The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27
AMERICAN ARTIST
IS MAKING NAME
David Edstrom Was an Iowa
Boy
NEW PLAN FOR KISSING
Transparent GAUGE Is Placed Over Fair
Ones Lips to Prevent Possibility
of Microbes Escaping From
kisser to Kissed
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE

Paris, March 26-(Special.) the Isle
Saint Louis, washed by the yellow waters
of the Seine. happened upon one of the
most extraordinary Americans in Paris.
His name is David Edstrom ana ne is a
sculptor. More he is very, very y
sculptor. To call him the "Rodin' u
America is not a prophesy but an actual
fact, based upon the remarkable work
he has already done.
When David Edstrom made up his mind
to be sculptor he had just $500 in the
world and yet with that $500, by some
miracle he managed to get from Iowa to
Stockholm. For a time he sold newspa-
pers in the streets of Ottumana, Iowa;
the next we hear of him he was steal
ton of New York. He paid his board
and lodging across the Atlantic ocean by
shoveling coal on big steamer. Then
ne worked by day and studied by night
and when he had sold a bit of sculpture
worked at his art both day and night
not only In Stockholm, but in Rome,
Florence and Paris. But nothing was
ever heard of him until he had won rec
ognition at the Paris salon, at Munich
and in Venice.
The museums of Gottenburg now own
some of his works and the Theil gallery
of Stockholm boasts ten statues of re-
markable beauty and genius. In the
coming salon in Paris he is to exhibit
one of his most remarkable statues called
Rhapsody" Mr.. Edstrom works 10
hours daily and his studio in the Isle
Saint Louis is filled with works showing
hit 4ol1
leans, who have been fortunate enough
to obtain statues for private collections,
are notably Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Mr.
Edstrom's father was a clergyman. who
preached the gospel in Iowa and the
Dakotas, and Mr.. Edstrom himself re-
ceived his great artistic inspiration from
the vast solitudes of that great agricul-
tural state. America has good reason to
be very proud of this great sculptor.
Germicide for kissing
An ingenius German is said to have in
vented a machine which makes kissing
safe In spite of the microbes. In shape
it resembles tennis racket. A piece of
gauze saturated with antiseptic liquid is
stretched over an ivory frame When
Horace wishes to embrace Cynthia, or
Dante, Beatrice. all that is necessary for
safety is to put this new invention up
against the face of the fair one to be
kissed. The adorable and adored face of
the beloved is not hidden away by the
gauze. which is transparent, and yet
should there linger any insidious mi
crcbes in the dimples of her mouth the
antiseptic makes short work of them.
Our charming ladies Of the ballet are
delighted with this invention although it
does come from Germany. For physi-
clans have been preaching so much
against kissing it became fair to become
one of the lost arts. Even handshaking
(of the robust Rooseveltian kind has been
prohibited. And yet it is not recorded
that kissing shortened the days of Antony
and Cleopatra or George Eliot and George
Henry Lewis. If Byron and Shelly and
Gambetta died young it was for other
reasons, and not because many fair
DANES had been kissed by them in the
course of their strenuous lives. However,
for those who really wish to kiss In safe
ty we recommend the new German kiss
ing machine.