Show TilJfi MAO AZTNB SECTTON BAITS HERALD-REPUBLICA-N O iirv kop t&XC £ 5V LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY APBTL 8 1917 maoazptf: frmnN Miss Doris Doscher Who Posed for Hermon MacNeil’s Design of the New “Two-Bit- ” Coin and How the New Design Was Made for Submission to the U S Government K£ c i -- SKW SSf m m ):: c ' lac t 5 4 sepah’WfW f y&z 1 - o - r v Rt - ' £t Sj & "'' V' X '4 ' S v '1 5? : 1 v ' 'AV wXAJulj - y- £$: VyA1 ?: 'v ‘V : ii f v1- vV'' v S &£? X&r ? : : a v - P ' fy V v fev! X“'- A £ S ¥ 1 r -- 4§(Ua Sisk's® '¥& V t W9V &£&£ ( issi c Three Portraits of Miss Doris Doscher Who Posed for the Girl on the Quarter L By Marguerite Norse America’s coin girl! BEHOLD progressive happy as the day Is long — that is Denis Doscher whose Idealized portrait is to be found on the new quarter now finding Its way Into general circulation No mere languid beauty fs this girl of the coin To her very finger Ups she Is a daughter of America' She has crowded a great deal into her 22 years of life Her days are spent In artistic and Intellectual pursuits Aside from posing for the new coin design made by Sculptor Her-mon A MacNeil Miss Doscher is a lecturer scenario writer trained nurse and with everything else she has three times delivered a sermon-ett- e on “The Leper” from the pulpit leading up to a dramatic reading of the Willis poem of that title The coin girl is 5 feet 44 inches In height she has an abundance of beautiful shining brown hair and expressive gray eyes Through her own efforts she has developed from a half invalid child to a most perfect Her type of American womanhood work in her rendition of Hiawatha illustrates her theory of combining vocal tone with movement to produce complete harmony One reason Mr ATaeNoil asked Miss Doscher lo pose for the Liberty figure on the coin is because she is eo intensely American and irile The Greatest Thing in Life When one asks Doris Doscher what she thinks is the greatest thing In life she answers promptly: ‘Ser vice given gladly and whole hearted-lto those about you but first of all ability to lend jour service to your country should it be needed” Tliis Is not simply a theory with the coin girl for at the first intimation ot war she enrolled in the Hod and stood from that (‘toss day ready for a moment's pall She presents a most attractive appearance in the lied Cross uniform but better than that she is a practical nurse having studied nursing and instead of laying the accomplishment aside as a fad she has kept abreast with the methods in hospital training Should neces-- e i r y for s:Ii activity arise the girl rf ti e coin meant to hr? prepared Miss Dose hi r is a In arty exponent Of this ol the art of s"'r'-'ir!-io:- i she says: fve:v woman in the ought to study No' ari f'chilly but truly Through an cbs ’rvation of your thoughts you v find - ir elf Kverv individual a mission in life There is no has bct'r titv ic dr mine what this y up-to-'!a- te self-cxpro-sio- ! n - J 5V may be than through Let your ‘inner man’ guide your actions your every gesture and you will soon find out whether you are living truly or are a hypocrite It has been my experience that most people act in one way and think in another Act as your mind prompts and soon you will be making mental Figure Measurements of the Girl on the Quarter Height 5 feet self-expressi- corrections” Miss Doscher has a theory about women and housework that she has put to a test for aside from everything else this little lady is decidedly domestic “Why” asks Miss Doscher “should women make an ugly thing of home keeping? Why should they do things in everyday life that make their figures grotesque and then run to a masseuse to have themselves practically remodeled? There Is splendid exercise Ip housework if women would only see it that way If they would there would be less need for gymnasiums fewer courses in massage and dieting Also there would not be so many doctor bills to pay ‘Every movement In doing housework should be made a healthy ex- - For instance in picking anything up from the floor do not bend the knees this Is an exercise given by physical instructors All day long a woman will go sloppily about her work and then at night ‘touch her toes with her finger tips ten times without bending the knee’ Let her do this every time she bends in her routine work of the home and sho will not need the other exercise “In using a carpet sweeper work inches Waist 25 inches Hips 39 inches Wrist 6 inches Ankle 8 inches Calf 14 inches Neck 13 inches Shoulders 38 inches Chest 33 inches Bust 36 inches erci&e Hermon A MacNeil Who Designed the New Quarter 4V2 with one hand extending the other arm in the opposite direction this straightens the shoulders and develops the lungs There are many things in such work that can be made to do the duty of a beautifler if women would only study the sub- ject” It is so In everyday life that Doris Doscher practices the things she preaches and she nis obtained a high degree of efficiency in living A book that is In circulation among scientific people dealing with anatomy was written some little time ago For the measurements of the body in this work Miss Doscher served as a model having been selected by experts as a high type of feminine development The measurements from which' the late Karl Bitter modeled the figure surmounting the Pulitzer Memorial Fountain that stands in the Plaza in New York city were taken from Miss Doscher Also Mr Bitter’s beautiful Diana that stands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was modelled from the coin girl One of Miss Doscher’s greatest triumphs has come recently through the medium of an educational film called the “Sculptor and Ills Art” The film deals with the building of a sculptured image from top to toe The Sculptor's Work Mr MacNeil’s “Liberty” on the new quarter is indeed a beautiful piece of work The idea conceived of by the artist Is highly expressive cornea national sentiment The figure down a flight of steps In an attitude of welcome to the world In one extended hand she hold3 a laurel branch of peace on the left arm she carries a shield Though she offers to defend peace first she Is prepared her honor and her rights The deforward in civil-- i sign suggests a stepand defence with ration protection ultimate goal peace as the In the studio of Mr MacNeil one has an opportunity of observing some of the intricacies of producing a design for United States currency When Uncle Sam decided he wanted a new quarter he invited three sculptors to submit designs for it sary before the design was ready to be ?Lovn An idea must be crystal ized a::ri when executing so important a piece of work a sculptor finds it hard to satisfy himself The first idea does not always seem nd-Others are then worked over urti’ a final decision is reached Th n this is done in relief on a medallion 14 inches in diameter For this wori Miss Doscher When the first image has beer studied and perhaps changed many times it is reduced to a medallion five inches in diameter From th! a hard bronze cast is made and scTito the mint In Philadelphia Ore asrain a reduction is made this timo to the size of the coin which Js Jus a fraction less than an inch across This reduction Is made through the use of the Janvier machine and then one is able to see just how the design will look in the size of currency Casting a Coin When this Is found to be satisfactory a steel model is produced the steel hardened and a soft steel mould supplements the die from which come your bright new quart ters Making a relief for a coin is very different from making one for another purpose There is much to be considered Especially must there be no crevices in which germs dirt may collect Uncle Sam Is verv particular about this One of ih coins designed some time found to have this defect andagoIt was was necessary to recall the issue Mr MacNeil is rightfullv delleht ed in the fact that his work was accepted for the quarter What sculptor would not be? As for the coin girl her pride is just what you would expect to find in a wholesome ambitious woman upon whom this honorvoting had been placed a-i- d Flinging a Jar of water over a friend is one striking form of salutation adopted by the South Se-- i Islanders The largest flower in the work grows in Sumatra It measures abou a yard across and weighs roughly 15 pounds |