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Evening star., 1921-02-20

What promises to be one OF the most
interesting exhibitions of the sea-
son-paintings by Philip Laszlo-will
open in the Corcoran Gallery of Art
next Saturday. February 26.
Philip Laszlo is one of the most dis
tinguished living portrait painters.
He was born in Budapest. Hungary,
but has for many years lived in Eng
land and is a naturalized British citi-
zen.
Some years ago, perhaps as many as
fifteen, Mr.. Laszlo visited this coun-
try and spent a short time in WASH
ington, painting a number OF portraits
here of distinguished persons. He is
sumably resting and finding recrea-
tion. but he plans to revisit the
limited States, and, among other cities.
Washington, later in the season.
The exhibition will comprise forty
four paintings. the majority of which
are of notable persons, such as Col.
Roosevelt. the late Robert Bacon and
Ambassador Willard. The Roosevelt
portrait was painted in Paris at the
time of Col. Roosevelt's brief sojourn
there on his way home from Africa.
Most of the portraits have come di-
rectly from Europe and are being
| shown here for the first time in this
country.
A collection of forty etchings by
Donald Shaw mclaughlin was
placed on exhibition in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art yesterday. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin is a Boston man and by
! most of our American etchers.
His work is uniformly good. He
! is an excellent craftsman and fully
! master of his craft. There is sim
| cerity and gravity about his work
which gives it permanent value. Pos
| sibly Mr.. MacLaughlin's etchings lack
the brilliancy and spontaneity which
| is associated with the best work IN
| this medium, but this to a great ex-
| tent is matter OF temperament
is rarely the heritage of a New
Englander. Therefore. it Is rea-
| sonable that the distinguishing char
acteristics of Mr.. MacLaughlins work
| should be Intellectual quality anu re-
| straint. BY connoisseurs, his etcn-
| ings are highly priced. Quite num-
ber are owned by the Library Of Con-
gress and he is represented In almost
| all of the principal print collections.
| both private and public in this
| country.
| An exhibition of paintings by two
| Boston artists, Gertrude Fiske and
| Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, is now
| in progress at the Washington Arts
| Club. 2017 I street.
| Miss Fiske has made a speciality of
portraits and figures. Miss Roberts
| has recently specialized in painting
pictures OF seaside beaches enlivened
| by figures.
Reviewing an exhibition Of Miss
| Fiske's paintings held recently In tne
| gallery of the Guild of Boston Ar
| fists, william Howe Downes. art critic
| of the Boston Transcript, said: Her
| pictures are essentially of the sug-
gestiye rather than the descriptive
| order. Her method. varying Wldeiy IN
successiye essays, are fluid. not liked.
To each motive she brings the kind OF
treatment that tho peculiarities OF the
subject demand. Her color is often OF
| a singular beauty. and then again, II
| is somewhat lacking in distinction. In
/ her drawing. too, she manifesto at
lhme3 y remarkable instructive sense
Evening star., 1921-02-20
Delivering the Goods.
BELIN, the invento1

EDoUARD BELIN. the inventor Of
Photography by wire. said ut .
dinner in New York:
''Of course. the transmission of
photographs by wire was thought
out before my time. But my prede-
cessors. though their theory was all
right, could not put it into practice.
So nothing much came OF their work.
for an inventors hackers insist on
the prompt delivery of the goods.
AN inventor can't treat his back
ers as Whistler. the painter. treated
his sitters. One of Whistler's sitters.
you know. was in a hurry to have
her portrait. Finally she said:
Now, Mr.. Whistler. you've been
at work on this portrait Of mine .
very long time. When will It be An-
jshed and deliveredr
Ferhaps never mA'am. 49,
Whistler calmly. s
Evening star., 1921-02-20
News and Notes of Art and Artists

even greater maturity Of talent than
the paintings. An etched self-portrait
also deserves special commentator.
In fact, all of the examples OF this
artists work gave evidence OF ex-
treme sensitiveness to beauty.
An exhibition Of works by Swiss
artists opens in the Brooklyn. n. u
Museum tomorrow afternoon. with a
private view and reception. This ex-
hibition was organized and has been
sent to this country by the Swiss gov
ernment, and is the first compre-
hensive exhibition Of Swiss paintings
seen in the United States.
The Swiss minister and Nine. Peter
will be present at the private view.
when the exhibition will be formally
opened by the minister.
One hundred and seventy exhibits
are included. These are divided into
works Of deceased Swiss artists of the
nineteenth century, the works OF CO.
temporary living painters, and, third.
wSss Of ssson sss oae pae
Of paintings by Boecklin. who is, 1t
will be remembered. also claimed by
Germany and whoae work. was in
cluded in the German exhibition
| ago through the instrumentality of
wealthy American Of German birth.
This exhibition, after being seen in
Brooklyn, will make a tour Of the
American museums. going first to the
! Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, and then here to the
!Corcoran Gallery of Art.
4 X -
The National Academy Of Design
will hold it's ninety-sixth annual ex-
hibition in the galleries Of the Amer
lean Fine Arts Society 215 West 57th
| street. New York, from March to
April 8.
AS the winter exhibition was omit
ted this year because the galleries
were not in a condition for use. owing
I to disastrous fire, this exhibition
will prove of more than usual i'm
portance. Prizes which should have
been given at the winter exhibition
will be awarded as the regular prizes
given at the annual exhibition, and
also a very considerable amount
which has accrued from the Ranger
fund will be expended by the trustees
of this fund in paintings by Ameri-
can artists.
X :. 4
The National Association of Woman
Painters and Sculptors will hold irs
Ithirtieth annual exhibition in the An
tderson Galleries, New York, from
February e3 to March 0, inclusive
LEILA MECHLIN.
Evening star., 1921-02-20

was boasting about British posses
sions.
The sun never sets on them.'' he
said, proudly.
NO" replied the Irishman. "the
Lords afraid to trust England in the
dark" haughterD
You have probably read lot in the
papers lately about the r. II. problem
and what would / do about it when
get in office l think l can best make
my position clear by telling You a
little story. They was women set
ting near the other one in a parlor
Evening star., 1921-02-20

ufactured suits. it is hardly in dam
ger of losing prestige higher up.
Flannels are less likely to acquire
too great popularity. For one thing.
they do not lend themselves to such
a wide variety of suits. Nothing is
smarter a the southern resorts than
the suit of gray-and-black strlped
flannel. You need hardly be told
that this was launched in France.
Evening star., 1921-02-20

IN n
car. and one of them ast the porter to
open the window and the other one
protested and says:
"If you open that window I Will
freeze to death"
So the other one says. '1f you
don't open that window 1 will suffo-
cate"
So Geo. didn't kow what to do so he
ast a man what to do and the man
Evening star., 1921-02-20

the suit Is sold or made with these
accessories incorporated in it, but ac-
cessories they remain. being made
separately from the suit and easily
removable.
The suit made without .revers is
meeting with success. The revers
come in in the gilet or collar that is
worn with it-these sometimes made
OF piQue and again Of bright-colored
silk fabric.
reveal well chosen blouses or sepa-
rate waistcoats. The coats are never
double-breasted, in fact, many don't
fasten, sometimes being held together
only by means of link buttons of onyx
| and silver. A waistcoat that looks
very much like that worn with a
mans evening coat is meeting with
great favor at one Of the best houses.
The term directoire. as applied to
suits this spring, may mean a va
riety of things. 1t is a term that has
been used glibly enough to apply
merely to a distinctive type of suit as
well as merely to certain trimming
accessories. and before the spring
wakes and wanes it will doubtless be
banded about in the mouths of those
who wear and sell suits until we shall
have to revive some other term to
, of clothes worn during the period
when Napoleon was beginning his
brilliant military career just before
the empire.
One we'll known American house,
that creates clothes for the few and
cares not a whit for the many, has
produced type of suit that its
designers speak Of as a modified di-
rectoire, using the term transition as
il they expected to launch something
more purely directoire later on. The
essentials of this suit are extremely
ight-fitting sleeves, with a very
slight fare at the wrist; straight,
scant skirt. with a jacket showing a
slightly raised waist line, parting or
| merely linked together at the front.
Often these suits are made without
revers, the collar finish being supplied
| by waistcoat or gi,et with high collar
faring up around the throat like a
Gala lily. Sometimes the jacket ex-
| tends only to the hips. In one or two
| most distinctive models the coat
hanging perfectly smooth and plain
| from a slightly raised waist line, ex-
tends quite to the bottom of the rath
ler short skirt. For the skirts in
| these suits are not perceptibly longer
| than those we have been wearing
Perhaps a longer skirt is to be part
| of the more definitely directoire mode
| But for the transition directoire the
| fairly short skirt seems to prevail.
| Eminently a mode for the youthful
and the slender. you may say. Per-
| haps. and yet a certain singer who
weighs more than two hund red
pounds has recently ordered this
long coated directoire model made ur
in beige and so far from accentuatins
her girth. it gives her almost slender
proportions. Yet it is usually only
the slender woman and the woman oi
youthful figure who rejoice when the
iEigh-waisted straight lines of the di.
rectoire are suggested
! X X X X
! Whether or not one selects a sui
in place of a frock for the mainstay
for spring street wear sometimes
| wisely depends on whether or not one
can afford to have this made by &
good dressmaker or must be conten
Evening star., 1921-02-20

in wool.
- in II
ae.hss In
At rishtBak taheta
lhansw
in q
fs Of
In
Airsstsire
n In bow in 'front.'.
Evening star., 1921-02-20

Whether or not one selects a suit
in place of a frock for the mainstay
for spring street wear sometimes
wisely depends on whether or not one
can afford to have this made by a
good dressmaker or must be content
with getting something ready-made.
Is the more adjustable. for the ad-
justment may come in the Jacket as
nolkeaantha,, ,s1dft> IhaG1opEsKatnted
Evening star., 1921-02-20
WHY Not Get Laugh in the Inaugural Speech?'
By Ring w. Lardner.

n r. w. G. HARDING. Dear Sir:
!" l wrote you letter last wk.
to apply for the position of
Evening star., 1921-02-20

w YHEN tho men and women
ANf who furnish the brains and
initiative in the great in
duStry that produces wom-
Evening star., 1921-02-20

The National Association of Woman
Painters and Sculptors will hold it's
|thirtieth annual exhibition in the An
derson Galleries, New York, from
February e3 to March o. inclusive.
LEILA MECHLIN.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
LEO GETS MACSTAYS
STREET CLEANING JOB
Walsh, Also Tammany Man,
to Head Standards Board.

John =. Leo, chairman Of the Board
OF Standards and Appeals. was appoint
ed yesterday by Mayor Hylan to succeed
Arnold B MacStay as Street Cleaning
COMMISSIONS. Mr.. MacStay resigned
on account Of ill-health. The place pays
$500 a year
Capt Leo will be succeeded as head
Of the Board Of Standards and Appeals
by William II. Walsh q Tammany lieu
tenant now holding the place of real
estate appraiser In the Department Of
Finance. Who will take Mr.. Walsh's
place has not been announced
Mr.. Leo Is a captain in the National
Guard ana n colonel In the Police Re-
scrve. He has been an architect for
forty years and was appointed to the
board chairmanship by Mayor Hylan
three years ago. He gained some ex-
pcrience with Street Cleaning Depart
ment problems IN the heavy SHOWS Of
Inst winter. when Mayor Hylan named
him on n committee TO help Commits
slouer MacStay solve the problems Of
snow and ash removal that confronted
his department.
Concerning politics In his transfer.
Capt. Leo said he always has been a
politician Of the Tammany persuasion
and purposed TO remain such.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
QUITE SURE
HIS WIFE WAS UNFAIR
He Only Asked Her to Go and
DroUn Herself.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Jan. 5.-One's
wife should not give one tongue lash
ing simply because one returns home
drunk six or seven times, nor should she
get angry and seek a separation If one
retorts in kind and invites her to go out
and drown herself.
This was the defence offered here to-
day by James Hurst of Elmhurst. l.. l.,
before Supreme Court Justice j. Addison
Young in the suit of Mrs. Charlotte l..
Hurst of Mount Vernon for separation
and maintenance. Hurst denying that he
evr had threatened her life.
six or seven times Hurst testified,
II told her to go out and drown herself,
and then / called her names. but 1t was
always after she had given me tongue
lashing for nothing. and l guess was
drunk"
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
POTATO MILK JAGS
STOPPED BY SHERIFF
CowIess Trade Had Flour
ished in Waukegan, I'LL.

Special Despatch TO THE NEW YORK HEsALD.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.---The mystery of the
perpetual jag of q number of Wauke-
gan's citizens is solved. Potato milk
it was, and the kick-it was simply
grand-just like the good old days when
there were brass rails.
And all this JOY was delivered In bot
ties. right pit your front door, early
in the morning. But no more. Tony
Yucas, the man who had made this Won
der milk. and whose route grew with
such rapidity that regular milkmen
went broke. is out of business.
He got pinched to-day by the Sheriff
and at his dairy the officials found
several cans of potato milk" but not a
single COW.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
Germany Dye Secrets
Hid in Chemists Brains

DR. OTTO RUNGER and DIR.
Joseph Flaschslander, Ger
man chemists who arrived here
on Monday by the Holland
America liner Ryndam, were re,
leased from Ellis Island yester-
day after they had been searched
for secret formulas for making
valuable German dyes. They said,
as they tapped their foreheads,
that they had the formulas
there.
A board of special inquiry
found that the chemists had been
guNtless of doing anything for
which they might be excluded.
They had been held up on re-
quest from Germany. They will
be employed by the De Nemours
du Pont Company, which is plan
ming to manufacture dyes on
large scale.
The chemists said they had
acquired their knowledge of the
secret formulas" at the Univer-
sity of Munich. Their passports
were all right, and they declared
that there lad been no irregu-
larity in their leaving Germany.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
Not a Jiu-Jitsu Trick.

II don't know what the scientific ex-
planation is said she. "All | know is
that these powers have grown stronger
since ] was a child. through my reliance
upon the divine spirit that Is a part of
all of us. / never fail when l pray for
help from the power outside me. l didn't
do that when l was a little girl. but you
will remember that / then believed i'm
pllcitly In the Bible story"
Miss Abbott, who although still COM
paratively slight, has grown stouter since
she left the stage and who now weighs
perhaps 140 pounds, readily consented to
give an exhibition of her powers. At her
invitation the reporter readily lifted her
from the floor by placing his hands un-
Ger her arms. Then she asked him to
try again. The reporter, It should be
explained. is six feet tall and could lift
A 200 pound man. But this time. when
Miss Abbott had decided to keep her
feet. he could not so much as lift her
heels from the floor. He threw all his
strength into it. 1t was as though he
had tried to lift a 1000 pound safe. She
was immovable.
Miss Abbott laughed Then she placed
her palms against the wall, standing
at arms length from 1t, and invited
him to push her towards the wall. He
experienced much the sensation of try
ing to push over the Woolworth Build
ing.
Ten men in line have tried to DO
that" smiled Miss Abbott, "and have
had to give it up. SO don't feel sur-
.prised."
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
HE'S ARRIVED AT LAST:
OFFICIAL GOAT GETTER
Village to Take Goat Census,
Then Start Him Out.

PORT CHESTER. N Y, Jan 5.-This
village will have an official goat getter.
as the result of complaint by Nicola
Carucci. a wealthy property owner that
Nannies and Billies were wandering over
his premises, nibbling the shrubs and
barking the trees so that they died
Following Carlucci's complaint the VIII
lage board has decided to establish
goat pound, and Street Commissioners
Rocco Fava has been made poundmas-
ter.
Coincident with this announcement, 1t
Is said, goat census is TO be taken by
the police. Commissioner Fava says 1t
is not hard to catch the goats. but 1t is
hard to determine who owns the be-
whiskered trespassers.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
GEORGIA MAGNET
DUPLICATES FEATS
OF JOHyNYCOULON
Annie Abbott, Once a Great
Card in Vaudeville, De-
fies Mighty Litter.
CALLS POWER DIVINE
Puzzled the Scientists of
Europe Just as Prizefight-
er Is Doing Now.
PRODIGY AS A CHILD
First Discovered Her Strange
Gift Through a Quarrel
With Boy.
PRODIGY AS A. CHILD

New York, which has been listening
more or less incredulously to cabled ac-
counts from Paris Of the seemingly
miraculous feats performed there by the
American bantamweight boxer, Johnny
Coulon, last night discovered that it had
a Johnny Coulon of It's own--Annie Alb
bott, the quiet little woman who was
known to vaudevillegoers OF a genera
.tion ago as THE Little Georgia Mag
net"
Miss Abbott has retired from the stage
and has hidden herself in nook of
New York. but, for a reporter for THE
NEW YORK HERALD who hunted her out
last night, she performed feats which
seemed as astonishing as those which
are told of Coulon. and added her own
explanation of the power by which she
does them
Coulon. it will be recalled. is said to
have amazed the French by his power to
resist the attempts of the strongest men
to lift him from the floor, If he wills
them not to, although he weighs scarcely
more than 100 pounds. The foremost
scientists of France are said to have
flocked to witness his performances and
to have confessed themselves baffled by
his strange power.
When Miss Abbott began to display a
similar power, thirty years ago, when
she was a child of 10. she weighed less
than 100 pounds. For years her weight
did not exceed los pounds. and yet. when
she so willed It, she could lift chair In
which were seated several heavy men
and could resist the efforts of a dozen
men to bulge her by pushing against her
saf. H.. A..
a wall.
IL haven't seen any of the accounts
of Coulon's feats," she said last night.
land | am sure / cannot explain how
he accomplishes them. but 1 know very
well where | get the strength to ac-
complish mine It comes from the divine
power that is in every one.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06

collect only per cent, bur mat they
shall turn into the company's treasury
2 per cent OF the face amount OF all
bail bonds executed. What they collect
in excess of that does not interest u.s.
The officers also trust, they said i'm
plicity to Louis's judgment i'll the Sc
lection OF its risks, making no investiga-
tion themselves. What is a satisfactory
risk to Louis is all right for u.s." said
Mr.. Perdum.
1t was shown that year ago AS
sistant District Attorney Lavelle In
formed Mr.. Pcrdum that Joe" was pub
licly holding himself out as an accredited
agent for the New Amsterdam and that
neither he nor any of his $40 n week
subordinates were writing bonds for any
other company. Mr.. Lavelle may have
done So" Mr.. Perdum admitted but
If he did. that made no change In our
arrangements
William Markheirn, "Joe's" general
office man. who had been subpoenaed to
bring certain of Topper's books and
records from the office at 116 Centre
street. testified that Joe" refused to let
the documents be taken into court, and
had locked them up, saying they were
his personal property and not that OF
the New Amsterdam Company. Lewis
A. Abrams, who appeared as attorney
for Joe" Topper. sustained the refusal
and protested against the apparenseffort
of the John Doe" procedure ITO in
crimlnate his client through his own
books" Assistant District Attorney
Pecora made spirited reJoinder. but
the controversy went over until to-day's
session. Immunity to Topper was re-
fused.
When jewelry is accepted as collateral
indemnity, Perdum and McGinty agreed,
no effort whatever is made to check II
up with lists from police informations
to determine whether the collateral may
not actually be the loot stolen. In that
detail! also the company trusts implicitly
to Louis Topper. A
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
CATERPILLARS CRAWL,
SWEET PEAS ARE SOWN
Snakes and Sap Also Breathe
Spring in Winsted.

Special Despatch TO THE New yoeK HERALD.
W1NsTED. Conn, Jan. 5.--More har-
Fingers OF spring were reported to-day.
William Franz tapped a few maple trees
and reported that sap ran freely
The towns road scraper was working
on Lake street
A Goshen man reported having killed
twenty inch snake on the shore of
Whist Pond. He said the Eighteenth
Amendment Is rigidly enforced in his
town, but admitted that some Of the
cider had reached the snaky stage.
Mrs. Richard Soule of Norfolk saw n
caterpillar and called to her husband.
who discovered two more. He then
sowed q row OF sweet peas.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
CARUSO RESTS WELL;
DOCTORS OPTIMISTIC
FeUer Still Exists, but Tenor
Gets Sleep.

Encouraging reports regarding Enrico
Caruso We're given out last night at his
apartment In the Vanderbilt Hotel, al
though his condition remained about the
same. After his six physicians had held
Il consultation in the forenoon they is
sued the following bulletin:
Mr.. Caruso's condition remains essen
TALLY unchanged since yesterday. The
operative wound is in satisfactory shape.
The fever has not subsidized"
The doctors amplified the statement
by saying that he had passed good
night. with considerable natural sleep.
At a late hour last night II was said he
again was sleeping naturally.
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
REPENTS; RETURNS $1a5.
Conscience smites Horse THIEF AZ
ter Fifty-three Years.

RALEIGH, y. C.. Jan. 5.--A pang Of
conscience. more than a half century
overdue, netted w. G. Nanny Of Ruther-
ford county St35 yesterday, A letttr
registered from Tennessee contained the
money and the statement that the re-
pentant horse thief who sent It had sold
horse. stolen from Nanny's father-in-
law in 1857. for the amount transmitted
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
GOVERNOR SPEAKS TONIGHT.
VIII Address Conference on Phy-i-
cnI Care of school Children.

Gov. Nathan i. Miller will speak to-
night at the Hotel 81. Regis upon the
physical care OF public school children,
according to an announcement yesterday
by the Miueola Home for Cardiac Chill
dren. The occasion Is conference to
consider the problem presented by the
large number OF children who suffer
from cardiac defects. A recent survey
OF 10000 public school pupils showed
that 5000 were SO affected. II was said
Other speakers will be Bird s. Coler
Commissioners Of Public Welfare: Dr.
William T.. Ettinger Superintendent Of
Schools. and Or. John a. Harriss. spe-
clal Deputy Police Commissioner
supper will follow the meeting
The New York herald., 1921-01-06
OHIO WIDOWERS AND
WIDOWS FORM CLUB
Real Object Said to Be Re-
marriage of Members.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan. 5.-The Widowers
and Widows Social Club of Cuyahoga
County, through Charles Brenner of
Cleveland State Representative, fled
articles Of Incorporation with the Secre-
tary of State to-day.
The papers state the club is organized
for the educational and social benefit
Of its members" but Representative
Brenner stated that it was no secret
that its real object was to bring to-
gether lonely widows and widowers with
a view to mattimony.
Remarriage of any of the members
eliminates them from the club.