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x NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS =

come into existence through a logical ef-
fort to acquire desired end. to serve
a need, rather than through a DELHI
crate intent to exercise art. When Mr..
Pennell asked one Of the engineers how
he happened to make the splendid
springtng lines Of his arches and but
tresses. as he had, as fine as any cathe-
drars. the reply was that he did it to
save concrete. So, after all, art as
Whistler put 1t. does sometimes seem to
Just happen" and to be part and par
Gel Of the business of life. One needs.
though, the discerning eye to discover it. ;"
II went to the Panama canal" writes
Mr.. Pennell in an article recently pub
lished in the Print Collectors Quarterly.
because l believed the greatest engi-
neering work the world has ever seen
would give me the greatst artistic inspi-
ration Of my life. I went because l be-
lived that at the canal I should see the
wonder of work. the picturesqueness Of
labor. realized on the grandest scale I
believed that II but little Of all 1 had
heard OF the huge locks, the great dam,
the deep cut. were true, on the Isthmus
Of Panama 1 should find the most mar
velous subjects OF AL time, so risked it
a risk of 1900 miles-for possible pic
turesqueness."
Mr.. Penneks enthusiasm is exhaust
less and 1t is manifested in his works
Each drawing was done under strong
emotion and at fever heat. They are
bold and strong. vital and moving. The
spirit of the age transfuses them; they
carry and transmit the impression which
the artist received. Each subject is we'll
chosen: all compose WELL" or, in other
words. make we'll balanced pictures. The
equation has been instinctively reduced
to its lowest terms, everything in the
way OF detail that Is unnecessary has
been left out and hence the impression
Is vivid and distinct.
On his way to the city Of Panama Mr.
Pennen stopped at Gatun. and there. on
"a bridge overlooking the yaWn1ng chasm
the drawing which now takes its place as
the third OF the series, Gatun-Ddnner
work picturing the scene as 1t lay be-
FORE or rather below. me, a bell rang"
he says In the introduction to q little vol
ume on these Autographs just published
by J.B. Ltppincott & Company. 1.-The en-
sines whistled, the buckets paused. ev-
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE HYsTERIA OF LADY MACBETH
BY Isador H. Coriat. NJ D. author OF
abnormal Psychology" etc. New
York: Moffat, Yard q 90.
AMERICAN HISTORY IN LITEnA-
TURE-NOTED SPEECHES OF
DANIEL WEBSTER, HENRY CLAY,
JOHN C. CALHOUN. Edited with
Marie Briggs. assistant in the New
York Public Library. With portraits.
New York: Monat, Yard & Co.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. By
Arthur H Gleason. illustrated by
Spencer Baird Nichols. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
THE HOME RULE BILL. BY John
Redmond. NJ. p. New York: Cas-
sell & Co., Ltd.
THE LOG HOUSE CLUB. BY Robert
Eggert. Philadelphia: John c. Win
stOn Company.
THE TURKEY DOLL. BY Josephine
Scribner Gates. illustrated. Bos-
ton: Houghton Mifhin Company.
FIRES. By wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
New York: The Macmillan Company
LITTLE BOOKS ON GREAT WRITERS
-WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACk-
ERAY. BY Sidney Dark. With four
illustrations by Fred Barnard. New
York: Cassell & Co.. Ltd.
POWER OF FEDERAL JUDICIARY
OVER LEGISLATION; It's Origin
the Power to Set Aside LAWS
Boundaries Of the Power, Judicial
Independence, Existing Evils and
Remedies. By ]. Hampden Dougher-
ty, author of 1.-The Electoral System
of the United States" New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
UNSEEN EMPIREg q study OF tn
PliaAt Of Nations That DO Not Pay
Their Debts. BY David Starr Jor-
dan, president OF Stanford Univer-
sity. Boston: American Unitarian
Association.
THE NEW LIGHT ON THE OIL
TRUTH. BY Charles Allen Dins-
more. Boston: Houghton Mimin
Company.
THE CLASSICAL PAPERS OF MOTIF
MER LAMSON EARLE. With q
Memoir New York: Columbia UNI
versity Press.
THE DIXIE BOOK OF DAYS. By
Matthew Page Andrews. Phila-
delphia: ]. B. Lppincott Company.
CHATS WITH CHILDREN OF THE
CHURCH. BY James M: F'arrar.
d. d.. LII. D., author Of "A Junior
Congregation" etc. New YORK
Funk & Wagnalls Company.
THE FLIGHT BROTHERS. BY Mrs
i. r. S. Henderson, author OF The
Magic Aeroplane." illustrated by
Emile A. Nelson. Chicago: The
Reilly & Britton Company.
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able acquisitions have been
made by the print division of
IL the Library Of Congress. The
most important Of these is the
set Of Autographs Of the Pana-
ma canal by Joseph Pennell. purchased
by the government and deposited in the
Library. The set consists Of twenty six
or twenty-eight drawings made in the
Canal Zone the early part OF the present
year. The majority of these are OF the
construction work. and give better than
any photographs or written descriptions
an idea of the immensely Of the under
taking. Cranes and derricks, steam
shoveis and iron scaffolding have not
heretofore been regarded as picturesque.
but Mr.. Pennell has SO discovered them.
Not, Of course, unrelatedly. but as i'm
plements and as factors in great COM
positions. 1t is, as he himself has said.
the wonder Of work that he has interpret
ed and as no one before him or Of his
time has dared to do. The business of
art is to interpret not only beauty. but
life. To do this, however, requires both
skill and perception.
One not endowed with Imagination
would probably have seen nothing more
in the Culebra cut than dirt and q steam
train, but to Mr.. Pennell 1t meant a
mastery achievement. resulting from
well-directed effort. In q letter Of con-
gratulations upon the purchase Of this
set Of Autographs by the government.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop secretary Of the
Panama canal commission. wrote Mr..
Penneu: You saw the work az no one
else has had the eyes and the brains to
see it, and 1t Is very true. But It should
not be thought that the artist read into
the scenes he Transcribed pic
turesqueness which did not exist. Quite
to the contrary. for his drawings are
very accurate, and by the engineers in
charge have 50 been pronounced.
The greatest compliment I have ever
had" he says, lis when these men told
me my drawings would work.
There IL q distinct relation between
use and beauty which all do not realize,
and tho truth 10 that some Of the finest
IN, hA -n~lA havA
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erything stopped instantly. save that from
the depths a long chain came quick
~ UP. and clinging to the end Of it. a
Cellini would have grouped them, were a
dozen men-a living deSign-the most dec
Orative motive I have ever seen in the
wonder Of work. For a second only
they were posed, and then the huge
crane swung the group to the ground
and the design fell to pieces as they
dropped Off"
This gives an idea Of how the artis-
tic side Of the work appealed to Mr..
Pennell. and why no photograph taken
or literally as true. as these autographs
made by not only skilled craftsman
but sensitive artist.
Just how they were made Mr.. Pennell
himself has told in the forewOrd to a
catalogue Of an exhibition which has
Frederick Keppel & Co. New York
II had" he says. blocks of litho-
graphic transfer paper made. and did
all the drawings on the spot with
dampness and heat had little or no
effect on them. They (the drawings)
were carried from Panama to San
Francisco. and thence to Philadelphia.
very carelessly-Or enthusiastically-by
several people. including cowboys and
collectors. They were put down upon
the stone in the printing Office in Phil
dQelpnlas anu every one OI tHem tTanS-
fered after journey Of six thousand
and more miles and a three, or four
months delay.
To follow the process of artistic lithog-
raphy a little farther. The drawing
after being transferred to the stone is
fixed thereon by washing with weak So
lutions Of acid. 1t is then washed with
pure water and linked, after which a sheet
of paper is laid upon 1t and run through
the press. In this way the impression Is
made, but the design remains on the
stone which can be reinked for other i'm
pressions. Much Of the interest and ex-
cellence of the prints depends upon the
mixing and printing. and for this reason
Mr. Pennell insists upon doing or super
intending the printing Of his own work.
Each impression in this way becomes, as
1t were. an individual expression rather
than the product Of Mechanical process.
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It is in the printing, Mr.. Pennell main
tains, that half the mystery and charm
of TYPOGRAPHY lies; and he ventures the
belief that II more had learned to print
their own works the number Of artist
photographers would not be SO few.
At present these Panama lithagraphs
by Mr.. Pennell are not on public exhibit
ton at the Library of Congress, but they
can be seen upon request in the art read
ing room of the print division by all who
are specially interested.
Mr.. Pencil visited Washington twice
last summer. once in June and again in
August, and he writes with enthusiasm
Of the beauty Of our city.
THE print division of the Library Of
Congress has in preparation an ex-
tensive and interesting exhibition of
photographic work in color, illustrating
the most advanced methods of color print
ing in use today. This exhibition will
embrace several hundred examples and
will comprise work done not only in
America, but in Germany and France.
Within recent years color printing has
made great strides and really wonderful
results are now obtained by the so-called
mechanical processes. Through this
medium excellent reproductions are being
made at comparatively moderate cost of
the great masterpieces Of painting. This
will probably be placed on
view early In the coming winter
=
THE Arts and Crafts School has open
ed auspiciously. Several changes
have been made in the faculty since last
season. the chief significance Of which is
the bringing to Washington of other mas
ter craftsmen. John Cranston, a pupil of
Mr.. Stone and a graduate of and an in
structor in the Rhode Island School of
Design. will have charge of the depart
ment of metal work. Miss Esther Brock,
a graduate Of Pratt Institute. will teach
design. and Miss Pettis. pupil of Miss
Turner'S. will conduct the classes in
weaving. Miss Bush-Brown, daughter of
Mr.. H. X. Bush-Brown. the sculptor, will
be the instructor in wood block printing
and stenciling. Interest in the arts and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
Number Of Words Q Child Uses.
From Answers.


Take a paper and pencil. follow the
child for several days. several weeks.
putting down every new word that is ut
tered. And when the word child" is
used, 1t does not refer to q boy or girl
of seven or eight. but one Of three.
An investigation recently made by fol-
lowing a child at that age and noting
every word that was used showed that
it had memorized LII different words.
They covered practically everything with
which the child came in contact and
were words the child had never heard be-
fore.
Another investigation Of words used by
children between sixteen months and
nineteen months old showed that the
lowest vocabulary that was reported in
cluded the use Of sixty words. The high
est was 232 words. From two years on
the vocabulary of a child increases rapid
ly, until at three years the average child
has a vocabulary Of at least 1000 words.
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crafts. not as fad but as a rational
means of simultaneously training hand
and brain. is increasing. and instruction
along these lines is being more and more
recognized as of genuine worth. There Is
still some work which can be better done
by the skilled workman than by the ma
chine, and when this Is well done 1t has
not only artistic merit, but an actual
marketable value Throughout the coun-
try effort is being made to revive the
handicrafts. In this city the Arts and
Crafts School represents this forward
movement.
THE American Federation of Arts, the
headquarters of which are in this
city. is sending out no less than eighteen
travelling exhibitions during the coming
season. Some Of these are of oil paint
ings; others are Of water colors. Two
are of prints loaned by the Library of
Congress. OF these, one, comprising
ninety mezzotint engravings of portraits
by famous English painters, has just been
sent to the University of Missouri; the
Der of wood block prints. color etchings
and Autographs. will go within the next
few days to the Art Institute of Kansas
City.
X Mss LESLEY JACKSON, Miss Noyes
1v4 and Mrs. Kimberly spent the sum-
mer at Provincetown. Mass, studying
under Charles w. Hawthorne. the we'll
known figure painter.
The town itself is picturesque and pleas
antly located on the very tip of Cape
Cod. Parallel with Main street are lines
Of wharves used by the fishermen which
are now more than half Portuguese Here
for several years Mr.. Hawthorne has
painted the majority of his pictures and
for several seasons conducted summer
school In outdoor figure painting This
year he had seventy pupils. Once a
week he save a criticism and once a
week he painted before his class. His
methods are quite different from those of
the usual art school. and his pupils are
for the most part advanced workers. not
beginners. The two things he emphasizes
are correct values and clean c6tsr. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
The Worst Feature.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Here is Pierre Lott again with another
of his knocks.
Pierre says, anent our vociferous presi-
Dental campaigning: 1.-The time lost in
futile outpouring Of words can never be
recovered
Alas, Pierre, nobody has any desire to
recover it!
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with these held paramount in mind,
breadth and strength are encouraged.
The result, II the work that Miss Jack
son has brought back with her can be
taken as typical, is a delightful disregard
Of unessential details and keen realiza-
ton of broad colorful effects. Miss Jack
sons studies are extremely direct, SIM
pie and impressive, full of light and air,
vital and true. Not one is finished. none
will be framed and exhibited. but each
to the real lover Of art is delight on
account of it's big. direct simplicity. Miss
Jackson has also made some strong
studies of the little town in its varying
aspects. painting with freshness of color
and breadth of stroke the little white
houses with their green shutters. the tall
sweeping elms and the interesting, dusty.
turning streets. Miss Jackson has usually
employed water colors as her medium.
but all this summer she has worked with
oils and with most satisfactory result.
So
KISS ALICE c. FOSTER is at work at
IVA present upon two miniatures, one
Of her mother. which promises to be an
excellent likeness. and the other Of a
very young girl with brown expressive
eyes and long braids Of hair which fall
gracefully over her shoulders. Both are
broadly treated in the newer style of
miniature painting now practiced. and are
firmly well as delicately modelled and
good in color. Miss Foster will have her
studio this winter in the Wyoming.
-
TT s. ]. DUNBAR, the sculptor. has
~" just completed a model for a memo
rial statue to be erected In South Caro-
lima competition not yet decided-and
is at work at present on the model for
q memorial to be placed in Minnehaha
Park in Minnesota
DAUL w. BARTLETTS studio in this
l city is still closed. the sculptor con-
to work In Paris. Mr.. Bartlett
has recently completed a model Of a
statue of Benjamin Franklin. which Is
to be erected In Waterbury, Conn.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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THE OLYMPIAN, q Story of the City.
BY James Oppenheim. author Of
"The Nine-Tenths," etc. New York:
Harper & Bros
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ubiquitous stage director who appears
to the average reader-to be rather
more conceited and absurd than he ap-
pears to be anything else.
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Schools. IPGS64b.
O'Shea. NJ. V. Every Day Problems in Teach
ing. IP-OsA3e.
Perry. A. c.. jr. Outlines OF School Admins
tration. IP0-P42so.
Seachrest, Effie. Story Land; Outlines for
the Child Life Composition Pictures. Up Sci 34s.
Taylor, J. s. Principles and Methods Of Teach
ing Reading. IP-T2156p.
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those times, and said that ought to
have an operation. Iwould not listen to
that, and when friend of my husbands
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
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for his wife, was willing to take it.
Now look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. l can do all my own house
work, work in the garden and entertain
company and enjoy them, and can walk
as far as any ordinary woman, any day
in the week. Iwish could talk to every
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what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Remember, the remedy which did this
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SEVEN YEARS
OF MISERY
How Mrs. Bethune was Re-
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E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
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Sikeston, Mo. = ''For seven years l
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-11-02
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
'e-s Of the Town and Village Told Bhsfb
iOr Busy Readers

Mrs. Margaret Henchey of River st
visited in Troy and Albany Thursday.
Born, Friday, daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs Harold C. Payson of Portland,
Me-
Mrs j. H. Ineson will start her sen.
Tor dancing class, Friday evening
November s. 17t4
Mrs. William H. Bradford is enter
tanning Mrs. Louis Whitney of Troy
for a few days.
Silas Moon of the Guideboard
Thursday observed the Goth anniyer-
sary of his birth.
Miss Marjorie Shelby expects to 60
to Albany Sunday and thence to New
York where she will remain during
next week
Mr. and Mrs. r. X. Grouse of Hud-
sen, N. Y, are passing part of their
Honeymoon as guests of Mr.. and MIS-.
Patrick Kerns of County street
Mrs. James D. Abercrombie and
daughter, Frances, of Greenfield Wis
tied Mrs. AberCrombie' parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry s. Bingham over
Thursday.
The funeral of Edward F. Kelly
was held from his late home Thurs
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev.
G. S. Mills of the Second Congrega-
tional church ofiiciated
A special large reduction on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday on all
mems, ladies' and children's ready
made clothing and furnishings. On
every dollars worth of goods sold at
our store during those three days.
you will surely save from 10 to 20
cents. Joe Levin, cor. North and
River streets. Tel. 253-W. Adv.
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would cure me also. am los
ing flesh rapidly and the doctors say
have every symptom Of Brights
disease of the kidneys. II you think
/ would be benefited by Peruna I will
certainly try some as the doctors have
practically given me up. the same as
they did him."
In reply / wish to say. first. that
never make any promises as to what
Peruna will cure. No physician can
make positive statements of that sort.
/ can say this much, however, IL I
were In your place / should certainly
give Peruna trial. / know of no
other remedy that would be so likely
to be of use to you in your present
condition as Peruna- Take table
spoonful before each meal and at bed
time. Continue this for two or three
weeks and then IL there is anything
you wish to ask me further write me
and 1 will give your letter prompt at
tentton.
II / find that the Peruna Is not
helping you I will be perfectly frank
and tell you so. for would not have
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helping you. But it has rescued so
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Kidney disease begins with catarrh
of the Kidneys. Peruna is a catarrh
remedy. Unless the destruction Of the
kidneys Is already too great Peruna
relieves the catarrh and the cause OF
the kidney disease is removed.
shall anxiously await report OF
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sacredly confidential / never use any
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THESE ARE SOME BABIES
Combined Ages of the Two 40 Months
and Their weight 1874 Pounds.


"a baby 26 months old registering
the extraordinary weight of 127
pounds is almost beyond belief, Says
writer in the Strand, were 1t not
I the fact that l found one living
With its parents not 20 miles from
the center of the city of Ottawa
= he fact becomes more amazing
when it is stated that the baby in
question has younger brother which
shows ely promise of following in
the same markable path of growth
for though I is only IA months old
its present weight is nearly 81
pounds.
For the purrcse of comparison it
may be added IL he average baby
boy at 26 months old is doing well If
it weighs 80 pounds and one at IA
months is doing likewise if ii weighs
% pounds. The parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Bres, come of an old coun-
try French family.
THE elder child, which bears the
name of John, was quite normal
baby at birth, weighing only five
pounds. 1t was fed by the bottle
anu Ohig uCNCtOpCu ITO cAtId-
ordinary growth about IL months ago.
1t is perfectly healthy and has always
slept well, but can only walk with
assistance, the weight of the body be
ing too great for the legs 1t is
eating something pretty well all of
the day and before going to bed
drinks quart and a half of milk and
during the night a further pint of
cold water.
"A baby carriage of ordinary dimen
sions cannot contain John, but a
wheelbarrow comfortably fitted up
serves as an ideal substitute. The
parents are naturally deeply attached
to their bouncing babies and have
sternly rebuked several spectators
who have CHANGED TO make them Of
fers to exhibit their children. The
measurements of John are interesting
being chest, 40 inches; thigh, %
inches; biceps, Tx inches; leg be-
low knee, Is inches, while his height
is about "a inches"
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four or five days at a
time every month,
and so weak / could
hardly walk. l had
cramps, b ack a CHI e
and headache, an d
was so nervous and
weak that ] dreaded
to see anyone or
have anyone move in
the room. The doc
tors gave me medi-
cine to ease me at