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Show FOR THE WORLD'S FAIR. The Woman's Memorial Fund Association's Associa-tion's 1'laue. Special Curriiuiiilinr. Ciiicaw, -The Womau Memorial Puna association of New ork has completed iu arrangements for placing on exhibition at the Colum-bian Colum-bian exposition a bust of the typical woman reformer and a statue of the typical woman philanthropist. Miss Susan 1$. Anthony was chosen as thu typical woman reformer, and the THE Bl'KT OF M1K8 ANTHONY. I plaster bust has been com Dieted bv the sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley, A. N. A., and will be reproduced in finest Vermont Ver-mont marble. As the typical woman philanthropist Mary M. Hamilton was selected. She w;is a descendant of the historic Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton, and established tha first school of design for women in tho United States. It was through her etl'orte that the work of women was brought to the notice of Peter Cooper, who was at that time building Cxier institute. The meritorious display of woman's skill induced in-duced him to set aside a portion of that building for tho school of design, the benefits of which bavo been realized by every state in the Union. Mary Hamilton also organized the Mount Vernon association, which was instrumental in purchasing tho historic site of that name for a rpetual memorial, memo-rial, tho projerty of the nation. Tho sculptor engaged for the work, Jonathan Scott Hartley, is the same whoso heroic statue of Miles Morgan adonis the city of Springfield. Mass., and lK)th pieces will also be mado life size from finest Vermont marble. After the exposition they will be placed in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lniht is to cost $1,500 and the statue 1 15,000, and women from all parts of the United States are to be called on to assist financially. A. C. Kihn, the etcher, has been engaged en-gaged to furnish etchings of the bust of Miss Anthony, mounted on parchment 18 by 12 inches iu width, similar to a line one he has recently exe-cutedof exe-cutedof Bellamy. They promise to be very artistic, and to lie by far the best pictures ever presented of Hiss Anthony. These etchings are to be sold for one dollar a piece MARY SI. HAMILTON. 7. th8 Lft'!W IFrom a memory ketch. Art wiatloli, fiity cents of which goes to the etcher and tho other j fifty toward the fund. Mary Hamilton died about ten years ago, having lived long enough to witness the impetus given the study of art by her sex. The Woman's Memorial Fund association asso-ciation is tho direct outcome of the Ladies' La-dies' Art association, which was foremost in the art exhibition made in the woman's pavilion and art annex at the Philadelphia exposition of 1870. Haryot Holt Cahoon. |