A NOVEL COMPETITION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1227, 8 September 1911, Page 9

A NOVEL COMPETITION.

A novel competition was organised and successfully carried through recently in New'York'by'Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, mother of tho Duchess of Marlborough. Mrs. Belmont has the reputation of original ideas, and not only is sho highly artistic, the possessor of many.rare pictures and objects d'art, but sho is herielf an architect, and has been responsible forth roe beautiful houses, recognised as triumphs of designing, that combine the practical with the artistic. The offer of prizes to the value ofi:3o for the .best pieces of sculpture and tho best posters that symbolised the • progress of women brought forth many exhibits worthy of particular attention. Fifteen posters and seven clay models characterised by original thought, wcro shown at Mrs. Belmont's house, Madison Avenue, New Tork. The judges who awarded the prizes were Mr. Y\\ M. Chase; Mrs. Adelaide Johnstone, Mr. Robert Reed. Mrs. Edith Woodman Burroughs, and tho hostess herself. Miss Myna Musselman Can won the first prize for sculpture. Her design wasa crag with women climbing up oiio side of it and men toiling up the other. A steep slope made the task of the men hard enough. The women, although apparently faced by a distinctly shorter road, had really'a harder task to overcome, for they' were compelled to drag themselves up by an overhanging crag. The foremost man and the. foremost woman reached the heights together, indicating the idea that men and women must progress side by side. The size of tho statue, which is in clay, is about 15m. A statuette done by Miss Bianca Will, from. Massachusetts, took second prize. It showed a man and a woman united in supporting a globe on which a child was sitting. The first prize poster was byMiss C. M. Sax, and its composition consisted of a panel on which was sketched a man, cheerful of countenance, but staggering forward under an enormous burden upon which was seated a woman bound. The couplet appended to it was, "A load too great for man to bear. Set woman free; sho longs to do her share." A big poster which "took second prize, and which Airs. Belmont considered particularly ajrt, showed a tinted drawing of a woman at I the washtub. Near her was sitting what was evidently her husband, smoking a cigar with a bottle conveniently placed to his hand.