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The difficulty with a majority Of the
dog pictures Of today Is that this order
Is reversed. One Of the best etchings
Of dogs produced in recent times is,
without question, that by Sybilla
Weber Of two racing greyhounds,
entitled Speed" in which, with a
great economy Of line, the effect Of
swift, onward motion is perfectly sug-
gested. One recalls, too, the paintings
by artists Of the earlier English
school, of fox hunts, in which dogs
In action take prominent place. Again
, we are reminded that 1t Is all in the
way 1t Is done.
THE Division Of Fine Arts, Library
of Congress, has placed on view
a collection Of etchings by the late
Otto Henry Bacher. given by his
widow. Bacher was born in 1858 and
died in 1909. In Europe he attained
great reputation and was considered
one of our ab,est American etchers.
The London Times once referred to
him as "a most formidable rival of
Whistler" To his Venetian Series"
Seymour Haden gave high praise.
Bacher had the best and most distin-
guished masters-Duveneck, Carolus-
Duran, Boulanger. LeFebvre and
others-then Whistler and Blum, with
whom he worked In Venice. In fact,
he lived with Whistler in Venice and
wrote book OF reminiscence in con-
nection Herewith entitled, with
Whistler in Venice" published by the
Century Co. in 1908. Bacher was an
illustrator as we'll as an etcher and
his works frequently appeared in the
Century Magazine, but his illustra-
tions were less important than his
etchings. The etchings now on view
take their place in our steadily grow
ing national print collection, begun
by the late A. J. Parsons before 1900
and gradually built up by his sue
cessor. Prof. Rice. and Leicester B.
Holland, head Of the Department of
Fine Arts Of the Library Of Congress
ELIoT OHARA left Washington the
- middle Of the past week to motor
leisurely to Savannah, Ga, where,
under the auspices Of the Telfair
Academy. he will. beginning tomorrow,
conduct for q second season an inten-
sive three weeks course in water-color
painting. Later in the Spring Mr..
O'Hara will give similar course at
the University of North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill. During the present sea-
son, under Southern Art Projects, a
collection of 80 water colors by Mr..
O'Hara has been exhibited in cities
of Georgia-Augusta. Athens, Mil
| ledgeville and Valdosta. An exhibition
Of Mr.. O'Hara's water colors was
opened in the art gallery at Yale Uni
versity about a fortnight ago, and a
sequel to his book, How to Make
Water Colors Behave" which will be
entitled How to Make the Brush Be-
have" Is announced for publication
shortly.
AN EXHIBITION Of architectural
drawings of modern houses, by
Henry Klumb. opened at the Art
League of Washington, 1903 Twenty
first street northwest. February "a, to
continue to March II.
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EARLY SPRING BOOK FRESHET
Publishers Already Sending Out Some of the Seasons
Best tVolumes-Autobioeraphy by Francis Stuart
And Another Story of Russia

the most important symbols, and to
his contemporaries In that age, to
Carlyle, who liked him, but thought
he wrote "vaporous sentimentalism";
to Thackeray, with whom he quar-
relied; to Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Cock
burn and Lord Houghton, whose titles
he reversed. In fact, the re-creatsd
Victorian scene is one Of the chief
attractions Of MIR. Kingsmill's book.
Charles Dickens, novelist Of the
people, broad caricaturist, social re-
former, master of pathos and bathos
and of sentiment and sentimentality,
is not a hero to Mr.. Kingsmill.
Neither is he the complete cad he has
been made to appear through the
recent publication Of letters and other
data in connection with his separa-
ton from his wife. Mr.. Kingsmill
finds that Dickens was all his life a
chronic hypochondriac who drama
tized his own emotions and in so do
ing of course exaggerated them. He
probably never felt as deeply as he
tried to persuade himself that he felt.
His life was sentimental journey.
The poverty and child labor of his
boyhood made him long for wealth
and position and. specifically, fine
house, so when he attained his de-
sires and became the master of Gads
Hill, between Rochester and Crave
send. he was perhaps too complacent
for good taste. The failure Of his
marriage may be accounted for by the
psychological theory that he fell in
love with all three of the Hogarth
sisters, Mary and Georginia, as well
as Catherine-that is. to as great an
extent as was possible to him after his
love for Maria Beadnell, which left
him "an incurable emotional hypo-
chondriac" His self-pity through
life made him incapable Of genuine
pity for others, except for the char
acters in his books. His efforts to
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gineers' end, It was from vantage
point In the matter Of composition
and with the pictorial effect in mind.
In comparatively few instances
does this seem to have been true OF
these Autographs by Mr.. Woollett OF
the building of the Boulder Dam. One
Of these exceptions is No. 13, great
gate in solid rock wall which sug-
gests the entrance to an enchanted
castle and, incidentally, has a focal
center Of interest with lights and
shadows so distributed, or concen-
trated, that they produce unity Of
effect. The eye does not wander.
Another is No. 10, rising walls Of
rock like miniature mountains, beau-
tifully delineated, with the minimum
Of apparent effort and the maximum
Of charm In effect. Perhaps Mr..
Woollett was so absorbed in vera.
ciously recording this wonder of work
that he dared not allow his artistic
instincts free play. But the two are
not in reality antagonistic.
Mr.. Woollett has had an Interest,"
Evening star., 1935-02-24
Food Shortage Ayerted.
JAPANESE foresight has prevents

JAPANESE foresight has prevented
y a serious food situation. within the
island empire, threatened because Of
q shortage in rice production which
resulted in a crop lower than any
since 1918.
This years yield Of cleaned rice was
1926 100000 pounds. 81 per cent
under last years production, yet be-
cause of the policy Of the government
in laying up emergency stocks during
the past few years ample rice is on
hand to meet all needs.
The carry-over last year was in ex-
cess Of five billion pounds.
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the progress Of the large construction
projects in the Southwest. He has
exhibited In New York, at the En-
gineers' Club and Architectural
League. in Oslo, Norway. and in his
own State.
REGINNING tomorrow and continu-
ing to March "a, collection Of
etchings by Yngve Edward Soderberg
will be on view in the division of
graphic arts, Smithsonian Building.
Born in Chicago of Swedish parents
in 1896. Mr. Sodenberg studied first
at the Art Institute of that city and
then at the Art Students League in
New York. He has specialized in
etchings of sailing craft. inheriting.
no doubt, racial interest in the sea.
His studio is on an island near Mystic,
Conn.,, and there he keeps his own
boats. about which he likes to putter
and in which to sail. His "Jibbing
Around the Bouy" Is in the Art Insti-
tute Of Chicagos permanent collec-
ton. His work will be found to
speak for itself.
IN THE Junior League Club rooms,
1918 Connecticut avenue, an exhibi-
ton Of paintings and drawings Of
pure-bred dogs and sporting scenes,
by j. Duncan MacGregor, jr., will open
tomorrow. Mr.. MacGregor studied in
the School Of Fine Arts, Yale Univer-
sity, under Sidney Dickinson and
Eugene Savage, but he has specialized
with success in portraits of dogs.
These, 1t has been truly said, require
on the part Of the artist love of
animals and a knowledge of canine
anatomy, both Of which Mr.. Mac
Gregor is reported on good authority
to possess. Here, too. it is a question
Of subjective interest, not dominating,
but rather dominated by artistic effect.
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By Sarah Bo,Uerman.

By Sarah Bowerman.
THINGS TO LIVE FOR. Notes for
an Autobiography. By Francis
Stuart. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
TT USED to be that old men wrote
their autobiographies as the final
chapter in their life work. Many
/ Of them still do, but now also
young men write theirs in order
to give their views about the world
into which they have been projected
and to satisfy the natural craving for
expression of their personalities. Fran
els Stuart has already through f1c-
ton revealed personality dreamy,
emotional, rebellious against SNUG
conventionality. His four novels.
"Pigeon Irish" "Glory," "Try the
Sky" and 1.-THE Coloured Dome,
have also placed him in literature
among the young Irish mystics and
symbolists. He took part in the Irish
civil war Of recent years, was cap
tured by British government troops
and sent to Marlborough military
prison, which he assisted other pris-
oners in attempting to burn down.
went through hunger strike. learned
to fly in one Of the first civil airplanes
to come to Ireland, has worked at
Lourdes as brancadier for sick pill
grims. has run a poultry farm, trains
race horses and keeps one or two
when financial circumstances per-
nit" and writes books. And, since
he was born in 1902, he has done all
this in SO years.
'"Things to Live For" gives no con-
nected story of his life. 1t gathers
from the depths and shadows of his
memory the experiences which have
affected him most profoundly. either
intellectually or emotionally, with
pain, indignation, repulsion. Joy. rare
ecstasy. He is In love with life; the
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only complete catastrophe for him Is
deafness. Protecting oneself against
life Is not peace, but death. OF all the
strange varied people have met it
has not been the sinners, the de-
graded, the drunkards, the gamblers,
the crooks. the harlots, who have made
me shudder, but the dead. the re-
spectacle dead; cut off like branch
from the tree" He finds children
more interesting than grown people.
and his own recollections of childhood.
of mysterious, emotional. fantastic
childhood" are poetry rather than
prose. Boyhood days at Rugby. when
women seemed goddesses, homesick-
ness for the boglands of Antrim was
acute, and the pigeonholes of his desk
were filled with his early literary
compositions, now seem to him remote.
Racing he has always found ''the
best game Of ALL" one method Of re-
storing zest to life. always when
life gets a little stale, little tarnished.
I feel I must go out, go out and do
something to recapture that sense of
adventure, of romance. Buy a race
horse. go on pilgrimage, write
great novel, see new places. And
always it works"
One Of his most ecstatic experiences
was in serving the sick pilgrims at
Lourdes. In all the manifestations of
suffering humanity, some already
claimed by the grave. he saw the
Image of the cross" He has fallen
in love so that life glowed and shone
and sang" Writing novels he has
found almost as adventurous as
race or a fight or falling in love-
With all his tremendous vitality and
love Of life, he accepts illness and
physical pain as part Of life. But
why cling so tenaciously to health? I
ask myself. If my object in life is to
have a good time, to have fun to
amuse myself, then certainly to be i'll
is terrible. But that is not my object.
What I want from life is much more
than all that. And to gain 1t I am
ready to risk all. What want ulti-
mately Is that inner serenity which
can only be won at a great price. and
pain and illness are few more chips
thrown onto the table" In what
sometimes seems, If judged by con-
temporary literature, world of dis
illusioned youth, Francis Stuart stands
apart from the pessimists. con-
vinced and deliberate romanticist. in
love with life. ITO me there has
been no such thing as disillusionment.
Always in life the nearer I have ap-
preached the truth, the more inspir-
ing have found It," It Is q pleasure
to turn from some Of the styleless
egotistic outpourings which are pub
lished in such numbers to the dis
closure Of q rare personality like that
of Francis Stuart, offered In poetic
prose Of great charm.
THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. A
Life of Charles Dickens. BY Hugh
Kingsmill. New York: William
Morrow & Co.
CAMUEL JOHNSON became a con-
- ceited, testy, greedy. multiple
diseased, lonely, extravagantly gen.
erous eccentric, as well as the great
photographer and idol of Boswell,
under the hands of Mr.. Kingsmill
Charles Dickens is here treated with
the same regard for patent facts and
the same lack Of reverence and dis
carding of tradition. Mr.. Kingsmill
likes q faulty human being better
than an embalmed paragon and takes
it for granted that his readers do also.
He relates Dickens to the Victorian
age, Of which be has become one Of
Evening star., 1935-02-24
MAY AID NATIONAL GALLERY
Proposed Andrew Mellon Gift Expected Definite Step
Toward This Dream of Years-Great Collection Would
Be Supplemented by Other Doners

Later, when the great triangle plan
was made, new site was selected for
q National Gallery and new, better
plans sketched at the suggestion Of Mr..
Mellon. That site has been used, and
again it is suggested that the National
Gallery be placed on the Mall in
the vicinity of the Museum. But
wherever it is, it will be welcome.
In our present swift moving life the
need Of those things Of the spirit--art,
music, literature-is greater than
ever before and it is Mr.. Melons rec
ognition Of this fact which has un-
doubtedly induced his proposed gift.
Mr.. Mellon has unquestionably pur-
chased under the best advice, but, in
herently, he is an art lover. To him
more than many collectors, the paint
ings which he has acquired have artis-
tic significance, are beloved for them
selves, known through intimate asso-
citation and sensitive perception,
valued accordingly. To this percep-
ton and understanding the quality of
the collection is largely due, and
through 1t the spirit of the gift finds
expression.
TWENTY oil paintings and 10
water colors by Mary Butler,
president Of the fellowship Of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
were placed on exhibition in the Arts
Club, 2017 I street northwest, last
Sunday afternoon, and they make all
excellent showing. The oil paintings
are hung in the gallery and are very
effective. broadly painted with full
brush, extremely virile and direct. For
the most part these are mountain pic
tures, painted in the Canadian
Rockies. in Norway, in the Pyrenees
and elsewhere. Not such mountains
as we see here In the East. with gen.
tie slopes. tree clad or carpeted with
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ing career. Born In Albany, he re-
ceived his general education in the
schools of California and studied
architecture at the University Of Min
nesota. For a time he worked in
the Office of James Gamble Rogers,
in New York, but since 1880 he has
been associated with his father, Will
liam Lee Woollett, architect, of Los
Angeles. For the last five years he
has been chiefly engaged in recording
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help others nearly always took the
form of q dramatic performance, or
an after-dinner speech. Few phil
anthropists escape the suspicion of
being more interested in themselves
than in the objects of their benevo-
lence, and Dickens was particularly
open to this suspicion"
Mr.. Kingsmill traces some Of the
numerous photographed elements
in Dickens novels. David Copperfleld"
is generally accepted as the most
nearly photographed of the novels,
with Dickens himself as the hero and
Mr.. Micawber representing his father.
Dickens told friends that all his i'm
portant characters were copies from
life. Little Nell was identified in his
fancy with Mary Hogarth; Mrs. Camp,
one Of the most popular of his comic
characters, was doubtless suggested
by some of the nurses who attended
Mrs. Dickens in her frequent confine-
ments; Mr.. Dombey, the wealthy
merchant, was "the type Dickens
most esteemed. and in his practice,
allowing for his peculiar tenpera-
ment, most resembled"; Georgina
Hogarth was probably the model for
Rachael in Hard Times; Maria
Beadnell was in his mind when he
drew Dora, the child-wife, and in his
mind again as Mrs. Winter. at 40,
when he drew Flora Finching in
Little Dorrit." who causes her old
lover to shudder when he views her
bulky form, and Ellen Ternan, the
woman whose name was associated
with Dickens at the time of his sep
aration from his wife and after, un-
doubtedly furnished the characters
Of Bella Wilfer. Estella and Helena
LandleSs, in "Our Mutual Friend"
"Great Expectations" and 1.-THE Mys-
terry Of Edwin Brood" the novels
written by Dickens during the last 10
years Of his life. Mr.. Kingsmill has
written a most interesting interpre-
tative biography, with emphasis on
personality, not literary criticism,
based on secondary sources, neither
very scholarly nor fictionized, a de-
cidedly readable book.
DICKENS. BY Andre Maurois. Trans
lated by Hamish Miles. New York:
Harper & Bros.
THE half Of this work on Dickens
which Is devoted to his life and
specific works is so brief as to be al
most an outline and contains little
either Of fact or Interpretation which
is new. Monsieur Maurois, following
his practice in the case of his Byron"
"Disraeli" and "ArieT" (Shelley), has
drawn his material from the best ex-
isting biographies Of his subject and
makes no claim to the discovery Of
new material from original sources.
The value of all his work is to be found
in his crisp, ironic style, which is con-
veyed even in translation. and In his
French point Of view applied to Eng
lish notables. In this case the most
important part Of his book is the lat
ter half, in which he gives his own
estimate of Dickens and the Art Of
the Novel" and "The Philosophy of
Dickens"
The studies which make up the
volume were written in 1927 and M.
Maurois gives as his reason for pub
fishing them now that the recent pub
lication Of certain letters and docu-
ments (those concerning Dickens
separation from his wife) has caused
critics and biographers to depict the
character Of Dickens in a rather un-
pleasing light" 'as vain, unjust and
even-a serious accusation against the
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Of II etchinps was lent by Benson B.
Moore. These are all Of small dimen-
sions, but interesting subjects and
themes such as "Old Wharf in Wash
ington Channel" I'm Washington
Harbor," Tidal Basin, Evening""
winter on the Upper Potomac" and
"Sycamores, Upper Potomac" all in
dicative of the abundance of pictorial
material close at hand and also the
etcher's indefatigable search for
beauty in composition and effect. Two
Of these prints are of birds-"Ruffed
Grouse" line etching, and "Ameri-
can Bald Eagle" done in tone, both
skillfully rendered. What more worth
while souvenir Of Washington and
its environs could one find than these
delightful little etchings, priced, by
the way, SO low that even those Of
slender purse may acquire them?
A COLLECTION Of Autographs Of
Boulder Dam, by William Woolett
Of Los Angeles, was placed on exhibi-
ton in the Natural History Building,
United States National Museum, Feb
ruary IA to continue to March 1.
These SO large-size prints represent
two or three years work on the part
Of the photographer, who is an archi-
tect by profession, and shows this gi-
gantlc piece Of engineering almost
from its inception to completion.
Primarily, these Autographs are illus
trative and their greatest interest Is
subjective. To each is affixed short
explanatory note which makes 1t pos
sible for the visitor to know what
1t is all about. And how stupendous
this work is, paralleling to an extent
that other herculean engineering feat,
the building Of the Panama Canal!
In these Autographs one sees the
work viewed from various angles
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
St. Andrews

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Frederick
and family were in Wenattchee
Saturday.
Miss Neva Jenkin daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jenkin and
Mr.. Clifford Jolly, son of Mr.. Will
lis Jolly, both of st. Andrews were
quietly married in Davenport Sat.
Sept. Id. They were accompanied
by Miss Velma Jenkin, sister of
the bride, and Miss Nell Jolly, sis
ter OF the groom and Mr.. Elmo
Tanneberg. Mr.. and Mrs. Jolly are
both we'll known here and we Join
their many friends in wishing them
long and happy lives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Mickelsen
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
| Graham at dinner Sunday. The
event being in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Graham's fifteenth wedding
anniversary. Other guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Hansen of Coulee City
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Bogart and daugh
tiers. Winifred aand Doris and oil
i've and Florence Graham.
Mr.. E. w. Rice motored to Wat
erville Monday.
Guests over the week end at Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Jorgensen were Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Larsen and Bob
bic of Oswald Miss Peggy Jackson
and Miss Catherine Struntz of
Coulee.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Jenkin and
sons and Mrs. Margaret Ward, Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Jolly, Misses Vel
ma Jenkin and Nell Jolly and Elmo
Tanneberg were among those that
attend tire celebration put on by
American Legion at Grand Coulee
Sat
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Wogensen
made a business trip to Spokane
Tuesday.
Several from around here are
going to work in the apples this
fall.
| Grandma Mickelsen who hasbeen
quite i'll is much improved and has
been walking about with the aid
of her son.
| The Grange danceSaturday night
was very we'll attended.
On the night Sept. the 28th the
Grange is holding bazaar and car
nival with other entertainments
during the evening. We hope to
have a large display Of articles and
booths of enjoyment, and look for
a large crowd. Come and have a
good time.
| Mrs. Eanl Jenkin and daughter
Mary Ann, Of Waterville spent a
few days last week with relatives
and friends in st. Andrews,
Paul Rice left Sat. for Pullman
where he will enter the w. S. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine and daugh-
ter visited at ire Oscar Frederick
home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jolly and
daughters were entertained at din
ner by Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Nickel
| sen Sunday,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
Largest Shark

The largest shark as we'll as the
largest fish of any kind ever caught,
was whale shark weighing more than
$4,000 pounds and having a length of
% feet and q girth of Is feet. This
monster was harpooned off Knights
Key, Fla. on June 1, 1912, by Can't.
Charles Thompson. The largest shark
Of the more familiar type ever caught
was Mako shark weighing 2,176
pounds and having length of 10 feet
5 inches and a girth Of 8 feet 8 inches.
This fish was caught off Cape Province
South Africa, in June, 1928, by w, r.
Selkirk. fsg-7
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
Sanitary Science

Sanitary science is the science OF
sanitary conditions and of preserving
health, and is accordingly synonymous
with hygiene. The term is usually re
stricted, however, to the methods and
apparatus for making and maintaining
houses healthy, for removing waste
and nuisance by drainage and other
wise, for securing abundance of fresh
air and for the exclusion of poisonous
gases, such as sewer gas.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
10000, in Aby.sinia

Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, has a total
area of 100000 square miles and a
population of 100000, consisting Of
Semitic Abyssinians, Somalis, Arabs.
negroes and Indians. Very little Land
is cultivated, the idea of landed prop
erty scarcely being known. The rain
fall, 30 to 40 inches, heaviest in mid
summer, provides much of the water
for the annual overflow of the Nile
in Egypt.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
Educational En1Ibits Please sBs|
an 55ssz4ss5tssks1s A fter San Diego Expo visit

When Edsel Ford, president of
the Ford Motor Company, in San
Diego with his wife and two chill
dren, visited the Ford company's
beautiful exhibits, comprising the
Ford Exposition, in Balboa Park, he
was deeply gratified.
The educational exhibits Of the
Exposition were praised by the head
of the Ford company, who said: "My
children were deeply interested in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-19
GOLD WANTED

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any other discarded, jewelry
if mailed within 30 days.
Take advantage of this won
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