Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-02

and inviting suggestions in regard 10
tints for walls and shades. The hrst Ell
fort of the league will be to decorate IN.
walls OF one of the kindergartens opehe
this year, and this, il is thought, may be
accomplished within the next few weeks
The movement, which, by the way. was
initiated by the National Society OF me
Fine Arts. has met with general approval
A Ii of the Washington artists have
1 been invited To attend the private
view and reception Monday evening of the
exhibition of German paintings which is
to be held in the Metropolitan Museum,
New York. and which will also mark the
opening OF the museums new wing. TINS
exhibition is one Of the most notable
which la We been held in America for many
years. 1t will fill seven galleries and rep
resent completely the work of modern
German painters. 1t was selected by Dr.
Bode and Prof. Carl Mari and has been
brought to this country through the gem
crosby of Mr. Hugo Reisinger Of New
York. 1t will continue through January
and a part of February
THOSE who go 10 New York to attend
1 this exhibition will find the National
Academy of Designs winter exhibition
open in the Fine Arts building. West 9th
street, until January Q, and will be able
also to view a collection of recent paint
ings by Willard Metcalf at she Montross
gallery on 9TH avenue.
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THE outcry caused by the recent an
/ nouncement that the portrait of Lin
Ill
stamps in the future recalls reference
made to this subject by Prof. Morse in a
lecture delivered a few weeks ago before
the National Society of the Fine Arts. He
said that when he inquired of the Japa-
nese why they used only conventional de-
signs for their postage stamps he received
in most instances an evasive answer. One
day. however. he urged his point and
changing the form Of his question. asked
why they did not utilize. as We do, the
portraits of some OF their great men for
this purpose. An indignant protest was
the reply: what! Subject our great
men to be struck in the face every time a
the reason the Lincoln likeness is to be
disused, but 1t Is a pretty good plea for
conventional designs and ought to in
measure appease those who are at present
diSsat isfied.
RIO decision has at yet been reached con-
~ corning either the Columbus or Barry
memorials. owing to the impossibility of
getting the committee together. The mod
els entered in competition for both me-
MORALS have been set up on the fifth floor
of the War. State and Navy buildings. but
will not he on exhibition until after the
awards are made.
LEILA MECHLIN.
walked down 10 the post office and [
found there a letter for me from Alicia.
] would not break the seal i'm that COM
mon place. and l put 1t in my pocket.
keeping it there until l was on one OF
the hills half way home. There l opened
il and read it with sort Of reverence.
bridge news no doubt sent by some friend
in Carlton. although I intended to inform
her myself. and she wrote in part:
Il am glad to know that you are going
to Harvard. and / believe you have the
strength and the resolution to carry out
your plans-have I not every cause for
believing it? I believe too that you will
become great man. When we were
children together / thought you the
strongest and best of all, and now that
YOU have done something which no other
man could have done my belief is con-
frmed. Oh. Harry. You know how | shall
wish for your success and pray for it. if
for nothing more except to repeat that L
owe you a debt I cannot pay
The letter was unsigned, but after | had
read it and reread it. again and again. l
tore it into little bits and let the wind
blow them away. l would not permit the
desire to see it again bring any possible
danger upon Alicia. and when the last
the hill ] rose and walked on. my heart
quite full, though now my happiness was
tinged with sadness because ! could not
see Alicia's face. and because | knew she
must suffer with folded hands and in 81
lence-woman' lot-while ] should be
ma king for myself a name and a career
or at least striving.
| took the train for the east on the
day and Aunt Jane and Uncle
Paul were at the station to tell me good
bye. Some last doubts may have crept
into the mind of Uncle Paul-he was a
man-but he did not show them.
Il look for letter from you as soon
as you get to Boston. Harry, he said.
and in reply / made faithful promise
] saw tears in Aunt James eyes-eyes
that rarely shed tearS-and she, toe. may
have had doubts. but She made brave
effort to hide them.
I arrived at Cambridge and promptly en-
tered the law school ] was older than
most men beginning there. older In years
and far older in experience. in fact. man
with short brown beard that I lad
grown since my prison days. but as l have
said | was already a graduate of a law
school in Kentucky. and moreover | had
a mind reinforced by Shree years of silent
thought and application. Behind me was
one of the most powerful motives that
fate or chance had ever given. Hence I
passed for what / really was, one al
ready on the threshold of the law who
wished to give the finishing touch 10 his
studies A two years course | judged
would be enough. and under the spur of
the impulse that l have mentioned L went
to work with all the unused energy that
had been accommodating in me so long.
The law interested me- / felt that l
could pick my way through its mazes and
and I had proiited by stern
experience of life. I was no raw youth
abashed before theories. Life
itself was my theater. and every lesson l
learned. / learned with reference to il. l
did not intend to devote myself merely to
the dry forms of the law, | intended to
apply them to the play of human emo
tons. and with this idea before me my
books We're not so much cold print and
technical language.
studious or would have been had l not
wandered astray in the qualification of
The senses. Now the instinct, sharpened
and tenfold more powerful came back to
ne, and my studies were not sufficient to
give my mind the active employment that
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