The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-10-12
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

(Mrs. Alfred Clifford Barney. is one Of
The cleverest of the women artists of this
country. Some of her pictures have been
hong II the salon and Of ne5
are now on the walls Of the large recep-
Bar Barney yo IS possessed @ Of Wealth, "a all the
money received by her. from the sale of
her paintings is devoted to the assistance
ing art in Paris. For years she has been
prominently Interested in the art move
ment in washington. She has had more
tinguished members Of. the diplomatic
corps than any other artist in this -coun-
1t will be admitted that up to the
last few years gentlewomen were open
to but one honorable, and almost al
ways possible, field-marriage Now
instead of marrying for her support
and living, as she often did, miser-
able and distasteful existence with a
man she neither loved nor admired,
we find her living and living we'll by
her pen, her brush, her music-her
profession. She may have to struggle
her will and determination, her talent,
her power of endurance and her pow
ers of mind are being daily tested and
are bearing the test we'll. During the
last ten years women, both painters
and sculptors, are no longer matter
of wonder. They are accepted facts
and their work is Judged not as the
work of women but as the work Of
artists. The strong mailed hand that
has bound her daring spirit to the linn
it's of home is powerless. Her wings,
we'll feathered and strong, carry her
beyond it's profound but narrow linn
it's into the great field of workers,
where her talents demand and COM
mand recognition.
Naturally men have objected to
women entering any of the money
making fields. They know, in the ma
ture of things-in each department..
there is only so much money, or sue
cess, to be gained; and that money,
success and fame will fall to those pos
sessing the greater talent and applica-
ton. Women entering the field of art
and forging ahead, as they are doing,
means that men of less talent and men
Of like talent and less application will
do without the success and money
that the competing women carry off.
They know that in all things when YOU
can keep down the number of compet-
itOrs greater are the chances of sue
cess and the standards-except where
genius exists--less high.
Remember, it is in the boys early
years that the seed of example is
planted, and from that seed, perhaps
Of ambition. the man becomes a war
rior, statesman, scientist or an
artist. Boys from the beginning are
taught of the great deeds of Caesar,
Washington, Newton and Columbus.
Who We're Michael Angelo and Wales.
quez? Were they not men? Were
not all the great men but men? And
will he not, as he daily studies their
deeds, the deeds of great, powerful
minds, will he not think, "T shall be
man "a great man." Year after year
he grows with the idea firmly planted
in his mind that he is man to whom
all things are possible. And unless he
is great in mind and deed it often
takes time and many hard knocks be-
fore much, if not all, of his conceit is
knocked out of him. "
But would 1t not be well if the com.
ing woman were taught that women
can, and SHALL attain that glorious
fame, that victories are In some fields
equally possible for women as for
men? And to that end let the women
who. cannot but SWho. d desirez to progress
help these women ( who have already
started 8 ditnng them, sc