The Art League Chronicle from Leavenworth, Kansas • 7

EDMUND RUSSELL-SUPPLEMENT TO THE ART LEAGUE CHRONICLE, The relations and followers, the whole band, in fact, have gone, because they found civilization was debauching our hero. The leader said to me He is our prince. He will 6ne day be our ruler. We came, think-, ing a sight of the great world would be an education and better, fit him to sit in judgment over us. We are poor, and had to come this way.

But he is learning too much to drink, to smoke, to be coarse he is acquiring only the vices of civilization, and we must take him away, hoping that in Africa he may forget. I found that many of the directors down the Plaisance feared for their flocks in the same way, and with reason; that the Orientals would be demoralized by the Americans, rather than the Americans by the Orientals. Mohammed wore a toga, apparently of white cheese cloth, the society for A FUNERAL IN FLORENCE. EDMUND RUSSELL. From the low ruined arch that midway lies Between the Baptistery and San Lorenzo, 1 heard a muffled chaunt roll down the street.

The solemn dirge of funeral trains in Florence, And flaring presently the dripping torches Showed the long file of. priests and choristers, The white robed maskers and the sable bier, A moving shadow in a ring of light, With great rose-garlands swept across its velvet. The gold cross gleamed against the darkened sky, The intonation of the solemn chaunt Echoed around, while from across the street, The ballet music of a night cafe Clashed on the air and strangely intermingled The dance of life, voluptuous, bewildering And for accompaniment the march of death, Solemn and slow, in time to measured pace, And in the midst, the young girl, still and dead. The torches flickered with the ballet music, Low voices strained in vain for sustained harmony, The maskers swept along in quicker tempo; Unwilling feet jostling the bier along A wild, wierd dance of death the roses falling From the rose-garland round them one by one, Crushed as they turned the corner from my sight And passed a-down the street to San Lorenzo. 1 could not tell if she were young and fair, I only knew that she was young and dead, And picked a rose all mired from the street, A torn white rose, and as I climbed the stair I heard the bell toll from the Campanile i And closed the massive portal bar behind me, The ballet music ringing in my And in my hand the withered Tuscan flower.

'h''W i A I social purity had tried in yam to have washed, and when he went away he bought a pair of pointed russet shoes and a high collar. Divine creature! I see you iu a tropic night, stretched naked upon a leopard skin, rough heaps of gold lie beside you, and lions roar in the distance the ground is soaked with the blood of your slaves; a hundred wives crouch while you drink from a calabash, and on a little bracket at your head are two objects, labeled: "Iustrumenis of EDMUND RUSSELL. torture among the, civilized savages of America," a pair of pointed shoes and a high collar. SOCIETY AND THE SALON. It ia a very common error to confound the "salon" with "society." The woman who wishes to succeed must make a definite choice between them, as there is a great dif conventional crown, setting up nearly two inches from the finger.

ference; just as there is a great difference between the woman, who is a leader and the His Jewels. The flashing jewels set without design, and worn as specimen stones, belong to modern times, and exhibit wealth without art; This one learns from Edmund Russell as he opens casket and box and reliquary, which hold his collection of jewels and antiques, a collection probably unequaled by any other private one in the country. Many of the most striking of these are worn with the costume which he wears while reading from Sir Edwin; Arnold's poem, The Light of Asia." It is that of an Indian prince, a wonderful harmony in turquoise and gold. Suner-imposed 1 upon this study of color and iri-wrought beauty of fabric are the jeweled jjirdles, necklaces, amulets, ah armor of metal work and precious stones from forehead to waist line. These girdles are worn, each with its own history 'and ita own rare beauty.

The first woman who merely opens the house she happens to have to the people sho happens to know. One often hears such and such a one has the salon of her city, meaning merely that she receives more people than others, seems to have great crushes because her house is small, is popular and hospitable. She throws open her doors to a mob of guests who scarcely have opportunity to speak with her and regales them with a mysterious punch that knows no to-morrow. Frightened at this, the more dignified people only receive their set" and affect an air of aristocratic exclusiveness. The salon of olden times was quite different, and few seem to understand that it was a cluster of celebrated men gathered around one brilliant woman.

The brilliant woman was often called declassee by her less fortunate sisters; now I believe they say emancipee. She began with Aspasia and her race is is more than slw years old ana was worn py Many of the caskets in which these jewels are kept are works of art in themselves, the most interesting and ancient being a large reliquary of bronze set with bosses and rows of saints in earliest Byzantine enamel. It dates back to the time of Theodora, and was the property of some Russian Czar, The whole wonderful collection is a study in history and romance, as well as in the art of dead centuries. TT Isabel H. Raymond.

Mr. Edmund Russell gave a course of six lectures in the University Chapel here. His lectures were very much appreciated. He is an excellent speaker, and peculiarly skillful ia his interpretation of poetry. He nearly extinct the general diffusion of brilliancy amongst commonplace women.

a rersian executioner. The front is a broad band containing forty fine cut earn el iahs, set in bosses of brass. The second is a ble jointed belt of silver' gilt, with dark green enamel and hhe had usually iound ordinary society a bore and had resolved one day to be true to SKETCHES AT THE FAIR. colored jewels. The top one has for the clasp two very large plaques of silver gilt, in a rare design of radiating lines and arabesque, accentuated with old corals and has sound ideas of art and decoration, and I am sure that his lectures will have a good effect in any community that may be foitu-nate enough to hear 1 him." President David S.

Jordan, Leland Stanford, Univenity. "Having had opportunity to inform myself as to. the knowledge possessed by Mr. Edmund Bussell the teachings of Francois Delsartej I can testily' that his mastery of these teachings iti their most important principles and applications is penetrative and comprehensive, both in a theoretical and practical point of view. I am glad he has undertaken that popularizing apostolate of these invaluable teachings, which no one else seems both fittted.ahd willing to undertake." William Ronnseville Alger, who fint introduced Vehartitm into this 'country.

"Edmund Russell is more than an more than an adept in color and an her nature and abandon conventional hypocrisy. Gradually the circle grew of those who valued her personality and truth until she became famous. Such a life of personal appreciation was all-sufficing there was sal ety in numbers, though it took much art to manage them. All the interesting men of the day crowded around the sofa on which she reclined, the center of interest. Great keenness of intellect, alert, repartee, merciless wit, ready power of absorbing the thoughts of others, audacious display of bodily charms, and often lovely strings of oriented pearls these were some of the qualities that the mistress of the salon An occasional confidential female friend was invited, but she permitted no rivals; every man listened as she talked, everyone BITS FROM EDMUND RUSSELL SYNDICATE LETTERS MOHAMMED, THE BEAUTIFUL SOCIETY AND THE SALON MRS.

MAY WRIGHT SEW ALL OUR PERSONAL CULTURE A STUDY IN JEWELS DECORATIVE ART. MOHAMMED ALI, THE BEAUTIFUL. In another village we found a bronze statue which was also a personality Mohammed Ali, the prince of the Nubian huts. Far back in the street of Cairo, where the camels sleep and the 18-months-old Soudanese baby" dances, who has been 18 months old ever since the fair began (reminding me of a theatrical infant who, when I asked her age, replied: "My age is 4, but I have a little twin brother Mohammed Ali was the most beautiful creature in the exposition. He has gone away now and for a very sad cause.

A Nubian boy about 19 years old, with regal bearing, tall, straight figure, and the most beautiful face that could be imagined, a profile that Cleopatra might have envied blue enamel. The necklaces are five in number, two of beaten gold, two are Oriental antiques, remarkable for their beauty of design and color, and One Indian filigree in gold, which is completed by two rare bity of Etruscan and Mexican filigree work, in gold. Among the pendants is one of exquisite finish in which from a large pear-shaped pearl there depends the head of the sacred cow in gold, with tigers' claws for horns. The crown is a genuine one from an Indian prince and is of beaten gold. Interwoven with it are three sacred amulets large turquoises cut in shallow intaglio and authority upon good taste; he is a veritable ADostle of Art.

the art that reveals and in terprets Nature, broadening, intensifying and inspiring life, and rendering richer all its endowments and opportunities. Indeed, so high a grade of pleasure as is enjoyed by those who are fortunate enough to listen to Mr. Russell as he talks, reads or recites, is seldom vouchsafed to any audience. No one. however unversed in art, could listen lips of the most exquisite "bruise," that looked as if they had been kissed for centuries: most beautiful teeth, and a thousand little ringlets of black hair dripping with watched as she listened to the man "drawn out" and permitted to talk to give occasion for her repartee.

The next morning every great man in the city was singing her praises and every woman envying her. A most charming life certainly, and a very wise system of growth to keep only among sympathetic natures. Much of the freshness and originality of our nature is brushed off by too much association with people that we do not care for and who do not care for us. THE MODERN SOCIETY LEADER. In contrast with this we have the woman who is nobody in particular and only takes her rank from her husband's commercial success.

She opens her doors to everybody she knows and everybody they know. She is a nice woman and her house bears the atmosphere of the Turkish cafe in the Plaisance where they shout all day everybody welcome," and the movable sidewalk, where "you may stay on just as long as yon. cocoa butter. A wonderful study it was when I saw Mrs. to the lecture of last evening without knowing better, ever after, what to look for in a picture.

The wonderful insight of the speaker imparts itself in some measure to Potter Palmer standing in the hut beside me uesigu ouuiiieu guiu. a ucbc mc net iu solid gold with the most careful art. The fidelity of those Oriental workers in jewels is shown in the delicate engraving on the golden back of the amulets, wholly unseen, but showing its sacred bit from the Koran to the faithful observer, The collection is particularly rich in turquoises of large size and rare color, some of which are still unset, and all of which show the intaglio work. To all this mass of jewels, an added richness of effect is given by single jewels of beauty, each of which has its story. A rare collection of rings is shown also they are of jade, of silver, of gold, set with many sorts of jewels; two are bronze antiques of the time of Julius Ciesar.dug up in London, and one is of beaten gold with a him.

She looked like the silver moon break the listener. "Arthur 21. layior. His Dower over audiences is possessed by ing upon an Afric night. They stood at the opposite poles of beauty.

very few speakers, and is in reality that which we, as medical men, term hypnotic. Did you ever hear Prof. Charcot lecture to ATA lie was black and she was white. She had everything and he had nothing. a thousand students in fealtpetriere I so, vou will understand this man's power to hold She was a work of art and he a child-of nature.

She the queen of civilization and he the prince of savagery. attention. His series of lectures will never be The Eclectic Health Journal..