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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1913)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, BIAY 18, 1913. SCHOOL CHILDREN'S INTEREST IS GREATER THAN LAST YEAR Where There Was Only One Community Garden Last Year. There Are 28 This Year, and the Number of Individual Home Gardens Being Worked This Spring Is More Than 5000. I . : ' 1 ; W&gY? ' PT JC 1 " r : ' " ' r:r'r::::T VVOT -4f- 'T&Zm&iV- isr-Jf-.-- - - - - r-v i - ,,3,;.,...- :.. : V t - ,1 l t4- , !Ti J A , Ji llfI-"Z-X- ill f i " ex ssz&, . is v , rirT v j , I s viot. s,T,?',i . - ' V. t. - -r-.r-ry 'fiZZ$ -4?' - -V ' - , i II ;' '-. " ' . . - f &r7?&S'C Sm i ' f ' ?-4 . . r I I I . ;Hi ! i: ; Kv - l ti!oDni Jr 31 irrV s 4 k - v I IK- CS'; ivtr -CA-'f f fek, O -rV - ill. f V VAf1 GREAT as was the Interest mani fested In Hardening by the school children of Portland last year when the school fcardening movement was inaugurated, it has been exceeded to a wonderful dejtree this year. There Is scarcely any compartm to be made between the scope of the work last year and that of the pres ent year, thus far." says Director Ev ans, who Is in charge of the work. Where there was only one community carden last year, there are this year !8, while the number of individual home gardens which are being' worked by the school children this Spring is trioro than 5000." The activity of the directors of the school garden movement is directed al most entirely toward the community pardens this year, and it will probably r . '1 nAAttnrv tn nrrAniZfi commit tees in every district so great has grown the movement, to have oversight of the school children's activity in the individual gardens and to assist in the. preliminary judging in June. Rain Does Not Discourage. "It would not be at all surprising," says Mr. Evans, "If a large number of the 8500 young gardeners among the Portland school children should get discouraged in their work by the re cent period of bad weather and lack of sunshine, which has been our lot, but such does not seem to be the case. Pew who started in have dropped out. Twentv-eiirht school gardens, wltn BUSINESS WOMAN WINS SUCCESS AND FAME IN SCULPTURE WORLD Designer of Bronze Doors of New Chapel of Naval Academy Holds Rare Distinction, Being Only One of Fair Sex Admitted to Membership of National Academy of Design. MIS3 EVELYN BEATRICE LONGMAN, SCULPTOH. Br Isabel Stephen. MISS EVKLYX BEATRICE LONG MAN has the distinction of being the only woman sculptor who has ever been elected a member of the Na tional Academy of Design. Although still a young woman, she has made an Important place for herself In the world of sculpture and her wrk occu pies a prominent place in many na tional institutions. Among her achievements are the bronze doors of the new chapel of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis. Miss Longman's design was selected for this work after an open anonymous compe tition, in which there were 33 aspirants for the honor, mostly men. including many of the best - known American sculptors. The final group in granite for the Foster mausoleum at Middle burg. N. Y-. is also her work, and re cently she was awarded the assignment for the Allison memorial, which carries with It a prize of $50,000. Sis years ago the late G. Q. A. Ward offered a prize for the best portrait bust, open without restriction to all American sculptors. Miss Longman's "Aenlg man" won the second prize. For those who believe they could "sculpt." too, if only they could ob tain the right advantages and environ ment, the story of Miss Longman's struggle for supremacy In her art should hold much encouragement, for she attained her distinction as ac knowledged foremost woman sculptor in America entirely through her own efforts. "There Is a Wwy to Win. "It you only want a thing hard enough, and feel that you can accom plish it. you will find a way to get it" she said the other I i a' t ,Mla Evelya Bea trice LoizniM. day in her studio at U East Four teenth street. New York City, where she is now at work on her Allison group. "I was born in a little log cabin In Winchester, O., 50 miles from Cincin nati, ily father was a musician, but his wealth at the time of my birth con sisted chiefly in larare family. When I was 3 years of age we moved to Cin cinnati, and there I received my early education. "When I was 14 I had to get to work to earn my bread and butter, so I took a clerical position in a large wholesale house in Chicago, where my parents were then living. Ily mind was firmly made up. to become an artist, but I was not certain in what special line of art my talents would find the greatest scope. "At. first I tried studying in evening classes at the Chicago Art Institute, but I found that the strain of working over ledgers all day and then working all night at art school was too much, so I gave up art for some time and saved every penny I could scrape to gether. "When I had enough money I went to Olivet College and selected courses in German and painting. One day' I picked up a ball of clay and molded it roughly. That was the beginning of, my life work, for I realized that it was as a sculptor I should do my best worK. "I returned to the Chicago Art In stitute and studied there for two years under Lorado Taft. At the end of the first year I began to teach drawing and anatomy, and lmmeaiateiy alter graduation I took charge of the Sum mer school of modeling. Upon gradua tion I had received first honors in two sets of examinations in anatomy. Larger Field Sought. "I wanted a larger field for my work, and so, with an empty, pocket, but armed with letters from my teacher to Herman A. MacNelL I went on to New York. MacNeil was then working on the Pan-American commis sions, and he engaged me to work for him. Of course, this work didn't last very long, and it was not very partic ular work that I had to do, but it helped out at the ttme. Later I worked on the same line for Istdor Konte, and this led to more important duties in the studios of Daniel C. French; with whom I worked until five years ago. "My first piece of importance was my Victory. I figured Victory as a man Instead of as a woman, as it has usually been represented. When it readied the St Louis World's Fair it became the crown piece of Festival HalL "Since I took this studio of my own 3500 children and 6000 home gardens have been planted by the children this Spring. There has been a lot of hard work, as well as fun. especially when the soil was a wet heavy clay. Such soils were avoided as far as possible, but in some districts nothing else was available. "ThlB was the case , In the Couch district. The only available ground of sufficient size was an old clay fill at Twenty-first and Marshall - streets. This was given a coat of manure fovlr Inches deep, early in March, and by . .rn .hAiiM hR in vArv eood con dition for garden purposes. This year I do all my own modeling, employing assistants only occasionally for the rougher work, such as pointing, etc. T ne the chisel and mallet myself, and I always finish my marbles in all the last details, working from two to three weeks on a bust after it comes from thA marble cutter. "What sort of work do you prefer doing?" I asked her. Work. Is Sculptor's Fun. "I am ambitious to do good work of any kind. It is all fun to me. What ever I am doing at 'the moment Is the greatest fun on earth. It is always that way If you truly love your work. "Is it not necessary to have money back of you to gain success as a sculp? Sculptors, you know, say that it is work only for the wealthy because there are so many expenses attached to it." "That must have been the theory of an unsuccessful, disgruntled sculptor, for am I not a living example of the fact that you can succeed without any money? Goodness knows' I had none when I started out. But you must be willing to do anything to get a thing if you feel that thing strong enougn. i mean you must work and work and work for it. not considering now much It fatigues you. Not having money back? of you makes you work just so much harder. In fact money is a draw back, for you have not the same In centive for work, and if you have many social calls on your time you can't work." "Is It necessary for a student to go abroad to study sculpture?" "Not at all. America has the best masters in the world. Of course It Is a good thing to go to Paris and wake up. If an artist feels that she is getting stale, a visit to Paris, where she will see new things, will act like a tonic. I have run across two or three times lately, but I do this just as one goes to the seashore or the mountains for a vacation, where the recreation and the new surroundings rest and stir up the Imagination. The atmosphere in Paris Is delightful for an artist, and she re turns to America full of new vigor; but aha can study just as well here. In fact it has been hard work, and no children In the city have worked harder than 200 of the Couch children. Two young sters even brought screens and screened all their soil for a depth of 18 Inches. Six hundred pounds of ground lime rock was applied at the time of disk ing and 200 pounds of commercial fer tilized just before planting. The Couch children will have a garden thefie yet. Principal W. T. Fletcher has taken a great interest in the work and spaded up the primary grade beds himself. "The Alnsworth children have also had heavy wet clay to work with and anyone who thinks Portland Heights children will not work should have seen them at it last week and the week before. Their garden is one of the smaller ones, being 90x100 fee, with 66 plots, each 6x12. "Glencoe School has one of the best of the larger gardens. It covers an area of 150x150 on high ground at the corner of East Fiftieth and Belmont streets, on the Mount Tabor carline. It is nicely laid out with a main four foot walk running back diagonally from the corner. The central portion Is divided into blocks of four plots each, and a uniform planting system has been followed. The triangular beds at the borders are all in flowers. About midwav up the slope the words "Glen coe School" will be spelled in letters three feet high, formed by dusty miller with a background of clover. Two hundred and seventy-five children haw. plots in this garden and are at work all the time from dayllcht until dark, ex cept in school hours. Principal C. M. Stafford is a Breat believer in the work and may be seen at it with his coat off any evening after school. Ho is ably seconded by an interested corps of teachers and a live committee, who have raised 540 to pay necessary ex penses and to use for local prizes. It is better to study here while one Is getting the foundation laid for her future work." Besides being a member of the Na tional Academy of Design, Miss Long man is also a member of the National Sculpture Society, the (American Nu mismatic Society and the American Federation of Arts, and Olivet College also has honored her with the honor ary degree of master of arts. PHYSICIAN DEFENDS GERMS Disease Microbes Declared to Be Little 'Understood. LONDON, May 17. (Special.) A Brit ish physician named J. T. C. Nash has just been at some pains to prove to the Royal Society of Medicine here that microbes are, in reality, poor, mis understood creatures and that disease germs are Just as sensitive to their en vironment and as liable to change as anything in the organic world. "Someyears ago," said Dr. Nash, "a well-known scientist named Sydney Turner defined zymotic disease as 'life in the wrong place,' and quite recently experiments by Baerthlein has proved that certain microbes may be quite harmless under certain conditions, and yet, when fed differently or kept at different temperatures from those w.here they lead their harmless life, will spring quite suddenly Into virulence. "Epidemics were not made at the same time that man came into being; they have grown with his civilization. The property of infectiousness is not old among even the bacilli of consump tion. "The late Dr. Koch declared that to combat pestilences successfully we must strike at the root of the evil and di rect sanitary measures to the environ ment of mankind, such as the destruc tion of vermin, the purification of wa ter and the prevention of contact be tween the infected and the sound. "It is Just possible that by such care ful, alteration of the environment or the microbes they may be so altered as to stop their evil work. Dr. Nash said also: "As regards bac teria, I have held for some years that organisms of the most primitive type pass through many generations in the course of a few hours, so that a few days or a week of ordinary time might in the life history of a bacillus corre spond In generations to a geological epoch in the history of the human race. Indeed, experiments have proved that as regards environment In the matter of temperature, atmosphere, pabulum and other physical conditions, minute micro-organisms are exquisitely sensi tive to changes of a degree so slight that they are lnappreciaoie to mum highly organized that is, more sue cialized creatures." WIDER FIELD SUGGESTED Richard Bagot Would Have Novel ists Present More Criticisms. LONDON. May 17. (Special.) Rich ard Bagot. the novelist, who has re in TinMnv for manv years, is getting up a new crusade from the ranks of the writers of England and America. He wants them to take as their life's work "the unofficial dlpio matte service." He believes that they can do a lot for the world, if they will only ao as he has done for many years past in Italy and for the Italians never spare criticism ' of a country or peo ple when criticism is necessary, and al ways champion truth, even though such action creates displeasure amongst those with whom they live. His contention, is this: The novelist has the opportunity of being one of the greatest educational factors. His ability to grip the reader's attention and retain it over a considerable period a greater period than falls to the lot of most Journalists gives him un- eoualed opportunities for impressing upon his readers the extent to which customs) manners, and habits of dif ferent nations influence actions. In stead, we are as often as not taken by our favorite writers to some unknown state, possibly in the direction of the Balkan Peninsula, and introduced to nondescript characters of the "Choco late Soldier" type. When we close their books on the last chapter we ad mit having been "amused" but that is all. In truth we have learned nothing of value about foreign countries or foreign peoples. Xi rely upon translations from for eign authors is not sufficient. Ibsen. Bjornson. Maeterlinck, interesting as they may be. even when they do set out to describe their own people, can hardly be expected to adopt the Ameri can o'r the English point of view and supply the data which the people of those countries most particularly de sire. , . . . Here then is a golden chance for novelists! LADY ESMONDE HAS HONOR Irishwoman Lute Visitor to Pope Before Kccent Illness. DUBLIN, May 17. (Special.) Tin last Irishwoman seen by Pope Plus X was Lady Esmonde, who is not only the wife of an Irishman, but is Irish of the Irish herself, a Donovan ol Tralee. Her husband has been a Cham berlain of the Vatican household for a good many years. All Lady Ksmonae s ennaren. oi u.hnm Rhtt has five. bear, like their father, Grattan as one of their Chris tian names, it mams me tact mat iney aaanHnntc nf Hpnrv Orattan. tht ."V . - great Irish statesman and orator, of which descent the family is proud. Sit Thomas and Lady Esmonde's home is in County Wexford, but Sir Thomas spends a good deal of time In London, as he has been a member of the House of Commons for over a quarter of a century. He is one of the few memDers ot tne .. .. 1i -. . .. .Alnnr .a n land-owning class, and is exceedingly Dotular in England and Italy, as well as in Ireland.
