The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-06

Ayres is the second stenographer- III
a short time to marry her millionaire
employer, and about the tenth in a
year to do so. Hence the excitement
among the eligible maidens of Goth
am who think the lightning may
strike them in the same way if they
can become shorthand writer's.
In the experience the other day Of
Mrs. Oliver P. H. Belmont, who had
DR.. Jakola, physician summoned to
court for pressing his annoying at
tentions on her, there was a sugges-
ton of a somewhat similar episode IN
which Mrs. Herman Oelrichs figured
last year at Newport. Both women
are among the richest and most
prominent of New York society's wild
oWs have beautiful country and
town houses and everything that any
body could crave. AS a fad, Mrs.
Belmont has taken up the cause of
woman's suffrage, and has been
spending much of her time and a
good deal of her money in promot-
ing interest in the now almost uni
ity of the sexes. DIR. Jakola offered
himself as a volunteer in the move
ment, and because of the cordially
with which the widow welcomed him
to its support, fancied that she had
some interest in him. To her amaze
roses and affectionate notes, and
haunt the places he thought she
would frequent. Convinced that the
physician had reached a period when
he was getting dangerous, she had
him hailed to court and repr1mand-
ed. The swain in whose breast Mrs.
Oeirichs kindled the love spark, was
the coachman of one of her society
friends at Newport. John got a no
ton that she liked him, and proceed
ed to send to her amorous notes. ov-
erfiowing with honeyed endearmants.
At first the widow, who was one of
Fair girls of San Francisco, treated
the missives as joke. As they
grew more rapturouS she became
alarmed and called the matter to the
attention ; of the employer of the
man, who had been in her service for
wife and family. He was promptly
dismissed and sent back to England,
and the unpleasant incident closed.
Women are not as evil-minded as
men. Women are more artistic. Also
they are not as prudish as men, Their
minds are generally broader
This statement was induced from
George Grey Barnard, the famous
American sculptor, to-day, on his ar
rival on the steamship George Wash
ington, in discussing the objection
made by some persons to his groups
of statues made for the Harrisburg
capitol. because some of the figures
are nude.
Mr.. Barnard said that while he had
received much praise, he had also
been severely criticised because of
the undraped figures.
"Most of the praise has come from
women" he said, and then added that
women were not as evil-minded as
men.
II believe that the human form is
the greatest thing in art" he added
in defense of his work. 1T is greater
than music from an artistic view
point How can you show the divine
human form sculptured in clothes ?
These critics are prudes. They are
narrow minded and can see nothing
but evil in what is really only beau
tiful''
Mr. Barnard has been abroad al
Moray France. for eight years, but is
back here to live permanently. He
will build a studio in Inwood and
brings his three children, Viva, four
teen years old; Monroe, seven, and
Prudence. two, with him. Monroe
and Prudence saw America for the
first time to-day, and can speak only
French.
Mr. Barnard laughed as he told OF
the fate his statues had met with
since they We're made. Nearly every
one of the thirty figures in the groups
he sculptured was either mixed up
in the graft scandal attached to the
building of the canitol or In tina foods