Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-08

adlphia. who committed suicide in the
Seine. is still mattkr of talk in the art
colony. She was such healthy-mind-
ed girl, So bright-faeed, cheerful and.
above all, so talentedAthat the idea OF
suicide was scorned by her friends
here.
Miss Wilde's friends first missed her
when, after knocking in vain upon her
door, they failed to come across her at
Brabizon Cresy or any of the places
where she was in the habit Of going for
a day or two. On venture, half fear
ing the awful truth, they visited the
Morgue and found her dead-sittng
bolt upright behind the glass cases
that line the walls. 1t was supposed
that she had backed of one OF the
bridges with her paint box and easel,
until the arrival Of letter in Phila-
delphia told the sad tidings of suicide.
She was the most talented girl. accord
ing to the masters, that has ever taken
brush in hand in Paris.
A young woman who ranked second
to none in point of talent is Miss Caro-
line Love Goodwin, who, though only
twenty-seven, has made a Worldwide
name. Miss Goodwin did not exhibit
in the last Salon, but this year confined
herself to tapestries and lines OF work
that are not admitted. She lives with
her sisters, the Misses Nina and Mar
garet Goodwin-both younger-in
very tidy apartment on Rue Boissenade
and maintains herself in fine style by
the work of her pen and brush. She
is the only one of the girl artists OF the
art colony who has been able TO do so
in luxury. She illustrates a Paris let
ter weekly for London Tit-Blts, and
does a page per week for the Harper's.
Her American work lies along fashion
lines. because she is the only artist
who has ever been able to make real
picture out of fashion plate.
Miss Goodwin is beautiful girl, the
image of the tall, cool girls she paints.
She and her two sisters make group
so exquisite that for the last two sea-
sons they have been copied in the Sa-
Ion by painters and sculptors for whom
they obligingly posed for the head.
Miss Nina was in the Salon last year
as a hungry looking bust" These
Young ladies are from Savannah, Ca,
and are the leaders Of their social set,
their home connections taking them in
to very aristocratic circles 'on the 9TH
er side of the river" as Paris on the
fashionable side Of the Seine is called
Another sister, Miss May Goodwin
Hubbell. Wife Of the American artist
c. E. Hubbell, is an American artist or
note, though only twenty-three years
old. Miss Margaret, the youngest,
aged eighteen, has just started in upon
a surprisingly promising career.
A girl artist who is known in three
countries is Miss Sophie Schuyler, OF
Louisville, Ky. She is "one or those
southern girls" Her home is in the
American Girls Club, and her most re-
cent work is a lovely portrait which
was in the Salon. Miss Schuyler is AT
present a member of the art colony in
Laren. Holland, where the Misses
Goodwin and others are located for the
summer.
Another young woman OF more than
promise in the Holland colony is Miss
Reynolds, of New Jersey, who also ex-
hibited a portrait.
Miss Elfrida Clamorth, OF New York.
is a portrait painter. And MISS Lee
Lufkin, of Buffalo, exhibited this year
a beautiful picture in the Champs de
Mars. Miss Herreshoff, daughter or
the Yacht designer, has just gone home
after exhibiting Portrait of Miss I.
One of the most notable of all the
women painters here is Mrs. Frank
Dumond, who was Miss Helen Zavier.
of Portland. Ore. She is the wife OF
the famous Dumond.
Though Mrs. Dumond has been here
studying for two years, she has never
until this year painted anything OF inn
portance. Her reason for not doing SO
is a peculiar one: IF ! paint good
picture" she said, "the critics will say
that my husband painted 1t for me.
When reasoned with she argued: Il
am sure of II, because when my sister
in-law. Mrs. Fred Dumond. painted
fine picture the world said her hus-
band painted it, and it will be so with
me-"
After much urging she consented to
try-but her husband must not know
it. Accordingly every day she betook
herself to the art class and there paint
ed industriously. But when IL was
time for her husband to arrive and in
spect the paintings, Mrs. Dumond veil
ed her easel, and, putting on her hat
and coat, walked around the block
Meanwhile the picture grew, and the
artists who saw it were wild over 1t.
Finally, a few days before the var
nishings, it was unveiled to the sur
prised Mr.. Dumond. There, kneeling
before him, life-size, with rapt gaze
turned heavenward, was the loveiest
Joan of Arc ever seen. OF course the
picture was accepted" and Mrs. Du-
mond painted it herself
There are queer tales told on the In
side in the art colony. One is OF how
a certain beautiful exhibitor whose
name has been mentioned fell TO the