| 109Chicago Daily News
May 29/93.
AMY LESLIE AT THE FAIR.
Music Is Not a Breast Soother for the
Cliff-Dwellers in Iron
Houses.
THE RED MAN AND THE PAPER-CUTTER.
A Medley of Interesting Scenes and
Incidents Sketched with Free-
Hand Skill.
There is something poetic in the sympathy,
loyal devotion and hopeless pride of the people
of Poland for that nameless outcast country.
The gentle fraternity acceptance of inevitable
malheur and stanch braving of cruel wrongs
is more forcible than the firmness of a kingdom,
because the oppressed minority cling together
with pathetic courage and their faithful
battles are beautifully heroic and genuine.
Poland has no history but that it is fair and
unhappy and the nest of buried genius. Pulaski
and Petrovoski head a long list of gifted
Polish men and women, aristocracy refined in
the flames of gnawing ingratitude and poverty;
great virtuosi, celebrated painters, tragedians,
musicians, frigid but intense literature;
Modjeska, Paderewski, Tschaikowski and a
golden tablet of names. The Polish representation
at the Fair is confined to a pretty little
cottage hostelry, where bigos barazez (a wonderful
salad steak, augmented with Polish condiments
and kuemmel of dynamitic ferocity)
is served under the craned necks of typical
storks, which stretch their smooth, still necks
out from the pouches. Count Rudiemski and
Chicago's vote commander, Kiolbassa, engineered
this quiet kitchen, and it is
perhaps the most popular Bohemian
resort in the grounds. Modjeska and Count
Bozenta both express great disappointment
that the house did not take the picturesque
designs of a real Polish cottage, with the peculiar
gables, vine-covered windows and odd
projecting caves, but at least the brave, impoverished
domain is represented at the Exposition
and what it lacks in wealth is made up
in beautiful completeness by the art exhibit,
where all that is classic and soulful
speaks from the galleries' favored walls.
Painters of such note and surprise do not
come in any other instance from so small and
gravely sorrowful a people. Cracow and Warsaw
are conspicuous by contributions to the
art collection. Men and women whose brushes
breathe inspired dreams and tell of rich profligacy
in genius. That splendid Polish sensualist
with the perfectly inexcusable name who
revealed his masterpiece "Nana" to alarmed
Chicagoans last year has in the exhibit a superb
example of his luxuriant style. | 109Chicago Daily News
May 29/93.
AMY LESLIE AT THE FAIR.
Music Is Not a Breast Soother for the
Cliff-Dwellers in Iron
Houses.
THE RED MAN AND THE PAPER-CUTTER.
A Medley of Interesting Scenes and
Incidents Sketched with Free-Hand
Skill.
There is something poetic in the sympathy,
loyal devotion and hopeless pride of the people
of Poland for that nameless outcast country.
The gentle fraternity acceptance of inevitable
malheur and stanch braving of cruel wrongs
is more forcible than the firmness of a kingdom,
because the oppressed minority cling together
with pathetic courage and their faithful
battles are beautifully heroic and genuine.
Poland has no history but that it is fair and
unhappy and the nest of buried genius. Pulaski
and Petrovoski head a long list of gifted
Polish men and women, aristocracy refined in
the flames of gnawing ingratitude and poverty;
great virtuosi, celebrated painters, tragedians,
musicians, frigid but intense literature;
Modjeska, Paderewski, Tschaikowski and a
golden tablet of names. The Polish representation
at the Fair is confined to a pretty little
cottage hostelry, where bigos barazez (a wonderful
salad steak, augmented with Polish condiments
and kuemmel of dynamitic ferocity)
is served under the craned necks of typical
storks, which stretch their smooth, still necks
out from the pouches. Count Rudiemski and
Chicago's vote commander, Kiolbassa, engineered
this quiet kitchen, and it is
perhaps the most popular Bohemian
resort in the grounds. Modjeska and Count
Bozenta both express great disappointment
that the house did not take the picturesque
designs of a real Polish cottage, with the peculiar
gables, vine-covered windows and odd
projecting caves, but at least the brave, impoverished
domain is represented at the Exposition
and what it lacks in wealth is made up
in beautiful completeness by the art exhibit,
where all that is classic and soulful
speaks from the galleries' favored walls.
Painters of such note and surprise do not
come in any other instance from so small and
gravely sorrowful a people. Cracow and Warsaw
are conspicuous by contributions to the
art collection. Men and women whose brushes
breathe inspired dreams and tell of rich profligacy
in genius. That splendid Polish sensualist
with the perfectly inexcusable name who
revealed his masterpiece "Nana" to alarmed
Chicagoans last year has in the exhibit a superb
example of his luxuriant style. |
