SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots By GEORGE MIDDLETON IN THESE DAYS of strenuous political and social excitement when governments are being saved and individuals reformed, it is pleasant to remember that art is ever...
...Only one thing is certain—all expressed movement and change...
...A STATE COMMISSIONER OF DISTRIBUTION for each of the Gulf states is advocated by Dr...
...However, it is the intention to give all instruction in the open air when possible and to use the classrooms only in inclement weather...
...So let us, if we wish Katharsis, abandon books about art, let us leave biographies and feast upon the product alone if it is beautiful—look without thought and just feel, searching among the masterpieces until we find the one who voices the unspoken that is in us all...
...Each reaches ahead or back, beseeching with their chosen medium of expression, against the things that are or were...
...Thirty-one children were admitted the first day, and there are now 80 in the school...
...Can we then, with this thought lurking between us and the printed page, find the relief we expected...
...In pleasant weather the children will sleep in deck chairs, and in a "resting shed" in bad weather...
...but as we read into the lives themselves are we not struck with the great similarities between them and the other hewers of new ways...
...A. B. Farnham of Citronelle, Alabama...
...A handsome suite of baths has been provided and each child will have at least one bath a week...
...Schools Well Equipped IT IS REPORTED that no expense has been spared to produce the nearest approach to perfection in this school...
...How easily one may carry the analogy even into the absurdity which lies at the end of all comparisons in different mediums...
...Medical Examinations of Pupils THE SCHOOL is to be kept open all the winter, and the average stay of a pupil will be from three to four months...
...This is regarded as one of the most important parts of a curriculum devised for the purpose of teaching citizenship, and excellent results have followed the installation of baths at two of the schools in the poorest parts of Birmingham...
...The meaning of all this with its seeming contradictions...
...The duties of such a commissioner would be to bring producer and consumer into closer touch and to reduce the cost of marketing...
...True, one may study movements and forces at work in any art, but that becomes analysis and analysis can never have the pulsing freedom of mere apprehension and enjoyment...
...Physical exercises will be provided for the children under the direction of the medical officer, and each child will have its own garden, the ground being laid out in plots...
...Each commissioner would obtain information as to prices of the products of the state at as many points in his own state and those adjoining as possible and give these prices to all who may ask for them...
...this which, in the Aristotilean phrase is the true Katharsis...
...And if one is far from these things there is always Nature...
...But books on travel are, at best, mere guides and can scarcely vivify actual architectural magnificence...
...Open Air School in England By VICE CONSUL ARTHUR V. BLAKEMORE THE FIRST open-air school in Birmingham was opened last September...
...Can we find great beauty or stimulus in either unless we view them historically...
...The buildings have been substantially and attractively constructed, and the smallest details are of the best workmanship...
...These children have been carefully selected by the medical inspector of the Birmingham education committee from the elementary schools of the city, and are children who are, from environment or perhaps heredity, too weakly to derive any real educational advantage from attendance at the ordinary elementary schools of the city...
...The children will travel each day to and from the school, which is situated about 3 miles from the center of the city, on the city tramways, special passes being issued to them...
...Three meals will be served daily, and the kitchen, a large airy room in the upper story of the main building, will be used for cookery lessons for the girls...
...Does not the independence or slavery in our lives as we live them under governments find its counterpart in art...
...Perhaps just a mood which here and there some others may have felt as they lay on green grasses looking towards a distant city...
...What difference between a Manet and a Meredith when both are seekers in light...
...as the acorn does the oak and its fortunes...
...Does there not come a time to us who are thinking in terms of the present economic unrest when we wish to turn, for inspiration, away from reforms and reformers who are wearing their own souls and ours raw with their intense endeavor—to turn to the calm contemplation of static beauty, posturing irretrievably in a frozen emotion, or charitably emanating its ineffable poetry as a solace, And as one dreams of pictures and marbles he has seen, music he has heard, dramas that have thrilled him, does he not slip behind the memory of these to the souls that gave them birth...
...At such times, when purse perhaps forbids travel or location prohibits indulgence, one must fall back upon the printed word in order that one may approximate an adventure in things artistic...
...The school is for delicate and weakly children, and not for children suffering from tuberculosis, and represents an earnest and what it is hoped will prove an effective method of counteracting the deteriorating influences of slum life.—Daily Consular and Trade Reports...
...Once this thought has taken root consciousness, do we not find the questioning blossom turning to every wind...
...And as we furrow into these lives, further, do we not find posterity viewing them much the same...
...Each child will be examined at least once a week by a test of its blood and the hemoglobin scale, which clearly shows the amount of oxygen-carrying element in the blood, will be used...
...The main building consists of dining rooms, bath and drill rooms, and a central clock tower...
...How trite it is to recall Carlyle's phrase: "The beginning holds in it the end, and all that leads thereto...
...Is there not some spirit overhead hovering derisively or joyfully at their efforts to be different...
...What were Machievelli and Giotto but seekers...
...each is conservative or radical as one may view them from the common mean of the day...
...CONTRARY to the intimations of some writers, a college education may be a help, not a hindrance, to many young men and women, and to the communities in which they live.—Oregon Journal...
...The desks and chairs provided are so fashioned as to give the needful support and comfort to young and weakly children...
...Art, seldom born of easy labour, shows little of the birth scars it has left on its creator...
...Artists and reformers are made of the same soul stuff but how different the medium: One speaks in pigments and stone and sound—the other in men...
...The pavilions of the classrooms number three...
...Yet as we pick up the biographies of these poets, painters and musicians, we will scarcely—alas—find calm and repose...
...theses on painting or sculpture can only give some sense on line and shadow, and what series of phrases ever described a Tschaikowsky adagio...
...they are open on three sides, and are provided with folding glass shutters in order to furnish protection should it be needed in unusually severe weather...
...It is this we need to purge ourselves of worldly cares and responsibilities...
...Cubists" and "Futurists"—are they not the anarchists of the day bidding us think twice over the security of habit and the conventional...
...An important part of the treatment is absolute rest for the pupils for from one and one-half to two hours daily in the day time...
...They will be kept warm by rugs and will wear what is known as a French cape, and will thus be guarded from physical discomfort...
...Snap Shots By GEORGE MIDDLETON IN THESE DAYS of strenuous political and social excitement when governments are being saved and individuals reformed, it is pleasant to remember that art is ever with us as a retreat for jaded nerves and tired shoulders...
...each suffers or is solaced by the throng about...
Vol. 4 • August 1912 • No. 32
