Show UP H wintering SCHOOLS advancement in grammar news from john eaten the utah artist correspondence Correspond ance abo weather up here a thousand or two feet above your comparatively tropical garden city has continued wintry A few days aso a sort of insidious thaw set in loosening the births girths of the erstwhile icebound ice bound water borss in the mountain recesses of the but since thursday the has taken a downward tumble and an additional quilt by night feels as good as a new pair of felt boot by day especially through the ice and slush holes which the inconstant arct falness of the unprincipled weather clerk has left in his tracks the cold I 1 am slad to sav has one beneficial effect it accelerates the late improvement in the sanitary condition of the population print it populace as the country sheets do for populace means mob and we are law abiding under bishop david van antle croz ici the betterment in the general state of health can best ba gauged by alie attendance at school this in the primary department where three weeks ago the low water mark of 24 33 per cent of the enrollment was reached has picked up to within three fourths of the enlisted recruits of the three Rs of course the same rates holds of the kotlier departments the intermediate jr and the high under his father attewell Att ewall wootan the county superintendent of schools and president of the asarch county educational as eo nation by the way tin s reminds ne rather late in the day I 1 admit of the last session of the pedagogue convention held in midway on saturday of february it was the anniversary of ane discovery of bielaga comet in 1826 and J that the ladies and gentlemen of the international profession who were over from heber thought they had peen some a star when principal wootan made daylight plain hy exposing the absurdity of foisting upon the english language instruction in common schoola the indigestible terminology of t ancient grammar fuss and feathera it was a cold day for sticklers klers for clatin gender cases senses etc but alien their lore vent no lower than the zero of the I 1 myself remembered that abt eleven years since the danse granatie grana tic of the alps were conquered by the completion of the perforation of alie st Go tohaid haid tunnel and I 1 thought it would be a good thing if some of the steel drills and then and there used could be applied ti alie stubborn chirs and crystalline sciata of half digested book larnin upon which some people pride themselves as much as fox did on the tail lie lost in a fierce A little aarn aig ia a dangerous thing but at A t llie mu es always benign and blissful and blesso S a e hoc who engage in her wor hio with pure motives of heart wit clean hand handi i with bright mind mindi i witt com iga of such is our ouren john huen the artist with whom or shohe nearly all or at least a large majority of the leaders are ai hafen as ou and your friends are well aware of is abc present in europe to prosecute an studies with that aceal and energy that indefatigable industry chich are a heritage of the westan mountain boy I 1 have just read a letter to a mutual friend in which hafen writes from the incomparable center of nineteenth century of civilization thera ne in company two other Uton ns is following the bent of bis soul and the deatina of his mind at the julian academy the best school for design in the world lie is pursuing the noble study ot the great art in the humble cruice of which the efforts of his adolescence gave such promising assurances of efficiency that the sympathy aud co operation of appreciative precia tive men of means were readily enlisted so tant there ne is now in abe pay seine metropolis surrounded by the giddy throng of fashion and the whirligig of yet quietly and silently pursuing aija one aim prosecuting the on ambition to become a worthy high at the shrine of art he appreciates the opportunities tuni ties offered in the capital of frame was victor hugo used to call it the brains of the world and ia full of praises especially of the liberality by which all the incalculable treasures of of the pic tonal and sculptured works of genius both ancient and modern ae thrown open to alie admiration and inspection of the multitude and the painstaking study ard laborious copying of ane comparatively few wha desire to drink deep of alie perian aaring young hafen is mindful of nis native land the great yet little small but giand republic it is his intention to spend a month r so tins coming summer to watch and catch nature in her quiet and unobserved moments of innocent abandon to gather inspiration from alie hidden and paths of idyllic or romantic scenery and to f ketch the rapidly civilizing alpine villages in the last habiliments of their primitive picturesque nen of course hafen will great th iiga for he loves the land of he w true to the country of his adoption lie 13 loyal to the constitution lie is a devotee of ia purity he ia an enthusiast on art lie is conscientious in his studies and he is humble in bis human successes lie modestly attributes to divine api bance or inspiration at least uch are tie characteristics I 1 glean from my early ivian him when hiis angat the doors of jubilee spirited anu art loving men in ogden aal now when ho writes on the half m e ant to laurel his goal from paris me smiling sien seductive to 1 few keep inviolate in their breasts their high and holy covenant ove nant with the in rivaled trinity of the french cousin abe rood tho brur and the beautiful LEO mil WIT wasatch county utah march 8 isn |