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^_4^-'-44;W;'y.?sl^^!^ -T ':* Vi TBELAKE KBtt "......... Coming But Garden Bugs Do Not Mind 8liiiil|fii#^Sa TRANGE it seems that spring fever could find so many willing victims at such an early date," my little Lady of the Big Garden said to me the other day, 1 looking up from a shelt of brightly colored books and catalogues.;!; "J. don't suppose you'd ever believe- either that my garden is all planted j and grown up by the first of March but this is the way it happens. I "By the first of February the garden' books begin coming: "Garden Stud- ies", a perfectly delightful dtudy of English gardens and methods by Clutton-Brock, full of practical ideas for American gardeners. Then there is Louise Shelton's wonderful text book for the American amateur, "Con tinuous Bloom in America" which tells not only how to plant but how to keep the bloom coming.- *-\S,M:. .r%J<M "The Joyous Art of Gardening" is full of concrete examples and labor savers that are jy, tremendous Jielp when"the a-ctual work ot~~gafdenihg begins, and perhaps the "Little Gard- en" by; Mrs. Frances King, the first woman' to receive a medal for horti- cultural merit, is the most important book written during recent years in point of actual worth to amateurs. JfThe Well Considered Ga-fden" is an earlier book by Mrs. KinIL describing her own garden at Almajllich^--------- ____ ^^talogues! Dreerl's Bertrand Parr% the Glad- iolus Farm, the Garden Craft of Crys- tal Lake, and scores of ^others, all so splendidly^ iilustrated with" colored plates. Qneijgnlyneeilsjto run through ihem..-f^"«MKIM_oncj(.;.^n^BTu plant- ing. Of course, they are all so allur- ing that the beginner wants every- thing liesees and there is the great danger. It is a wise rule to" select carefully and concentrate on a few flowers, and raise these few in pro- fusion and abundance. There are too many sample gardens. Why, I have even built rookeries and lattice re- treats .^iwMit«^imply-~4Mading--i-: books!*' There is a whole shelf of them at the Evanston public library^ After you have glanced through the list will want to get a rake and start fer 'IIP mirably the problem of the wife and mother engaged in the arts. She specializes in being a good mother and her friends say that she is a model housekeeper, but the world Jean Starr Untermeyer. at large knows her for her two vol- umes of poetry, "Growing Pains" and wI5reams~lDir:oTT>aWh^sâ„¢iJ s e i ^ â„¢* Mrs. Untermeyer, who is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, liTTtHe wife of Louis Untermeyer, the well-known poet and critic. She assists him in his literary work as the acknowledg- ments in the prefaces of Mr. Unter- meyer's books show. And with all these activities Mrs. Untermeyer he's the added distinction of being an ac- compiisned musician. nd even composes music. Her intense love of music; pervades al- most all of her poetry. " Recently Mr. Untermeyer reviewed his wife's poems^^which have been published; tiyiBv^ wrote in part: ^^]^W^?^^i^^^^:'â-  "Criticising one's ^iffe"i^ daring and always a dangerous pas- time. But criticising oneV better half in public is, I have been told by battle-scarred husbands, a doubly reck- less adventure. How much more haz- ardousâ€"and still more fascinatingâ€" is the ^situation oflnVTiuslianfl prepar- ing to review his wife's latest book. What qld rancors, hidden jealousies, long^repressed^tndignationsrlrftterTniatt adjustments, discontents, differences embrbglios, maylnbt^^ perhaps, in that epoch of- candor'lih- controlled, may be boldly1 blurted out. But being a member of the critical tribe myself I immediately assume my most frigid and impersonal mariner and declare that I am about to write of Jean Starr Untermeyer, the public p6et,'^Tattie.rr"than the private" if not silent partner. There, the lady isâ€" why conceal it longerâ€"the mother of my child, but that small, common con- nection need not pervert a just apprais- al of her work* she is, after all, related to me only by marriage."______- >-.'}"â- ]] Nevertheless Mr. untermeyer was forced to the conclusion that, 'wife of no wife, Jean Stafr Untermeyer JLs one of the country's least spectacular but most striking poets," In reply to the question,"Is romance in a wife?" Mr. Untermeyer's answer is undoubtedly "Yes!"' """................. --^---...^. Mrs. Lloyd Toot, 1016 Greenwood avehuC" spent last week-end withTTier parents in Milwaukee, Wisl| Miss Mary Welch, the soloist at the First Congregational church, has been very ill for the past week, butis re- ported. improvingfo0K&pp â- â- 'â- ' :-^M0&,^-~-7 -Mrs; Raymoad= small daughter, ?18 Ninth street, are 1 1 ^i^^^fsf" "*" Painting By Maris Added To Institute tchJ EMARKABLE painting by Jaco#"f!Maris $$ entitled conceptions antf-fbr • the ve*»atf Ilty: «^$ his'. toush^Htj^ ;^paiiitings: l,^ ^Srerji-'. rarest '*$£&&& #'%;i^p<Aii^%!JS^ffl any of the work of the Maris Brothers^ In Holland. They have all m#ik' ;8oldg Jacob Maris first exhibited in Paris at the little shop called The Boulevard, acquisition to th« Dutehr ^n0re hjawork was hung beside that School of 1840 belonging to the '-Juptj" Institute^ The Jty of the canvas, dolor;, the exact plac- ___ ________ ___ __.. „»» -,.... ing of values, remind us of- W4iistUr4them^^m#rW^ ^ bu^JMiss venture! at his very best. They recall also the influence' of Whistler (Oil the^whole of this school, and their influence in turn on the Glasgow School in Scot- land, and on the tonal American School of landscape painting ;|nrhich flourished afterTrthe Columbian: expo- The painting which the Art Insti« tute has Mat acquired shows the in- terior of the home of a Dutch family. The old nurse with her plain and ten- face holds nn her lap a sleeping der- baby whose white, filmy gown con« trasts pleasantly With the dark dress of the woman* In front of her a little -girl- berids eagerly -forwards ^ The model tor the little girl's picture was the child who later became-Hthe of the present mayor of Rotterdam;- Jacob Maris was the eldest of three brother87 each-of whom made a sep- arate place for himself in the field of art and each of whom ranks as an «rtistof the-first^^ciassr- Jacob died in 1899 at The Hague, but before his death he had already begun to be ap- preciated by critics and his work Was eagerly sought after by collectors* It is difficult to attribute his style oi painting to any, previous or contem- porary influence. There is a little of Delacroix in his manner of thinking •aTrd-Bomething of eonstafrig^ir-al of the palette knife. He lUced best to i5alTttr landscapes but his figures are none the. less masterpieces. His grasp of color and form were entirely mas- culine and perhaps stronger than that of his brothers, though Mathys was in a good many ways the greatest of the Jiree^^JMathys, one of whose later drawings the Art Institute owns, was riotabie~for~his exquisite and delicate of Corot, Rousseau and Mauve, the contents of the shop were, collectively termed "rubbish*" â- '. by ;;th(8g2^cffrieto^ who confessed that he was selling They were at that time entirely un- appreciated, but twenty years Utter they., were^ selling for enormous prices.p| .If f mXk^>TREA8URE8 :iil^^^p #he Art Institute has recentlyllleM^ gtveir or lent man?--a*t^ res particular value. Numbering among them are wedding chests, Stiegel glass and a quaintly decorated Mrtn cerjtl-S flcate, all of the early Pennsylvania Dutch period; a^ terra cotta statuette ftiade in Boeotia in the fourth centi B. C; a Spanish ^rosier; a cope of the| fifteenth 'century,- .'presented: by-,tue,-Au-g| ifauarianl_&^^^ of the Japanese poet, Tone Nbguchie,si Alfeo Paggi, a Chicago;^BctiJtotor\§§ Mr. George P. Porter has lent the Art|il Institute a statuette of"' Degas. fe:"i|p§aff â-  Ah; ea&MiHtfaar^tr^^ from their origination in ^his country! to the present time, ls;.;now^;b^^ii^ is Use "M4*~Moi shown at the^tr^B^ciuir! courtesy of Mrs. Emma B. B*odge|p their :whJ!^;Quaint frilly creatlohs^i characteristic of the eighteenth..;eent4§§ ury are- shown* which probably ittadep many. ,a:- maidenly, heart';flutter^iSoine^ of the most unusual and interestingip of them were made in 1847 by Missp Esther Howland, then a graduate of|| ly^>k«, Alibis Um her first yalehtines^ getting the idea|( from one her father* a stationer, had f imported from England. Within^ two^ years, she was literally swampeU..withM requests for her valentines, Tand shielf* found herself in the midst of a valen-11 tine factory. She not pnry made a for%| tune for herself, but also had the dis- ; tinction of making the first American 'â- $$' RADIO WILL ACCLAIM ___ Plans _are.jn process_of formulation by thousands of Northwestern Univer- sity alumni in various cities of the United States and Canada to cele- brate "campus days" on May 19. That^ day will be^d^^natear«Nbfffiwestern University Day" and meetings will be held in fifty cities, according to pres- Bntj fclanlsV__Eacli alumni orgafeiiarj tion in these cities will send by wire or radiograph a~ relayed message to the association nearest by and that association will then add some senti- ment and pass on the message to the next city. :';'"*-' â-  George S. 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