The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-03
SUCCESS OF SoUTHERNERs.
Art and Artists Discussed by Mrs.
Daniel O'Dny.

quainted with conditions and, perhaps,
in position to speak more assuredly.
a larger proportion of those from the
South who seek to shine in those fields
is successful than of those from the
North, for there is something about
the South and the Southerner that APP
peals to the artistic temperament, and
Southern activity is, in itself, sufficient
to insure some recognition"
The speaker was Mrs. Daniel O'Day
nee Miss Caroline Love Goodwin
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. p. Good
win of Savannah, who is on short
visit to her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
O'Day have just returned from a trip
to st. Augustine. On the way they
made a brief stop at Savannah a few
days. This is the first visit in ten
years of Mrs. O'Day to her native city,
and she is enjoying the renewal of old
friendships and associations.
Mrs. O'Day chatted pleasantly to
Morning News representative of art
and artists, and particularly of the
practical problems that beset the neo-
phyte who taps at the door, seeking adj
mittance across the threshold of that
Her words were from a wealth of eXy
pc rience-eXperience that is valuable
and from which many have sought
profit.
AS one of the most gifted women who
had chosen art as both pleasure and
means livelihood, the advice of Mrs.
O'Day has been eagerly sought by
many who have thought themselves
called, yet trembled from the fear that
they might not be chosen. Fancying
| that they had latent talent that, prop
erly nurtured and led, might develop
until their fame was as bright as that
of a Rubens, Van Dyke, a Titan or
Meissonier, they have written Mrs.
| O'Day from time to time, seeking to
| learn from her what course they should
take to climb the eminence from whose
summit they would view the realms
of mediocre from which they had risen.
Specimens of the work of these
young women and young men were
usually sent me, said Mrs. O'Day,
and | could judge from those whether
| 1t were really a Kindness to advise
persistence in the walk that had been
entered upon. I usually found it
safe and wise plan to advise study at
home, which would mean that a short
! time would bring conviction of the one
thing or the other-that there was tai
| ent of an order to continue efforts or
lack of talent or perseverance that
| would make further work useless. The
sooner this conviction, the enc or the
other, might be finally and conclusively
| reached, the better it would be for
the young man or young woman"
All this grew out of the recognition
from the best publishers of the land
that had been gained by the work of
| Miss Goodwin, whose name has accom-
panied some Of the most artistic draw
ings seen of recent years in newspapers
or periodicals. Few of the writers knew
the artist save for having seen and ad-
mired her pictures, but they did not
fail of sympathetic replies.
The ideas of Southern life on the
plantations and belief that there is
| something about the Southern tempera-
ment that is in itself artistic have in
culcated an opinion among many peo-
pie of the North" said Mrs. O'Day.
that the Southerner should merit the
patronage they give. Among the gem
erality of artists and literary men and
women there is quite a decided impress
sion that to be Southerner is in it.
| self an advantage, and that the battle
! is partly won through the chance of
| the cline in which one may have been
! born. Now / have friend, who, won
dering at my success in having, on one
occasion, secured work for which she
had tried. but failed, rallied me with:
| oh, 1t was just your afternoon tea air
that got it for you. You catered with
that grand air that meant you were a
Southerner, accustomed to being treat
| ed nicely and determined to submit to
| nothing save a continuance of such
treatment Added to that was dash
| of something that made the man think
you thought him quite as good as YOU,
which you did not, and all these things
/
l believe ! might have lone just as we'll
had 1 had the advantage of Southern
birth and that manner thai you de-
rived from the South"
Now. of course, that was more In
the way of joke, I supposey than any
thing else. but really 1t is the case
| that the Southerner does not lose
| through the fact of his being one. I
certainly have had no cause to regret
that l came from the South. In news
paper and literary work, art and bust
ness know Southern men and South
ern women who have done we'll
1T is a treat to get back to Savan-
nah, but / find that many changes have
been wrought in ten years. These
changes do not appeal to the artistic
sense, but l suppose that should be
kept quiescent and that one should
eXult in the material advancement.
This was not true in Charleston, where
we made stop for there all was as
quaint as l had known ii before"
Mrs. O'Day was married some eight
months ago. her husband being known
as lone of the Standard Oil magnates."
She had won prominence by her illus
trative work, which was done for syn
dicates and for publishers. Her fash
ion illustrations had grown to be fam
Gus. She has not given up her art
indeed will not. though there is now
no financial reason to urge her to its
continuance. She will confine her
efforts, however. to the illustration OF
books. It is probable that she will
illustrate the next book of Mrs. Will
liam Allen. another Savannah woman
whose brilliance has merited the APP
probation 1t has won.
Two sisters continue their careers in
the North. They are Miss Nina Good
win, who writes fashion letters and
stories for the Leslie Syndicate. and
Miss Margaret Goodwin. who has taken
up the work that was left BY her Sis
ter when she became Mrs. O'Day. Miss
Margaret draws for the New York
Herald. and her illustrations have been
marked as of promise fulfilled and
greater given. Some time ago the
three sisters returned from Paris
where they studied in the Quarter
Latin for three years.
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