The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-12

as hard a time living down its repu-
tation for westerness as Boston has in
living down its reputation for intel
lectuality.
The strangest part of it is that arts
which have nothing to do with Indians
or the west have strayed to Santa Fe
in the wake of those which have.
Albin Poiasek, the sculptor, who has
been commissioned to make the
Thomas memorial for Chicago. has
come to Santa Fe to do the work. He
says it will cost Chicago about a thou
sand dollars more that way, but that
the delightful climate of Santa Fe will
enable him to do a better job. AS
santa Fe lacked q studio big enough
for the work. he has rented a negro
Methodist church for the purpose,
giving it a new coat of whitewash,
and converting 1t into "a modern
studio.
A we'll known teacher of the plano
is also in Santa Fe this SUMMER with
seven of his pupils, and it is said that
he contemplates founding a summer
school of music here. Several poets
have settled in Santa Fe for the sum
mer. and Mary Austin, the well known
novelist, is here now finishing a novel.
In addition to all of these. Santa
Fe produces home talent. Mrs. William
Baker, who writes under the name of
Ruth Laughlin, and who has done dis
tinguished work as an archaeologist IN
the southwest and in Central America,
was born in Santa Fe, and lives here,
her picturesque home being one of the
centers about which local artistic and
literary society revolves. She is
vigorous protagonist of the movement
now on foot in Santa Fe to build all
homes and public buildings in the
pueblo and mission styles of architec-
ture, thus rescuing the town from the
brick and frame monotony of ugliness
which characterizes the rest of
America. A good many structures
built of cement in these antique styles
have already made their appearance
Some of them are really pretty and
the worst of them are at least surpris-
ing.
, Altho he is not intimately connected
with the highbrow movement. it would
be a mistake TO draw a picture of
modern Santa Fe without putting in
Mr.. J. S. Candelario. proprietor OF that
remarkable store known as the Curios-
ity Shop. Mr.. Candelario and his
store from a link between modern
Santa Fe and its past. He has an old
document to prove that his ancestors
traded some deer and fox hides for the
land upon which his store now stands.
in the year 1903. The Candelarfo
family has been conducting some sort
of a store or trading post on that bit
of land ever since. In 1880. when
the Indians drove all the Spaniards
out of the country. except those they
killed. the Candelarios stayed un-
moIested because they were Indians
themselves. Mr.. Candelario says he
Is three-quarters Pueblo Indian. He
does not look II. having the manners
and physiognomy of Spanish gen.
tleman, with rather light complexion
and partly bald head. Both Of these
latter characteristics he attributes to
the fact that he has spent all of his
life in his store, instead of working out
in the sun like other Indians. He
might be described. according to his
own theory. as a slightly shop-worn
Indian.
His shop contains tons and bales
and towering shelf-loads and great
festoons of Indian and Mexican goods
of all kinds. Some of the goods in
this store have been on the shelves
over two hundred years. As their
value tends to increase with age. there
is no advantage in a quick turnover.
If an artist wants anything in the
way OF local color which he cannot
find in the surrounding country, Mr..
Candelario can supply It.