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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
FROM PENS TO PAINTINGS
The career of Gillott, of pen-making
fame, is thus noted by the Pall Mall
Gazette:
Gillott started in the humblest walks
of life, and it is said that the first pens
he made were annealed by his wife over
the kitchen fire of a very humble tene
ment by means of the family frying-pan.
Their trade grew by leaps and bounds,
machinery more than doubled the rate of
increase, and Gillott, a plain figure in a
" white hat, soon began to be pointed at as
the richest man in "Brun," as Birming
ham is called. Unlike most self-made
men, he began to show a singular gift
for rare hobbies. He amassed a collec
tion of rare violins, which he could not
play; md his picture gallery, when it
came to be dispersed, made one of the
historic sales of modern times. Every
one knows the story of his intruding on
Turner in his studio and pestering him
with queries as to price. As the artist's
irritation grew so did his figures, until
he turned and asked who his persecutor
was. ''My name is " Gillott,'' said the
impertubable visitor, "and I'll take the
lot." The lot ran into many thousand
pounds, and have since mounted tenfold.
SKETCH AND STUDY
In a column devoted to art study in the
Ladies Home Journal a correspondent is
thus admonished:
Evidently you refer to study from na
ture, not a sketch. Sketches are rapidly
executed memoranda of big effecis. They
are made to record color, light and shade,
general proportion, action or composition.
But the study is a deliberate and careful
drawing or painting of some particular
detail. The sketch can acquire the dig
nity and importance of a study, but a
study should never be described as a
sketch. In the development of a picture
sketches are made first, next the studies,
and finally the painting itself. For
sketching use the best of materials, and
have plenty of them close at hand. The
less one knows about art the more modest
should be the attitude, toward nature.
Do not attempt to put a whole country
side into a sketch. Be content with
noting a cloud effect, or the lights and
shadows on distant hills. Your purpose
is to secure for reference an impression
of the moment as you feel it. The con
ditions will never again be the same; con
sequently each sketch should be done at
a single sitting.
WHY" HE ESCHEWED OYSTERS
"Economy," said Daniel W. Field, the
millionaire shoe manufacturer of Boston,
who at the age of 45 has entered Har
vard, "economy is essential to wealth,
but by economy I don't mean niggardli
ness. "Too many men fail to attain wealth
because they practice cheese-paring and
mean economy that gets everybody
down on them.
"They practice, in fact, an economy
like that of old William Browster of Sag
Harbor. William, you know, would
never buy oysters because he couldn't
t at theshells and all " Washington Star.
QUAINT ENGLISH CUSTOM
Ordnance maps notwithstanding the
custom of beating the bounds is still ob
served in Lakeland. The village of
Bassenthwaite this week assembled at the
foot of the lake to take part in a boundary
ride over Bassenthwaite Manor. The
route, extending for 20 miles, led the
party over the mountain of Skiddaw, and
it was nine hours before the journey was
finished. No boys were birched, as in
the olden days, to make firm their recol
lection of debatable places, but the party
were accompanied by a contingent of boy
scouts. London Standard.