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Show I j "She Seeks For the Ugly That She May Make It Beautiful" 1 NEW YOKK. Sept. 19. Thla l-s I Story of a girl who started on b" r I road to success by the WSJ of B doOT-I doOT-I knocker. Her name is Bernlcc Ab-I Ab-I bott. She Is Jut 22 and she was born in Cleveland, O. I She was bored with her life and raine to New York. She was quite ! penniless and she looked about her fOI a Job. , Sh turned to posing Then one daj in a sculptor s studio, sin found th.i' 'she was essentially a sculptress I She began making the usual Ihing-i heads fountains, etc.. but4hero wen so many heads and fountains In the world that she looked for something , that was needed more. , There were so many ugly th'ngrt about a house that no one hud ever thought about making lovely, so she I turned to these SHE M IDE Hit ss KXO KEB She began on door-knockers. -V bell Is an ugly thing, so she made a I brass knocker for her front door und waited. Some one came and admired It: she made another and another. Knockers ot natural objects, a faun, a little grinning monkey, a fight between a horse and a Hon, leaves flowers .nn ; many conservative designs. - But this wjv not going far enough. She saw thnt nearlv all cupboards had I'.very sad-looking knobs to the doors. 1 So she turned nut same dozen or I more designs for knobs. These were 'cut in wood or made up of glass or metal A big firm on Kifth-u v began .take notice, and now she has about as much as she can do nosing out the neglected side of household furnish -J Ingt.. it Is almost like discovering orphan's, or-phan's, she said, "this discovering of the 'things that no one has ever thought enough about to mike beau-tiful. beau-tiful. I feel almost like a detfective too w henever i go into a house m eyes fairly ache. I turn them on so niain forgotten corners SO MAN "1 IMPOSSIBLI lIHNt.s "In nearly every home, even the most wealthy , (here arc at least thirty things or so, w hich are hopelessly out of keeping. For Instance, the "blowers' "blow-ers' for open fires an they not impossible? im-possible? And who said they could nO( be made attractive by the right designing? T Kitchen things, too just uccsnse the; are kitchen things, people acem t. think they mu t be plain ' "Kitchen thing. too Just be IU8C they are kitchen things people seem to think they have to go on casting irons In the same old way, with unlovely un-lovely handles, and lhat kitchen utensils uten-sils of all sorts must be plain. Why. some of my best work has been in laC- , iuerlng tea caddies, cocoa cans, pep- per pots. etc. "But what amuses me most Is In1 the disioverv. At the moment 1 am making a set of key-hole blinds y6iH IcnOW, those little things they put over key-holes, so that no Inquisitive friend j in. iv look through i l l see what yOUi jr. doing I'm on the fifth, and they ; ar. handsome, ami such fun." Miss Abbott does her work at home! - wh- re all 'hi things I love are near me," as she says. And above the knocker on her door is a little sign: 'She who abides within, seeks fori the Ugly, that she may make It beau-! ilful " |