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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
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Evening star., 1944-08-27
Girls Have Fun on Vacation
Spent in Backyard Camp

on q door that was supported by
four cement blocks.
The next day we went swimming
Aterward we walked downtown to
see . movie and go window shop
ping. Then home again to dinner.
The rest OF the week was a lot
of fun. We learned to cook better
and eventually got used to our bed.
After dinner Thursday evening
we had few visitors. Kitty's and
my folks came out to see how we
were doing. OF course, my mother
and father knew pretty well how
we were getting Along, seeing as
Kitty and I were in the back yard.
I failed to mention that our one
companion that week was my dog,
Spot. She was very faithful, even
till the last night. when there was
q thunderstorm.
Kitty and had gone to the movies
Friday night and by the time we
got home it was raining very hard.
1t began to thunder and Spot was
shivering from fright. I was SO
tired that I didn't remember much
about that storm, only that next
morning Kitty and I were surprised
to see Spot still with us. We had
thought she would retreat into the
house.
The next day the floor Of the tent
was very muddy. 1t was difficult
getting our things in order to leave,
for this was our last day of vaca-
ton. We finally did, and it sure
was grand to get back to mothers
good cooking again!
Evening star., 1944-08-27

Joan Conner. q d q, W n e {
spring had not yet broken through
to Washington, where summer al.
ready held sway. I was simply
amazed by the beauty of the bios
SONS and foliage, which, just then
was at its crest.
I had been warned, and so was
not surprised when I saw the
cramped quarters in which my par.
ents we're living. There seemed nj
place for me to sleep but the bath
tub, so we began to search for 9
larger apartment. Eventually, w
found one in a nice part of town
but you should have seen the con.
dition 1t was in! For days w
scrubbed, cleaned, painted, polished
and waxed, and finally it at least
looked respectable. Then We began
looking for furniture.
Since our. own home, In Ottawa
is furnished and we could not take
what we bought back with US, w
did not want to spend more thar
necessary on furniture.
Finally, we hit on q scheme
Mother bought secondhand tables
chairs, dressers and beds, and
decorated them. Thus, my vacation
has been spent.
I painted people, flowers, houses
trees, moons and stars and wrote
notices in French. drew squiggH
lines and straight lines until I VA,
afraid would turn into . little
crawling line. But I odnt. and
the summer has really been ven
amusing and profitable. Now, wher
I 60 back to school. I shall mis-
these little people on the furniture
who have become almost friends.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Prizes for Best
Contributions

The Junior Star awards as many
as five prizes of 81 each for the
best contributions published each
week. Boys and girls of high school
age and under are invited to COM
pete. Here are the rules:
All contributions must be ORIG
INAL. Write on one side of paper
and give your name, age, address,
phone number and school. Type
written contributions must be dou-
bic spaced. The editors choice of
winners is final and he reserves the
right to use any contribution In
whatever form he deems advisable
regardless of whether it is awarded
a prize. Checks are mailed to the
winners the week following publ
cation Of their work. Reporters
cards will be issued to writer's who
in the opinion of the editor, deserve
them. No contributions will be re-
turned.
Address The Junior Star, 727 Star
Building, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

recall it. Entitled "The Pathetic
Song" it is a triple portrait of a
young woman in the costume of 1881
singing, accompanied by another
woman at a piano, and an old man
with cello. The singer was the
sister of Alexander and Birge Har-
rison, American painters; the pian-
ist was Susan Mcdowell, later
Mrs. Thomas Eakins.
The Phillips Gallery's Eakins Is
portrait of Miss Amelia G. Van
Buren, which was an important
exhibit in the show of the gallery's
American collection last April and
May. The subject was an artist
and pupil of Eakins at the Penn
swlvania Academy. She is q middle
aged woman with gray-streaked
dark hair, a plain, bony face and
q quiet. meditatiye expression. Mr..
Phillips has written in praise of
this painting, pointing out the SUBJ
tie drawing Of the hands, the mas
terly modelling of the brow, the
manner in which these details con-
tribute to the profound and sympa-
thetic characterization. He de-
clared it lone Of the greatest mas
terpiece of American painting"
The third Washington-owned
Eakins is the superb portrait of his
eminence, Sebastiano Cardinal Mar
tinelh, which belongs to Catholic
University. It was painted in WASH
ington In 1902, when the cardinal
was second apostolic delegate to
the Omitted States (18o6- 1902.
These paintings and nearly 500
others are listed and described in
Lloyd 0oodrichs Thomas Eakins:
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CHE 9n1liol9 &taf
Football Goacbs Daughter
Is Widely Travelled at IS
By Ruth Dean.

Mary Alice Larson has Travelled
across the United States four times
In her Is years. Besides she has
gone through the Panama Canal
twice, all Of which makes her q
seasoned traveller. This Is not sur
prising, however, as she II the
daughter Of . marine-Col. Z. Z.
(Swede) Larson, U. 8. n. c., ia
nous Navy football coach.
She was born In Bremerton,
Wash. Shortly afterward she and
her parents were transferred to
Nicaragua. They were there only 4
short time when the revolution
broke out, and Paris Island, 8. c..
was the next stop. On this trip.
Mary Alice went through the Canal
for the first time. but she doesn't
remember 1t. Then followed . series
Of transfers to one marine post
after another, back and forth across
the continent.
The second time Mary Alice went
through the Canal was ON her way
from San Diego to New York. She
was eight then and she remembers
every detail-the slow passage OF
the ship through the locks, the big
red gates opening and closing.
When Mary Alice's father was
appointed commander OF the ma
rine detachment at the Naval Acad-
emy, where he also coached Navy's
team to victory against Army for
two years, Mary Alice got the thrill
of her life. She got her first bid
to the June ball when she was Just
IL. She still treasures the corsage,
ticket and dance program.
When the United States entered
the war her father was called to
overseas duty. After seeing action
In Attu, Kiska, Tarawa, Kwajalein
and the Marshalls, he Is back with
Mary Alice, her mother and brothers
In Warrington.
As Mary Alice was graduated
from Central High School, she ex-
poets to enter st. Mary's Junior
College, Maryland, in the fall.
She has always been interested In
swimming and basket ball and also
likes to collect miniature glass vases
and shoes. She leaves the stamp
collecting In the family to her IA
ther. No doubt. her greatest hobby
has been travelling" which has left
little time for other pursuits.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
By Florence s. Berrvman.

One of the United States greatest
painters, Thomas Eakins, was born
100 years ago last month, July Is,
1874. Large exhibitions commence
rating his centenary have been held
during the past four months in
Philadelphia, his native city, and
New York. AS the great majority
OF his works are owned in and near
those cities, it was not formidable
task to assemble memorial exhibi-
tions. Washington, on the other
hand, has very few paintings by
Eakins, only three being in perma-
nent collections-the Corcoran and
Phillips Memorial Galleries and
Catholic University. But these three
are outstanding.
Eakins is already accounted IAN old
master of American art" although
ne died as recently as 1916, and
never received, during his life, the
appreciation now considered his
due. His failure to achieve wide
spread recognition while he lived.
has been a matter of wonder to stu
dents of his life and work. For
Evening star., 1944-08-27

long time ahead to be sure things
were just so. The boxes we had
for our clothes were showed under
the be6 Now that our mothers were
not here to make US "straighten
up" we could do our housekeeping
the easy way.
Our stove was set up when dinner
time came. To light 1t was our
worst trouble. Finally, everything
was going smoothly. The canned
food was put into a pan. The
meat was a little more difficult for
it kept slipping into the ashes.
We were real proud of our meal
once it was prepared. OF course
the meat was a bit tough and fla
vored with ashes, and the canned
food burned, but that Is q small
matter when one is hungry.
Our bed was not the softest. 1t
was made up in hurry, since we
had no other. A mattress was laid
Evening star., 1944-08-27

accuracy, truth, charm and fasci-
nation there are few things that
can equal, and nothing that can
surpass, fine miniature by a great
master-such, for instance, as Hol-
bein."
The great English school, embrace
ing such painters as the billiards,
the divers, Coopers, Engleharts,
Plimers and others, sprang from
this source-and from it came our
American school of the 18th and
18th centuries-down to today.
Early Miniatures
The earliest miniatures were
painted on cardboard or vellum-
sometimes combination of the
two - chicken skin stretched on
cardboard. From the beginning of
the 18th century ivory has been al
most exclusively used.
This has double advantage,
providing an excellent surface for
the brush to play upon and giving
to the paint, lightly applied, glow
OF its own. But miniature painting
is no task for the novice. It re-
quires infinite accuracy in drawing
as well as astuteness of vision and
command Of medium. There are
two methods in use-one the clear
wash, the other Of multiple dotted
stipple. In recent years some min
iaturists have tried to introduce
into their works-in- little the broad
free stroke employed for paintings
Of large dimensions and in other
media-rarely, however, with COM
plete success, the medium intruding
between the work and its observer.
A merican Artists
1t is a remarkable thing that of
our early American miniature
painters there were so many who
held prominence as painters of life
size portraits in oil. Gilbert Stuart
the Peales and Thomas Sully NAV
be named in such category and
there were many more. Indeed, it
is no less matter of marvel that
so many excellent miniatures now
in public and private collections are
Evening star., 1944-08-27

Life and Work." the definitive pub
lication on this great artist. Other
books on Eakins have been pub
Flished, and appreciation of him is
growing. 1t is sad to reflect that
he enjoyed so little renown during
his lifetime. But this is a tragedy
which has been repeated at in
tervals throughout the history of
art, and 1t is apparently unavoid-
able.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
DAUGHTERS of America

Esther Council now meets at 4618
Wisconsin avenue NV. Mizpah
Council meets the second and fourth
Thursday at Naval Lodge Hall,
Fourth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc.
Cast your vote for the D. Of A.
queen. Ballot box at Northeast
Temple.
State convention at the Mayflower
Hotel. September II, opening and
class initiation, 8 pm. September
IL, 8 am, business meeting; pm,
memorial; Z pm, banquet. Sep
tember 13, 8 am, business meeting
8 pm, public installation.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
To the Marine Corps
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Mary Alice Larson, IS,

Central Hish School.
To the men Of the Marine Corp,
I dedicate this poem:
May the Lord watch over all Of you
And bring you safely home.
I praised you for your fighting
On Guadalcanal and Truk,
When with rifles gripped In hand
You crept through the jungle muck
I praised you on Wake Island
And on Tarawa, too,
And wherever the Marines hav.
fought,
My praise was much and true.
Many Of your friends have gone,
But they have never died
Their souls shall live forever,
And their spirits by your side.
So. dear God, watch over thes,
brave men,
Wherever they may be,
That some day they will come home
again
To a land of liberty!
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Notable Paintings of Thomas Eakins
On View in WASHINGTON Galleries

Homer, Sargent, Chase, Whistler,
Abbey, Weir and others among his
contemporaries, enjoyed great &C.
claim (abroad as well as here for
three Of them) and the material
rewards Of success. Consequently,
no one can say that the Nation was
blind to art, but only that it was
blind to Eakins' kind of art.
Yet he was ruggedly American
realistic, objective, penetrating in
his observations, fortnight, self
sufficient. His lack of popularity
seems to have been due to the fact
that he was an uncompromising
recorder of facts, and made no con-
cessions to please his subjects. Flat
terry was completely alien to him.
He seems to have recognized the
uneventfulness Of his life, since he
wrote, For the public, I believe my
life is all in my work." Born in
Philadelphia, of Scotch, Irish, Eng
lish and Dutch ancestry, he began
to study art there, at the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts,
In his early 20s he spent three
years in Europe, studied painting In
Paris under Gerome and Bonnat
and sculpture under Dumont. He
was there at the time the Impres.
sionists were shocking the art world
with their expriments in light and
color; but they had no effect on him
He continued to paint in the chiaro.
scuro tradition, thus manifestine
his sturdy independence. Yet there
was nothing self conscious in his
adherence to the earlier manner o1
painting. Later he travelled ir
Spain, and greatly admired the work
OF Valasquez, a master realist.
Returning to Philadelphia, he
began to teach in life classes in 1873
and also lectured on anatomy. The
latter was a subject of profound
interest to him. He had attended
courses at Jefferson Medical Col.
lege, and made anatomical models
His approach to art was scientific
and many Of his friends were scien.
lists and doctors. One Of his mos,
famous paintings. ".The Gros.
Clinic" which depicts a notee
surgeon lecturing during an op.
Grafton, was long hidden from public
view, as it was regarded with dis.
favor ut that time. It now belong.
to Jefferson Medical College. Eakin.
was also one Of the first American
painters to use sports as subject
matter. Many of his painting
depict prizefghts. boating ant
hunting.
Three Paintings Here
The Corcoran Gallery of Ar,
values 50 highly Its single painting
by Eakins, that 1t has kept thu
work stored in a place Of safety foa
several years. But art lovers resi-
dent here before lo43 doubles,
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Uncle Rays Corner

Only one American State ever
has been a "free and independent
republic" That is Texas, the largest
State in the Union from the point
Of view Of area.
Many men worked and fought to
bring about the freedom of Texas
from Mexico. But Sam Houston
stood out far above all the others
Houston was q native of Virginia
his birth taking place In 1898 near
the village of Lexington. At about
the time he reached the age of 13
his father died. After that blow
came, the family was made up OF
the mother, six sons and three
daughters.
Mrs. Houston decided to take her
children to Tennessee. Sam, the
youngest Of the boys, joined his elder
brothers In cutting logs and build
ing a cabin about 8 miles east OF
the Tennessee River. On the othe,
side Of that river lived the Chero-
kee Indians.
A space Of land was cleared and
vegetables were planted. The Hous-
tons thus took up the life of q
pioneer family.
In that family, Sam stood Out
as self-willed and hot blooded. He
did not like to have his older broth
ers tell him what to do. At length
they got him q job as clerk In q
store in q nearby village. There
for . few weeks, he earned his
wages, but he was far from being
content. One day he paSked up hi.
few articles of clothing and book
or two and left the village.
Instead Of heading for his home
Sam made his way to the land Of
the Cherokees. Crossing the Ten
nessee he soon reached the lodgins
Of one Of the younger chiefs. This
man agreed to take him in ''as 4
son"
80 II came about that Sam Hous.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

plains the word.
There are many
ways of spend
ing your holiday.
I'm going to tell
you one of the
easiest ways that
is lots of fun.
A friend, Kit8,
and I were just
moving into our
new home" A
tent in my back
yard was to serve
the purpose for
a week. We had
pl AIMED this
rp,ol1 a,,tino O
Evening star., 1944-08-27

by painters whose names are
scarcely now known. Certainly ir
the early days of our republic the
spirit of art was vital and widely
shared. Trumbun should also be
included In the first category, but
of all the painters of note was NAL
bone of Rhode Island and South
Carolina, who gave himself almost
exclusively to this branch Of art
and heads all such Lists of distinc.
ton. His friend, Charles Fraser o1
Charleston, emulated his example
and did much superior work, some
what in Malbone's style. The ma.
tional collection is fortunate in hav-
ing examples Of the achievements
Of some of these outstanding men.
The South, 1t seems, was unusually
fortunate In its miniature painters
and 1t is in the old homes in this
section of our country that some OF
the finest miniatures of the early
days are to be found-prized family
possessions. Among the finest min
iatures in the national collection is
a portrait Of Judge Thomas Wattles
by FraSer-a portrait so vital and
so convincing that none could deny
its merit and power.
Very charming among the recent
acquisitions is a portrait Of Mary
Briscoe Baldwin, wife of Cornelius
Baldwin and grandmother of Mary
Julia Baldwin, after whom the Mary
Baldwin Seminary nee Junior
College, Of Staunton. Va, took its
name. It is the work Of Philip A.
Petticolas, who lived and painted in
Richmond in the late years of the
18th and the first part Of the 18th
centuries. Doubtless like most of the
artists Of that time he went from
place to place securing and execut-
ing orders.
This miniature of Mrs. Baldwin
was done IN Winchester. Not for
some time after it was acquired was
its identity discovered. Both it and
the portrait of Mrs. John Willis Ellis,
wife Of former Governor Of North
Carolina, by James Henry Brown
OF Philadelphia (who in later years
painted a miniature of Abraham
Lincoln, still In possession OF the
Lincoln family are all that the
most exacting could wish a minia-
ture to be.
That work in this field Is still
continuing is evidenced by the ex-
istence of two ong-established or
ganizations in this country, the
American Society of Miniature
Painters, New York, and the Penn
sylvania Society of Miniature Paint
ers, and two of later date, the Nina
ture Societies of Chicago and of
California, all four of which hold
annual exhibitions of current works.
Mention should also be made of the
Society of Miniature Painters, Sculp-
tors and Engravers of this city,
which in its program and displays
covers the field more broadly.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

ton, at about the age Of IS, started
to live among the Indians. He
learned the Cherokee language and
the warriors taught him many
things about hunting. With them
he made trips through the forests
and the Indians looked upon him
as one of their own.
Now and then Sam went back
across the river to visit his family.
Entering the village store, he would
buy presents for his mother and
sisters.
Several Of the gifts were charged
to his account at the store and this
fact seems to explain his reason
for giving up the wild life he had
enjoyed for three years among the
Indians. He decided to leave the
Cherokees so he could teach school
and pay his debts.
Houston had learned to read and
write as boy in Virginia. In Ter.
nessee he had read many books.
Some persons would say that he
was not fitted to become q teacher.
but he did start school and earned
enough money to become Square
with the world" again.
After that short period as q
schoolmaster young Houston might
have returned to live among the
Cherokees. Instead he volunteered
as an American soldier in the War
OF 1872. He served under Andrew
jackson in fighting against the
Greek Indians and won the good viii
OF the fiery general. He was pro-
NOTED to the rank of second lieu.
tenant.
In 1918 Houston made q trip to
Warrington In the company Of sew
eral chiefs Of the Cherokee tribe.
HIS plan was to help them get a
money settlement for q treaty they
had made, . treaty which carried
. promise that they would give up
some OF their lands In Tennessee.
Oszt wssks Morn cpsst Hssstsa.S
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be expected N
realize the diff
culties that be-
set the wartime
n e W c ON er tc
this fair Capital
I arrived the be-
ginning Of May
quite un pr e :
pared for the
beauty Of the
first city of the
United States
and also unpre.
pared for tn {
h ar d s hips! ]
came from Can.