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A T 2 - - - i ' 7 ’ - w- - n — - — - OtherChildren God’s v - '! 1 — r— — K " Abbut Be --x MhI MB fl fl 1 nfli 1 PRING many attend that t-and has so things Offering to To she has not to much time chase the cloudsacross the sky Vand play at hide seek with the If And them or all a little girl OST the boys and girls this page have seen picture before and of who ists were read day’s have perhaps wondered who painted it This and the "Angelas” another by the same artist are such favorites that boys and girls are eager to hear about them Jean rancois Millet Is known as the Peasant Painter of rance It is Interesting to know that he was born in a peasant hut and that he a peasant at heart to the very day of his death It simptehut precisely was in a like the homes of thousands of other rench peasants situated just at the end of this field in which you see the women gleaning that Millet lived and did his best work He lived here not mysterious only (for "atmosphere”— that thing that grown-up people who like pictures talk a great deal of nonsense about— but because he loved to-" too mm picture busy looking siivQ’ across remained 'her up the viiicx -did ” -ix y- - - xa'a j " he?” "Would if thing pened Z' " he What if fearfpj a- would have c hap-? ''No’- to the one sun-chariot! - -would ' " "O-h! 11 they-sent him-what sun-chariot It make will so V ’W TV -Vvd " -It -a east the stretch place aa w n v-a ' M ri t ii d - - i - :r-- i -i ' -b ‘ ’ -v 1 r : a --1 m - ? a e n - --"ever 1 - a ' -f “a--— a IT a ’ — ? ' ” - 1 w a the that made the bluor sky to in '? - - - cried ’ l little-seen — W'’” ' a ' V-o!” 'Z '’ -You sun-chariot -the itH i K 1 1 t r MJ rifiv itiir mmiuu ' 4 nnn’Ti 'nr” rnnvM ItUl U gWU IIAUItT IU UUkKC me sirong euougn to shiue through curtain?” hf s?e sUent for a m omen Jits sun tho - jt v - "They’ve am at r-works l from -the v a - out " - - i J tho-aun i -w'- driven’ straight on now toward looked at'aiLthe of down at the afiUDals go thal is why in thQ daytime you cannot §ee'tho''little stars' for they hidden back of blue arc ''he whn? safd Robert They are hidden too can see the blazing fire of the shine for the through great ather knewX vuau tnu would” aiuwuxts me theiR’uuitt nn all luiu die If heat-of earth - -- ’ - chariot drove -"The -Mlllefs be ather sent out his angels wonderful b1ue curtain twemihaearlha su the west He starts instead on ' r ? tills Jbe ’"And v 1 w sun jorget ' to sun-chariot ' — and -When J — - the down ' — -1 driver-of -a it-was 11 the1 jump io duty "So ho set all the' tiny spiders or tlie world at work weaving a? ‘Wonderful blue curtain: toh such "'a??thin little "curtain that’ it veil ?of cob-’: was like webs wonderful pale blue' was sometimes and at other times a beaut!ful barker blue!' the hext day came arid it was tlrfto’i for tho 'Vrcat because -‘Sower’ that want not his - o-mm ? ’ ' 7 had? been have driven It: and the world have been In darkness Like last night!” the little stars heard hirii “Now wish to jump down to the earth so atherof the' a message to tlie heavens and told the ybuftg wanted' to’ do?' man In" the Now the aihef’ of the heavens was a so T great good god ho said will' children - qtrfckly not have It would -storm I v -He ' BSw4L- ' ' I I ''J — ‘ -things -'Ohf is II ‘ -young ’ Nature couldn’t the ground at this but had to take to - ' won-der-ful "Did - - of xis -bpt w ha' der-ful -leaf - 5 ’ ’’ ‘ -sOT — ' and-burned i - e ' yellow — h t cousin arms little In her won-dcr-ful " -tiny 1 ’ ’picked "Years and years ago” began Lu“cy the sun "when the world was young a blazing chariot was of fire—" it “Did never burn Up?” questioned v Robert It without just burned "No It burning up was 'drawn across splendid white horsea the sky by three that could 4Jy A this won? man drove the chariot Now toIdvedwatch young-man down on the eaffli ns he drove his blazing chariot across tire btaven’s liked to watch the big and the little animals all playing so liappily together? to wish began wish He even not have to drive this horrid old chariot! T'“want'fd jump right down and play with the lions and the I - k r She ‘ stars if A a to and went the dim ncHjt gled down to the windowseat out now!” “See the stars are aU pointing' cried thousands sky gleamed with The T’ the treetops for there that her ip apparent most exquisite touches are a and where a myriad beauties escape of How unseeing eyes many you our know that she gives to the tiny baby leaves of each tree almost the exact color which we gorgeousness of in lagg the fall? Wilson was first think to notice this and the it gives even added Interest to the an Look at the maple unfolding leaves will see the and the oak and you the leaves downy softness of colored with a delicate blending of the fall red with the baby green and The hickory and the chestnut golden-haired children with look like and the birch pretty pink cheeks “THE GLEANERS’— By Jean rancois Millet hangs her slim wands with the tiniest of si Iyer the flags Nearly all "their "Turr j—jackets-'these" people i— throw them off and his work they will soon DecnDOrn wnn a wunueriui love tuat was refused admittance to Salon but Squally (ho take on their green working dresses threats and abuse and fame and glory worlt ot to them to It strong sap comes up win away was the Peasant Painter began to come as the were jwerless Into its have because he was so sincerely in sympathy own for Millet as we from the roots countless host of God’s other with the peasantry and appreciated kent auletlv and heedeil‘ Kepi quietly on ana neeueu the daily nothing sweet faces to the hardships of their of the that raged rase their and live their busy Millet was able to draw about him People began to demand sun’s warm kiss lives that it setting tp was see his work and then to be useful lives as he bids them them so truthfully And high places had touched by tho sincerity of It' To? the men in their feet in perfect trustfulness along guilty consciences that they accused day he Is recognized as one of the the path his wisdom has made for them of to inIn trying greatest painters not only the Peasant Painter rance whether it bo as the majestic dignity but of all the countries of the earth of the forest tree or the passing beauty cit0 the people to revolt against them The works which are' best perhaps because Millet knew-they V known of ‘the flower that withers in a day for A A04yn IVV atj not stop 'his paintare irmi 'Tho Gleaners’ know that it leads them to the end thlg that he brought them Into the peaSants' but laughed and for which he of the lns or me pwouuis wu kuupun uvoa iui vuwj mg Chrt-Ur " and' each one docs his utmost fnlrt hv Nlcrhf M "WnUr world worked with renewed energy An-11 without question EDITH OLIVER The peasants of rance are a very “The Woodcutter” and ’The simple sort of people gelus” — strong sturdy rii rn — A' v fcUXVllbe awMa — proSTRANGE)— wfell fn Canada Tflook" closely into A great manyof— MllleVs "A vouof ZL—truthf ul paintings you wlllsee for XX duces sand instead hang in the Louvre and other rench in sand tip a fine stream eAK comes M linrlaa wtnlia "The TW mi mriAT v vv MXJ VUV cuiivMVO waav Chiwuuuum thought before his timethat the found in New York Boston mucn imvavaiw which drives it to the surface’ force peasants wcav av && imcr mvi vuxvllivij3 o' our a depth or 100 feet nas not ”y®C from picturesque Native artbeen determined esting or own country -g-gyg- KiS if said putting a" her(book giraffes! remark f in m place Madonnas always dis-tinntnK to drawing inspiration from Greece and Rome to material make use of the which lay close at hand and which ThS they were too blind to see of other lands they considered well worthy of’ study but the rugged of heroic Madonnas their own they did not existed even know Millet changed all this He ’did not strive to make the rench peasant dainty and refined He did women not give them small hands and tiny feet he strove to show them rather they really were browned as some of them l?y the wind and exposure with the bowed labor of gleaning other men’s crops that they might live but contented and hard working pious and not without poetry It took a long long time for ranco to appreciate Jean rancois Millet By turns he was jeered and laughed " ' harrllv wait for ths blossoms to come out and already in of the most sheltered places has some touched the tips of the fruit buds with crimson and white The brooks run clear and brown and sing and gossip to the banks all day and in the treetops the birds are already planning their homes It I ' j '‘Why thatltfunny” away Masterpieces World’s ran almost seems as contain herself on dawning of the year blow wind letter Thesun M It I " Lucy”I tresses Lucy dew-bejeweled 1 antic some Will children Rhft as they pass slight her soon her -'-'-'''''' lit-7““tre“"8tar“ flfW' IE ' in-the people you I '' shintr daytime!’ asked Baby Robert of his cousin once never saw even a in’tlia: daytime J sunbeams and when the last cold breezes that still linger pinch the plant babies after the has gone to sun bed hoping to make her cry she just whispers a word of caution to her work and goes on with her and sends his golden gets up early lances into the last dark corners where ack rost’s cold fingers have bound up the summer plants and they stretch their cramped limbs and gain strength and vigor every day Nature rejoices over every inch of her budding kingdom and delights to try make it some new touch each day to Beautiful more Sometimes she wakes and spreads a transparent Very early veil of gossamer over the watch the sun melt it fields just to away and the delicate greens and color its silvery folds prints come through tlien again she calls the one by one to stored-up shinq warmly that the sun so moisture which spring Itas put ready for the baby plants to drink rises in a tremulous cloud and every tiniest leaf and bud stands out in almost crude J do the Hr starsnot grass gold of i now to Ajr the in plate a lit dandelioii! lODEST"little’ Standing ““ a as ws — got a weeney weency curtain night’’ said’for it' lets the shine through arid the £5v2Iou£!iJiil moon!” akiiVAj uvitiaiuii II U 1 -he stars r t IHWH DVC “That’s another story” laughed Lucy catching Robert up in her strong" young arms and carrying him off to bed EMMA 1HLLER BOLENIUB s t |