Show UNCOMMON UNCOMMON I U AMERICANS o 0 GI G 0 By ny Elmo e to w. w e Newspaper S Scott colt i. i Watson J union First Woman Painter j JULL LL look In vain for her name Vr y l in to the average encyclopedia or of American biography Common as a. Is the name of JohnOn John ion On in our national annals lien Hen letta ietta Johnson U is the least known of 0 ill 11 of them In this era ua of the emancipated woman yoma all fields of human en en- vor ler-vor are open to Ti rs r But Dut It was very different ears ago In those days womans woman's lace was very much In the U e home and she might not leave It even for excursions into the arts But it was 81 In that field geld Henrietta by y doing so she placed posterity In her debt For she was Americas America's first woman painter We know kno her name but little littie else Che rhe date of her death Is recorded n the St. St Philips Philip's church register n Charleston S S. C. C and hat is themy the themly my established date in her history the social code under which she red lied a ladys lady's name should never In public print but twice twice- to announce her mat mas lage loge and to announce her death Since she never married that leaves us only the date of her death March death March 9 0 1728 When and where she was born and whose daughter she was wasI I an unsolved mystery We know that she was a pastel painter and In this medium she did work that rivalled that of some ome of ot the famous French masters We SYe know that she was painting these pictures between 1707 1107 and 1720 since the few surviving examples of her art were made during daring that period And that is a fact which gives her work Importance For ForIn Forin Forin In her day the scheme of an hereditary heredi tary American aristocracy was being be ing tried out in Carolina and the people whose portraits she made were colonial officers and representatives of the landed gentry gentry gen gen- try whose great plantations surrounded surrounded sur rounded Charleston One of the notables she painted was Col William Rhett colonel of ot the provincial militia receiver gen era eral of the Lords Proprietors and the man who In 1718 captured the famous pirate Steve Bonnet Bonnet-a onnet-a onnet a feat which would make the name of forever famous even if It some Bome of his descendants hadn't done doneso so in the more recent history of ot South Carolina Just how many portraits Henrietta Henri etta Johnson painted Is 11 not certain but the known examples 0 o. o her work that have survived for two centuries centuries cen cen- are so BO few that they command prices which compare campara favorably with those paid for the works of the theod theod theod od masters of Europe Quite aside from their artistic and historic historic his his- tone value they possess a high rarity value value because because they came from the brush of Americas America's first fint woman painter Typhoid Mary WHEN her Irish parents V V brought her to a priest In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city one day he christened her Mary Mallon But Dut on hospital records rec rec- records in the East she became only a m number or more specifically carrier carrier car rier No 30 36 For she was the famous Typhoid Mary Back Dack In 1904 there occurred mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- outbreaks of typhoid fever In tn certain sections of ot Westchester Long Island and other districts around Neu York city Examination Examina tion lion of of J l and water failed to give any clues to the origin if f the bacilli which were it But Dut Dr George Sop r t a unitary engineer in the municipal health service remembered a German bacteriologist had proved that some people while immune themselves to typhoid carried the germ lerm and gave the fever to others Tracing the outbreaks he found that an Irish cook named Mar Mary Mallon had in every Instance been employed inthe In Inthe inthe the stricken household He lie learned also that Mary at al the first hint of ot each illness fled tied from her Job Finally the health authorities caught up with her and in 1907 she he was detained and against her will given an examination She was found to be infected with millions of typhoid bacilli She went to I court to gain her freedom but lost her ber suit Finally In la 1910 she was I freed However typhoid epidemics began began be be- gan again and in tn each case Mary Mallon was found to have been the cook Again she was confined in a hospital Eventually she became resigned resigned re reo re- re signed to her fate was given a laboratory lab lab- oratory Job and then furnished a little littie little lit lit- tle tie cottage of her ber own on North Brothers island where she lived in semi Imprisonment for 21 years She died a t few w years ago but alto but not from typhoid Fit First th nj was a stroke ot of paralysis from which she sho rallied During the next three years she gradually failed and finally when she he was sixty six years old Death Duth opened the door for the frail haired gray little woman and Typhoid Typhoid Typhoid Ty Marys lon long lone imprisonment was wa ended |