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Show THE CITIZEN 12 UTAHS FOREMOST WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER. SOON AS open the door to ASthe studio ofyou Ida M. Wilcox you realize you have found a genius in the art of making photographic portraits. Her unusual ability is recognized wherever her. portraits are exhibited. During the past month she was awarded solon honors by the National Photographs Association of America forall partraits she submitted to the exhibit held at the Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky., five in number. The Association later selected all of these for the 1928 Traveling Loan Exhibit, which means that these pictures will be exhibited throughout the country wherever special art exhibits are held. Miss Wilcox also received several salon honors from the National Photographers Association at their 1926 and 1927. exhibits. During the past three years she has been awarded prizes for her exhibits by the Pacific International Photographers Association in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. She received first prize at San Francisco for her portraits of women and second prize for her portraits of men. Recently she was asked for four portraits for exhibition in the Japanese Salon, Tokyo, Japan. Miss Wilcox was born in . St. - Charles, Idaho, . Oct. 23, 1926, and came to Logan, Utah, with her parents three years later. The family remained in Logan until Ida was twelve years of age, when they moved to Salt Lake, where she completed her education. At the early age of six Ida evinced a strong interest in the art of photography. A photographer by the name of Crawford lived at the Wilcox residence for awhile. He lined the walls of his room with photographs from the studio and did considerable portrait work at home. Everything about pictures interested Ida and she continually plied Crawford with questions about his pictures and the whys and wherefores of his movements in the conduct of his photographic work, until exhausted by her chatter he would Oh, run along kid. You exclaim, bother me. The little six year old would go away only to return later to learn more about the intricacies of his art. When Ida was only thirteen years of age she applied to Calvin Cooley (whom many of you will remember) for work. He laughed good naturedly and told her to come back in ten years and he would give her a job. At the Seattle Convention Mr. Cooley asked Miss Wilcox how she happened RENT A NEW CAR NASH HUDSON to take up photography. Naturally he was curious to know what impelled a woman to take up the photographic art. She told him of this incident and he said he had a vague recollection of some kids asking him for a job one time, adding laughingly, Well, Ill sure give you one now. Plucky little Ida continued her quest for work and finally secured a position as apprentice in a local studio. She worked hard, without pay, for many months, but eventually the firm recognized her ability and gave her some compensation. Ten years ago Miss Wilcox opened her own studio. Pluck and determination were practically the only assets she possessed. Discouragement met her on every hand. Many even sought her out to tell her how foolish she was. Some told her she wouldnt last thirty days, that she was a fool to venture into the business and that she couldnt possibly make good. These predictions only whipped her pride and ambition into greater determination to win out against all odds. She has not only made good, but is rapidly becoming famous. No doubt many of those who prophesied her failure have watched her progress with amazement. The best thing that can be said of her pictures is that they have soul-lifHer portraits are living likenesses of her subjects. She loves to work with little tots. Her keen understanding of them, together with the tact and patience she always displays, wins their confidence. These attributes are doubtless responsible for the natural animated expressions she secures in all her portraits of children. The Citizen predicts a brilliant fue. ture for Miss Wilcox. BEAUTIFUL BUT MODERN IT WAS a wonderful wedding. The girl was as sweet as any girl who ever lived, but modern. As she walked up the aisle on her fathers arm, her lips gently tilted at the comers in a happy smile', she was a picture of modest beauty. Her filmy wedding gown and gossamer veil floated around her fair blond head like a halo. She was a3 nearly angel as girls get to be in this world. At the altar as she passed from her father, the man she had always loved, to the man to whom she would devoted the rest of her life, her dainty slipper touched a potted lily resting on the floor and turned it over. Smiling again, she turned to the dear old pastor waiting at the chancel, and said: THAT WAS A HELL OF A PLACE TO PUT A LILY. DRIVE IT YOURSELF BUICK PAIGE KNIGHT CHEVROLET MODEL A and T FORDS Best of New Cars WILLYS- - Low Rates Courteous Service Drive It Yourself Co. 35 West 4th South Wasatch 1606 MOTHERS DAY Address Delivered by T. F. JENNINGS Over KSL May 13, 1928. WHAT movement set on foot in recent years deserves heartier support than that for the establishment of a nation-wid- e Mothers Day? The day set apart as Mothers Day by those who have inaugurated this movement is the second Sunday in May. Every year let us endeavor to unite in making this day the greatest day in the year, by especially honoring our Mothers, in the flesh, those of us who are so fortunate as to have our Mothers with us. Those whose Mothers are in the spirit, are not so fortunate. If away from her, write a good loving letter, or telephone or telegraph to the best Mother that ever lived your Mother. Send her some flowers, an appropriate present; go and spend a day with her, or in some other way make her heart glad. Show her that you appreciate her, and that you give her credit for a large part of your rifice every comfort to his convenience, she will surrender every pleas. ure to his enjoyment, she will glory in his fame and exult in his prosperity; and if misfortune overtakes him, he will be dearer to her for his misfortune; and if disgrace settles upon his name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace; and if all the world, beside cast him off, she will be all the world to him. Mother! What a world of meaning is contained in that one little word; its magnitude is wonderful. Consider its height and breadth, its duties and obligations. Who can measure its pqssibilities or gauge its meanings? The mother of Daniel Webster influenced her husband to sell their old homestead that they might devote the proceeds to the education of their two love boys. This act of and parental solicitude has already and will forever affect the American nation for good, and, indirectly, the entire world. Our nation today is no happier self-sacrifici- ng success. The power of love is often illustrated in a delicate Mother who walks the floor, night after night, whose days than its homes, no better than its mothers and no wealthier than its wealth in manhood and womanhood. Yet it is great and rich because the pass without recreation or change, week in and week out, and who feels more than compensated if she can only procure relief for her suffering little mothers of America have made the American home the model and standard for the world. Do not ever be ashamed of your mother. The man, woman, boy or girl that is ashamed of his or her mother should be sent back to Natures as a counterfeit on Mint and Humanity of Natures baser metal. All that I am or hope to be, said one. In no other way than through the marvelous power of love can we account for the wonderful miracles of endurance, presented by many Mothers in bringing up large families. Think of a Mother carrying about, perhaps for a greater part of a day, and the night following, the same weight, in merchandise or other matter, as that of a sick child. She could not stand the strain, she would be ill in a short time. But a mothers love lightens her load and makes a pleasure. Mother can bear any burden, even poverty, disappointment, or suffering, for the sake of the loved self-sacrifi- ce one. God bless Anna Jarvis, the Philadelphia woman who put Mothers Day on the map. That holy day is worth more to us than ten new Boul- der dam projects that we hear and see so much about. Mother asks no reward, nor expects any, but the privilege of lavishing her maternal affection where the instinct of her heart directs. In the simple word Mother is a mystery of unselfish and unending affection which no coarser soul or grosser mind can solve. Men stand amazed at the presence of its manifestations, while only God can fathom the meaning of its sweetness and its strength. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother for her son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sac re-issu- ed Lincoln, become pres- ovre to my angel Mother." My mother was the making of me," ident, ' after he had I She said Thomas Edison, recently. was so true, so sure of me, and I felt that I had some one to live for, some one I must not disappoint. All that I have ever accomplished in life, declared Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist, I owe to my mother. The testimony of great men in adebt cknowledgement of the boundless wou they owe to their mothers, the make a record stretching from dawn of history to today. Few men, not indeed, become great who do their greatness to a mothers love an P inspiration. How often we hear I ne'er pie in every walk of life say, my could have done this thing but for encour mother. She believed in me, ODONNELL & CO. MORTICIANS Wasatch 6461 Salt Lakes Finest Funeral Home 32 South Fourth East CONTAINING UTAHS ONLY MAUSOLEUM |