The Washington herald., 1911-04-06
GOSSIP OF THE
HOTEL LOBBIES
Personality of America

America" said James Milne. Of Lon
don, who recently made tour OF tnis
country, when he was seen at the New
Willard. SIS a perfect host, Informal In
manner. generous Of heart, kindly m
everything, willing to take you at your
own value. II puts you up at MS best
clubs and no questions asked There Is
a good-fellowship everywhere II only you
will grip IT by the hand as unpretend-
ingly as It Is offered.
I'VE IN London are not as hospftahle;
we do not throw open our doors so
quickly anyhow. but stand little on the
order of our doing the thing. It IS our
innate awkwardness, nothing worse; but
could America not teach US In club de-
pertinent? Come right in.' says the
American. Come now And from that
moment you might, If you choose, almost
live on the country, as great generals
did In olden times. It is very charming,
very cousfnly, all thiS-to have even the
stones Of the skyscraper say welcome
But there is a sort of Britisher who Is
not very welcome. and, unfortunately.
we send too many Of him over the At
lantic He is the Englishman who has
decided beforehand that there can be
nothing good here, who pretends, with
a lordly shrug. that he is visiting a bar
barous land and that he will be fortu-
nate II he leaves It without being toma-
hawked by red Indian He wrongs US
only less than does the other English
visitor, man or woman, who patronizes
America, putting on airs which WIN fill a
plain, hearty people with anger
Chicago American Art Center.
A. D. BramhiIl, an art connoisseur and
critic, OF New York. who recently visited
this city and was seen at the Arlington,
said that Chicago will soon be the center
Of American art.
considering the conditions surround
ing the Chicago Art Institute. Chicago is
in a position to get the finest exhibitions
CT American paintings that any city can
secure This was brought about by the
fact that a museum fund is subscribed
by friends Of American art in Chicago
1t so far exceeds any similar fund in the
country that American artists win send
their best works there
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art,
New York. with its endowment Of mil
lions of dollars, does not show a DISPOSE
ton to foster American art or to encour-
age American artists. The day Is not far
distant when the Chicago Art Institute
will have to be extended, and Chicago
will become one of the great art centers,
il not the greatest Chicago Is known in
the East as a hustlmg. busy commercial
city, but there must be an fntuitive and
innate love for the beautiful there.
THE pictures now hung m the Art In
stitute there are far ahead Of those in
any art museum in America and form
the nucleus of valuable and interesting
collection. In the past lack OF funds to
purchase paintings for the Art Institute
deprived American artists of opportuni-
ties to send their best works there, but
I understand that this financial difficulty
kas been overcome"
Mr.. Bramhill said also that there was
nothing in England, France. Germany.
Italy. or Spain OF contemporary art to
equal that of the American school
German Women Gardeners
One of the newest products of German
education is the gartnerin, or profess
sional woman gardener, according to
Grant ]. Bell. of Milwaukee, who has
spent some time in Germany studying
the question He Is at the Grafton
This gartnerin is a thoroughly edu-
Gated young woman" said he, who has
had full two years training in the theo-
retical and practical branches of garden
ing.
LAS instruction in these schools is
ha aF ha
to-do can afford to become landscape
gardeners. Any one who is under the
impression that these institutions are
fancy finishing schools. where a girl
may acquire a smattering of garden lore
and learn the most graceful methods of
culling flowers, should visit one of them In
session Then he would find young wom-
en- of the first families clad in a mans
garb doing a mans heavy labor in the
field
THE prospective student is given to
understand that she is at school for hard
work, and is told to leave all feminine
frills and fancies at home. She may
bring no rugs or furnishings to make her
room more attractive. and she is limited
strictly in the manner Of clothes she
may wear
Women in Wall Street.
Charles Galloway, q New York banker
and broker, who is at the Raleigh, in
speaking of women SPECTATORS, said yes
terday that the complaint Of New York
woman that she was persuaded to invest
in an enterprise which she regards as
valueless has brought out the usual COM
ment upon the perils surrounding widows
with property
1T will hardly do to accept this theory
as of general application" said Mr.. Gal
loway. Several New York widows whose
names need not be mentioned are clearly
able to hold their own in business way,
and the number of women who are de-
ceived in financial operations is small in
comparison with that of men who are
taken in.
mo well-to-do widow newly charged
with the responsibility of managing an
estate has shown a more trusting and
confiding nature than Is exhibited by
men in these parts almost every day In
the week When a woman makes an un-
investment IT Is charged to
her sex When a man is caught his
brethren smile and refer to the awful
risks of business Women are about as
clever as men in speculative matters, and
II things go wrong they make good deal
more noise, which sometimes Is a good
thing
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