The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-25

"Why do you think it desirable field
for women"
Partly because woman's kingdom is tie
house beautiful There is no more neces aly
aud useful Work woman can
set herself to than the improve
ment Of the residence As to the
rest, women make pains aking and accurate
draughtsmen and need every outlet for their
labor In its higher forms architecture IS
art aud art does not inquire the sex OF her
devoteesn
"Wnat will be the greatest difficultyN
perhaps it is rare to find woman who
has the necessary combination of executive
and artistic faculties"
Miss Tillinghast is an enthusiast. She
would hardly think life worth living aside
from her art. She says she is always well,
and even when she has performed the feat
first alluded to, spending the entire day sus-
pended in air painting huge fresco above
her head, she will not ackno Wedge that she
is tired She seldom goes to bed before
O'Clock in the morning. her thoughts com
ing quickest and glowing warmest after
midnight. At 7:3J her maid wakes her aud
with five hours sleep she isready for harder
work than one woman in a hundred could
attack with twelve.
Probably her most important piece of
work in architecture thus far is chapel
dedicated in Mannsvile. n, Y, some three
or four months ago. The chapel was
erected to the memory of the late DR.. w.
L. Wheeler, of Newport, by his widow,
who is a daughter Of the late William
Beach Lawrence, the jurlst and writer on
international law. No one who has seen
this building would imagine it the design
of woman. Its striking characteristics
are largeness of style and simplicity, meth
DDS which she may have caught from fres-
Going, as the old masters acquired their
hrO0dnaSg of
ton of wall decorations, as their
immense canvasSes really were. There is
no fussy exaggeration of detail, no meat
ness" and 'nattinessn such as she might have
got from French art work If not from fem
ininity Even though the chapel is small
one, cabinet picture as compared with
cathedral, there is the careful subordination
Of parts to the whole which marks the full
knowledge of law, not mere obedience to
rule
Rough-hewn st. Lawrence county granite
is the material, Tuscan i'll type, built in the
form Of square with semi-circular aps9
extending from the rear In front there is
small portico supported by pillars OF pink
Tennessee marble, with carved capitals and
bases of rustic stone. Ia the facade above
the entrance door, which is an iron grill is
the Wheeler crest in glass mosaic, which,
with the peaked red-tiled roof emphasizes
the Italian style of the architecture. En-
tering one faces the apse, the great window
in which, showing Christ healing the blind,
is beautiful study in color. In the chan
eel is an altar of Numidian marble, with
heads of the tonr evangelists enamelsd in
relief on panels Of glass mosaic. With the
fine organ, the oak ceiling and walls lined
with rose-colored brick, the chapel is a
unique gem.
Miss Tillinghast superintendent its cree
ton in person, visiting it at intervals of five
days to week, leaving New York at mid
night and taking the long railroad ride
which did not bring her to Manns lie until
noon. If courage, energy and endurance 60
to the making of an architect, they are not
often found in more generous measure than
in Mary TillinghasJ.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.