The National tribune., 1902-11-06

ming features upon canvas. A German
will make his subjects German, a French
man will give French cast to the fea-
lures. and Russian is bound to make
Russians Of his sitters. This has been
exemplified in the paintings extant Of
Washington. The Stuart has been the
model of most of them, but set them side
by side. and you would not have to look at
the signatures to make him English. irish,
Dutch or Russian, as the artist might
claim nativity; but it has remained for
a modern artist to make an Oriental out
of the immortal George. Among un-
claimed stuff in the Dead Letter Office is
an embroidered silk panel, six feet long
and three feet wide. Upon it is an eagle
with outstretched wings and fierce, glar-
ing eyes, in natural colors-and yet not
natural, though the work is admirable.
ing the Delaware, most exqusitely done
in finest stitches. The likeness to Wash
ineton and his Generals is good. and yet
it is not. Why? Well. all have slant eyes,
the eagle not excepted. The effect is al
most ludicrous.
President Roosevelt's private apart
ments would rival the National Museum
in point of display, should he undertake
to spread out the donations of ardent ad-
mirers; but the last present was one to
delight the hear of Nimrod. 1t is q
moose head. mounted on an oak shield
Now. that doesn't begin to describe it. for
while all moose heads may have a strong
family resemblance, they may be cassed
men requires the superlative. 1t is the
largest moose head on record. The big
thing fairly frightenS you when you meet
its great, CLASSY eyes suddenly. The huge
antlers with their Is prongs measure six
feet across. From the tip of the nose to
the neck where mounted is four and a half
feet. and the neck at that point is two feet
thick, and three and a half feet from up
per to lower point. The moose was killed
two years ago near Valdez Alaska. by a
Government Surveyor. The shield bears
the inscription, "To Theodore Roosevelt.
from the citizens of Alaska. in token of
their esteem and in recognition of his
friendship
The President has given this splendid
State Dining Room.
1t was thought by many that Mrs.
Stanton's body would be cremated, but
her reform ideas seem not to have ey-
tended so far. She was buried in Wood
lawn Cemetery beside her husband, who
died a few years ago. The services were
simple and were conducted by an orthodox
minister, Rev. Antoinette Brown Black
well, the first woman ever ordained to
preach the gospel. The impression gains
ground that Elizabeth Cady Stanton be-
lieved that death ended all, but her whole
life gives the lie to such belief While
her ideas of what the hereafter is may
have differed from those of the orthodox,
the fact that the later years of her life
we're spent in the laborions task of culling
from the Bible and collating every mention
of women shows that she acknowledged
the Divine inspiration of that book, and
recognized its power as n factor in the
uplifting of human kind. The writer hap
pens to know that the manner in which
the "Woman's Bible" was received by the
critics, almost broke Mrs. Stanton's gentle
heart. She earnestly protested that she
had no desire to do away with the Bible
proper, but she did believe that she had
the same right to construe its passages,
particularly those concerning women, as
men had Of course, her whole life had
been a protest against women" as con-
sidered and construed by "men." Yet she
was in no sense of the word man hater.
She believed that woman was mans equal.
On this hypothesis the acts of her whole
life were planned and the world knows
that it is better and the plane of woman's
life lifted and her horizon infinitely widen
ed because Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived.