Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 71

B 4 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 1925 Dr. Bischoff’s Neighbors Included Some Leaders of Old Washington Rambler Finds Material in an Interesting Will and Recalls Reviews of Work of Musical Artists Associated With Blind Organist. HE will of Di the hlind . John W Bischoft, organist, voice teacher and composer, two | sections of whose life story | the Rambler has given you, was made June 19, 1894, 15 yvears be- | fore his death. The Rambler copled | from It this paragraph | “T have, by wriiten agreement with | © wife, Mary J. V. Bischoff. dated | 18 ed my clatm to a | large amount of money, t0 wit, $12,000 | 15, which belonged to me, seftled on my said wife a ¢ portion of my estate than be entitled to or could « demand or expect. T therevore | declare said settlement to be in leu of all interest in my estate to which | my wife mighi buld be entitled.” | The proceeds of two life insurance | policies, uggregating $5,000, he be- queathed to his daughter, Luella Au- gusta Bischoff. e had two other life insurance policies, one of $3,000 and | one of $2,000, payuble to hls wife, | Mary Jane Bischoff, but it is written | in his will that he had kept those| policles in force for purpose that they be paid to his son, John Ernest Rischoft, the his son. and have much lar she wou right nd he requested his wife to procee poli He also 1thed tle to «ll his published ¢ tions and all royalties. Lu eft his grand pi and Mrs. H C. Evans of Chicago “all my embossed raised letter ks' Other hooks, furniture and personal effects he | willed to John I. Biscl d re- | mainder of effects” to Lueiln. He re fers to Henry M. Paul as his frienc and names lim executor of the will. | Witnesses to the will were Katherine Lamborn, 1510 § street northwest, and Edward J1. Thomas, 916 I° street. In June, 1909, the month following Dr. Bischoff’s dea Bond Bischoff, 1 with bond of $1,000, and i of the case s the petition of J Bischoff and Luella A. Chester ording of the ioners ask Jetters of administration issue to E Bond Bischoff. She Is now Mrs. Oliver M. Moore of Portland, Oreg. Among the records of the Probate Court {s the administration of the tate of Mary Jane Bischoff, who died December 11, 1912 Lucile (Luella) A Chester was executrlx, in bond of $15,000. The Rambler has names of puplls of Dr. he hands them to you. It is a short list, and names of man and girls, puplls of Dr. Bi not cluded in the list il to Perhaps your own name {s not there Here is the list: Miss Minn for was it a 1 Louise Foweli, Mrs. Ha Mil Miss Emma Detweller (Mrs. J. F. Oys ter), Miss Dayzelle Taylor (Mrs. Johr Welch), Miss Nellie Wilson (\ Wil Nam Shir-Cliff), Miss Cora Bond (Mrs. Geary Morgan), Miss Elsie E Mrs. J. W. Bischoff), Mrs Dalgleish, Mrs. Dixie Crooks Edna Scott Smit ss Hattie Smith, Mrs. Bessie Wild, Miss garet Standiford, Miss Bertha I Nellie A. King, Miss Beatrice ( Miss Belle Henni Mrs. H. « Luebker Iph las G. Miller, W D. Lawson, John Humphrey. Lee Cox Mamie Morrice (now Burdette), who off's piano pupils. pils on the list, Minnic Louise Powell, -Harriet ma Detweiler, were elia Quartet also celebrated in cones < the Rambler's is tha Lincoln,~ Ednas, Scott Smith, Boyd and Nellle Shir-Cliif were famo Mamie Morrice, p celebrated. #nd was soloist Sousa’s Band. Fler name programs. 1 have before paper clipping at 1 but it bears no date, from which newspaper Here it is “Mrs. Ma Mr. Charles plano and song recit evening at the Mus They wiil be heard in Club. The P! h rahms, ven and L will be wi T am talking opportunity v for, as Mrs. Bu reputation, h public. She honest enjoyment Mus Mr. Rabold singer, connected w Tnstitute, bas cores friends and with bheautiful the patrone Wadsworth. Mrs. A. B horough, Miss land, M Mrs. Ll Arthur Lee, A Py s of those ies 1o the nposi he 1894. pet the following choff, and come e tead Iphonzo Youngs, Duvi da Herbert Walter Willlam E Twe Mr Mrs was one of Dr. I The first fou Fuwan Mill 1 ot t as on R boid 2t, inte ibout wEn and jaseurs bari Peabod hou John Tweedale, and Eiphonzo Doug with pupils Mt MONG the Douglas G Youngs, jr.. were quite far las Millerhad a fine tenor « capacity for high and true nc hesides bei gational choir. toured with not place “*Mr. Hoover ger before there was Wash- T have rust Compar he entered banking “Hal” Hoover ington vocalist lost ‘track This calls to mind tt has a pertinent Evening undated, but printed about follows: In his second concert of the season Dr. Bischoff introduced an entirely new feature in the rendition of Liza Lehman's heautiful In a Per- sian Garden v & supplied from the ‘Rubaivat’ of Omar Khay- yam. “The work st produced } 1his city sc ears azo hy Miss H. H. Mills, but the most adequaie interp t has yet had here. T sts. for the evening were Mrs. Nellie: Wilson Shir-Cliff Miss Elizabeth An- tolnette Stuart. contralto: Mr. Dougla G. Miller, te and Mr, Walter | Humphrey, basso. The members of | the quartet sang several solo numbers | in addition to the Lehman cycle, and | in each instance whom celet wnd of 1t the Rambler Star clipping, 190! last might as give captured the audi- | ence by excellent vocallzation. During | the course of the evening Mrs. Shir-| CUff sang a new song, written by Dr. Bischoff and dedicated to her, ‘Remem- | ber, Beloved.'” ' From another .Washington paper the Rambler has a clipping which | say | imfiss Stuart's lovely voice showed | to advantage in her solos, ‘I Some- times Think That Never Blows So Red | the Rose’ and "The Worldly Hope Men | et Their Hearts Upon.” AMr. Hum-| phrey’s voice was never better ex-| hibited than in his s Young.” Mr. Miller's work wg all | dome with artistic finish and much effectiveness. The very difficult song, 3 AR, Moon of My Delight,’ showed him $0 be a consciestious student. a FIRST CONGRE! : | Running over these old clippings, T take following names Salve di Dou Mor! M gla n, [ posed by Clfe. The the Ricl ber 30, 1303 The Qua A rtet Bischoff, Hall season. posse known the ses Mor: i Mis: sung b Dr. Rambler ond , assi last voice and s a a wuty, comment excusab) enc Wiy neraber Me. was greeted MOSt cc M re, or phrey Lo M Dr. the 1 whic stan in G a cssment the north side to the ¢ m Van Riswick, ichards, Wil joh Tho Tho anc wudience was invited to meet 15 Raml nd T n m. mas rendered Mrs. Elsie Down Upon th nd Dr. F it Taide famous ith D. ne the concert the Rischoff were given a reception by 1 Mrs. W. F story of D the and nees to who « the square between H s ots. 187 ot B. "Tox A. Richa John Ambler Smi John A lam I fron were J Witson, St. Wil t blc lia R Bolles, J< Wallach on G > “on ck ic - 1ot owned by the 12 to 18, The assessmer i from the cor Lots’ and n 1 inecl sylum, Goodwin, W William Mt Jokn Br Hil n n part Mausoleum W John W Isa an, E. H W. De: M. Wood, Is, ‘rancis I In the as: from Ninth the name of Arthur Middleton, 60 feet | throughout the 1 in hington City Orphan Asylum, 50 | THE feet on H w on H was owned by on v feet of 1o, ‘Myself When | B G H the ot was s the Ascension, Miller: Stua Mr. Bisch ¥ With Thine E , part o accompanist, at the Y. night, ost delightful musical Each member of Dr. This be: Law to wr! Congrega recall and rontage on Tenth was owned by the regation: from the church and extending around of d Crist eph’s Orphan Asylum, Jesse B. of ainard, and ide of Ninth to G, in the name of J. ssment of 1839, of aust, “Beloved,” Tt “Brave Is the Humphrey, com hoff Drink to vs. Shir- songs: | feet_on Mr. | 64 T Is | feet ol from on Ninth, I Ninth uss rt: | In are: 7,880 square fec a Washington ton City Orphan Decem. | burial place; 1 Decem- | foot, Church blan | 197.082 feet In the 153 square No feet, 2% het g from (the vhich ¢ = Arthur the Colu sted by Di ol wa < one et o ot the uartet unusual range Bischoff is too musician to make Responding to an Bond Bischoff sang Sewanee River When * % of . what is now and H, and i Burne Mausoleum to be bu Mausoleum with its s ken down and metery In 1§ he Then You'll Rte wtiful old song and Mr with irming ef- Lynham Hum- and beautiful telling effect, and n sang splen harmeth My Sad- 1ub and leum Ness Square M. ks pted for ma Cit firs Orphan Asylum near the Avenu 1828-20. In 1822 the moved to a between H and I, and ¢ % until the Summer was removed ing in Mausoleum mained there until 18: Galt bought the pr Before golng on have noticed that it “David Burnes Iy all our local I David Burnes' where the Pan-Ameri spell the name 1. 0. McGehee, and Bischoff leads the ite of the land on tonal Chnreh | to vou oid a swned lots or lived {inth. Tenth, The District’s a: shows the lots on + from Ninth street h owned by Absalom Brown, Jobn E. Kendall, Alfred and R. Thomas, M. Clapp. eph Casey and Wil The rest the a considerable the were “Burnes” in Rock ing it pitaphs Washington. Died the 1800, 50 vear Aore A Burnes ary, 1807, aged and 4 days; Mr. David Burnes, Esq. 792, aged 20 vears. Burnes, 66 North e I Church. the land owners . Melissa G. Doler, | gy 1o become an he and an ornament to b In “A History gational Church.” by in a booklet “Fiftieth the Founding of the tional Church the Ascension, fam Orme and An- | nclusive., for 1869 shows the ner of Ninth, lots owned by J. Fri 12 to 18 were the »rth on Tenth from s assessed Fisher were phan the Mau of David 1 south around the lot, th Church of The Methodists of Four-and-a for $25, order. For 75 family, the o western half of V seling at city prices vears ginal ere th Summy rnando Heaton, John R McKnight, Charles Norman | promptiy bought by had to lary Hopperton and | signature. hen six lots, west family the first piece to anti-slavery slavery 186 feet | was in | after ha and Tent the name of the | y Rambler has Mausoleum lot, 100 | 75 fect on Ninth | recorded February 3, ed to the | of the Fourth Presbyteria the assessment of erences to land in this squ Asylum (Washl Asylum) L300 feet, 1212 cents only Middle ssessment 19 thls: ** 1 = cents a foot, ,on acc’t of grave y'd.” * % HE house of James Burnes, father of David Burnes, the intersection of Tenth is likely family graveyard was wher: ~Van Ness caused the V It in rebuilt v one of the founders of t house on of 1829, to the new brick bufld- Square. * T think ottage “Burn bler has no other authority for sp than Creek David Burnes. Esq.. of the City of | of May, s 2 months a wife Died the year of the F Walter L First published in 16 the following account of the purchase the land: “And then came up (1866) the question of a site— the soclety erect a church offered us the corner Half and C street ccupied by the Metropolitan Chu: 000, but we wanted a more ¢ tral location for the only church of our owners ashington, had been the pieces of their old tobacco plantation sold but one lot, and that lay on the corner of Tenth and (i streets. Congregational been deed to the property. the Church | deed was made January 8, 1866, and GATIONAL CHURCH. in the name of Arthur Middleton, 48 inth, Charles M. MeC > Hill, reigol nd 80 truste n Church. 1844 the at - 6,150 feet designation) n pposite the David Burn. stood close to that a Burnes Marcia n Ness 1824, The emn relics was old ia_Burnes-Van charitles, was Washington in 1815. ‘The building occupled by the orphan- age was a small frame house on Tenth R In phanage occupied a fran: H near Tenth, and- the s covered by a bric -d for 1816-17 the or house on te of that bullding, asylum in orphanage was Seventh street remained there when it thi It re- in Oak Hil| Washing- | tonians knew the square as “Mauso- when Wiliam | operty. let You spells that near ans, writing of which was Building is, The Ram- say: le: Ram! an the following Cemeter: Sth d: 24 days: of 25th of Janu- 11 Burnes, st Congre- Clift Anniversary of Congrega- 5, is vhere should building? now h, n- the Van of Ness the All had been It was the Congrega- Italy, for Church abolished looked up the The first 1866, “‘between | lots Nos. David | months | son of | Died in the vear He was a youth amiable and inteligent who promised >auline Bentivoglia Middleton, widow »t Arthur Middleton, of the first part; Angelina C. Middleton (one of the heirs of Arthur Middleton) of the second part, said parties now tempo- Iy sojourning in the city of Rome, | Francls Fisher of tate of Penn reads that in the Middletons and Joshua Montgomery Count sylvan The deed consideration of $301 seil all of square except portions. The exceptions are land that passed by deed between John P. Van Ness and Arthur Middleton April 9, 1833, by deed grom Middleton to Alexander Shepherd and Sylvanus Holmes February o, 1844, end by deed from Middleton to John Boyle June The first excep- tion probably refers to the Mausoleum but the Rambler did not turn to that deed, which is Liber W. B. 42, folio 423. " The signatures of Pauline Bentivoglia Middleton and Angelina Middleton were certified by Edwin C. Cushman, United States consul Rome next transaction was on May when Joshua Francls Fisher and his wife Elizabeth of Montgomery County. Pa.. conveyed for $13,550 fo Oliver O. Howard of Washington, and Alfred Barnes of Brooklyn lots 12 to 15, inciusive, square 375. “to hold in trust to secure the faithful payment of $13,550 now due and owing to the Congregational Unlon of the City of New York for and on account of a like sum of money loaned by the Congre- gational Union to be used and applied and which has been applied accord- ingly by the said parties of the second part in the purchase and payment of the hereinbefore described lands and premises.” By a deed recorded Octo- ber 24, 1887, Oliver O. Howard (Gen. 0. O. Floward) of Washington and Al- fred S. Barnes of New York conveyed 12,13, 14 and 15 in the sub- division of square 375 to the First Congregational Soclety of Washington subject to certain trusts This story is a little long and the Rambier declines to do any more work till next Sunday. No descend- ant of old and aristocratic families dislikes work more than he doe: A Region ;)}'Calms. safling in certain parts of the oceanic area near the Equator, sallors speak of the region as the dol- drums, or “region of calms.”” The area is usually characterized by absence of wind, but may be visited intermit tently by baffling winds and local thunderstorms. The doldrums shift their position with the season. In July, August and September they are farthest north, and in January, Feb- ruary and March farthest south. Within these areas the temperature is higher and the humidity greater than anywhere else on the ocean, and the surface of the water is smooth | like glass, with a thin layer or scum or olly waste, such as is seen on stag- | nant water. Before the accurate charting of these areas the doldrums were th\‘ n dread of sailing vessels, which I earlier times were frequently becalmed there for weeks at a time. The posi- tion of the doldrums between the re- gions of the northeast and southeast trade winds had led to the belief that the upper currents which move with the atmosphere in its general circula- | tion from the equatorial regions to the | poles have their startin; oint there. tional Church, but it was months be. | ' T i fore we could get the deed, because it be sent to Rome, So that the last piece of |land belonging to the original planter that lived by slave labor was be bought by an Like Doug. Fairbanks. Student—Be careful of those burns, barber. Barber—What burns? Student—Sideburns. —— It Must Have Been. “Mother, my cold cream is gone. Where is it? “Are you sure it wasn't the vanish- ing cream?” certain | Arthur | | { —PART §. Colony, Founded as Art Laboratory, ' Inspires Achievement by Members HE MacDowell Colony at Peter boro, N. H., Is unique among | many aspiring artistie colonies in that it has unswervingly remained true to the one, un. usual purpose for which it was or- infed, namely, to encourage and t creative talent in any one of the fine arts. This colony is not philanthropic itution (o n the young enthu ast who has yvet to prove his pos- session of the flame of genfus. It is ot & beautiful haven for those who hiave achieved success to go for a va tion where they can hang their urels and huve them dmired by the casual tourist Above all, there s no semblence whatsoever of the cducational in the make-up of this ny: jt js essentlally a laboratory tor skillfully trained and talented artlsts to work in, and produce defi- nite accomplishment. A score of studios, scattered 600 acres of pine-studded hill entral colony house which has the dining room and slee g quarters for most of the colonlsts, provide the workshops and community recreation for those who ure fortunate enough to be among the chosen 60 to work in turns of several weeks each in the studios. This year there were more | than 300 pplics ench duly vouched for by two prominent artists. | Each of these applcants had at least i one definite achievement to his or he | credit and many of those who are granted this privilege are already firmly established as recognized art- ists. Owing to the fact that the Mac Dowell Colony was founded as an outgrowth of the appreciation of Ed- ward MacDoweil, the great American composer, of what that environment had done for him In providing perfect relaxation and an atmogphere con-| ducive to the working out of Inspi- | rational effort, many who have heard | of the colony but never visited it, are | under the erroneous impression that 11t 1s o for musielans. As a matter of fact, the number of writers, both of poetry and prose, far outnumbers the composers listed for studios this Summer, and painters, playwright writers of pageant dramas and sculp tors also are entitled to work at the | Colony. It is interesting to trace back to the germ of the MacDowell Colony, which was merely an old farm that Edward MacDowell purchased at Peterboro in 1895 The original | house commands a hill top, one of many that roll in charming landscape beneath the brows of the dominating Mount Monadnock. Most appropriately this home was christened Hillcrest, and, with clever renovatlon and lov- over and a MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL. Ing care beneath the magic hands of | Mrs. MacDowell, it i3 one of the most | dignified and “homey” of residence: There is individuality in every line of the house and in each plece of fur- niture. It is that rare thing in this day of apartments and interior deco-| rators—a genuine home, reflecting the | | personalities of its owners. No music room could be more charming than the low-raftered, book-lined room | where stands the bust of the Ameri- can music master on a baby grand | plano with tall fron candelabra_to shed light on both the likeness of Ed- ward MacDowell and on the huge pile of wellthumbed manuscript of his music with many annotations in his | fine, painstaking handwriting, that| lies ‘on the window seat that hugs the wall on the side of the room. | © ok ok ok UST below Hilicrest is the farm-| house where those live who care | for the beautiful herd of pedigreed | Guernsey cows that make Rosa Bon- heur-like pictures in the pastures en- circling the estate, and handle the many other dutles involved. Still be- low “the farmhouse and well kept miniature colony of chicken houses, a veritable watch dog at the foot of the hill and on the main road of Peter- boro, is the guest house, where spe- clal guests of the colony are housed and fed during short week-end to fortnight visits and where the “other” halves of those colonists who have entered matrimony, may reside {while the artistically inclined “half” of the family works on at the studio and colony hall. The Mannex (a guest house annex), €0 named because originally used to accommodate colonists of the mascu- line sex, is a_ bit further down the main road and separated by a vivid old-fashioned garden from the tea barn, a delightful building where tea is served and the published works of the colonists are sold for the benefit of the colony. An irrepressible little creek with busy falls opposite the Mannex forms a rear “wall” to these places. To find the real heart of the entire colony, however, one must climb the hill past Hillcrest, cross one of the many winding auto roads that out. line the arterles of the colony, and plugge directly into virgin woodland with a crude two-plank walk as the only indication of human presence. The complicated lac of luxurious ferns border this walk, little chip- munks scurry into the offing, many colored toadstools rear their pleated umbrella_heads above the pungent pine-needle quilt of the rich soil and | clumps of wax-like Indian Pipes add to the delicate tracery that Nature has spread here. It is not a long walk to the log cabin which MacDowell built himself in this woodland, above a spring that is now disused but still possesses mossy charm. Perhaps five minutes of leisurely walking from the road will suffice to bring this spot in view, yet it has the aloof atmosphere of a real adventure into a wonderland such as Lewls Carroll’s beloved Alice found through the looking-glass. ‘The cabin is only large enough to contain one fair sized room with its fire place—an indispensable item in any building in the foothills of the New Hampshire mountains—and the tew pieces of simple, practical furni- ture that Mr. MacDowell used while working tbere. The small, diamond- shaped windows, considerably greater in width than in depth, give the vis- itor to this shrine of American mu- sical art, a glimpse of the center of the room and a clear view of the | clover MacDowell Enterprise in New Hampshire Has Setting Which Is Particularly Favorable To Output in Various Lines of Creative Work. ALEX ANDRIA STUDIO AT MACDOWELL, COLONY. framed photograph of Beethoven that | hangs over the fireplace. Outside, on the little porch that ces Mount Monadnock through the warshaled armfe of DbLirches and pines, is a rough-hewn little table ere Mr. MacDowell used to write manuseript and on which careless meddiers have carved initials. Som of the tourists sse »«d of that awful ‘souvenir fe have even chipped off pieces of the bark on the cabin door to take home with them and then probably lost them before getting home. The motto of Mr. Mac. Dowell, that Is Inscr! tablet which the MacDowell Club of Boston placed on the huge stone above his grave, seems to allude spectficall to the cabin and what it meant to him. It reads—"Ars Musica: A house of dreams untold, it stands above the whispering treetops and faces the set- ting sun.” wvard MacDowell's grave is the shrine in the colony. As one rs the open space in the wall that ws the roadside which leads the colony house, atop another of the more t 1 seven hills of this empire, the ecclesiastical atmosphere the aisle of slim birches that give archlike effect between road and the wall where the vine-covered. rustic gate leads into the space that shelters the grave of the famous composer, fs fin mediately noticeable. It is as though the very air was different. The afsle of birches again space in side the gate, have the giowing mo- safc of colors provided by bluebells, phlox, Canterbur und fragle alyssum. for border decoratipn. The grave itself is simply marked by four granite stones, one at each corner, and the huge boulder that bears the motto and the dates of the birth and death of the composer is embroidered | with the scroll design of Uving vines. A timld cottonts in the ais! touch of life nature, on one vi rabbit, munching . gave a delightful solemn shrine in there T was in 1907 that Mrs. MacDowell deeded to the newly organized Edward MacDowell Assoclation, for the founding of the colony, about 200 acres of ground, the house at Hillerest (retaining only fe interest), the lc cabin, # small farmhouse, a diiapl dated cellarless barn, a wornout pump, a tumbledown’ double-frame tenement, partly renovated, one studio in process of construction, and about half a mile of roadway falrly passable in good weather. This wus two yea fter Mr. MacDowell's development of the serfous mental disease that even- ally resulted In his death in Janu- 1908. in 15 vears. of the colony records. the assoctation increased its holding to about 500 acres of ground (ow 600); 19 studlos, with two more ptomised (now com: pleted); a woodland pageant stage with permanent cement seating capacity for 900 (one of the most practical and beautiful of the smaller outdoor thea ters): the guest house. remodeled from the tenement; the Mannex, for over. flow from the guest house; the Rosary, & small residence with a large barn used as a tea house; Colony Hall including the Bond Assembly Hall; the Eaves, a rooming house for feminine colonists; Sigma Alpha Iota Cottage, a residential annex, and the Lodge, for men colonists ed on the bronze | to| | them new | by ccording to the report | | whole colony In order One of the most valuable acquisi tions of the colony is housed in the Lodge. It is the bequest of his plano and his valuable musical libra ne of the richest in the world in Bach and Wagner, made the colony by the late Willlam Henry Humiston, one of the great isic erities that Amer ica has ever known. He was also a remarkable composer, . pupil of Mr. MacDowell's and o gen s sup porter of the colony he colonists and those at the guest house all are what city f would cail early risers and usually 10 o'cl in the evening finds most of the lights out. After breakfast the colonists to their individual. slictied and there they work without inte il the late afternoon shad At noon, Glovanni, a sunnj young Italian who is part of an ex cellent corps to handle the farm worl, s the baskets of lunch and the thermos hottles in his gallant auto truck and plays Little Red Rinding Hood to the colonists, sto it the door of studio only enough to drop th i bot tle on the doc On the rare trained worker. muse into musing paths through the apples on the orc circle the Lodge the hilltops shuggis Sy bl these the when Leguile there spl woodland, rosy trees that en ing air ing or i and it 1s 1z ony. the rare exception when visitor, walking or motoring through the inds, finds a ay amping along of his ild be to INJ© mention of the colony c complete without attempt express, however inadequately great power in its organization continuance that {: e to the ence of Mrs Edward MacDowell Through a donation of every possible financial sum, includ money made royalties from her husband’s mu by her own concert tours pla . by such additional amounts 000 prize awarded her by the a score of prominent writers and educators who chose the winne: of the Plctorial Review's pi re American woman who makes most _distinetive achlevement h individual effort, in the fi MacDowel her work. S spped there, however, but with genuine gift for renovation. she has remiodeled alm impossible houses into delightful. homelike dwellings With a wizardry at gardening, she has supervised both flower and vege table garden the colony. Every morning finds her, a pic turesque figure in her little pony ca riding over the wind a tered with sunshine t of bordering trees. ology,” much of She keeps Every MacDowell own ha the Sunday afternoon Mrs, supper with he colonists and those who ar guest house, in_the living roc dining room of Hillcrest, us ing about 40 guests. Then, in the evening, following sup per, those who are at the guest house have their one opportunit week to become acquainted colontsts and c fes professional is a relaxation their one “soct castonally they forma ups at for of hours in nner and early guest ho but there is the MacDo “ol | all of the G sitting arou hours, expounding the individ their theor stone In time. From the abot ncerity and pr while artistic worl of life at the MacDowell Colony present the endowment fund is income of gather eveninz betwee: o1 in eenwict eorles ten 1 canvas s during the d t can be seen ti m of wor form the key no loaf- | however, | lonist | dluring | respective | DWARD MACDOWE three classe dues of th MacDowell Assc rangir from $5 to § Bt thewe fon is small, t = limited the expenses Under this head might be pl absurd small sums that art - for slee ing quarters, f studios and other divided is the cold is The first dues 5 en there are the meral fund, gifts b ple and the vearly Edward MacDowell, not as large or as many be. The spectacle of colony passing crises year after y with difficulty by nex part of Mrs tion on ins to the ested pe als by M These as they migh this earnest little through financ ", often rescue sacrifices on the MacDowell, is a reflec ronage. The dream have the comparatively £300,000 to see it safely through these seasons a backbone for indepe: It is the int the present small" endowment that forms the third class of income. It has been aptly put that “the Mac | Dowell (Colony is forever standing be. | fore a door protecting the composers | poets, novelists, dramatists, painters | and “sculptors " within, against the | wolt without.” | i the group of American creative artists who have worked during the past Summer and e | Fall are: Poets—Edwin Arlington | Robinson, Dubose Hayward, Virginia More, Robert Haven Schauffler, Sara | Teasdale, Maxwell Bodenheim, Louls Untermeyer, Jean Starr Untermeyer | Ellnor Wylie, Willlam Rose Benet | Louise Ayres Garnett, May Williams Ward; composers—Roasetter G. Cole | Nathan Novick, Marion Bauer, Mar | garet McLain, Aaron Copeland, Sta: ley Avery, Raymond Vickers, Edwin Hughes, Helen Sears and Mrs. H. H A. Beach: sculptors—Tennessee An derson and Ida McClelland Stout writers—Margaret Lynn, James Rorty, Helen Bafley, Belle MacDiarmid Ritchey, Esther Willard Bates, Ste phen Vincent Benet, Earl Sparling, Ethel Peyser, Janet Ramsey, Carty Ranck, Morris” Cohen, Nancy Byrd Turner Rollo Walter Brown, Robert McBlair, Grace Hazard Conkling (also noted as the mother of the remarkable child | writer, Hilda Conkling): painters. George Stonehill, Mary McAndrew and Anne Hayward Taylor; playwrights Frederick L. Day, Dorothy Heywood and Frederick Ballard Among others of note who have done work at the colony within the last two seasons are: Margaret Wid demer, Donald Ogden Stewart, Gilbert Seldes, Abble Farwell Brown, Lazare Saminsky, Mabel W. Daniels, Ethel Glenn Hier, Mary Lesley Bush-Brown and Henry K. Bush-Brown—the last two, leading members of Washing ton's art circle. A The names of the donors of the score of studlos used by these antists while working out things that have been published, performed or hung for exhibition within the past Winter | or are now in the state of preparation for such public display are nationall known. small fund of financial there Good Reason. Mike—'Tis a fine kid ya have there A magnificent head and noble fea tures. Say, could you lend me a couple of dollars? Pat—I could not. 'Tis my wife's child by Jax first husband.