Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 28 Feb 1935, p. 25

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tmereare Who vanu estow the crown. Bertha- Ameia Mecstroth of.12m ]Park'avenue, Glencoc,- is such an aunt, sud lier oce-umal niece Elizabeth bas been honored witli'a. crown foir ler odes. The ý crown is gold of course, setý at thic top of, a quilt, which hem flic app ropriate name, "A Crown Other n aeces suduiphews have in- deed been rennibexred, too. Bruce for instance, bas his own quilt,."Cobwebs in cuon and tic neeale. -Tirteen years ago when ber Ifalian studio, Cama Trap- quilla, was built in Glencoc, she moved frm rohler homp in Oak Park. wlere thie had lived for 25, years and began f0 quilt. Today she bas 130:pieces, -"an average of 10 a year," she says. 0Of these part are originals, fhe. rest dupli- cates. 0f late fo.r every.quilt,,shc gived away Ic kcps one jusf like it. hi kind oif giving woulcl suit nearly every- Sbioey of the.Naty1 Most elaborafe of al liher .unres how- ev«zis the story of fthe nativity, and at a ý:recent ehibi in thé Wicnetk Won's, clulb 'miss Meckstrôtliuse these quilti. and hagiqo the: Pla- forn wi* an sitar effect which was miost inÉlressive. 0f- the varioms de- sigus, which include the flirée ldng the star of Betheen, and otlier fatiliar phases, tlie jmut strildng ame coniju- ion:hangings which above ail the t<,hmr deserve flic terni "clofli sculpture One of flihese is "Mary -of ]Nazareth" donc in blue and white. The figure of ýMary Miss Meclcstroth copied froni tlie Nureinburg Mà"dom nnud she lia achieved flie sculptured effect .by patd- ding with cotton, and created her sha- dows by letting the blue underneatli show through flie thin cotton ainflhe de- aud juniors i , -&-àcedt atac record sapporting eutf for 'thestr studdcd field which bu lase led eutries. Facing Clark i he icmen's division' wil béBil Cndy, of fWilmette, aise- teen-year old youngster who ranisg second in flie United States to the chomipion-Jimày McClure, Carleton Preniy,. ofWlnnetka, who played on fli c daaipionship feaniwhîçli rçp- iesenfed thec U. S. against Huugary; Bob R#Lfcliffe,. trice-liolder of thé Nortliý Shore duimpionslûp .and a member offlie Unitecd Staftes -teain and Mort Ladin,'winner of flic West- sculpttared effect. tw Therc's no end. f0 flie detail thaf gt niighf lie given alxut.tfli various pieces and2 i flie Meckstrofli collection, sonie of evenl which she hangs in ber studio homte. A But ber own pcrsonality is as infcresf: indu ing as her creat ions. She spent lier 'w<>m childlôod in Le Seur, Minn., wliere she WIli was born, was taken f0 Dakcota for a Marc fcw mnonflis and then f0 Arkansas !!!st the oldestC site 5a75. Studio.af ýArt Instit. Then she camne to Chicago f0 study af flic Art institute, but inferrupted lier w'>rk to enrolsf Radcliffe witli a chuni of high school days. Wlien she reached Radcific, however, tflir iend did not furu up, so slip entered alone. Against lier will shec went on flirougli, majoring doubles will be held 5Sf urday ing, Mardi 2, at 7:45. quartet of rankcing women stars, idn Jesse Purvis, 1933 National nen's champion, have entered andI begin play on Friday niglif, ch 1. Helen Ovenden, wbo lias retuaed f(rom thfe World's on Saturday afternoon, marcu z, at 2 o'clock. HOME PROM SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Gecorge Coal. and daughter, ElI 1en, 322.Kenilwortli ave- nue, returncd fo Kenilworth Sunday froni Clearwafer, Fla., wliere they liad' been tlic gucaf s of Mns. Coale". mother,* Mr. Robert 0. Law, at ber winter home. 'Mrs. Galne and. Elien,: le Ver; ti~om r -var flic nortli shore. m5 -WS

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