Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-06-22
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Magazine Artislss BY tie Misses Warner

Magazine 4riisleS BY tbs Misses Warner
The Misses Frances and Gertrude
Warner. daughters Of Judge and Mfs.
f. NJ Warner, south Main street,
hsve recently had magazine articles
accepted and published by Two high
Glass, standard publications. These
ere not the first articles from the pens
CT the Misses Warner 10 nppeaf in
print a. they have for some time been
receiving recognition Of their literary
Talents in one msgszine or another.
fn the June number Of the Century
Magazine viii be found a little story,
sEndieoli and I Go Sketehing," BY
Miss Frances Lester Warner. The
tale is built uniquely around a series
Of six outline sketches and would lead
one 70 believe that they, The sketches,
are done b the husband, The aife tell
ing how the sketches were made and
Nby they we're made and Of being
urged herself to sketch in order 10 pre-
serve her vision Of the world, as the
tale unfoids.
10 this the reader is somewhat mis-
led, a. readers are apt 20 be misled in
this regard . story teilefs, for while
The tale Is a s'tfue story Is Is often
urged BY authors, the characters in
ibis tale are q Blt mixed, that Is, It 50
appears when the truth Is known As il
aas become known, to Us, and viii
nov be made known by Us to you.
When ~e tell you that the bold,
dashing strokes Of an apparently yer
satile pencil, creating in their com.
posite whole the impression created
upon the mind Of the artists woman,
II man, windmill, aud even ducks
aud chickens that appear 10 be hurry
Ing home 10 feost ia thfee-and a.
hslf-story house where one may well
imagine there are carpets on the floor
and even piano IN the parlor, were
made by our fellow towBsman, Judge
+. NJ. Warner, perhaps for the moment
you Will be astonished, but only for
the moment as you realize that it is
second nature 10 the judge 10 keep an
exact and complete record Of all things.
However 1t is 50. Some Of the sketches
were made many-not such great
many--years ago when Mf. Warner
and his bride were en- their wedding
tnp. These were followed by others
made while Nudge Warner and his
wife were enjoying vacations together,
and In one sketch it IS evident that
they possibly had the real author
along.
Thus we reveal talents heretofore
"bidden beneath bushei4 10 the
world and bring from obscufily the
possessor of these talents, undeveiopcd
though they have been allowed to re-
main, possibly through lack q proper
appreciation and encouragement as is
suggested by The story Itself.
"The Return Of A, b, e, by Ger
kiuut &nhhhiEt " aihNif dBGthta III
the current issue Of The Outlook. This
story, too, Is In lighter vein but im-
presses the reader strongly with the
suthor's conviction that the departure
from the Primer so generally used in
the days of the little red schoelhouse
is all wrong That little Tony in his
inst struggle TO master words Is much
COMPOUNDED, confused, and little en-
lightened by such rs: THE Ginger
breadboy went ,clickety claek down
the road, " while his more fortunate
pTogenitors, with faces sgiow with the
association of such words as &C at,
rat, hen, pig" ct cetern, with the
eat, rat, pig, hen, they actually knew
"a existing, more ensily gfasped the
inlricaeies Of words, phrases, and the
association Of words and phrases with
their concrete obl els TO the delight OF
their fond teachers and fonder parents
IL, the story, is a prayer for the return
Of the much needed a, b, {.