Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-27
WINNIE REAM,s STUDIO.
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She takes you cordially by the hand,
the pleasant little body who looks for
all the world like schoolgirl and in an
instant you feel perfectly at home. She
wears calico bodice or apron, which
the Western girls would call "josey,"
and blue vail is wrapped about her
head, from beneath which creep in pro-
fusion those wonderful hazel curls which
are reputed magical when brought to
bear upon the legislative mind. Her
face is by no means piquant. 1t is in
clined to the angular, but her eyes are
liquid beauties, full of that wonderful
expression and intellectually which the
pen-portraitures attribute to the author
of Jane Eyre. She is all vivacity, and
you feel at once the power of her perso-
nal magnetism. She is fresh from her
work upon the bust Of Admiral Farragut.
The shapen clay sits on a chair in the
work-room and the face of the old
hero has already assumed something
Of the stern cast which it must have
worn when lashed to the rigging
upon that memorable occasion now
passed into history In the corner of
the room are those wonderfully meek
doves, which have been to Rome and
back, and which recall to your mind so
forcibly Hawthorne's Hilda." A grin
ming skull-some Yorick, perhaps--sits
on pedestal hard by, labeled with that
verse from Gray's Elegy, beginning,
"The boast of heraldry, etc. Miss Vim
ME, who has never for moment, since
your entrance, ceased her bright con-
verse, points out her early works. There
is the little plaster medallion of the
Indian, which she shaped in Clark Mills
studio the first time she ever gave shape
to clay, and her ideal busts of " Violet
and America. Then with pride she
shows you the picture which her friend
Gustave Dore sketched for her; the bust
of her friend Able Lizst, whose touch of
the piano always brought tears to her
eyes; the medallion Of Pere Hya-
cinth, and the jeweled souvenirs which
Cardinal Antonelh gave her. There
is no affectation in her manner as she
points to these evidences of appreciation
which might well fiji the heart of any
woman with pride. With deep earnest
ness she sits by you and talks of her
struggles and tells of her strifes with
the thoughtless world and the envious
and eliminating who always war against
woman. OF the newspapers which have
abused her-and some of which de-
nounced her great work before it was
unboxed-she has no word of i'll will.
She has only to say that if they knew
her circumstances, knew how she had
labored, and then measured her success
fairly and impartially, they would not
write so severely of her. AS is always
the case, the most savage things have
come from her own sex. When will
women ever learn the divine grace of
charity for each other?
So it is, that if yQu are the least sus-
ceptible, you come away impressed that
Miss Winnie is not only endowed with
genius, but that she is meritorious lit
tie woman. 1t would not be strange in
deed if with her personal powers and
quiet personal charms, she should obtain
commission for embalming in marble
every wooden-head in and about the
Capitol.