bad had a
very good time with ft. First sbe
had had four years In the beat college
in the country; she bad ha.d a year of
foreign travel; she had been much
about her own cotintr- ; she had had
seasons in the mountains, seasons at
the seashore, seasons In the city; she
had heard the best music, seen the
best plays and studied the best pic
tures in the world. And, as for clothes,
she had worn right and left the finest
productions of the shops and experi
enced modistes.
Now all of this was at an end sud
denly. She had had a last interview
with her father’s old attorney, and he
bad told her the truth. She had used
up her means. The past summer had
written finis to the story of her prodi
gality. Only a few hundred remained.
What was she to do?
Os course there was Aunt Bess, for
whom she had been named—Aunt Bess,
under whose wing she had gayly
squandered her substance in riotous
living.
She knew very well why Aunt Bess
had allowed her to go on as sbe had.
Sbe had expected her to make a nota
ble mutch. But fate would have it
otherwise. There had been men
enough, but only one for whom she
had eared, and he would have none of
her. And so she had come to twenty
nine and at the end of her fortune
without the slightest claim upon her
freedom.
She could live with Aunt Bess, but
A nut Bess had girls of her own, who
were just coming out, one after the
other, at enormous expense. And
Uncle Ed wasn't the richest man in
the world.
"I can’t live on them,” the girl
thought. “They'd take me in and do
their liest by me, but I’d be a burden.
Alas and alack. If only I had learned
some useful craft! And only S7OO re
maining. It appears the only thing
left for me is to be a vender of old
clothes. I’ve got enough of them,
goodness knows!”
She laughed a little tremulously.
“But, dear me, I can’t sell my clothes.
I shall have to wear them. Well, it
stands like this: 1 can't live with Aunt
Bess—pride forbids." She cheeked off
one finger. "I can’t teach; 1 can't
low; I can't—l can't do anything.”
Hho dropped her head in her hands
ap Instant, then raised It resolutely.
“Bess Pryor, you're a chicken hearted
thing! Put on your things and take
a walk. You will lie crying next thing
you know."
She sprang up, donned hat and furs
and n few moments later was leaving
the house of the elderly friend with
whom she was stopping during this
urgent business quest of hers to the
city.
At the very first corner, as she was
walking briskly along trying to get
the better of her feelings, she met a
plainly dressed girl who was walking
just as briskly.
"Why, Madge White!” Bess ex
claimed. bolding out her hand eagerly.
"I haven’t seen yon In years. Where
In the world do you come from?"
The other girl laughed.
"Why, don’t you know? I'm here
taking a course In the business col
lege. I’m learning shorthand and type
writing. You see”—her voice dropped—
"there's been hard times at home, and
I'm getting out by myself to ease the
burden if I can. I always did love to
tinker with a typewriter, even when
I didn't have to, and I hope I shan’t
like it any the less now that I shall
have to look to it as a means of sup
port." »
"Typewriting and shorthand,” Bess
mused. “Madge.” she spoke earnestly,
"do you suppose I know enough to
manipulate the keys and make those
pothook things with a pencil?”
"Do you? And you a college girl:’
You certainly know enough. Bess. The
trouble Is you don’t have to learn."
"Ah, but I do,” Bess said soberly.
“Let me walk with you and tell you
nil about IL"
And as they went slowly up the
street together she told her story. She
had not cared much for Madge in col
lege. for Madge was In a different sot
from her own. but she saw now that
she had missed a good deal by not
making friends with this very sensible,
capable, warm heurted girl.
When nt last they parted Madge had
helped her to make a plan for the
present. Sbe was to enter the business
school, board where Madge did and
share her room. and she was to tell
the friend with whom she was stay
ing and Aunt Bess and her father's old
attorney that she had started out to
earn a living for herself.
At the end of six months of the hard
est mental work sbe bad ever under
taken Bess was declared a finished pu
pil of more than ordinary excellence,
and a position was obtained for her at
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1909. i
a fair salary at a place where many
other girls were at the same work as
herself.
Six months more passed. She and
Madge White still clung together
Madge was her closest almost her only
friend, for the rest seemed to have
forgotten her or at least to overlook
her.
Even Aunt Bess seemed to have no
time for her. She wrote that she was
worn to a frazzle between Marjorie's
debut and Elinor’s engagement. Well
it did not matter, of course, but bad
it not been for Madge Bess could hard
ly have endured her life sometimes.
At th end of six months Hornet
Baird, her father's old attorney, sought
her out and asked her tx> accept a posi
tlon as bls secretary.
“Miss Page Is going to be married,”
he said. "Sbe leaves the first of the
month. She Is an expert, and I gave
her sls a week, but you may have the
same If you will come.”
"Oh, Mr. Baird, how good you are!”
Bess cried. Fifteen dollars a week
meant as much to her as $1,500 had
once upon a time.
Two weeks later she was installed in
his office and was making herself as
invaluable to him as bis former secre
tary had done. Clad simply In blue,
her hair very smooth, not a gleam of
gold, not a streak of ribbon about her,
she sat each day before the massive
office typewriter playing the keys with
swift precision or making pothooks
upon a pad at the old lawyer's dicta
tion.
One morning as she sat thus at work
alone the door opened and a man
entered—a man whom she had not seen
in two years, since that last evening
she had danced with him and he had
gone away without saying a single
thing she had expected him to say.
She felt the color leaving her face,
she felt a tremor seize her, but she
made a brave stand in spite of all.
Her year as a wage earner had
taught her more seif command than all
the other years of her life put together.
“Miss Pryor!" he exclaimed. “In the
name of all that is wonderful, what
are you doing here?”
It was just like him to say that, and
she could not help laughing a little irt
bis too evident amazement.
"Just earning my living, If you
please, Mr. Brent,” she replied.
“And is that necessary?”
“Most necessary. Did you ever hear
the old story of the prodigal son, Mr.
Brent?"
He nodded, watching her earnestly.
"Well,” Bess went on, a little breath
lessly, “like him, I have wasted my
substance until I must earn if I would
eat. I've been a business woman for
a year, and I’m beginning to like it
even better than being a society girl.
Ah, here conies Mr. Baird!” as the old
lawyer entered.
His entrance ended their conversa
tion for that day, but soon after Brent
came again.
Being a lawyer himself and upon
very good terras with Mr. Baird, it was
easy for him to frame excuses for fre
quent calls.
"So you like doing this?” he said
one day, standing beside her and look
ing down at her nimble fingers. She
looked up nt him brightly.
"Yes, Indeed. 1 never knew what it
was to live until now. 1 only wish I
had got to work sooner.”
He waited awhile. They were alone
In the office, and in the silence the
clatter of the typewriter keys sounded
startlingly loud.
"I suppose,” he said finally, “that
you nro so in love with your work here
that nothing could induce you to make
a change. And yet I have been think
ing that I could offer you a position
rather better than this if you cared to
accept it.”
“But I’m not sure that It would be
fair to Mr. Baird to leave him. He
has been very good to me.” Bess said.
“Y’ou don't understand,” Brent said,
speaking very low and leaning over
her. “This is a permanent position—
that of being my wife.”
“I'd given up ever expecting to hear
that from you.” Bess said a little later.
"Why didn't you tell me it that sum
mer at Lenox or the winter before in
Boston ?"
"Because, my dear,” Brent said, “I’m
a sane man, and no matter how much
I cared for a woman I would never
marry her were she not the right sort.
I didn't see In the frivolous girl you
were then the making of a good wife
for me. So, though I was strongly
tempted, I went away without speak
ing.”
"Then I played the prodigal daugh
ter to good advantage, after all,” Bess
said mischievously. “If my money
had held out this would never have
happened. But how do you know that
my old habits may not return?”
"How? Because you hare learned
your lesson well. And, anyway, the
role of prodigal daughter, as you call
it, never suited you so well as"—
"My present one?”
“No; ns your future one as my wife
Will suit you.”
Sick Convicts' Excuses.
One of the first duties I fulfilled as a
supernumerary warder was the care
and control of prisoners "down for the
doctor." Convicts complaining of sick
ness are allowed to leave their cells
during their dinner hour and form up
In a long rank outside the medical offi
cer’s room. Into which they enter and
state their cases in rotation. Many of
the prisoners' complaints and requests
at the doctor's desk are extremely fun
ny and grotesque.
“Please, sir, I've got a bad heart,"
one man says lugubriously.
“I know you have." the doctor re
plies. with a laugh. “If you had a
good one you would not. In all proba
bility. have seen a prison interior.”
“Would you be so kind, sir,” the next
man says persuasively, “as to let me
have one or two of your sanctimonious ;
pills r—London Tlt-Bita.
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Small Mercies.
The young English tourist who
had been staying for a week at a
hotel in the Scottish highlands for
the purpose of taking advantage of
the fishing was at the end of that
time rather inclined to think that
the fishing hud taken advantage of
him. He had caught nothing, and
his expenses, of course, had been
none the less heavy.
On tlie last day of his stay, how
ever, ho landed a fine salmon.
“Well, Donald,” he said to a can
ny Scot at the hotel as he proudly
surveyed ‘the fish, “it’s a nice catch,
and so it ought to be. It has cost
mo £ls at least.”
“Aweel,” replied Donald calmly,
“it’s a gr-great blessin’ ye didna
catch ony mair!”
Mme. Modjeska’s Dramatic Josh.
There are some good stories told
about Mme. Modjeska, tlie famous
Polish actress. Perhaps the most
amusing, however, is that which re
lates how she joshed a private audi
ence that had been beseeching her
to recite something in her native
language. Demurring at first, the
famous actress at last gave way, and
tlie audience sat spellbound as she
dramatically uttered unintelligible
words. Great applause was the re
ward for the effort, but what the
feelings of the people must have
been when they learned that she
had merely recited the numbers
from one to a hundred in Polish it
is scarcely possible to describe.—
London Tit-Bits.
A Mysterious Visitor.
New Servant Please, mum,
there’s a strange lady downstairs,
and she didn’t have no card. She
took off her things, as if she intend
ed to stay, and she looked around the
room with her nose in the air, as if
things wasn’t good enough for her,
and she rubbed the winder to see if
it was clean, and she peeped in the
dark corners and then looked at the
dust on her fingers and sniffed.
Mistress —I can’t imagine who
the creature can be. My husband’s
mother and sisters are away.—Ex
change.
Teacher and Tommy.
Teacher—Tommy, can you tell
me what shape the world is ? Tom
my—lt is round. Teacher —How do
you know it is round ? Tommy—
Because you told me yourself. Teach
er —Yes. but my telling you the
world is round doesn’t make it
round. How do 1 know it's round?
Tommy—l suppose somebody told
you.—Munsey's Magazine.
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A Cool Customer.
A woman shoplifter was caught
stealing an umbrella one day in a
Philadelphia dry goods store. But
it was decided not to prosecute her
if she would pay for the umbrella,
valued at $2.50, which she did. The
next day she returned and requested
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Difficulty Easy to Overcome.
“But are you abie to support a
wife ?” asked the old gentleman.
“Well,” replied the youth, “you
know it is said that two can live al
most as cheaply as one in such cir
cumstances.”
“Ye-es; I’ve heard that stated,”
admitted the old gentleman doubt
fully.
“So it occurred to me,” went on
the youth cheerfully, “that you
would not begrudge the slight extra
cost that will be entailed as a re
sult of this addition to your family.”
—Chicago Post.
Strategy.
“Doctor, that ointment you left
for my husband to use on his rheu
matic elbow may be all right, but
there’s no use telling him to rub it
in. He won’t take the trouble to do
that. You don’t know him as well
as 1 do.”
“I think I do, madam. I put
some stuff in that ointment that
will make his elbow itch like fury,
end he’ll have to rub it.”—Chicago
Tribune.
An Oversight.
“Waiter,” said a guest at a hotel
as he inspected his bill before leav
ing, “there is one item omitted.”
“What item, sir?” inquired the
waiter.
“The manager said ‘Good morn
ing’ to me yesterday and has for
gotten to charge for it!”—London
Telegraph.
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