Show Drawn by Mrs Hoover t 12 in Wis I MILWAUKEE March 9 Unit I ed Press Press-An odd pen and ink sketch of a Sunbonnet Girl drawn by a old girl in Clearwater Kan now is the most prized possession of Mrs ne Eckel an amateur artist living here The picture was was was' drawn by Mrs Herbert Hoover the first lady of the land It bears the signature of Lou Henry at the bottom in scrawling script When Mrs Eckel found the time lime worn sheet in her sketch sketchbook hook book recently she could not believe be be- lieve any connection existed be tween the small rosy cheeked checked girl she had known as a neigh neigh- bet bor and the presidents president s wife She wr wrote te to Mrs Hoover and shortly afterward received acknowledgment ment of authorship Lou Henry was very clever at sketching and many of her girlhood girl girl- hood friends expected her to tomake tomake make a name f for r herself in the theart theart art world Mrs Eckel comment comment- ed None of us dreamed however how how- ever eyer that she would be still stillmore stillmore more famous as the first of the land and 4 |