THE BEAUTY OF CHINESE TAPESTRY:
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26μm, 1914.
THE TRIUMPH OF AGĘ,
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[BY A CORRESPONDENT IN "THE TIMES,"]
It is the day of the old lady. West ward the tide of Empire takes its way," and the evening of her days finds the modern old lady at her most charming,
One remembers old diaries and journala It was an exceptionally brilliant woman who recorded that she and the ladies of the family sat all day working at a car. pet they were making and read in between. Blair's "Grave," a cheerful spiritual manual. When the gentlemen joined us," she wrote, "they were, alas, in a state unsuited to the conversation of our sex." The child-wife, I fancy, was left at home. while her mate disported himself. She had to be left at honie-there were so many babies and so much to do. She was incredibly efficient, very often, though there may have been Doras. like David Copperfield's, and she had time sometimes to become a great woman as well as to be the mother of heroic sons. Nowadays sho may grow gently to her responsibilities. For women of to-day as the years pass the
best is yet to be.'
FIRES ON SHIPS.
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The comparative beauty of Chinese tapestry in relation to other tapestries is dealt with by Sir Claude Phillips in the Daily Telegraph, inspiration having
Her encroachments have been steady, been derived from a panel exhibited by There was a time when Woman was Mr. Larkin in his Bond Street gallery married a 10; and, if one may believe Of this panel Sir Clando Phillips writes: George Meredith, she had a wit and a Mr. Larkia has recently discovered in wisdom which would only be credible now
in her grandmother. She married at 16 most remarkable, and, the produced enormous families without indeed, so far as we at present know, apparently any great inconvenience to unique panel Chinese tapestry, hereelf; she was an adept in all matters executed in the Western mode that is, of the household; she doctored her family and depondents with simples made of ana Gobelins or Beauvais tapestry might herbs; she had her still-room where she be executed-only with a greater finesso distilled sweet waters; she brewed home-
During the past year or two there has of technique. The piece micusures 8ft. made bear and wines of cowslip and, dins, by 12ft 2ins. It is framed in a elder; she einbroidered and sewed and been a regrettable increase in the number border simulating wood carved and gilt, spun. Altogether her memory is as fra.of res on board steamers, with conse grant as the sweet pomanders she made. quent heavy claims on underwriters. which is, as we learn, an exact reprodue-She was simply pious and she had the The most serious disaster was undoubted tion (save for the omission of the arms simple virtues; she never asked to stir ly the busping of the Folturne, which, of France) of the borders to the set of very far from her own fireside; she left unfortunately, was not fitted with
efficient fire-extinguishing apparatus. tapestries by Boucher, which were woven the guieties of life to her men folk. She When the New Zealand Steamship Com at the Gobeling factory, and presented put on a bonnet when she was married pany's steamer Waimate caught fire, by Louis XV. to the Emperor Kien-Lang. and a cap at 40; and her grandchildren couple of months ago, it was believed that were in her arms at an age when her the fire-extinguishing apparatus which The assumption, however, that the granddaughters have just begun to she had on board had not operated success beautiful panel now submitted to the attract the homage of men.
fully, and that water had had to be used
public was
to expinquish the fire and enable the vessel to reach port. The Waimate has
return to the French King is an assump-
would appear that the fire on board bad tion, and nothing more. A piece of this
taken strong hold before it was discovered. rarity and charm may well be left to
The Clayton fire-extinguishing apparatus make its way on its own merits, and with
was then put into operation and, with as
the exception of about four hours when out adventitious aids.. The scene,
the machine was stopped owing to an
dioxide sulphur besoonis a piece wholly decorative in
pumped into the hold right up to the accident, intention, is one of calm and uneventful
time she arrived in the Falkland Islands, happiness; the, subject is the domestic
when the damage to the cargo was found celebration, in a palatini chamber, of the
to be of a comparatively trivial nature.
There seems to be no doubt that by the birthday of an aged Emperor. It would
I remember when the woman of thirty use of the gas the vessel was enabled to be rash to imagine that we have here a in fiction and in fact was hailed as a reach port without the necessity of flood portrait of the Emperor Kien-Lung, for French innovation. I remember the coming the hold, which would, of course, have ing of the woman of forty. By added materially to the damage, while it the design is evidently copied from an earlier painting, probably of the Ming unobserved degrees there followed the is probable that without the use of gas A certain stiffness and preci-woman of fifty. Not to put too fine a she might never have reached port at dynasty. sion in the grouping and the general point on it, I know a woman of seventy all. working out as compared, for instance, who draws men of all ages about her chair, not because of her ripe wisdom, with the beautiful "Earthly Paradise painting (from the Wegener collection), but because of her gaiety, her wildness, now in the British Muscum is well her femininity. suited to the subject and the technical processes employed..
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The flapper," to use a horrible word that and Little Mary" are the most now as shapeless as the name implies Think of a 16-year-old of your acquain tance and imagine her taking on her shoulders love and life, the happiness of many, the cares of a mother and wife and of a household; and the love and the grief and fulfiling her woman's lot successfully!
Nowadays there is little or no romance connected with Sixteen.
THE CHARM OF EIGHTY-TWO,
Withou the toness or
gas
WAS
The only trouble was that the machine on board was not sufficiently powerful to supply the quantity of gas necessary to extinguish the fire quickly. trouble that can easily be overcome by fitting one of the modern and more similar to those powerful machines recently fitted on board the new steamers The of the Royal Mail Company.
an efficient gas fire- conclusively that experience with the Farate proves
ROBIN HOOD A MYTH.
How far will it go? Will the time come when a man shall wish to marry, his The most charming What will, in the first instance, strike grandmother? the careful observer is the subtlety, the woman I ever knew-I use the word in quiet harmony, indeed the reticence of its first and limited sense; it is toc the colour-scheme, taken as a whole. It often profaned for me to profane it"-extinguisher possesses material advant- is only at quite close quarters that one was a lady of 82. She would have passed ages. over the old method of flooding the is able to appreciate the extraordinary for a fresh 0, as she went by in her rich holds with water, and it is therefore safe fineness of gradation in the colouring, the black silk and old lace; but the roses of to predict that the different naritime flower-like loveliness of the tints, the her complexion and the blue of her eyes nations will agree to its being itted as faultless taste which has controlled the had only a little part in her charm. Her substitute for water and steam when execution of the design. Noticeable, as maiden name was that of one of the love the international regulations are framed we have already indicated, is the refine test and noblest of the Elizabethan poets, to comply with the International Conven- ment with which the Western technique whose blood ran in her veins. From the tion recommendations-Fairplay." has been adapted and as it were spacious days case her beautiful man- subtilised. In some fow anlient passagerers, in part at least. But though they the woven work has been accentuated by owed something to tradition and inherit- the addition of a little hand-embroidery, te being especially the case as regards ance, they could not have been what they Empertraight-flowing beard of the were if there was not beautiful heart the subject in cellent description of lehind them. descriptive. leaflet tieautiful piece is fully
Detail is given; kommer Jen describing it as unique, since it would at the present moment be impossible to point to anything precisely similar in technique, and of the suitic mature development, At the same time it is pretty certain that, even though the manufactory of Chinear gobelins tapestry may have be strictly reserved for Imperial uses, and its products relained by the Chinese Court, such accomplish- int could out possibly have been attained, and then Invished on this one
arıcl piece,
this
Other only. tapestries will, as we inay legitimately surmise, appear in the course of time.her. Those who, familiar with the noble easy- flowing rhythm, the loftiness, the mystery of the greatest Chinese art, look to find such qualities in this delightful late piece with be disappointed. The charm, even derived ax though the design be assuredly it is--from an earlier painting is just the charm of the brilliant Kien Lung period, when in art everything, was on the surface, everything was gaiety, brightness, decorative beauty of an abvious appeal. This Chinese tapestry, which hanging in a vast hall or chamber might lose the greater part of its attrac tiveness, would as the central adornment of a Lou's-Quinze or Louis-Seize boudoir of moderate dimensions be seca highest advantage.
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the
Someone said of her, meaning a dis- paragement, that she always met one as if there was no one else in the world. But there aux no one else in the world to her at the moment. She had so intense an interest in her world that the one to whom she spoke, for the moment, absorbed all her interests. Girls are apt to worship such a one as whole-heartedly as boys. I will not say that my dear old lady knowledge there were not many young provoked offers of marriage; but in my
men who would stay with the girls if she were by. Crabbed age had no part in
CHITS OF THIRTY."
Those of us who have been brought up to believe in Robin Hood and Little John, with all their merry surroundings, would have suffered a shock at a recent visit of members of the Hunter Archeological Society to Hathersage, the delightful which contains a grave said to be that of Derbyshire village the churchyard of Little John. A well-known Sheffiel antiquary was present, and made a few remarks upon the subject of Little John. from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph :--" It We quote Dr. Addy's pronouncement
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King Alfonso has during his visits to
It would appear to be impossible in these days to discuss and praise the artistic products of the Far East without making disparaging comparisons with the great Western schools of art and the masterpieces which, throughout the long succession of the centuries, they have
was as old as she looked and a man as old San Sebastian frequently crossed the given to the world. This systematic. depreciation is the merest arabisme (in as he felt; and it was a partisan state-frontier and passed a few hours in the French sense of the word): it is the ment. The women who are as old as they Biarritz. On a recent occasion the King feel are all about us, and the younger utilised an ordinary hackney coach to outcome of a world weariness that requires to be stimulated by perpetual know the younger they look.
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the drive from the station at La Negresse This Chinese tapestry is most charming, of girls, with some into Biarritz. On making inquiries as exception, a delight to the eye, no doubt thing airy, elusive, delicate us thistle to the fare, the wily conchrian, who an amusement to the aesthetic sense; it
All recognised his Royal client, responded: is as some rare exotic flower might be that down about her fluttering beauty.
surts of things keep a woman young. A "Ah! You're the King of Spain, and bloomed in solitude for the delectation roomful of thinking, imaginative women since you can afford to pay, it will cost of the worshipper. What useful purpose will look younger than a roomful of then you ten frames." can be served by seeking unduly to
But Don Alfonso, having discovered exaggerate its obvious merits, technical of the same age and tastes and habits of
what the regulation tariff was, paid the and artistic, at the expense of the marvellous achievements of Europe in
driver his exact fare, and smilingly added the same field? Let us remember the Statistics prove that the age of marri- the usual tip. Flemish and Franco-Flemish tapestries age is postponed later and later. The A few days later, after the King's visit of the fifteenth, and early sixteenth young thing has not much chance now- to Dr. Moore, the same thing occurred, centuries, so nobly austere even in their days against her maiden aunt, or it may under precisely similar circumstances. overwhelming splendour; the grandiose be her mother. The ideal of comradeship But the coachman on this occasion, on woven decorations which are among the in marriage has grown. I have seen in being interrogated, declared: finest products of the Louis Quatorzian may time the women left out of the men's
vou owe me absolutely nothing for the age; the dazzling tapestries produced by diversions, I remember the ball-room delight service I've rendered Gobelins and Beauvais throughout the serted for the card-room, and the pretty And then King Alfonso handed the
century.especially eighteenth
those girls sitting round the walls partnerless
man 100 francs. executed from the designs of Francois the night long. I have seen it come that Poncher, which to often surpass in beauty the women, too, began to play curds, to and fitness the
go to race meetings, to smoke, so that they master and his schings of the same
We should place could go with the men and be good It was 2.t first thought that the more confidence in an intelligent appre-comrades, and not the dear apart things departure of Mr. Alfred Sze for London eistion of the marvellous arts of the East, that were the girls of yore. Golf was a would have to be delayed on account of now slowly unfolding themselves under great opportunity for the women. Good our eyes, were it not accompanied by a comradeship is a better provision for life's trivial and enptious belittling of dusty way than sentiment; and, indeed. Europe's greatest and most legitimate there is no reason why romantic love achievements in the same branches of should not lie at the head of good fellow applied art.
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