Show 1 A leur 4 4 To an all American girl belongs the honor of being proclaimed the second second seend sec sec- ond nd Rosa Roa Bonheur of or the world This American girls girl's name of Matilda Lotz and she claims as her herf f ff f home California Miss Lotz is in reality a Southern girl having been born In Tennessee but she was taken to California when a a. baby f After winning a gold old medal in a school of design in California Miss 1 to In Julian academy f ff f Lotz was sent Paris where she studied for some time f 4 my and later under Van n Marcke The young artist became a firm friend of Rosa Bonheur and profited greatly by the valuable advice of that f ff 4 f famous artist I f 1 Miss Lotz has again and again that she is wedded to her art artand artand f ff f and will never marr marry She loves to study animal life in the farm yard ard ardIn f ff f In the field and In thi Her enthusiastic delight in her art has f never for a a. moment lost st in jn fervor fr Her work is mar marVelously elo sIY lifelike The oxen In her paintings stand standout f ff f out from the Ike living living things The touch that made made- Rosa Bonheur Bon Bon- Bont t tf f heur so famous as Jm in an animal painter is seen again in the painting of off i f ff f Miss Lotz There a aref I strength and vigor and broadness about her work f ff f that stamp it ft even tb the uneducated eye as the work of the master hand f ff f For the last sixteen n years Miss Lotz has lived abroad but she Is still f ff f as patriotic as ever er everi Friends Friends' who Friends who have ha se seen sen n her in Europe say that f ff f whenever Fourth o July uly comes around her studio Is decorated with the f ft t American flag Ii |