Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-06
Notes of Interest
From State Museum,


/ ESPECIAL coHRHsPohpEHcE 70 MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Zee, Dec 5.-The Santa Fe
! exhibit one of the best thus far at the
| Old Palace. was taken down today to
make way for the Carl Born exhibit
Somewhat similar in human inter-
/ est to the clay playthings upon which
1 the Impression Of the tiny fingers Of
children a thousand and more years
ago may still be noted, that are on
exhibit In the Puye room, is the wood
en- doll more than 5000 years Old,
IN the British museum. In a sarco-
phtfgus in Egypt, arehaeologists
found the mummy Of a seyen-year-
old princess and in her arms was the
little wooden don The inscription
gave the name, rank and age Of the
girl and the date Of her death but
said nothing about the quaint little
wooden Egyptian doll This, however,
told its own story 1t was so tightly
clasped in the arms Of the mummy
that II was evident that the child had
died with her beloved doll in her
arms
'MeXico's Leading Men" was the
topic Of another one Of DR.. Frederick
L. Monsen's lectures at Los Angeles
"A few days ago and was delivered be-
fore the ProXimo club He is expect
ed to lecture shortly before the Santa
Fe society of the Archaeological Insti-
tute, on the Spanish pioneers.
The Banking Law journal for De-
cember publishes a fine portrait of
Willard V. King, president of the Co
lumbia Trust company Of. New York
City and for many years treasurer of
the Archaeological Institute Of Amer
lea who spent the summer with his
family in Santa Fe and among the
cliff dwellings His bank has Just de-
clared a cash dividend Of $1,000 600
and increased It's capital stock from
81 100000 to $5,0O0OOO.
Madame Vera dc Blumenthal,
member Of the Santa Fe society Of the
Archaeological Institute, who spends
her summers I'm Santa Zee and winters
In Pasadena, furnished the Russian
costumes and properties for the two
act drama, "A Russian Honeymoon,
by Eugene Scribe, and Mrs. Burton
Harrison, produced by the students of
the Hollywood, Calf, high school.
Or Paul Radln, who has Just re-
turned from Columbia university,
publishes in the New Republic for last
week, a thoughtful essay on "The Ma
tive Problem in Mexico
Mrs. W. F. Henderson of Santa Fe
has in press an anthology of modern
verse. Poetry" of which she is an
associate editor, in the December
number prints several virile poems
under the head, Modern Lamenta-
tons by John Gould Fletcher, who
some yrs ago was at the Puye with
the summer school Of American Ar
chaeology.
w. u. Henderson has completed
series Of pastels with the dances at
Taos and Cochiti as the time. In the
color arrangement, movement and
composition, they are superb and will
serve as sketches for ambitious paint
ings that promise TO create a furore.
lie has also finished a fine painting
Of san Miguel's church, that conveys
the full values Of its primitivoness, of
its being part Of the earth out Of
which II has grown as contrasted with
bits of oriental coloring and life that
seems TO have been transported from
Andalusia only Yesterday,
The following registered at the mu-
scum r. -, Anderson, sulphur
Okla. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas p Tale, /
French, n. NJ, Thomas T., Pharo, !
HERNIA c.. Pharo Kremling, Colo: S. !
+. Fletcher, S. Tanner Blackfoot, !
Ida, L. w. Hicks and wife, Belen, |
N. NJ.