- YEAR 84, NO. 287 OUR ARTISTS. ABROAD MANY HAVE WON FAME IN OTHER LANDS. Some of the Painters aud Sculptors Born in Canada Who Have Gone to England, France, and the United States, and There Won Reputations in tke Great Galler- ies of the World, HE life of au 274s! in Can- ada 20 years ago was some- thing like that of Gilbért's policeman, 'not a happy »one"; 'ii is not even affluent to-day, but a generation ago so little was the public appreciation of Canadian art that a goodly number of those paint- ers and sculptors who possessed am- bition as well as talent were forced to seek 'fresh fields and pastures new" in order to find the sinews of their endeavor to work out thelr ar- tistic salvation. Tt is got a state of affaifs to be recalled \with much pride, for if there is one thing a new country needs and which should be State-alded from the first, it is its native art, for the necessarily inten- sive pursuit of commercial gain gets from art at once an antidote and &n ; an\antidete 40 turn thought "Trom commercialism to the beauties and truths of form and color and an aid in directing design toward what is useful and beautiful instead of what is hideous and accidental. In Australia to-day in spite of a progressive. spirit regarding art which leaves Canada somewhat be- hind, Australian artists cannot live at home but must seek the wider field of European appreciation; so in Canada-outside of a few portralt painters, cothmercial art workers, and art teachers it is extremely dif ficult for an artist of even recog nized ability to live and to feel him- self free to express the truth that is in him, So it comes about that a formidable list of Canadian artists are living abroad, where although phey are often not known to be Can- adians, they are appreciated and so are better off than at home, where, although they were certainly known to be Canadians, they equally cer- tainly were not appreciated. In only one respect is Canada better off than Australia 4n her failure to support her own artists; there is nowhere nearer (o Australia than: Europe, while Canada adjoins the United States and the copnection with home has not, in a majority of cases, been so completely severed that it could not be renewed. ) The list of Canadian artists who are working abroad naturally divides itself into two groups, those whio have made thelr name in the United States and those who have done the sane in Evgland, or on the coptin- ent. The first list is the greater, and it may be well to begin with it nd to place at its head Horatio Walker, whose landscapes have brought him great honor among Am- erican ~' painters) Horatio Walker was born at Listowel, in Ontario, and after getting as much art training in Toronto as was available in those days he went to New York, where, with great natural talent and capa- city for draftsmanship, he has pro- gressed and been honored with many awards and memberships, including that of the National Academy of De- sign. Horatio Walker's connection with Canada has never been com- pletely severed, for he has resided a large part of each year at his home on the Island of Orleans in the St, Lawrence near Quebec. It is on the Island of Orleans that the relicts of the 3reton peasantry still cling to an- cient customs and habits and the last i their flocks, band, as they have done immemorial. It is the and old-worldliness of this ave inspired so wany of studies, and in all reaching to great- his, there is the effort to tell the story of lives of the tillers of the ] {here is Ernest Lawson, who, with | subtly conceived sions Of 'winter sows or pale spring buds, has won for himself an import- ant place In American landscape painting. Ernest Lawson was born at Halifax, N.8., and has settled' down to his life work in New Yerk and there ara few important art ex- hibitions in the country in which he is not represented by some char- ship in the National Academy of De- sign. 5 Arthur Crisp, of a younger genera- tion, who is rapidly becom! ilton, Qr : Sha alto with a series of res and drawings of purchased' by the National Dantory of , while at the recent Arekl- Le exhibition in New t York "heared" most of the honors with a very exhibit of Wyatt Eaton (1849-1896) & per- haps best. for his portraits of the poets impres- - HEART WAS BAD NERVES ALL GONE Very important it is in this age to have a clear, cool head, a strong heart and steady nerves, ' Top. much rush and bustle, work and worry, fall to the lot of women attending to their household duties and sdcial obligations. The con- 4 stant strain under which they con- tinue day in and day out will soon shatter the strongest system. 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Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont, AA A AA course which, while It 1s sufficiently individual, was set in its outlines by the idealism of Whistler and those who would render nature by the severe elimination of every- thing extraneous to the general im- pression or indictative of elabora- tion. Mr. Morrice is a member of the International Society in London. ! Two women painters now claim | attention: Elizabeth Adela Stan- | hope Forbes and Mary Eastlake, Mrs. Forbes' work.is so well known as to require little description; it is better known than the fact that she is a Canadian, born at Kings- ton, Ont. After studying at the Art Students' League in New York, under William Chase, she went to Europe, and finally settled down to her art at Newlyn, in Cornwall Mark Eastlake was born at Douglas, Ont, and took mueh the same course as Mrs. Forbes, studying in New York before going to Paris, and to the Herkomer School at Bushey. Among etchers are Caroline and Frank Armington, and Denald Shaw MacLaughlan, all of them ! born in Canada, but now working abroad and achieving distinction in | their particular, metier. : Charles Paul Gruppe must not be forgotten among painters. He was born at Picton, Ont, and after studying in Holland, is now living in New York, and is a regular ex- hibitor of work partaking of some- thing of the Dutch manner. Sculpture is well represented by R. Tait Mackenzie and A. Phimister Proctor, NA. The former, whose athletic studies as well as more for- mal statuary work are bringing him well-merited recognition, was born at Almonte, in Ontario, and now holds, with a recent absence for war work in England, the position of di- rector of physical culture at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Phimister Proctor was also born in Ontario at the small town of Basanque, and after study in New York and Paris has settled down in the United States where he has become a member of the National Academy and other in- stitutions in recognition of his fine animal sculpture, so expressive of vigor and action. Some eight or nine years ago a number of secessionists from the On- tario Society of Artists banded them- selves into the Cunadian Art Club and made one of their aims the re- newal of the relations of these artists with the country of their birth by their membership in the club and the presence of their work at its exhibi- tions. It was not until the Canadian public began to see the work of Ho- ratio Walker, Ernest Lawson, J. W. Morrice, Phimister Procter, and | others at the exhibitions of the Cana- dian Art Club that it realized with any force that these artists whom other countries had so delighted to honor were Canadians, These ex- hibitions were undoutbedly a sfimu- lus to Canadian art, and there is every hope that the connection of these wandering artists with the land of their birth, "which in the case of Horatio Walker and J. Wilson. Mor orary membership in the Royal Can- adian Academy, will not only not be. allowed to lapse again but will be solidified to the mutual advantage of those who have fought a good fight for art in their own country, to those who have been successful abroad and would wish to be so at home, and to Canada, who needs them ail for her glorification. 1he average-sized Alaska walrus as big as an ox ii | The Baily British Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1917 RATS ANE DESTRUCTIVE, Déstroy Property Valued at $260,- = 000,000 Per Year, At a time when every grain of wheat and every pound of meat js expected to play as important a role in the winning of the war as a grain of gunpowder, or a pound of steel when converted into cannon or shot, Dr. Edward W. Nelson, the noted biologist, points out, that rats are de- stroying more than $200,000.000 worth of foodstuffs and other pro- perty on this continent every twelve months, and that it -equires the con- stant labor of 150,000 men to supply the food which these loathsome pests eat. A part of Dr. NelsowWs com- munication follows: Rats have been pests so fong that they have béen taken for granted by the public much as is the weather or the forces of nature. While people are often painfully aware of individ- ual losses, they are anaware of the vast total 'which these Individual Sums aggregate and thé consequent need of community action aggiast the authors of such far-reaching economic drains. ' Denmark estimated her losses in 1907 at about $3,000,000. The same year the losses in the rural districts of Great Britain and Ireland, not counting those in towns and on ships, were estimated at $73,000,000, and a capital of about $10,000,000 was profitably employed there in the in- dustry of supplying means for their destruction. 'n 1904 the losses in France were computed at $40,000, 000, North America has eighteen times the combined area of the three coun- tries mentioned, and investigations indicate that the direct annual losses here undoubtedly equal, if they do not exceed, $200,000,000; with a great additional sum in indirect loss- es, including the effect on the public health and commerce from the dis- eases carried by fats, and the neces- sary expenditures in combating them, The foregoing figures are based on pre-war prices and are vastly greater under present valuations. In Eufope, about 1907, after care- ful investigation, the estimated aver- age annual loss caused by cach rat was computed to equal $1.80 in Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark, and $1 in France. On this continent the average is undoubtedly much larger than in any of the countries named, especially at present high prices of food and other merchandise, There is no doubt thatta very large number of rats subsist wholly on garbage and waste which is of no value, but the damage caused by rats in numetous places amounts to many dollars each year; probably $5 a year would not be an overestimate for the average loss cadsed by each | rat living in a dwelling, hotel, res- access to food supplies. i Assuming, roughly spekking, that 48 estimated, the rat population on this continent is $0,000,000 for the cities and 150,000,000 for the rural districts, it will réquire the déstrue- tion of property by each rat of only a little more than one-fourth of a cent a day to make the aggregate of the great sum estimated as destroyed by these"pests yearly in this country, Taking the average yearly returns OR & man's labor in agriculture, as shown by the census of 1910, it re. Muires the continuous work of about tural implements, and &ther equip- ment ,to supply the foodstuffs de- stroyed annually by rats in America. In addition, rats destroy other pro- perty, mainly of agricultural origin, the production of which requires the work of about 50,000 men. epee A Great Cartoonist. The John Leech céntenary has brought up a good many stories of the friendship which existed be- tween Leech and Dean Hole. Hole often inspired Leech with sketches, and it was always amazing to Hole how humble a spirit the great cari- Suggestions. "Sometimes," says Hole i in his "Memories," "he would ask, | with the meekest difidence, If he | were: told an anecdote worthy of ustration, 'may I use that?' as Eh you were confering a price- les# obligation, instead of receiving & privilege in playing jackal to such & lion." 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