The Washington herald., 1920-09-19
The SsInt.Gaudens home, once a
Shaker meeting houes

tarism, though ! do not know of it havins
been before shown in sculpture. As Mill
tarism" is peculiarly the mothers TRAGEDY,
this is peculiarly the wife's. The womsns
figure is half kneeling, supporting her bus
band. who lies helplessly unconscious. There
is nothing jovisl about this side of drunken
ness-I dare say there never is, to wife and
children, anything jovisl shout the home
coming of a drinking man. In the woman's
face there is not g resigned grief, but pas
sionate protest, and over her shoulder peer
the children at their fatber-bst frightened
half fascinated.
Below, like the sinister root Of these evils
that rob women Of their men, crouch the
grotesque symbolic figures of Greed"
"Domination Of Force" and Love Of Lux
ury" and Hereditary Privilege" Coming
from them is their evil crop-war, pestilence,
poverty, child labor and many another
misery. Yet the outlook is hope-lovs,
brotherhood, cooperation being the solu-
tion-snd Salvation" is to come through
love. 1t Is a fine conception and an essen
tisIly feminine one. We have had masculine
methods and masculine ideas in running this
old world Of ours so long, We might try the
feminine for a change.
Annette Saint Gaudens's most recent work
is again an expression Of convictions aud
another aspect of war-the misery Of the non
cOmbataDts. The group is called simply 'EU-
rope, Winter 1920" The old man, the pro-
tector Of the little group, raises bis band
half in prayer, half in helpless anger toward
heaven which seems as brass above him.
The woman's face is apsthetic and hopeless,
nd IN al kor
figure. and close TO her crowd the thin, piti-
full children. The sculpture is vivid and
forceful and expresses far more poignsntly
than many paragraphs the misery and DESC
lation of those who in every wsr-rsvssed
country suffer by the conflicts we in
America have not suffered In this war.
MRS. SAINT -GAUDENS has the pioneer
Nl courage and the pioneer ability 80 rare
nowadays TO live simply, to cut supposed
necessities down to actual ones, and to 90
ahead coDtentedly and undisturbed about
the real business Of life-which she takes to
be the putting across Of ones convictions by
whatever medium belongs TO one Hers !,
sculpture-so she expresses herself in that.
Among the arts, sculpture has always lent
itself 20 the mans viewpoint. Since the
first triumphal arch WIS erected and before
that, when the Assyrisns and the ancient
Babylonians carved on the walls the record
Of their victories, the mans side Of war has
been glorihed, the bravery Of the soldier has
been sung. Perhaps il is time we had q looL
at the womsn's side, in which there is NJ
glory. only pain, for women feel the full
value Of the human sacrifice ne me, oo,ro,
The work of binding wounds, Of patching
broken lives has always belonged to women.
1t has always been her business in a smaller
sphere to repair, ts mske anew, 10 rerpolE
little nearer TO II. Hearts Desire. Now
that she has chance to try her hand nj
the larger scope, nothing less in fact than
the Scheme Of Things Entire, the sam. in
Stinct is at work. Of this definite purpos. a,
women in 1920 Annette Saint -GsudeDs',
work is very eloquent