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The “Old Masters”
By Paul De Longpri
N the last fifty years several hundred millions of debars
have been spent for thousands of ugly, smoky, cracked old
masters (most of them spurious).
Is there any real beauty (outside of a limited number)
in the thousands of so-called old masters to be found in the
United States? Most assuredly not! The majority of them
represent commonplace, wooden, stupid subjects, fu 1 o,
faults of drawing, with the dead coloring of mummies.
If the real old masters could only see the many dtroci-
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ties sold under their names! If they could see the numberless lactones in
America and in Europe where old masters are painted by the gross! -
Oh, rich art-lovers, read those few lines about the great Millets saa
life. Time after time his first masterpieces were rejected by the jury of the
Paris salon. In order to keep his wife and children from starvation he would
accept any offer and paint signs for the smallest sums. So late as 18 s
a friend, learning of his plight, raised S2O for him from the Minister of r me
Arts. At that time all Paris was talking of his paintings. And those same
paintings, which command now fabulous prices, nobody would buy.
Instead of enriching dealers of old fake paintings, why do not our nc
art patrons extend a helping hand to need}' geniuses?
And does the study of the old masters (with few exceptions) help the
youngest artist? It is very doubtful. To study from most of them is simply
starting those young artists on the wrong road. Copying uninteresting subjects,
color-faded and faulty in drawing, will never breed enthusiasm, and no en
thusiasm in art means very little progress.
Without exaggeration it can be said that for one genuine bld master in
the United States there are now a hundred spurious ones.
Does not that fit admirably the words of Barnum, “The Americans like
to be humbugged”?
p Is There a Liver
$ Trust? |
y Ey C. H. I urnham, Jr. »
S there is so much in the newspapers in regard to the ex
pense of living it may be of some interest to the general
public to know that one pound of liver has cost me 40
cents in Brookline, Mass.
As the gazetteers rate the town of Brookline, in which
I live, as the wealthiest of its size in the world, perhaps
it follows that it should be tne most expensive place to
live in. Having recently sold my seat on the Boston Stock
Exchange for $38,000, I have, temporarily at least, enough
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money to pay the butcher.
• Do you suppose that there is a liver trust, or that the Republican party
from being in power so long is responsible for the high price of liver! Did
our senior Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, advocate at any time a reduction in
the tariff on liver, or did he think that the liver trust at the present time
was not excessively protected? Is the liver business an infant industry?
Everything is now laid up against the tariff and the Republican party. If
it is responsible for the advance in the price of liver, henceforth I must ally
myself with the Democrats. This is not a threat.
This liver question is not new; on the contrary, it is quite old. Dean
Swift being once asked “Is life worth living,” replied, “It depends on your
liver.”
You will probably say, “As you are from Boston, eat beans;” but as
beans have advanced 43 percent in prjee during the last two years, and as
no self-respecting person who was‘born and brought up in Boston eats
beans anyway, statistics showing that it is the foreign born who are the
largest consumers of beans, it is evident that I am between the devil and
the deep sea.—New York Sun.
| The Age of Thought ?
• By David L. Erown
HIS is an age of thought—and research.
It is a wonderful age—and wonderful people live in it.
Some people call it the “Utilitarian Age,” some the
“Iron Age,” some the “Dollar Age”—there are a half-score
names one might appropriately give it, all fitting equally
well as Joseph, James or John will fit the struggling baby
boy brought to the baptismal altar. But pre-eminently, and
fundamentally, it is an age of thought.
What were the outbursts against the “Insurance Scan-
dais" and “Wall Street Speculation” a tew years ago but the clatterings o£
the alarm clock that have stirred into activity the slumbering senses of the
American people in regard to things which most vitally concern them? ,
What are the present agitations against the principles of huge corpora
tions organized for the control' of trade, but the evidences of active thought
and the result of the demand for research on the part of men—and women?
What was the supreme effort of Japan in her war in the Far East but
- to turn back darkened illiteracy and ignorant superstition from acquiring or
retaining a foothold near her shores, over which the light of a great intellec
tual dawn is beaming?
We are turning our minds as never before to the solution of the great prob
lems confronting mankind, and more —the future of mankind. In matters of
morals as well as of business, in matters of Church as well as of State,
thought was never so intensely active as it is now. Men are not allowing prin
ciples, and methods of living and acting, to be cut according to tradition
and handed out to them ready-made. They are thinking for themselves. It
is an age of united individuality.
And in this very fact lies the secret of our progress.
| Men Are Not Born Equal |
•5 Bv James R. Dav, 5
* Chancellor of Syracuse University.
LL this anti-trust talk and anti-corporation legislation is due
largely to certain false principles and entirely wrong con
ceptions. I cannot see why, if a farmer in New Jersey is
permitted to buy up several adjoining farms and consolidate
them under one management for economical operation and
increase in productive capacity, Mr. Morgan cannot have
the privilege of consolidating twenty companies for the
same purpose. The principle that each man must have
an equal chance with every other man is very beautiful and
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entertaining, but it is brimful of fallacies. We were not born equal and never
will be equal. You can’t make a big corporation little and a little corporation
big by legislation. lam not able to understand why men who have taken
hold of the corporate interests should be considered enemies of the country. I
believe that the men who developed the industrial sources of this country
are public benefactors, even though they get a little profit for themselves.
There is no justice in a corporation being taxed, and a business partnership
that stands beside ft and does as much business not being taxed.—Les
lie’s Weekly.
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The Joker.
So you're way down in the dumps—
Blue, you say?
Think you’ve played out all your trumps?
Oh, go ’way!
Life's not a game of poker;
In this game you use the Joker.
It’s the card you hold the longest;
It’s the one vou find the strongest:
Laugh, and drive the blues away!
Laugh, I say!
—Jean Dwight krankliu, in the Century,
His Number. ’S
“What sort of a chap is he?"
“Well, he kicks for Waldorf service
at a fifteen-cent lunch.”—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Vindictive.
“This show cost the producer $30,-
000.”
“I am glad of it.”—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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Didn't Find It Anywhere.
“Had your father discovered that I
was a poet, dear?”
“No, though he told me he had
read everything you have written.”—
Lourire. „ _
• • •
A Relic of Barberism.
Father —“What is that red-and
white striped pole over in the corner
of your room?”
Senior—“Oh, that’s a relic of bar
berism.” —Yale Record.
At the Dance.
Fair Partner —“You like waltz
ing?”
The Other One—-“ Passionately.”
Fair Partner —“Then why don’t
you learn it?”—Frou-Frou.
Seeing’s Believing.
“Yes; but, Mr. Briggs, how could
you tell the motor car - was traveling
at the rate of fifty miles an hour?”
“Why, becos Oi seed the wheels
agoin’ round.” —The Tatler.
Shop Talk. ”
“Well, doctor, how are things go
ing?” (
“Oh, I'm taking life easy.”—Tele
gram.
Makes Them Light-Headed.
Scott —“There’s nothing in the
world that will turn a girl’s head
like flattery.”
Mott —“I don’t know; there’s per
oxide.” —Boston Transcript.
Trouble in the Home.
“Madam, I deceive no one; I am
not two-faced!”
“Fortunately, my friend. One like
yours is quite enough.”—Sourire.
' Getting Even.
He —“Why not give me your reply
now? It is not fair to keep me in
suspense.”
She—“ But think of the time you
have kept me in suspense!”—M. A. P.
Keep It Going.
“Change the name of Oshkosh?
Bosh.” —New York Herald.
“Or Kalamazoo? Pooh.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"Or Jersey City? Would be a
pity.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Reverse Proposition.
“I got a Black Hand letter from a
philanthroupist to-day. Says he is de
termined to die poor.”
“What’s the rest of it?”
“Why, he states that he has hidden
SIO,OOO in a hollow tree, and de
mands that I go get it.” —Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Biography Barred.
“Shucks, what does the census
amount to?”
“What’s the trouble, Uncle Peleg?”
“All that durned enumerator want
ed was a lot of Aggers. Wouldn’t pay
no attention to the details of my
rheumatism or my fust marriage.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
An Impossibility.
“Farmers can’t get farm hands no
more.”
“Go to the crowded cities. Take
some moving pictures of life on the
farm and exhibit them.”
“How can we take moving pictures
of life on the farm? We can’t ketch
the hired man in motion.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
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