The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18
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WORKEi, FUR FAME.
Evelyn Longman whose designs
for the bronze doors for the me-
mortal chapel in the Unked States
Naval Academy in Annapolis were
selected from among the designs OF
a group Of competitors that included
the foremost of the country's. sculp-
tors, had to struggle harder than
! most for the GROWING recognition
| that has come to her in her recent
! election to the National Academy
She was born in Winchester, Ohio.
the youngest of a family of six, and
1t was necessary for her to leave
school when only IA and earn live
lihood for herself. She began asa
clerk in large wholesale house in
Chicago, but her natural tastes were
working strongly within her, and all
her spare time was spent in sketch
ing figures. Gradually her ambition
took definite FORM and, saving every
penny she could from the small wages
that came to her for her days work
in the store she passed her evenings
, in the free art school At last, with
$3.50 saved, she took up course of
drawing and painting in Olivet Col
lege, Michigan.
But the money was all gone before
Miss Longman had got more than
fraction of the way to her goal, and
though she had learned that her fu-
ture lay in sculpture rather than in
painting, she had to leave college and
return to her clerkship in Chicago.
Presently she was able to resume her
study of sculpture in the Chicago Art
Institute But to pay for her tuition
during the day she had to work in
the institute library through the
nights. 1t only was her indomitabIe
courage, rather than any reserve OF
physical strength she possessed
i that enabled her to come through un.
der the strain. Finally indeed, she
became desperate and decided to
risk all by coming to New York City
with $40 as her sole capital after
she had paid for her railroad ticket.
The tolls and privations she had to
endure here almost had broken her
down completely before her work I'm
ally came to the notice of other art
lists in this city, and, at last, with
their help, she won genuine recogni-
tion-New York Press.
WOMEN MUSTN'T ACETATE.
Chief among these early pioneers
OF the Woman's Rights movement
were Angelina B. and Sarah M.
Grimke, who were ardent abolitfonists.
1t was not SO much the subject on
which they spoke that aroused such
a storm of criticism, but the fact
that being women, they spoke at all
on any subject, says the American
Magazine
From Boston the Grimkes went to
other points in the State and the
farther they went the greater was
the excitement particularly among
the clergymen 1t eliminated In q
clerical appeal--the family Pastoral
Letter OF the General Association OF
Massachusetts to the churches under
its care-which, after deploring the
slavery agitation in general, invited
attention particularly 'to the dangers
which at present (18S7) seem to
threaten the female character with
widespread and permanent injury"
It set forth woman's duties and her
place in terms which must have been
discouraging even to the most con-
ventional of the educated women of
the day IF the vine whose strength
and beauty is to lean upon the treHis-
work, and half conceal its cluster.
thinks to assume the Independence
and the over-shadowing nature of the
elm, it will not only cease to bear
fruit. but fall in shame and dishonOr
to the dust. We cannot, therefore.
but regret the mistaken conduct of
those who encourage females to bear
an obtrusive and ostentatious part in
measures of reform and countenance
any OF that sex who so far forget
themselves as to itinerate in the
character OF public lecturers and
teachers. Washington Herald.