The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-19

Is strewn with oriental rugs.
 In this studio she meets her clients and
 talks over designs. Entirely separate
 from 1t are living quarters. In another
 part of the building she has her work
 department. She keeps her home and her business absolutely separate and dis
 tinct, never allowing one to invade the
 other. Anyone who wants to see her must come between the hours of Il and
 must come between the hours of 1 land | 1. For her friends, however, she has 8 daily social function. At 5 o'clock each afternoon the little colored maid serves tea Here is where the never dying feminine touch creeps in. A person who happened to be passing the studio at o'clock would hear, perhaps, the piano. perhaps some social chitchat, maybe
 song; undoubtedly they would hear the
 clink of tea cups, the sound of laughter
 and the sociable grunt or sigh of content
 of Jack, Miss Chapmans Boston bull.
 At other times, however she is likely to
 be seen out in her automobile. of which she is both chauffeur and mechanician.
 There is not a road for hundreds of
 miles around she does not know. Wherever she is building a home there she goes in her car-and she can put a
 new tire on an auto as easily as she can fix a new chimney on an old house. She
 does not believe in leaving anything to others that she can do as we'll herself. Every year she goes abroad. Some | times 1t Is to Spain and Tangier, Italy and the chateau country of France. but | usually 1t is to England, where she takes an apartment in London on the bank of 1 the Thames and studies the things she 1 best loves In architecture. She has 8. branch office in London and has many | friends there. She has even built some houses in the English country. One of | these fine days she Is going to bid | America goodby and transfer her busi-
 ness to John Bulls little island. She says the hardest thing she has to do in Amer | ica is to get people to do their work hon. estly and faithfully. She has not a high regard for the American workman, the | American manufacturer, or the Amerf- | can maker of materials. She says the American lacks pride in his work and has so commercialized business that it is | national failing.
 | In England. she says. the conditions are different. There the laborer does what she calls "henor work" They have l a little of that sentiment that the old | Italians had. They look upon the struc- lures they build as monuments of their | workmanship. All the conditions in America, she thinks. make for inferior results rather than superior results. It
 would be a glorious thing if the Ameri-
 can workman's pride and the American
 builders pride could be aroused to the
 point where they would glory in work well done as much for It's own sake as for the mere money involved.
 Within radius of some hundreds of ] miles of New York Josephine Wright | Chapman has left her marks There are l homes of various sizes that she has | built. Some are modest, some have con- l siderable proportions, put all are dis l tinctive, Just now she Is building eight | structures of the English country home | type at Greenwich, Conn. She is building three out at Garden City: she Is building | some at Chappaqua, N. r., and at va
 rious other places.
 Early in the morning she may be seen l speeding out over the Connecticut inc
 or over the Pocantico hills or the level
 stretches of Long Island. to look over some of the structures she is building | She will be back in New York by Il
 o'clock. and by that time she will have
 done a good days work for the ordi nary person. At that time some gentle
 men of elegant habits will be on their way down town to begin their days
 labor. From Ii to 1 she will be busy with such clients as have engagements 1 with her Then out over the open roads
 she will spin again to some other work | that needs her attention. She will be
 back in New York by for tea with her
 friends.
 She has more business than she can
 attend to. She makes more money than
 any other woman in commercial life in | America. And yet she says she is unsuc-
 cessful. She is, according to the measure | of some for she is not slave to the | dollar, and thinks more of doing the work | she loves and having time in which to | live and to study than of the work that
 would bring the largest checks.
 l(Copyright, 1911, by Richard Spillane.)