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Show Art in the Ascendent. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Carolina Wiiicm Chaffee inaugurates a series of art talks at the Metropolitan. Miss Chaffee is a woman who is a success as a lecturer in the fullest and best of the word. Within trie last ten years she has won lart; ; recognition as a power on the platform, and has delivered de-livered thousands of public addresses all on the subject of art, social esthetics and physical culture. She is said to have a melodious voice, tine elocution and winuiuu manners which secure the attention of her hearers at the outset and retaiu it till the close. Her topic this afternoon is the "Study of Beauty," a preliminary talk stimulating" the ideal or higher life of art. Miss Chatfe's patronesses are Mrs. Arthur Brown, Mrs. Frediuand Diekart, Mrs. ,1. Bamberger, Mrs. Win. Jenny, Mrs. Clawson, Mrs. MeVickar-, Mrs. Cheeseman, Mrs. Harknes-i. Mrs. Siegel, Mr-, .s. Bamberger, Mrs. James Jennings. Mrs. Judge Koylc, Mrs. Terhune. and many other promiuent society ladies. |