. Smith College Monthly . I \j/ifhoi;f*TYY colUr — as a household ornament, and has beentaken off some warm mantel shelf, andbequeathed to a lonely, echoing artgallery. Then imagine yourself lookingdown—or would it be up?—from theElysian fields upon your poor, whiteself. How cold you would feel for it,seeing it standing there without any collar, or wrap for its shoulders—most busts are not well-clothed And if youwere very, very great, and had a thou-sand likenesses in a thousand differentart galleries, how your shivers would be multiplied I Possibly Ih thought that your imagehad been placed wh
. Smith College Monthly . I \j/ifhoi;f*TYY colUr — as a household ornament, and has beentaken off some warm mantel shelf, andbequeathed to a lonely, echoing artgallery. Then imagine yourself lookingdown—or would it be up?—from theElysian fields upon your poor, whiteself. How cold you would feel for it,seeing it standing there without any collar, or wrap for its shoulders—most busts are not well-clothed And if youwere very, very great, and had a thou-sand likenesses in a thousand differentart galleries, how your shivers would be multiplied I Possibly Ih thought that your imagehad been placed where the public mi«:htsee it and benefit by the remembranceof your fame would be alas, how soon people lose apprecia-tion of the departed; how soon they for-get, and cease to reverence! Supposeyou are a Caesar. You may be placed,. Uf h(rn be qood looking-- in utter disregard of your social station,your fame, and your nationality, amongan unworthy, motley assemblage. Lucky 215 216 THE SMITH MONTHLY you are if your Plaster of Paris keepscompany with nothing less dignifiedthan a minor sea-goddesss. Even so,you may hear some spectator exclaimover her charm and, in the same breath, nder who that queer looking creature,.e ide her is. Infant princes, prehis-toric savages, arch-angels, French courtladies, Athenian athletes, sovereigns ofGreat Britain—all are your fellow cit-izens in the democracy of an art gallery,and yet others. You would tire of them. Imagineforever having Diana aim a dart at you,Pousseau sneer at you, Cleopatra disdainyou. Or fancy being a Cataline with aCicero across the room. Wouldnt youlong to leap from your pedestal andscream ? With the passing years you wouldcollect dust, grow shabby, and finallybe snatched up by a caretaker who wouldcarry you by the head and put you ona shelf out of the way.
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