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TENNESSEE 



David Teniers, THE ELDER (1582-1649), was 

 born at Antwerp. He was a pupil of Rubens. 

 His paintings, especially those presenting rustic 

 games and weddings, are noted for their fidelity 

 to nature, their charm. of color treatment and 

 excellence of composition. They include Peas- 

 ants Carousing in Front of a Tavern, A Dutch 

 Kitchen, now in the Metropolitan Museum, 

 New York, and Playing at Bowls. 



David Teniers, THE YOUNGER (1610-1690), who 

 excelled in all the qualities that characterized 

 his father's work, was called "the prince of 

 genre painting." He often introduced cats or 

 monkeys into his small canvases, all active 

 and picturesque, although his best works are 

 those with the fewest figures. The younger 



Teniers was born at Antwerp and received his 

 first art instructions from his father. He arose 

 quickly in popular favor, and won the patronage 

 of leading noblemen of his country. In 1650 he 

 took up his residence at Brussels as court 

 painter, where he remained for the rest of his 

 life. Few artists equaled him in the charm 

 with which he depicted open-air life. Often he 

 would participate in the merrymakings so as 

 to obtain an intimate picture of the people 

 whose lives he has perpetuated in hundreds of 

 paintings distributed among the great galleries 

 of Europe. Among his canvases are A Merry 

 Repast, Peasants' Dance, The Barber Shop 

 and Marriage Festival, now in the Metro- 

 politan Museum, New York City. 



iTHE STORY OF "ENNESSEE 



ENNESSEE, ten eh see', one of the 

 south-central states of the American Union, 

 popularly known as the BIG BEND STATE, be- 

 cause of the great loop which the Tennessee 

 River describes across the state. 



Size and Location. Tennessee has more states 

 touching its borders than any other state of the 

 Union except Missouri. The Mississippi River 

 is its western boundary, and separates it from 

 portions of Arkansas and Missouri. The greater 

 part of its straight northern border line adjoins 

 Kentucky, with a small stretch at the eastern 

 end meeting the Virginia line. Mississippi, Ala- 

 bama and Georgia touch it on the south, while 

 the state of North Carolina bounds it on the 

 east. Having an area of 42,022 square miles, 

 of which 335 square miles are water, it ranks 

 thirty-fourth in size among the states. Its area 

 is nearly equal to that of the state of Virginia, 

 and it is 982 square miles in excess of the area 

 of Ohio. 



People. Although much of the state is moun- 

 tainous and there are comparatively few large 

 cities, Tennessee is thickly settled, and ranks 

 seventeenth among the states in population. 

 In 1910 the inhabitants numbered 2,184>89, of 

 whom 473,088 were negroes and 18,459 were of 

 foreign birth, chiefly German, Russian, Irish, 

 English and Italian. The average density of the 



population was 52.4 per square mile, over one 

 and one-third times the average for the United 

 States. Only 18.2 per cent of the inhabitants 

 lived in cities and towns, the largest of which 

 are Memphis; Nashville, the capital; Chatta- 

 nooga, Knoxville, Jackson and Johnson City, 

 all having a population of over 10,000. On 

 January 1, 1917, the population was estimated 

 to be 2,296,316. 



The Baptist Church has the largest number 

 of members, followed by the Methodist, Pres- 

 byterian, Disciples of Christ and Roman Catho- 

 lic denominations. 



Education. Public schools are administered 

 by county boards of education, supervised by 

 a state board consisting of the governor, state 

 superintendent of public instruction and six 

 other members. In addition to the regular 

 school fund, derived from county taxation, 

 the interest on the permanent state fund and 

 twenty-five per cent of the gross revenue of the 

 state, the schools have the use of all money in 

 the state treasury on January 1 of each year, 

 which is about $250,000. 



There are separate schools for white and col- 

 ored pupils, and one or more high schools are 

 maintained in each county. In several counties 

 education was compulsory before 1914, and in 

 that year compulsory education was made state- 



