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*was aîsplayed, U>' IV4uest, £rt1i SecOiid time Saturday, October 28, in *the Illinois Host Ilouse at A Century of Progrèss exposition. "Neyer will you e ver see such an exhibition," *Mrs. Albion Headburg, chairman of the Illinois Art committee for the Fair,, proclaimed when she 'intro- <uced Miss M,\eckstroth as "this Most unusual womnan." Witiithat opinion we are in COmfrplete accord.- From *the comment we heard al during the a.fternoon many -others concurred. Achievement, so exquisite as bers onlv comes. froni the heart rand bands *of a real artist in whomn are innate the, creative urge for expression, c).riginality,, imagination,, sensitiveness, and instinct for thé, finest iný color and design. Ail these gifts are liers.. Combined with these qualities are in- tellect, anld a cultural backgrounld, a knowledge of 'art, of languages, of literature, the classics. Such are the sources. f rom which sheý creates, with deft ingers, ber works of beauty. Her medium of expression is cot- ton, linen, and silk, which she com- bines withi skilled needlework, with rnovel effects in color and. in dimnen- sional depth, until it beconies a-paint- ing, a statue, or a tiny figure "moulded, in fabric. Her plastic work in cloth is done through ber love of plastic art, an art which she was inspired to study at the World's Fair of '93, when slie heard flessie Potter, a sculptai', and saw ber delicate art. Her love for quilt makipg was born, when as a child of 10 years, she leaned against the knees of a resi- dent' of Vermont who bad made more. than 100 quilts. Màny of ber wall hangings are. religious themes inspired by the, Bible,, particularly those beautiful- ones denoting December in the cycle of mnontbs. 'Maniy are symbolical, both in design and color. Some are like 'beautifully bhaud illumninated il- lustraàtions, pictured-with inscribed *verse. Somne are prayers, somne pages from books of the Bible. Writing- in fabric is her creation, Lucky Crosses, tiiy "Pairy Stones" that are wvonders of nature, Mnay be obtained from Chicago and north shore det'utantes at the anorual Cradl bail in th e Crystqil ballroorn of the Drake. Friday evening, Noveimber 10. Cornes to North Shbore to Speak on Euthenics. School Mrs. Frederick EI. Stockwell of Philadelphia will bé in Evanston f rom Tuesday, November 14, for a week,. addressing various groups ,ini regard to Vassar's Suminer $cbool .of Euthenics She will speak at the National Kin- dergarten college on the afternoon of Novem ber, 14; at the home oi :Mrs. DuaneI Petersoui, 1014 Star.. road, Winnetka,,at 10:30 on Wed-, nesday, November 15.; at an evening. meeting at the Community club in Wiiinetka on the saine day. Mrs. J. 0. Karstrom is opening her home on Shridlan moad in Evanston for tbose, Fairy stonles, "bearing the mnost exquisite carving'of some forni of a cross delicately cbiseled by Nature's own baud are found in only one place on the globe, so far as is kuown, and that is in a quiet sunny glade nestled aipong the rugged foothilis of the Blue Ridge mountains in Patrick county, in Virginia, a section made famous by the façt that old King Powhatan once held undisputed pos- session there. "Leading scientists of the country bave failed to tbrow anysatisfactory light on the reial, origin of these littlc crosses of stone. In that -section wbere they are foun d there runs a' legend, just how it originated no one knows, to the effect that bundreds of vears before Kinge. Powhatan's dynas- * Portraiture excels photographyin 11 that it expresses the individuality of the artist as well as that of the. sub- ject. And the Shawnee show bas a generous supply of just. this in- rividuality, n110 two painitings in the. exhibit resembling, one another in style or. method. 1Variations froffi the m)ost ýconservative to. the newest'and inost extreme are to be seen. Such wide differences, however, do not exist ini the miniature collection, for here the photographic purpose of, securing a true likeness, musttake precedence over other considerations. Xeverthele.ss the dozen. or 'so mlll- iatures, many of them in matchiless antiqIue frames, are su perior speci- mens of this branch of painting, and rich in wistful appeal wheni pictur- ing elderly people-"Myý Father" by Magda Heuerman and "Mrs., Edith M. M\itchell hy Minna Hoskins, to be specific. The startling -contrasts of mnethod it.n the principal portrait group pile up_ too; much too fast for brief comment. George Lusk paints a man, and calls it."'\ertýieal Development." A study ini vertical lines, the, figure, is both in- telligible and beautiful, adj ect.ivesý suf- ficient to damn any, work in an agç when a "Nude Descending the Stairs" can reign gloriously. Also intelligible and as real as. the. toucb of moist flesb is Ivan Albright's Profile, "The Rosicrucian." Tbe glow, the rotuudity of- the ruddy features defy description. Francis Chapin, Art Inistitute .'Pink Houseý" prize wïnner,' exhibits "Janet at a Table." Proclaizned by the, judges an artist, the burden of proof is -no longer, upon bîm, so be lays a4side al painting effort and screeches in color.. Janet, pr ovidîng, she canà oéu.tscreecb the rest oif the mojdemns. will continue to be heard. Similarly modern, but witb. refined line, moderate color and mneticulous workmansbip,. Winifred Wilson bas done "ýA Young Girl," and Lenore Smitb Jerrems, "Nena Alexandrovna." Helen Taylor,'formerly of the north shore and but recentlv. returned to space permitting only, one-third of 'Nf letm nvmîy rt ber hanging~s and coverlets. The -"And whatever is- doue froin room was thronged .to capacity for beamt to Hini, her morning and afternoon.progma m 15 done fmom the height of when she appéared.,to explain ber Serapbimü." duver of Bitthdag Tea Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Gallie, Jr.,- the 1115 Elmwood avenue, gave a tea last Sunday for fifty guests in celebration the of, their daughter Sylvia, Ann's first' birthday. Kate Bacon Bond, Louise N. Richard- son, Ann Martin, Lucile Stevenson Daîrymple, Helen Edward Walker, Katherine Walcott, Caroline D. Tyler, Marian Dunlap Harper and Anna L4yncli,.