The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 52

KJDIANAPOLIS STAR MAGAZINE SBCTIORkSa SKETCHES COMMENT AND BOOK NOTES A SHORT STORY BOOK TALK AND A DIALOGUE BY ANNA NICHOLAS AUTHOR MAKING THOMAS The Office Boy as an Inspiration SOUNDS THE PRAISES DUBLIN IM ROBERT SCOTT lawyer sat in his office meditating with his feet on his desk which attitude seems conducive to serious mascu line thought He talked to himself as he had a habit of doing occasionally got to answer J'illings today and I know what to tell thought you spent your time cent reading lie picked up a letter and read: over to Illinois and help us prosecute loose graft oases The court allowance lor special counsel won't be big but bimpsun the automobile mogul will sup plement it And if we win there will be glory In it fur you and a professional boost the man for the job and it there wasn't either money or glury in volved the satisfaction of fighting a lot ot infernal thieves and crooks ought to give you compensation nough on Ibe outside of course bin J'm pulling a good many wires that may help to land the ia There was some uetail as to the char acter of the vxurk and a request fur an mmipdiaie reply I could get away well enough for a month just was Scott's reflection reckon the eases will take that long anyway There's nothing pressing but what Willis can take cam of until tlm 'Jii'OP patent case comes up But whv should I go? Why should Hero 'I' years old with' a fairly good prauthe and everything running smoofldy like well enough to help land luim cd those crooks in the penit i tiary hi time public treasury looters were intnlo an rvcimple of disgracefully nuuicr on and that Illinois gang is an osp riaily had lot Rut why did Billings del me out? There arc oitup men ncaiv home who would do as well J'he fact is I don't 1 jkc going it 11 be a hard job and I dmi't want lf exert myself io such ail extent The" rj have to give up that fishing trip ihat Jim Wilson and I have planrmd And it comfortable at home arid I hate Lutd iNo 1 11 just write Lu Uiilirigs that they will have 1" get some mm Jle was about to touch the heli that would call ins stenographer when a tap on the door was followed by the appei'r an of the oilice boy a bright eyed rigor fared lad of IS He bud a book in Ins hand His iupl ex falling on the title Saw that it was Ora I ask jmi a question Mr la said you're not Go ahead Which do you think can the grenfost service to his country an orator like Patrick Jlcury or lianml Webster or Henry Clay or Mr likunc or llr Hrvan or a pubhc innu who works quietly for aelurms uomrnitic es or bv introduc ing and pushing bills or by writing tor pu bhcation Mr bcott laughed lhats a pretty big question Sam ffdioulfJ say ofthand ha I il depends a pood deal in fact altogether the manIf lie is sincere mid aggressive aud strong be will make Jiimsclf felt cil her wav (or the public has an instinct as to a man sincerity and takes a preftv just meas urement ot him In the long run Per sonally other things being equal should give preference Io the orator as a center of influence we've had many a lino speaker who had no influence What do you think and how do you como to interested in the subject anyway? 1 tlie And Mr Scott I never read 5 cent novels your it id vent up proudly Mother to have that somehow or 'll awful bob) didn't all a Inn in his Teddy but li xpd If to the ofliue earth th wore The pUlilU! novels lying arou now anl then re i be an orator How do you know on think a feiluw can be wants to be if lie sets icks to it? 1 I know he would prefer that i his ofliue boy should not know about those honks fl What's morning Mr was a veritable dynamo when it came to tl'p pursuit of evildoers men who preyed upmi Hip community and had Sam answered the questions in order for the orators sir lime When a man 1 mean to be one I'm studying at home trying to keep oven xxith the high school classes teachers boards at our house and hears my lessons She favors the states rendm vd ut Billin niiHli wealth but lie had a wf Wk jsj 1 In tlni Magazine f'r March Brand Whitlock pays appreciative tribute to the diiirm of Dublin lie says: Lo 1 1 1 1 baa an i in iunsu mill in oicst and Gla5gQv is murwluus in its reali ZBlinii 1 cm nr j'H ey jp govPlTlimnl klinl di gh a reaulduiGiry anti Incorrigible si I pat to anp'iig i wi ph In ios is dis iiiguhhet1 by romance and buiiuly But of tl)' all r'ublni hIhi'O Ims charm Ji is a quality which tho wisc man jealous the illusions of which life is ton eager joi'iu him will not alltanpl tu didluc it is ton rare too delicuto tuo evanescent Pcibijp? if it could iJcflncfl it would vanish with the illusion I hat creates it Il is with cities as with wnmpii () whom i poets have soiro tames likened thosa cities they he they have charm or they Iijvp ft not Thorn is no iU'coiiniing it just as llure is no acciuiii lug for il is or il is not it exists for some uni not for others iimh'j'staipl what you cc in your dull ntiii imitnHgini tive companion will amaze you by exulaiiiiing Air WhiiMek secs in the prospect of home i ulij i rn rny to light the morrow for I re land All Ireluji'l he says ig thrill ing with ion it is alive and quiv ering in anticipation of this new birthand surely says the Americun writer H'(ipii with such undying faith suith splendid devotion such hiexluyistible na tional spirit eiiuld have been kept alive in such amazing vitality through so many centuries of injuslic and oppression un hSrt sonm grout and noble purpose was behind it made a national name and fame for him self and was feared ami hated lay all iibiral derelicts Lawyer Hubert Scott thought again of his otticj boy never knew there was anything to the youngster but I forgot that he was young and there is always promise In youth Oh youth immortal you tii 1 Noth ing is i i hie to it But how swiftly it goes Here am at 16 with the fatal leilmrgy of middle uue fastened upon me Pv George 1 have it so won't skimu down at my time of life 111 try and live up to my office buy at hast join Billings in that graft fight Here Sam wail and take a telegiam And hurry with it Women and Citizenship One of the Little Problems of Home Life SERIE'S of books ur pamphlets I I for1 use of women interested hi Public questions civics rocial reforms suffrage public (lc pis been issued bearing the general title and the Bargur and is meeting tlie needs of woikers along lines 'j'he scope ALK a dozen women lingered in the clubroom after the meeting had adjourned to indulge in a brief chat been such a busy sighed the gray haired lady with the pink rose on her hat I had a cousin from un the with me for three days and I wanted her to see everything so we went to the theater twice and to the and to the art museum of the vulumos is indicated a little chart prepared by the City Club tit Chicago which indicates rhe depend ence of the li rnie ami family on the city' government This chart shows the City lull in he center A man comes to it to get his marriage license Hie same lar a permit is obtained for budd ing 1 he li'uisc the market is protected by the department of weights and measures at the hall the slrent comni issioiier is found tlmir tlie smoke inspof ior is in Rm same place the public In alih ollicer there Jn short the altairs oi the uiiy are the affaiis of the home aii'l of direct in teiesi to The books in question show bow women arc concerned with po litical science and lhev include a course of reading civics and government that xvill leach them the duties ml responj bilities of citizenship What wonion should do and what they can do to im piovo public conditions arc matters clearly set lorth The eon i ri Inn ors tn this really iduuatiumil and practical work in clude Shailcr Marhews Mrs Prances Siune Potter Dean Sumner Mrs llnv mond Robins Airs Eiorence Krilov Airs Philip Moore and other well known men and women you notice that she puts the interrupted the young matron in blue to the went on the grav haired one tired me out and I am afraid it tired her Sometimes I think it is an imposition on our guests lo drag them about so Vet there are some who would feel injured if we didn After shu went away I had a sewing woman tor three days and she left me emwoiisly exhausted But after all I believe the most trying thing has been the interruptions the social calls the coming to the door of ail sorts of people for all sorts of things It sounds ungra cious to complain of social visits but when they break in on work that must be done and you are on a nervous strain while the visitors are with you how can on keep from grumbling a littie under your makes me said the ladv with the green hat what I read the nrher day about Mrs Josephine Peabody Marks a poet you know a writer of plays and the wife of a Har Busy olk Still ind Time to Read 1M a recent address at the oponingof a new library Lord Morley divided reader into four classes professional readers seeking either fresh knowledge in new books or in old books material for the mechanical manufacture oi new ones students desultory readers seeking dis traction and those who read because books stimulate curiosity feed multiply and enlarge the whole range and compass of their interests and raise a man or woman to a liigh level in lie general cultivation of their age Pessimistic folk are wont to say that little serious reading is done these hnrrjinK crowded days they say theaters automobiles moving pictures and a thousand and one distractions have virtually done away with the fre quenter ol the library and (lie old time family circle around the evening lamp Hook dealers add their melancholy note and lament that there is less book buying than formerly Doubtless there is something in these plaints and yet notwithstanding the making ol booksgoes on am! libraries public and private continue to grow Somehow too people do manage to keep themselves informed as to what is being done in (he literarj world Does Bernard IShaw write a new play a large number of people know about it immediately As soon as it is in print they read it and eagerly discuss it Does Chesterton write a novel? The people whom one would expect to be interested in his novels and a good many others would be thought to prefer a different class of literature are promptly inforjned about that book Does some celebrity produce a book on philosophy know about that The new poets do not escape their eye How do they Hud the leisure for the reading? The truth probably is that they do not have leisure but that in these twentieth century clays they have acquired the faculty of absorbing their literature almost while they are on the wing just as newspaper folk learn to gather the gist of an entire page almost at a glance so book readers gain the art of taking in chapters bv something like a photographic process It must le so for surely few people are spending long hours in their libraries nowadays or burning the midnight electricity over books yet ib multitude is largo that is described by Lord Morley as reading because their curiosity is stimulated they possess a wide range of interests the satisfying of which makes them tlie cultivated people of their time tard professor Homebody was asking her it lier three babies did not interfere villi her poetry She said she wrote her Poetry while the babies took their naps tint that her neighbors gave her miwli in! ti noble than her babies They Would not let her alone By neighbors I suppose she meant Iriends and visitors in pewd Perhaps we all have loo many neighbors in that sense Ncighbois are all right and none of lie cei bnnly would sav that we wished 1 icn! to stay away permanentlv put in the blaek eycd woman 'but what we seem to need is a system or regulation of sac al atlalifS an a rang ement wherebv wstois would come when they arc wanted and at no uthtT time used to think commented thegrav haned lady that the fashion ot a gooa one The principle is all ngat You announce that von arc at home on a certain flay each week and ad to see your friends Thcv arn ar hum on then days when vnu are at Hbcitv to go and see them if von like in practice the plan doesn't work well as vo all know People dun bother to ecnie on youi day ii it doesn happen to (onvenn nt but on any other and aro cnen led jt you are at home and do not sne I vc ma ei yet had the courage tn ask to be oxensud to a said the vomig nidtion Last week when the babv was si and had a green nursec'irl I had visitors the weather was so spring like you know and I went down to see cvciy one of them Some ot them stayed and stayed and I would get so nenoiib 1 did not hear what 1hoy waresaying I was so airaid the girl would gnu the child the wrung medicine or Jl mc could do as business xneu do and see only special cullers and leave the rest to a cleik oi assisiant it might icrniikcd the lady with the green hat Lui tlie men tlnna women have the advantage that respect Thev can stay upstairs and need not make their ap pearance it 1iiey don't said the black eyed lady while thev hit known to be in their offices otten Arc in plum sight and it they are Ino busv to see one man and do see another the nrst one is But never could ask a maid to sav to a visitor that I am not at imme when am at home declared the gra haired Lidy I mav sav to self that it is a lucre social form and not a fib but the Person at tlie door tukes it literally and supposes I am absent ami therefore lai as she is CQUcerneu it is a lib Or if she guesses that it is a mere excuse she is angi Aly husband said the young matron is a placard that some one gave him vhith Heids tins way I have some biisv momenta and these arulhuse' He has ncvPi hud tin nerve to hang it up how (ver evnii when the worst horn In town was headed toward his ollicc AV hat do you think would asked the woman with the green bat "if we should bang such a card cm the front d'HH handle when our busv moments are at lor exumide wlvn I am iron ing or getting dinner? You know I do mv own work 'J'he other women laughed They would see it from the sidewalk said the young matron "and take it fur a measles or fever sign and then vou wmild be left to voursell Maybe suggested the voting mufrem the solution ot our troubles is the estab lishment of a clubhouse we cun meet our mends when wo like as themen do with no sense of responsibilit YVe won have callers Bui all this folks is so said the gra liuircd woman "After all though tlmv do bother me when I busv 1 rn not remlv to shut mv friends and neiglmors out I reckon well have to take lite us it is visitors and all" And the rest of the women agreed nnr a an Indiana artist who reached 1)1 1(11 ZXrcK fame in a career which began 1 1 kZ A XKl VlY AS A APPRENTICE Indianapolis Boy Who While Driving Cow rom Pasture for His Employer ound Time to Develop His Art Inspiration Now Recognized as One of Indi Master Artists BY PAUL MARTIN JIEHK was a time and ii was not so many years ago either whoit wood carving promised to form the basis of an attractive career for an artistically inclined young man am not speaking of tlio Tyrol mind you or of any of the odd nooks of Europe but of America and of ImJiamipolis That was before people look to doing every thing by machinery and when hand made goods had not taken on a value so gr eat as to be almost prohibitive Otto Stark now known as one of thelead ing painters of Indiana was a wood carver and it was through this medium that he lound on outlet for Iris genius long before he thought of turning his PAUL raKTlbT Otto Siark worked attention to paint and canvas h'Unny things happen even in the lives of artists little insignificant things that cause sweeping changes and Stark was the victim of circumstances When Of to Stark was a boy Indianapolis was not the city il is now and Indianapolis children had some idea of things pertaining to the country Every family kept its own cow and the boys and girls instead running to Hie milk depot for a bottle of milk guaranteed under' the pure food law drove the family cow to pasture every mor ning and drove Imr borne again in tlie evening in the shop of a professional wood carver and when his labor was finished he went home by way of tire cow pasture and piloted the cow across a plowed field in the direction of home OrH uvr nlng vJiile porlortmug ibis duty be fell1 into a hule and emerged Avitli budly upraiued ankle b'or weeks he was Jaid up unable to aland on His feet but during thobe weeks lie made good use ol his time lie studied lithography and Jvarned that he possessed another gift beside tbat of being able to carve wood He became so interested in this work that he decided to take it up more seri ously ami almost as soon as he was able to bubble lie went to Cincinnati where he became a student of lithography Color work Inlerestcd him and he found him elf an adept at ii He inadA a special study along this line with a class which met the rxening ami it was not lung itniiJ utto Slink was well on the road io the success which has since come to him In aiiHidanuv Jd i hograpl ly also proved remunerative and funning a partnership with another lithographer Mr Stark conducted a suc cessful business nt the same time study ing at the Cincinnati Art Academy Bui genius would not be downed It was ever pulling at him and in his eye he could see himself following a career as a creative artist Let a man once get this idea provided of course that he has the natural ability to see it to a culmination and there is no stopping him lie must act and sometimes ho acts quickly Away with commerce away with all the prosaio things of the world The art field is too attractive to be re sisted and Otto Stark was not one to resist when his artistic natuie was aroused lie left Cincinnati said good bye to lithography and went to NW York and enrolled al the Art Students League rom this it must not be taken that Dito Sturk Md i earr trfe siudcnt's Jit He had another ambition He wauled to study abroad and this he knew would take money His time in "York was equally divided between work and study and rest hours were and far between Jlis knowledge of lithography again camo in handy and enabled him to add con stantly to that saving account whi li was to tide him over his period nf study in hiropo lie also obtained commissions tu make illustrations for prominent maga zines journals a nd lie mad'1 the best of his study time and his work ing time ami steadily felt himself ad vancing as a piiintDT His pictures were ex 1 1 i 1 i I ed constantly and attracted favor able attention His teachers were llinsiasiic over his work and tmally came the happy day win ho was able to sail fur ICurupe A groat deal has loeii said in the course oi those articles about Tndiaita artists concerning unich It was to Hmi center that most of the 1 iidiat i ia ns went Imi Stark preferred Taris and Varis il was to Im He had long ly foro dctermitiPd to enroll at the Academic Julien arid there he came under the instruction of Jkml ang or and Eofebro The lifo of the Varis art students is quite difterviit from that at Munich and consequently thoro is but out comparison that can Be drawn be tween Paris career and Hie careers his follow Hoosiers in Germany They were all inspired by one purpose to advance in their art as much ns pos sible and with this end in view they ap plied themselves as few students uwr do Opportunities Seized Kvpry opporiimity that would add to their general knowli dgc of art and ait conditions was poized and as the Munich students rented a studio of liiuir own in wliieli they might do extra work aside from tlmt done at the pifliool sn did Shirk seek experience away from the Academic Jle worked in the Atelier Uornmn and the of work he whs capable doing was astonishing to Ids associates Stark was not alone in Varis for there were many Americans Hierc including such men as rank Beiisuii Arthur Duw Wizard Metcalf and Edmund Tarbell While iu New York Mr Stark hml learned the advantage derived from exhibiting and lie followed the same rule in Paris that he had laid down fur liini self two years before in New York lie with the exhibitions in mind and was lucky enough tu be able to exhibit twice at the salon Here his work was xirwed by the Parisian critics the ar tists and (he cunnolsuurs and Hie praise bestowed upon It tas enough to turn the jieafl of any ninn less practical than Utto Stark praise a nd criticism with i qual calm anil pref it eel by both um his picl tires was sold ami is noix in the Samuel Shaw col lection in New York Work in Paris Valuable or throe years Mr Stark worked in aris developing his own technique studying tlie works of the masters to le found iu the L'aris galleries and becom ing thoroughly saturated with the spirit of creative irt Jt was Ids intention to uirn to N' uv York and there open a studio but having arrived in this coun try ho found an excellent opening' in hilaudpliia ilc went to Hie Pennsyl vania metropolis where he remained twoears While his wife died and thoroughly di shea rt cncd he became homesick umi longed for his native In diana Hu clime here with his children Imi ho was rosHoss and finally wont to Ci rn i 1 1 1 ia i where he turned Ins attention to crnnmereial art Again he became dis satisfied and lor a time gave un painting altogether linding the oldthno inspira tion almost gone It is heart fur aii artist to give ilis work and luckily for Indiana art Otto re tirement was only temporary He inter ested himself in tlie movement which had been launched in Indiana and whichpoimod to a wonderful art progress and then he again took up the brush rl'hi members of iit? 1 tnoopior group were coming into their own Their pic luros were inking on that Individuality of style characteristic of Tndiana art and they were about Io exhibit al the Chicago Art Institute Olio titark was prominent among these artists and his work at tracted attention in Chicago rom that time on he has painted rossan lx lunintaining his studio ill In dianapolis JIu 1ms dcpiulcd the ca 1 1 1 i es of Jakes and and there is scarcely a picturesque pari of the state which he has nut put on his canvasses His pictures arc treasured tu many prom inent collcctiuns and are eagerly pur chaser! by collectors Ju addition to being a creative artist of unusual ability Mr Stark is also a teacher of the first j'llnk ur years he has been head of the art department at Manual Training High School and has inspired many of his students to develop them talents until they too have won fame in a yrufessiona 1 way Mr Stark is a natural teacher and is never hap pier than when imparting his knowledge to a student who luves the work Jle is broad in his ideas and thorough in his teaching Jlis familiarity with the art work of the entire world makes him in spiting mid it is with pride ihat the art lovers of Indiana point to him as one of the greatest native artists Bm I Kf rM IHmM wTT itWMB Otto jzAir sLO tc xx 't cr 5co XtOKTH 40 1 1 I I 'I if.