Show DOINGS OF WOMEN How Crazy Quilts Founded an Artists Fame A FEW NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES The White Wife of Old San Tan Taa son We Lose Some of Our Best Necks by Pneumonia NEW Yom Feb 13rSpecial correspondence corre-spondence of THE HEIULUJ The crazy quilt passed long ago to its final rest peace to its ashes This morning heard a eulogy to its memory Frederic Remington who paints blanketed savages and their scrubby ponies quite as they are and not in the least as the imagination of the romantic pictures them is in spite of the firmness with which his feet are planted on the road to fame and the distance they have already carried him in the opinion of many quite within the portals so young a man that when the full frenzy of the crazyquilting I mania struck tho little northern New Yorktown j York-town in which ho was raised a dozen or I or fourteen years ago he was a lad at home who had never taken pencil in hand with artistic purpose but who had nothing more pressing with which to fill an odd quarter quar-ter hour than the turning over of the scraps of silk and ribbon in his mothers basket and the idle sorting of them in whimsical designs One day for amusement pure and simple sim-ple he made in his mothers absence rough pen and ink sketches on various quilt blocks of the family cat and dog engaged in various vari-ous scrimmages His mother finding the crazy quilt decorated with these additional aberrations rightly considered each new touch of lunacy a desirable help towards establishing its utter unsoundness of mind She exhibited it to her neighbors who one and all were not destroyed by the gods but certainly made madwith desire to possess crazy quilts like Mrs Remingtons If you were to explore tho spare rooms of Canton up in frigid but invigorating Lawrence county you couid probably find to this day some half dozen spreads bearing bits of landscape figures fancy touches of all sorts done with brush or pen by young Remiunton in his polite willingness willing-ness to oblige the crazy quilt coterie These spreads may some day be of value as exhibiting ex-hibiting genius in bud The enthusiasm of the crazy quilt women so I hear awoke in Remington the first suspician that ho could drawafterward came his ranching experiences experi-ences and the rest the world knows Speaking of artists one of the most prominent prom-inent illustrators in the country who had more confidence in himself the beginning than had Remington was rebuffed on his first application to a publishing house by a member of the firm who knew him well enough to indulge in the friendly sarcasm Bend your talent to art stoves you wont do for magazines In these dabs of his prosperity the artist never sends a letter to this publishing house for which by the way he does much of his work that he doesnt sketch somewhere at the top or bottom I bot-tom of his paper an art stove KUSKIXG ANTELOPES WHITE WIFE I happened to meet a few ays ago a lady who has more than passing acquaintance acquaint-ance with Dr Eastman the Indian whom Miss Elaine Goodale is to marry She told me that Miss Goodales future husband was in her opinion a man of considerable intelligence intel-ligence and cultivation a man who had always al-ways made on her a favorable impression and yet not a person of such gifts that had his skin been white instead of red he would have been likely to attract the woman ho has won Romance carried the day as it did in the case of the old chief San Tan Tas son who was inNew York recently with his white wife a bride of less than a year Old San Tan Ta figures prominently in Mrs Custers Boots and Saddles He was a vicious fighter and was killed by Custers men His son whose Indian name is Running Run-ning Antelope has been educated with the help of money furnished largely by a prominent prom-inent Brooklyn woman at Carlisle and at Lincoln university He is a tall fine looking young man who speaks Enclish much more fluently than does Dr Eastman East-man speaks it in fact as if it were his own language while Miss Goodalos betrothed still has the slowness and the accent of a foreigner Running Antelope is called in English Mr Joshua Given While in Brooklyn somo years ago hemet he-met at the house of a prominent dry goods merchant an intelligent young girl who had been a saleswoman but for special qualities qual-ities had been taken into the house of her employer I am under the impression he had a fit of sickness during which she helped nurse him and remarked on the impossibility im-possibility of keeping his large red feet properly tucked under coverlets The acquaintance was renewed during subsequent subse-quent visits and last March in spite of some quiet opposition there was wedding On their bridal trip Mr and Mrs Given went to Washington and at the house of a Senator Mr Given met an army officer whose wife had just been telling him she took little stock in Indians At sight of the husband the young red mans hand fell at his side Ive seen you before he said quietly But I never met you returned the officer of-ficer When I was a boy and they shot down my father you stood there and laughed at me And then with something of an effort the Indian controlled himself and held out his hand Mrs Mabel Givens married life has not been long enough to test very thoroughly the happiness of such a union There is I believe a minute halfbreed baby Mr Given addressed several audiences on the Indian question during his visit east but has now taken his wife back to Indian territory ter-ritory where heis doing misslonoary work under I suppose the Presbyterian board and where his wife who is a bright pretty woman presents the objectlesson of a white womans home with a washday TIlE LENTEN LET UP Now that the round of gaieties has come to a pause it may be permissible to remark while we rest and get ready to go at it again hat in the language of a fashionable fashion-able dressmaker we have lost some of our finest shoulders by pneumouia It is true that wo have cut our frocks lower in the neck than ever apparently to make up for covering our arms the Vshaved cor sage has slain its scores and fifties but as we plan for the days after Easter we may felicitate ourselves that in one or two directions di-rections we seem for the moment to be moderately sensible The fashionable dinner din-ner and lunch table for instance has got rid of a good deal of rubbishy decoration At recent entertainments the color effects have been obtained very simply At a pretty pink breakfast the other day the table linen was snowy white but broad streamers of pink ribbon hung from it at intervals There were pink candles standing stand-ing in the hearts of roses and with other roses for shades Teere were pink ribbons painted with arbutus for favors and the hostess wore a pink gown At the crush receptions the voices of flunkeys announcing the names of guests have grown of late so very loud that the ordeal of entering a drawing room threatens threat-ens to become quite too much for a modest person Mrs Archibald Clavering Gunter Gun-ter who very sensibly enjoys the 1000000 her husband issaid to have made out of his books and plays has man who sometimes is really overpowering Ho roars it loudly through the hall till one feels as meek as the man who couldnt havo bread with his ono fish ball At manager and Mrs A M Palmers big reception fortnight ago one felt as if one ought to bo a duchess or a princess to bear up properly under the eclat of ones entrance Tho throats willet will-et out of practice let us hope before Easter SOHOSIS AND SUFFRAGE Somebody asked Marion Harland a short time ago if it was true that all members of Sorosis were suffragists That subject said she is tabooed in our discussions It is true that any reference to it is strictly prohibited and I have heard that some years ago a stranger unacquainted with I the rules of the famous womans club and blundering upon the forbidden topic was treated to some of those soft purrings which with women more gently and politely I po-litely serve the purpose for which men use hisses and that a special vote of the assemblage as-semblage was required before she would be allowed to proceed I do not know that this is true but if so the rigor of the law must have been relaxed somewhat of late for at a recent meeting I noted that two speakers briefly but quite directly advocated advo-cated the ballot for women and the remarks re-marks of two others seemed to have a certain cer-tain leaning in that direction Curiously enough tho most pointed utterances came from tho very member who is Eaid to have introduced years ago the resolution barring politics and religion THE AKGLOMAXIACS AND AMERICANISM There are those who in view of the sentiment sen-timent arising in New York in favor of a revival of Americanism connect Mrs Clevelands interest in it with her friendship friend-ship for the Gilders and so with the publication publi-cation in the Century of Mrs Burton Har risons satire The Anglomaniacs from which possibly a wholesome reaction is starting NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES Mrs Laura C Langford who used to bo Laura C Ho loway and whose pet child the Seidl society has grown to be a strong and lusty organization says of it that I while she gets now the best music obtainable obtain-able from the best men she looks to building build-ing up in future the best womens orchestra in the world and having the best women leaders A big opera house is one of her plans A fine vigorous whitehaired woman is Mrs Hawes who twenty years ago wrote the Sunbeams for the Sun Mrs Dana is credited with saying that after tho work was taken from Mrs Hawes it was never again so well done Mr May Riley Smith the poet of Soro sis is spending the winter at El Paso Texas She has been surprised at tho freezing of water night after night in tho hydrants and the depth of tho snow on the ground but with big open fire manages to keep warm in spite of the tricks the Sunny South nlsivi her Happen on a group of women talking about womens new activities and you may strike an opinion like that of Mrs Kate Upson Clarke who translates from the Greek The deuce takes those who undertake too much and urges the fair sisterhood not to cro into twentynine clubs at once or tangle themselves up with thirtytwo philanthropies at one and the same time SUE READS NO ENGLISH There seems tobe a feeling abroad that Mrs Frank Stocktons story The Squirrel Squir-rel Inn the thread of which is spun out of tho scheme of a scholar to preserve the gems of English literature by embalming them in imperishable Greek will be found to have a squint that interesting Observing Obser-ving the flux of things the hero begins his work of salvage by turning Pickwick Papers into the language of Homer and Aeschylus Greek he feels is safe from change In order to judge of the faithfulness faithful-ness of his work he gives the Greek version ver-sion to a Vassar girl to turn into English again The delicious unlikeness of the retranslated re-translated tale to Dickens is absurdly funny for the Vassar girl deals with tho Greeic periods with solemn earnestness and witbout bias she has never read Dickens or any other writer of the English language We are asked to believe that with all this there is to be developed a gentle gen-tle moral to the effect that we women could bring to bear on the blind earnestness earnest-ness with which wo go into everything nowadays the light of a sense of human the effect would be genially and wholesomely whole-somely broadening TilE KINGS DAUGHTERS Even an organization so pure in its purpose pur-pose and so potent for good as the Kings Daughters does not escape mistakes appar ontly Prominent workers in the organized charities are beginning to complain that the tens are taking philanthropic work right back into the responslble and indiscriminate indis-criminate ring by individuals out of which it has been such a struggle to redeem it The tens they say i report to the general organization or to the branches to which they belong only the results of their work not the methods Theso they choose for themselves and many of the members are so young that with all their beautful fervor fer-vor they choose without discretion A well known woman was telling me this morning of her experience with a ten to which she turned over the case of a destitute desti-tute family The girls nursed tho mother who was the breadwinner most tenderly through the illness but they pauperized her by teaching her to depend on them for everything The dear girls were more than anxious todo for her why should she tire herself with working 1 This one hears is a common experience and the organized charities are beginning to protest pro-test against the additions to their work made by misdirected zeal and sentimentalism sentiment-alism ELIZABETH DUSTIN |