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...Interest among artists in these biennial exhibitions is doubtless stimulated by the size of the prizes offered, $20(30, $1500, $1000, and $500 and the Washington people profit as a consequence...

...Our duty is measured by our powers, and our powers are far greater than any but the few realize...

...There is no present suffering in their faces, only the traces of past struggles, which has led to despair and the deadening of all power of resistance...

...R., was an unusual event, that all invited appreciated as a rare privilege...

...He was born in Chicago, but was taken by his parents to Wisconsin when he was one year old...

...Then it becomes quite obvious why the enjoyment this year is greater than ever before in spe of the somewhat generally recognized fact that the pictures themselves do not come up to the standard of previous exhibitions...

...They were telling...

...Minor Surgery and Character TRUTH TO TELL, directly we come to consider modern minor surgery, with its possibilities, we discover that we have a great duty, hitherto neglected, towards the nation's children...

...Cue must be here to feel the wonderful reaction, not only on the...

...The address of the Headquarters is 1420 F. St., Washington, D. C. * * * Exhibition of the Work of American Artists Fourth Biennial Prize Competition in Washington HANGING in a conspicuous place in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, among the pictures which were brought together this year in competition for the prizes offered by ex-Senator Clarke for the best paintings by American artists, is a large canvas from which the spectator instinctively turns away as from the sight of suffering in real life...

...W. Saeeeby in Surgery and Society...

...The change in arrangement of the paintings is not noticeable until one's attention is called to it...

...She liked people...

...COOK'S NUT BREAD A friend furnishes this recipe, which she has tested: 2 cups graham flour, unsifted 1 cup wheat flour, sifted 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 level teaspoon salt 1 heaping teaspoon soda 3/4 cup broken or chopped walnut meals Put all the dry ingredients in bowl and add 1 pint buttermilk or sour milk...

...Florence Kelley of the Consumers' League, always a ready, brilliant, effective speaker, told why women ought not to work more than eight hours a day in shops and factories...

...The Capitol is an especially beautiful feature in the foreground...

...If there was any doubt in the minds of the trustees about the desirability of opening the gallery on one evening in the week, it must surely have been dispelled, for the rooms have been thronged on Friday evenings in spite of the fact that a much larger space has been devoted to the exhibition than ever before...

...The people of Washington have profited by the exhibition of Tanner's work...

...Naturally she captured the hearts of all her visitors...

...Hints to Home-makers MRS...

...It was apparent that nothing was more effective with the Senate Committee than the statement that the clerks and saleswomen of the city of Washington were receiving an average wage of six dollars and thirty cents a week, in this time and in this place of high cost of living...

...Since that time the part of Washington known as Mount Pleasant has been transformed from a little village, reached by a one-horse car line, into a region of solid residences and business blocks for miles about...

...And when I entered, the central hall with the wide parlors on either side, the walls bung with mementoes of the hero of the great and terrible war—all seemed as familiar as if I had been there yesterday...

...Robert Mac-Cameron died in New York City, December 29, 1912, at the age of forty-six, with a large part of his promise as a painter unfulfilled, but leaving such works as "Waiting for the Doctor" and the "People of the Abyss," to offer their mute appeal for the abolishment of conditions which make the struggle against poverty a losing battle for a large percentage of the people...

...She was there to furnish facts...

...PREPARATION for the Suffrage parade is causing a great general awakening in the Dis-trict of Columbia...

...There has been much greater enthusiasm than could have been anticipated in this disfranchised city, which has for a long time been quite dormant under the wrong done it by the Constitution, and quite docile to the rule of a congressional committee in the place of self-government...

...Since his death she has devoted much time to the perpetuation of General Logan's memory...

...The fine grounds isolate and give character to the old-fashioned square front red brick house...

...She is the type of woman that never breaks, that since the world began has moulded events, and not succumbed to them...

...Maude Younger, a fine looking, simply dressed young woman of San Francisco, who is said to have large wealth, but who is giving her time and strength to social service, spoke particularly of the, operation of the eight-hour law which she was largely instrumental in securing for California...

...Bake till thoroughly done—about an hour in moderate oven...

...STATE-AIDED industrial schools are now maintained in nineteen Massachusetts communities...

...There is something in the picture, however, which brings one back, much as he would be brought back in real life, following an instinct to serve and to offer relief...

...Unfortunately the hours when the Corcoran Art Gallery under ordinary conditions is open to the public,—those from 9 a. m. to 4:30 P.M.,— correspond exactly with the hours of labor in the various departments of the government...

...If we want soldiers, sailors, citizens, fathers and mothers for them we must attend to these children now...

...They are sitting in a dispensary waiting with their apparently dying child for the coming of the physician...

...It stands at the crest, of the hill overlooking Washington...

...advanced legislation in the states and of the decisions of the Courts upholding the law...

...For our failure to use them, not only the children themselves, but we and our more fortunate children in their turn, pay and will pay a heavy price...

...It will have great value as an example to the nation...

...Logan on her reception days there, as to her, then, new home...

...Their eyes, ears, teeth, noses and throats are in need of surgical help, not in thousands but in millions of eases, and we are not giving it them...

...Unfortunately very few pictures were bought by Washingtonians which seems surprising considering the evidences on every side of rapidly increasing wealth...

...They were both commanding in appearance...

...And the hostess,—twenty-seven years a widow, who has known much sorrow and unhap-piness besides, yet the indomitable spirit still speaks from her dark eyes, and there is still that same warmth and magnetism in her greeting...

...There he himself tasted of poverty...

...To a laundryman who protested that the Senators would not like it if they did not get their collars and cuffs and shirts on time, Senator Works laughingly replied that his were now usually belated, so it would not make so much difference...

...Logan's door...

...Is it too much to hope that the recognition of the genius of this colored artist will soon lead to the opening of the Corcoran Art School to talented young colored people...

...When we first came to Washington for the 49th Congress, the Logans had just moved into this fine mansion, and it was the most popular official residence in Washington...

...She has contributed widely to newspapers and magazines, and has just completed an extended work covering the whole field of her interesting life...

...Marie Obenauer, also a young woman of quiet cultivated manner, employed in the Bureau of Labor, was very careful not to express an opinion...

...She has traveled extensively, and her active mind has found great satisfaction, as she tells me, in writing...

...Those who love Wisconsin and are proud of its progress will be interested to know that Robert MacCameron spent the early years of his life in that state...

...These children whom we now neglect the recruiting sergeant will shortly reject, and later we may study them at our leisure in prison and workhouse and processions of the unemployed...

...One of these, —'"Christ Learning to Read,"—has attracted much attention...

...Tucker, occupy a smaller residence near by...

...The exhibition as a whole is richer in this form of painting—portraiture— than in any other, some of the strongest of the portraits being by women, especially that of the Honorable Sereno Payne by Cecilia Beaux...

...He worked for many years as a lumber jack, gradually and by indomitable courage finding his way to the mastery of that form of expression by which he was to give his message to the world...

...It is always open, however, on Sunday afternoons, and during the exhibit it has been open and free to the public on Friday evenings from 8 to 10...

...A tremendous impulse is being given to the movement nationally...

...All of the rooms ordinarily devoted to the display of paintings owned by the Corcoran Gallery have 'Seen cleared, and with very few exceptions the pictures have been hung in a single line...

...Her handshake was strong, her interest keen, and cordiality genuine...

...The extreme spe-cialization of modern employment - necessitates that workers should have a certain amount of freedom if our citizenship is not to become jaded and degenerate...

...So it has come about that the only picture in this year's exhibit at the Corcoran, which appeals strongly to the sense of justice and not chiefly to the aesthetic, may be considered the product of that state which is foremost in those forms of legislation which look to the abolishment of unjust social conditions...

...This ceases to be defensible on any ground, the instant that the power is put into our hands, as Lord Lister and his followers have done...

...Matthew Scott, President of the D. A...

...A few days after the opening of the exhibition, there appeared at one side of this picture a small bit of crape, which indicated that the artist had laid down his brush...

...He was a great war hero, and many things conspired to give this well-mated pair a picturesque place in the imagination...

...She and her daughter, Mrs...

...A fair chance to sell, added to Senator Clarke's munificence in giving prizes, might result in the bringing together in Washington for the benefit of its art-hungry people the best that America can produce in the way of paintings...

...Every person in this country interested in the cause of equal suffrage should contribute something to the success of the Pageant here at the Capital on the third of March...

...And we were frequently told that just, as many came to see Mrs...

...Eight or ten local meetings are being held daily...

...It is believed that the bill will become a law in the District of Columbia, over which Congress has jurisdiction...

...The policy of those who promise us everything we may desire by means of military training is to be rejected summarily and contemptuously when we remember first, that it leaves out the more important sex altogether, and second, that it has yet to prove its capacity to grow new teeth or ear drums or eyes.—C...

...HEARINGS on the Eight Hour bill for women workers in the District of Columbia were addressed by a note-worthy group of women...

...She understood politics, and was ambitious for her husband...

...Josephine Goldmark, an attractive young woman with low voice and pleasing manner, explained, from the standpoint of the investigator and social worker, lite effects of long hours on women in industry,— the "toxin of fatigue,"—and gave a summary of the...

...Childhood and youth have been interpreted with rare insight and sympathy in the portraits displayed which seem to the spectator, as some one has said, to represent not so much individual children as the immortal spirit of youth...

...Logan opened especially for this occasion, the old house which she has in later years, rented...

...And yet, here were the people coming and going much the same...

...It is a protection to society that women who are obliged to labor should have reasonable hours and decent pay...

...The place of honor was given this year to a notable group of six portraits by Sargent including one of the late Joseph Pulitzer, of interest, not only because it is one of Sargent's greatest works, but also in connection with the recent opening of the school of journalism founded by the great editor...

...Naturally I hesitated a moment on the wide porch which runs across the whole front of the house, reflecting on the changes that had taken place since I was last there...

...people generally but upon all classes of officials froth all parts of the country...

...This quality is particularly noticeable in Benson's portrait of "My Daughter" and Lydia Emmett's portrait of the little daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes...

...Considering this change, Mrs...

...Against a dark and somber background are the forms of two people, a man and a woman, in whose faces can be read the story of complete capitulation in the struggle against poverty...

...If the message which the artist has to give," the spectator says to himself, "seemed to him so important that he devoted all his artistic talents to it, others should be willing to receive it even at the expense of very unpleasant sensations...

...We happened to locate at a boarding place on Twelfth Street, where the Logans had previously lived...

...Limitation in hours of labor should be accompanied by a minimum wage law on the same principle that regulation of railways should include power to fix a maximum rate...

...Senatorial and cabinet day receptions were less exclusively official and more in the nature of open-house then than now, and there was always a stream of folks going in and out of Mrs...

...The painting is of the kind which artists describe (scornfully sometimes) as "story telling...

...Logan's home is singularly like it was in effect twenty-five years ago...

...There is no "skying" which is often heartbreaking to young and obscure artists, and a great discomfort to visitors...

...These hearings are not without their little pleasantries...

...Human interest is added to the exhibition by the presence of two paintings by Tanner, the Negro artist and master colorist...