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EVENING LEDGER-PHITADELPHIAs FEJJDAY, JULY 13, 1917
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PICTURES LESS VALUABLE THAN POTATOES,
FATK1UTJLU OPINION OF PORTRAIT PAINTER
SIXTIETH STREET WANTS
FARMERS' CURB MARKET
Business Men's Association Asks
Mayor for Permit to
Eastablish It
The Sixtieth Street Business Men's As.
soclatlon has asked Mayor Smith for per
mission to establish nn open vegetable mar
ket at Sixtieth street and Cedar niemie,
where tho farmers can come and Bell their
produce to tho consumer without doing
business with the middleman.
The Idea of an open market follows the
Mayor's automobile tour of South Jersey,
where yesterday he Interviewed Jersey
farmers about bringing their products di
rect to municipal distributing centers In
stead of shipping them to commission mer
chants. Many of the farmers interviewed balked
at the Idea of hauling or shipping their
produce to Philadelphia. They said they
preferred taking It to New York whero they
get the maximum of high prices. Tho argu
ment of some of the truck farmers was that
It would be too expensive to cart their
produce to this city when they can save
money by billing direct to Dock street
produce men, to whom they pay a selling
commission of 10 per cent.
In the Mayor's party were Joseph S Mac.
T-aughlln, Director of tho Department of
Supplies , Dr. J. numell Smith, chairman of
the food commission of the llome Defense
Committed; Frank Commlskey, chief of the
Ilureau of City Property ; Secretary Aste,
of the Now Jersey Department of Agri
culture, and Emerson Roberts, of tho Food
Investigation Commltteo of the New Jer
sey Scnato
Theodore Drown, nn Influential truck
farmer, who was Interviewed, told Mayor
Smith that the establishment of storngo
warehouses In Philadelphia might help to
eliminate the middlemen. Dut all this, Mr.
lirown told tho Mayor, would require co
operation not only between counties but be.
tween theStates of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.,
Has Laid Aside the
Brush and Taken Up
the Hoe
By M'LISS
WHAT Is the relation of tho American
artist to the war?
Should ho play an active, positive part.
Shouldering a musket nnd marching off to
the trenches along with the lawyers, cler
irmen, bankern, coalhcavers and bakers,
tnd so on who If they have not already
Mllsted will be summoned 'by the draft?
Or should ho be permitted to sit back
tnd nurse his temperament nnd talent for
the benefit of fu ure civilization?
These questlomi formulated, I took them
sot to the Huntingdon Villey, where resides
man of whom John Frederick Lewis, art
connoisseur and lawyer, has spoken as
being "among thj finest portrait painters
In the country "
The man Is Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., and
before he had a chance to utter a word I
fortsaw his answers to my questions. I
foresaw them in his tanned face and horny
hindi, In his potato and cabbage patches.
I expected to find a man In front of an
easel with a paint brush In his hand, one
with theories about the isolation of art and
artists from war and fighters I found ,
Instead a full-fledged farmer patriotically
dolnjrhla bit and planning to do more when
that bit Is completed. I found an artist
who, with large commissions waiting to be
executed. Is patiently hoeing his rows of
foodstuffs from morning until night, be
cause he believes It would be wrong nnd
Unpatriotic of him to paint the portraits
that he Is hankering to do when Undo Sam
seeds his services elsewhere.
POTATOHS INSTEAD OF PICTURES
"One bushel of potatoes," Mr. Pearson
aid emphatically, "is more valuable at this
time than the finest portrait. Thousands
f dollars might be made painting por
traits, but the country needs potatoes, and
I do not believe that a single picture should
be painted at mis time unless It Is painted
for some definite patriotic purpose "
When the success of his farm that he
has set out Is assured. Sir. Pearson told me.
he is going down to the Philadelphia Navy
Yard to ask for employment there. His fel
low artist, Adolph Borle, Is painting battle
ships In the Brooklyn Navy Yard, not
painting pictures of them, but putting his
heaven-sent talent to work that you or I
or the veriest sign painter could achieve.
Mr, Pearson Is more than ten years be
yond the draft age and, moreover, he Is
the father of seven very youns, scrambly
and active clothes-tearing, food-consuming
children. But when you talk to him about
the present conflict and see his blue eyes
rllnt you get the feeling that only his heavy
responsibilities have kept him from the
front.
Nevertheless art olrcles are humming
with talk of the dire consequences likely
to result from the drafting of young artists.
What Is to become of art In America If
U of the young geniuses are shot down,
Uthe question being "asked on'all sides.
'The young geniuses," Mr. Pearson said
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with conviction when I had repeated some
of this talk to him, "should not bo sent
to tho front, but they should prove that
they are geniuses
"I firmly believe that something should
bo dono to exempt tho exceptional young
men. If It can be shown that the young
men have exceptional ability. I consider
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
as the place whero the potential nrt of
America Is centered nnd I should say that
nbout ten young men who are studying
thcro should bo exempted.
"But they I know will not ask exemp
tion," ho continued fondly Mr Pearson Is
Instructor In composition, drawing nnd
painting at the academy "They will hae
to be kept back by others and something
should bo done. This I consider lmperatle,
and I feel that If the proper steps are taken,
President Wilson himself will favor their
exemption.
ARTISTS MAKE GOOD SOLDIERS.
"It Is not true, however," he continued
defensUely, "that artists do not make good
soldiers, that they are physically and
mentally unequal to the strain of war.
True, killing aloes hot come easily to us,
and we do manage to get far away from
the brutalities of life, but still despite all
that the artist makes tin cry finest type
of soldier.
"The English artists proved that. They
formed themselves Into a regiment nnd
mado the highest kind of record, but within
a year England had recalled all of them
and had ghen them executive positions.
"The young artists and I do not mean
only painters- -but musicians, singers arch
itects and writers " Mr Pearson continued,
"should be exempt from service at the front
This nhould be In lino with tho general
plan of ronsenatlon the Government has
laid down. But exemption from nctual
service In the trenches does not mean that
the artist cannot servo his ciuntry In some
capacity. There are ninny duties for the
performance of which the artist's training
has fitted him peculiarly. I do not think
this Is the time for painting pictures." "
Many of the young students at tho Acad
emy whose work may or may not have
kept burning tho sacred flame of nrt In
America hae already thrown down their
bruihes and palettes and, not waiting to
be drafted, have rushed to the colors.
"I had a letter from a promising young
student who received a medal at the Acad
emy last year." Mr Pearson said. "He Is
now In the navy. He wroto about how his
fellow sailors laughed at him when he tried
to observe tho amenities of life nnd be
polite, and how n.i offlcer cursed him when
he offered to gle his shore leao to another
fellow who Fccmed to be losing out on It "
Tho portrait painter laughed "But ho Is
eating his beana with the rest of them now,
nnd though tho harsh routine comes hard,
it is not artists who are slackers."
And In consideration of the fact that he
has renounced throughout the war period
the work that Is religion and lifo to him
in order to serve Uncle Sam In any humble
capacltv whateer It Is not given to any
one to put Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., nnd his
Ilk In a class with those who quit or sulk,
considering themselves apart from the com
mon herd.
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Regular stock, short lines and samples, includ
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ADVICE TO THE HOME-GUILDER
OP MODERATE MEANS
By VICTOR EBERHARD
The Dining Room
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These plans show nrranRements when we have plenty of room and when
we haven't. While the first plan is quite ideal for tho small house, we
can easily fall for the unassuming cozincss of the other, especially if we
imagine a big fine living room just beyond the wide, curtained opening.
INDIANS FAVOU SUFFRAGISTS
Minnesotn Chippewas Turn Down
Chiefs Give Vote to Woman Delegate
BnMIDJI. Minn .July 13 After refusing
chiefs of the trlbo representation In their
council on tho ground that modern Indians
are democrats nnd not monarchists,
Minnesota Chlppcwn Indian In council here
today Ravo tho suffrage to women.
The fight revolved nbout Cora Coffey, a
stenographer emplojed by tho t'nltcd .States
Government nt tho l-'ond Du I.ac reserva
tion, who is the solitary woman ilelegatn.
Older Indians objected to her being seated,
on tho ground that tho Innovation was dan
gerous. "Kqual rights," however, were
championed by the younger clement, who
are In control. One of tho Interesting char
acters at the convention Is Captain John
Smith, of Cass Lake, who Is said to be 1S9
j ears old.
WOMAN'S FALL FATAL
Dies in Hospital After Son Finds Her
on Cellar Floor
Mrs Mary Cavanaugh, sixty-five years
old, of 2421 North Twenty-ninth street, died
early today at tho Women's nomeopathlc
Hospital, Twentieth nnd Susquehanna ave
nue, as the result of a fall down tho cellar
stairs shortly before midnight. She had
been to the home of a sick friend.
Frank Cavanaugh, twenty-thrce years old,
one of her three sons, noticed a light In
tho kitchen, came down nnd found his
mother lying at tho foot of tho cellar stairs.
He carried her upstairs and called an ambulance.
TN TRACING the dining room there nre
J- two considerations uppermost j theso nre
Its exposuro and Its accessibility to tho kit
chen. Tho exposure should bo southeast,
with windows facing both south and east.
If both exposures are not to bo had, then
Its windows should face tho cast. Break
fast Is the only meal during the winter nt
which It Is possible to have sunlight It Is
also the time of day when the sunlight Is
most welcome.
The dining room should be separated
from the kitchen by only a single double
swing door In the small house j In the larger
houses only Is a pantry necessary.
It Is not necessary that tho dining room
have direct access to the front hall, and It
Is permissible that It should be used ns a
passage from the kitchen to the front door,
nlthough It Is, of course, better when this
l not neccisary
The shape and bIzc of the dining room
pretty well Is dictated by the furnlturo that
wilt be placed In It and by tho number of
peoplo It Is to nccommodato. Tho furni
ture more or less Is a fixed quantity, the
sires nre also pretty much tho same, unless
one has, as Is often the case, an old side
board of unusually large sice.
Tables nre from four to flo feet wide,
when to seat four or five people tho table
may bo round With a sideboard at one
end of the room, the smallest that the
dining room can bo mado Is about 11 by 12
feet
It It Is desired to seat eight persons the
table must be from six to eight feet long
In this case the Blze of the room should be
about 11 by 14 feet. Other pieces of furni
ture may be taken caro of In the corners
of tho room, or, If not, tho room should
bo widened or lengthened accordingly
These pieces nre the serving table, three or
four feet In length, and one and one-half
feet wide, and china closet, about three to
four feet In length nnd about fourteen
Inches wide. The sideboard Is from five
to fle and one-half feet long and about
two feet wide.
Since tho sideboard generally Is the best
piece of furnlturo In the house, wall space
should bo provided for It on the main axis
of the room or else facing the entrance In
case this Is on one side. It Is best not to
have a window above tho sideboard, as the
silver, glass nnd china aro seen to better
advantage when lighted from tho front than
from directly above or behind.
The serving table should, of course, be
placed near the door to the kitchen, nnd
so that the door will not swing against It.
Tho china closet Is well placed between
two windows, or a corner closet may be
used. This should bo a piece of furniture
not built In, as In this latter case a dis
agreeable feeling of dissymmetry Is caused,
unless there Is another built In the opposite
corner.
A bay window Is a fine luxury In a dining
room ; In a bay plants may bo placed and
a cheery, cool atmosphere given to the
room.
Questions nnd Answers
What would b the approximate eoet of In
atalllnff a hot-air heating- syatem In a seven
room email houie? F. F. r.
About 200.
In the cam nf a bunalaw where the plan
arreada oer nulte an area, will not the lenath
of the horizontal plpti m the baaement bo an
objection j.; t. O.
A largo bungalow, tho same as a large
house. Is better heated with hot water or
with a combination system of hot water and
hot nlr. A small bungalow always can be
heated with hot ali
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If he can save you some money by doing
this, you Bhould be glad to pay him more.
wo might say, however, that a good way to
be more or less sure of keeping out of
trouble Is to deal with a general contractor
and award tho contract as a whole.
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as this is a part of the personal
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