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Evening star., 1941-08-17

despite the ladies of fashion, whose
chief duties were the ornamentation
of society, women took high rank in
the professions-Mrs. Siddons and
later her niece, Fanny Kemble. on
the stage; Mary Wortley Montagu
and Fanny Burney as writers. The
painters of those days were gen.
erously patronized and, keeping
large establishments, entertained
like princes, all of which should
have been very bad for their art
but apparently was not-in explana--
ton of which it should be said that
they were sincere and genuinely rev.
erenced their calling.
Charming Composition.
There are three paintings by Sir
Joshua Reynolds In the National
Gallery, Lady Elizabeth Define and
Her Children" Lady Elizabeth
Compton" and Lady Caroline
Howard" all three representing him
at his best. The first pictures Lady
Define seated at the foot OF a group
of beech trees with her children, a
bov and a girl. standing beside her
and encircled by her left arm, While
at their feet and looking toward his
mistress. as though seeking permlS-
sion to Jump on her lap, is a Scot
tish terrier. The figures are lie
size and in the foreground beyond
the park is lost in typical English
Landscape. 1t is a charming COM
position and rendered with faultlesS
perception of tonal values. Lady
Compton" also is represented with
landscape background. Dressed
in a gown of white, trimmed with
gold embroidery, she is seen at full
length. standing by garden wall
on which she rests her right arm.
The lines of the figure are very
graceful. the face is sweet and grave,
but not expressive. and in both the
BACKGROUND and pose there Is an
element of the theatrical, but the
painting, as a whole. is indeed lovely
to look upon, mastery IN the mat
ter of execution.
The third of this group OF por-
traits is of little girl, Lady Caro-
line Howard, the niece OF Lady
Define, which was first shown in the
Roval Academy in 1779 and was tor
many years in the collection Of the
Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard
England. Like the Blue Boy, by
Gainsborough, now in the Hunting
ton collection. Calf, she came to
live with her American cousins be-
cause she was wanted and those IN
her homeland thought she could
speak more eloquently than words
of our common heritage, faith ana
ideals. And so she can.
Gainsborough, VINO shares with
REYNOLDS the first place in the Eng
lish Portrait School, also is ad-
mirably represented in the National
Gallery. six of his paintings having
been included in the Mellon gilt.
One of these is a landscape, the
others portraits, two of which are
full length. Of all the painters of
his school, GainSborough was the
most individual. His handling OF
medium is utterly different from
that of Reynolds, Romney or Hopp-
ner, so also is his color. In paint
ing flesh, he seems to employ a
short brush stroke and rather dry
color: also, to dispose, as far as
possible, of shadow. Whether he
was greater as painter of portraits
than of Landscapes it is hard to say
he was very great as both-but
the one he did as a career, the other
almost solely for his own pleasure.
He is credited with having painted
over TOO portraits reynolds with
over 1000 and 200 landscapes.
The latter, greatly priced and
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Sinfonietta Program

AT $50 o'clock Tuesday evening
the Washington Sinfonietta, under
the direction of Van Lier Lanning,
will play a program on the roof at
the Y. w. C. A. Seventeenth and
K streets.
The public is invited to attend the
concert, which is a feature of the
Tuesday evenings at home especially
planned for newcomers to the city.
No charge is made.
Evening star., 1941-08-17

Nationcl Gallery Exhibits
Fine English Paintings
Reynolds, Gainsborough and
Romney Are Among Great
Artists Represented Here
Bv Leila Mechlin

Galerys collection
spco gaps such those the representation OF the French and
schools affords opportunity only become
world history
making pictures majority of which
painted long far from being dead would have think
they
bring it with all its and its crime its laughter and its
tears, though still with
All things which all
time always with full
which mighty
of a scho hows wave,
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Miniatures Shown

A special exhibition of miniatures
lent by Count and Countess Bohdan
de Castellane is in progress in the
lobby of the Natural History Build
ing, National Museum, to continue
through September l. The display
is sponsored by the National COL
lection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian
Institution. 1t is open to the pub
lie on week days from am. to 4:3o
pm. and on Sundays from 1:30 to
4:30 pm.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-20

A banquet at 6:30 in the Ropp hall
dining room will inaugurate the
meeting. From there the faculty
members and their wives or husbands
as the case may be, will proceed to
the college chapel for the evenings
program. The speaker for this oc-
casion will be the Honorable John
McSweeney from Wooster, who is a
former Ohio Congressman and a
former Director of the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare. The vested
a capella choir under the direction of
Professor Russell A. Lantz will pre-
sent in concert several selections fol-
lowing the address. Immediately fol-
lowing the program, an informal re
ception will be held for the visiting
faculties.
The next meeting in this series is
to be held at Ohio Northern uni
versity on March 81. Dean B. L.
Stradley of Ohio State university
will be the speaker. The last meet
ing, at Findlay college, will convene
some time in April.
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Lee Shilling Sues
StOufer Estate

Lee Shilling, Orange township
farmer, last week brought suit in
Hancock county common pleas court,
asking judgment for $645 against
the estate of Wilson Stouffer,
wealthy North Baltimore hardware
merchant and land owner.
Shilling claims Stouffer purchased
from him on March /, 1910, 1000
bushels of seed oats at 80 cents a
bushel, totalling 5000.
Delivery of the oats was taken at
Shilling's farm, with Stouffer to send
a truck for them when the oats were
needed.
In October, following the death of
Stouffer, bill for the oats was pre-
sented to Fred w. Redfern, executor
of the Stouffer estate. The claim
was rejected.
Shilling claims the oats no longer
are suitable for seed, and command
ed a market value at the time he
presented the bill of only 80 cents
a bushel.
Suit is based on $3.50 claimed as
the difference between market value
and seed value, plus sos for storage
and with interest from the date OF
the alleged contract.
News Want-Ads Bring Results.
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Richland Center

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz and
son James and Mr. and Mrs. Reno
Gratz and daughter Mary Kathryn
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Gratz. Supper guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Luginbuhl
and Rayfeld Luginbuhl of Detroit
and Mrs. Nose Steiner spent Satur-
day evening at the j. |. Lugibuhl
home.
Mr. and Mrs Wayne Zimmerman
and Mrs. Sam Badertscher spent Fri
day evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Bell and family.
Mrs. Ella Dillman and son Robert
and Miss Joan Stonehill were Sunday
evening supper guests at the Amos
Luginbuhl home.
Mrs. Elda Hoffman moved to Lima,
Saturday where she recently purchas-
ed property. Mr.. and Mrs Walter
Hochstettler will move on her farm
soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and son
Melvin spent Sunday afternoon at the
Brice Main home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Frantz and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Bad
ertscher and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
XUaxy,,o Z;Y1,,,, r,,.,,,n,, a,,J Jon,L+oy ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher and
son were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs Sam Badertscher and son.
Mrs Harold Stevens and Mrs. OF
to Amstutz spent Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Paul Detwiler and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Grant and sor
Gary were Sunday dinner guests al
the J. | .Luginbuhl home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz were
Sunday dinner guests at the Walter
Schaublin home.
Miss Meredith Stepleton, Mrs. Jane
Baker and Mrs. Florence Bame spent
Monday evening with Mrs. Wayne
Zimmerman and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Moser and
sons and Mrs. Weldon Luginbuhl
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Boxes of McConb.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hirschfeld of
Lima spent Sunday evening at the Ed
Marquart home.
The G. NJ. G. of the Emanuel's Re-
formed church held their monthly
meeting last Thursday evening with
Mrs. Alice Fisher. Members present
were: Misses Esther Hochstettler,
Glenna Kohler, Dorothy Long, Rachel
Schaublin Bernice Matter, Treva
Hochsettler, Lois Long, Theda Ander-
son, Mrs. Alice Mae Boutwell, and
Mrs. Geneva Hochstettler Miss Joan
Stonehill was a guest
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vice at the First Mennonite church of
Lima, last Sunday.
The other quartet which includes:
Robert Sommer, Middlebury, Indiana;
Leonard Metzker, Roaring Springs,
Pa; James Habegger, Berne, Ind;
and John Boehr, Pandora, sang at the
st. Johns Mennonite church near Pan
dora on February IL and they are
scheduled to again sing there on Sat
urday night, February %, which is
during their series of special services.
On Sunday evening, February %,
this latter group will conduct the
Sunday evening services at the First
Mennonite church of Bluffton. Robert
Sommer will deliver the sermon at
this meeting.
Leonard Metzker delivered the SER
mon in the First Mennonite church of
Bluffton, last Sunday evening.
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School EnrOllments
In Ohio Decline

School enrolment figures for Ohio
show that in the exempted villages,
which is Bluffton's classification,
there are now only 90 pupils enrolled
as for every 100 in 1886. The same
figures apply to cities, recent re-
search from Ohio State university
showed.
In the small city classification the
enrolment is 81 as compared with
100 in 1896. The decline is least in
cities from 5000 to 10000 popula-
ton.
This is the report of DR.. Thomas
c. Holy of the Bureau of Education
al Research, Ohio State University,
following statewide survey. His
present study does not include rural
districts, but does cover schools hav-
ing go per cent of the total enroll
ment.
Although high school enrollments
are still larger than they were four
years ago, the effect of declining
birthrate is beginning to be felt
there. In grades one to eight, ex-
empted villages now have only 85
pupils for each 100 in 1886.
In another study, covering the
entire state for the years 1927 to
1889, inclusive, and using 1927 as a
base, or 100 per cent, DR.. Holy found
that in 1889 enrolment indexes for
the various grades were: first, rs
per cent; second, 86 per cent; third
IS per cent; fourth, 80 per cent;
fifth, 85 per cent; sixth, 80 per cent;
seventh, SO per cent; eighth, 113 per
cent; ninth, 140 per cent; tenth, 167
per cent; eleventh, 1872 per cent;
twelfth, 1876 per cent.
All grades had increased from 1929
to 1881, but all up to the eighth
have declined steadily since 1881.
Grades eight to IL have been in
creasing each year from 1927 to
1889.
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Operetta to be Given at High
School Auditorium Next
Tuesday & Wednesday
Sir William Gilbert Knighted at
Later Date than Partner
Sir Arthur Sullivan

Although the rollicking nautical
airs of II. M. S. Pinafore, Gilbert
and Sullivan operetta, are among the
most popular light operate tunes
today, their first presentations in
England were not so auspicious.
The operetta will be presented
next week on Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights at the high school audi
torium by school music groups, un-
der the direction of Miss Elizabeth
Higley, music instructor.
MASTER OF SATIRE
Sir William Gilbert, who contrib
uted the verses for the Gilbert and
Sullivan operettas, was master of
satire. He made fun of all manner
Of contemporary English sham and
pretense. Referring to his knight
hood he called it "a tin pot, two
penny-half penny sort of distinction,
but as no dramatic author ever had
it for authorship alone, / felt /
ought not to refuse it."
Gilbert was knighted much later
than his collaboration, Sir Arthur
Sullivan, who provided the melodies
for the Gilbert verses.
KNIGHTHOoD DELAYED
The delay over Gilbert's knight
hood was occasioned by the unpopu-
lar reception of III. M. S. Pinafore
by the royal navy at whom Gilbert's
satiric barbs were directed.
In this operetta, Gilbert pokes fun
at Sir Joseph Porter, a living exam
pie to all landsmen that, by Sticking
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Breeding flies for the sole pur-
pose of killing them is a role played
in laboratories at Baltimore, Mary
land, by DR.. Amos E. Badertscher,
Bluffton college graduate in the class
of 1923.
Altho genial and easy-going, it
cannot be said of DR.. Badertscher
that he would not charm fly.
In the firm with which he is affil-
lated, DR.. Badertscher works as an
entomologist. The concern manufac-
lures insecticide and the Bluffton
college graduates unusual job is to
test the effectiveness of products.
Altho the house fly is carrier
of many diseases and altho they are
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Tuneful Nautical Airs OF H. M. S. Pinafore
Once Incurred Disfavor Of British Navy

to ones desk and never going to
sea, one may rise to be ruler Of the
Queens Navee". Official circles in
England were in CONSERVATION over
the satire directed at the traditions
of the navy. This was soon forgot
ten, however, and the operetta helped
very definitely to establish the sue
cess of Gilbert and Sullivan's works
PARTNERSHIP
Although neither Gilbert nor Sui
livan was considered genius the re-
suits of their partnership were so
considered. The association of a
gifted dramatist with a gifted COM
poser, gave the world an art-form
that has undeniable genius. With
out one another, they were men
who would have made no great repu-
tation.
As coilaborative effort in humor
and music Gilbert and Sullivan opera
has no equal. 1t is so homogeneous,
SO closely woven into single piece,
that it might have sprung from one
mind and from one inspiration.
RHYTHMIC ELEGANCE
The outstanding feature of their
works is their rhythmic elegance.
This factor contributes to their en-
during popularity. The charm of the
music lies in its unfailing rhythm
and its abounding melody. In addi-
! tion there is about them an old-world
charm and courtliness that makes
them increasingly precious survivals
in a fever;sh age.
For his pet stock of ideas Gilbert
used the Englishman's amiable fail
ings. He played upon national lido
syncrasies very adroitly. He pic
lures the Englishman, not as the
foreigner sees him, but as he might
see himself through a looking glass.
The fact that the operettas are
presented very frequently over the
whole country indicate that the
American public still enjoys the
glimpses they give of old world Gus
toms and charm.
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Only Nine Days To
Pay Real Estate Tax

Only nine days remain until the
March / deadline for the payment
of first-half 1910 real estate taxes,
Allen County Treasurer Byron H.
Dershem warned last Saturday.
After the books are closed, a 10
per cent delinquency penalty will be
assessed against property holders
who have not paid their taxes.
Last weeks real estate tax re-
ceipts amounted to S50,204.15 and
brought the total collection to $780,
290.83. This is S352,000 short of
the frst-half 1889 figure, Dershem
said.
Sales tax collections last week ag-
gregated $4,26090, total since the
first of the year of s31, ,560.27.
Classified property tax receipts so
far amount to $263.76, and personal
property tax collections are $765.79.
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is former Ohio Congressman and a
former Director of the State Depart
ment of Welfare. The vested A ca
pella choir under the direction of
Prof. Russell A. Lantz will sing Sc
lections following the address. After
the program, an informal reception
will be held for the visiting faculty.
The next meetings in this series is
to be held at Ohio Northern Univer-
sity on March 81. Dean B. l.. Strad-
ley of Ohio State University will be
the speaker.
Both quartets of Button college
Mems Gospel Team are very active in
deputation work in the surrounding
community. One quartet composed of
Herbert Fretz, Lansdale, Pa; Paul
Soldner, Bluffton; Glenn Graber, No
BILE, Iowa; and Edwin Zehr, of Grid
ley, Ill. sang at special evening SER
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BIuffton College Notes

President Ramseyer, Dean Schultz,
and DR.. Bauman attended the Sunday
night service at the St. Johns Men,
monte church near Pandora. Rev.
Peter Boehr, pastor, is conducting a
two weeks evangelistic service. HIS
son, John Boehr, student at the col
lege, is leading the singing and the
Mems Gospel team quaret particlpat-
ed in the service on Friday evening.
$50
Maurice Dumesnil, internationally
known French pianist and composer,
appeared before Bluffton audiences for
the third time Monday evening in a
concert held at the Bluffton college
Chapel.
Miss Edna Ramseyer, Dean OF
Women, spoke before the Peace
Action club of the college Wednes-
day evening in Music hall. She pre-
sented an account concerning her re-
cent work among Spanish refugee
camps in France, and the conditions
existing in France today since the
NaZi invasion.
Ropp hall and all other coed resi-.
dence houses of Bluffton college OBJ.
served their annual open house fes.
tivities Saturday evening. The girls
rooms were pen for inspection from
hours of 7:3O to 900 p. m.
Following the tour of the rooms,
program was presented in the college
dining room. Lucille Tschantz
Frances Ramseyer, Josephine Haldy
Ellen Clark, Margaret Berky and Al
ice Jean Steiner, all Ropp hall girls
presented a skit of showing typica
dorm life of an evening. Julia Culp
senior gave a humorous reading ane
Mary Lou Poe, freshman and Pauline
Springer, junior, enacted farce, the
script for which has been prepared BY
Dale Francis, senior. Miss Lens
Buyer, sophomore from Gettysburg
Pa, acted Mistress of ceremonies.
Bluffton college will hold anothe
Vsper service, Sunday, March 2, a
p. m. in the college chapel. Bishol
Paul Jones, of Yellow Springs will b.
the speaker. Bisnop Jones, wei
known religious pacifist, is on the ex
ecutive board of the Fellowship o
Reconciliation. He was on the campu
last summer for the F. o. r. confer
ence which was held here. The Yes
per choir will sing.
@*
Several faculty members of Bluff
ton college will go to Northern In
diana for the week end where the
will speak in the various Mennonit
churches during the Sunday mornin
worship services.
DR.. G Henry Smith will speak i
the Topeka church; DR.. J. S. Schult
will be at the Silver Street church
Goshen; Rev. A C. Schultz at tn
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Sth Street church, Goshen; Prof. P. w.
Stauffer at the Middlebury church,
and Miss Edna Ramseyer will speak
in the Nappanee church.
President Ramseyer and Rollin Mo
ser, field secretary, who just returned
from a trip to Illinois, will leave this
week for an extended Eastern trip.
DR.. Ramseyer will attend a confer
ence of the American Association of
School Administrators" in Atlantic
City. After which he will go to Hart
ford, Conn. and New York City in the
interest of the college.
Moser will work among the con-
stituency in Pennsylvania. DR.. RAM
seyer will speak in the First Men
MONTE church of Philadelphia on Sun
day. They plan to be back by the
middle of March.
"A group of Bluffton college stuents
presented program in the Lafay-
ette-Jackson high school in their as
sembly, Friday. The Trumpet Trio
composed of Robert Zigler, Wads-
worth; Keith Plank, Middlebury, Ind.
and Richard Howenstine ,Fredericks-
burg, played several numbers and
Dale Francis of Troy, Bluffton college
senior, spoke to the group concerning
Christian education and the small col
lege.
The Bluffton College Thespians So
ciety will present two-one act plays
in the Tom Thumb theatre on the top
floor of Science Hall, Friday at 7:3C
and will repeat the performance at
900 p. m. the same evening.
The first of the two plays to be Civ
en- is a drama entitled "Ile". The
cast is as follows: Captain Kenney-
VIM. Burbick; Mrs. Kenney-Betty
Keeney; Slocum-Robert Neuensch-
wander; Steward-Ray Ramseyer;
Ban-Richard Weaver; Joe-Darvir
Luginbuhl; also several members OF
the crew of the steam whaler AT
lantic Queen"
The second one-act play is a com
edy entitled "Why / am Bachelor.
1t is in four scenes The cast Of
characters include: Lecturer-Bert
ran Smucker; Henrietta-Dorothi'
Beckenbach; Algernon-Paul Soldner
In an effort to foster closer cooper
alton and to get better acquainted, ;
series of meetings will be held by tn,
faculties of Ohio Northern University
Findlay college, and Bluffton college
The first meeting will be held a
Bluffton college on Thursday night.
A banquet at $50 in the Ropp hal
dining room will open the meeting
Immediately following the banque
the group will assemble in the col
lege chapel for the evenings program
The speaker for this occasion will b
John McSweeney from Wooster, VIII
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-20
Former BlufftOn Man Raises Flies
In Laboratory For Scientific Tests

ultimately to meet death in tests de-
vised by DR.. Badertscher, in the var
ious steps in raising the millions
used in laboratory testing they are
cared for as tenderly as if they were
rare butterflies or humming birds.
Careful breeding is essential to
raise hardy breed of flies that will
provide adequate tests for the in
secticide.
After reaching maturity, however,
the lives of the flies are snuffed out
by DR.. Badertscher as calmly as he
would blow out a candle, realizing
that with every fly killed in the
cause of science the life and health
of thousands may be better protected.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-20
County Population
Listed As 73,3O3

Allen county's official population
was listed as 73,303 in the 1910 CEN
sus, according to figures released
last week.
Of this, Richland township con-
tributes 1906 persons, including the
population of Bluffton and Beaver
dam.
Jackson township, including the
village of Lafayette, showed popu-
lation of 1908, and Monroe township
had 1922 inhabitants.
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o. ". u, FindIdy And
BIuftOn College To
Hold Joint Meetings

In an effort to bring about more
friendly spirit, and to get better ac-
quainted, series of meetings is to
be held for the faculties of Ohio
Northern university, Findlay college
and Bluffton college. One is to be
held on each campus, the first be-
ing scheduled here at Bluffton on
Thursday.
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They're coming back again-those comfortable
rockers and tback chairs For real, solid comfort,
there's nothing like them-and the prices comfort
ing, too.
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Mountaineering Potato

George Chisholm of Yonkers, N.
Y, claims to have originated a nom
fattening potato. He calls the new
vegetable "topato"
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PulI-up Chairs

Smart and distnctive-the large selection of pullup
chairs which have included in this sale. They come
in wide range of styles and finishes to correspond with
the furnishings in any rOOm
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Mattresses

Those Simmons Mattresses at $3.50 Discount
of the real attractions OF this SALE You can't go wrong
by buying several of them at this bargain price.
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News Want-Ads Bring Results.
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Studio COucheS

Those elegant studio couches that you have ad-
mired often-wel, making some real bargains
i'm this sale studio couches-and invite to
them.
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Living Room Suites

Some mighty good looking suites in velours and
mohars. You'll like them and better still, you'll like
prices.