The Smithers salon and the rise of Tallboys
A writer recalls Carolyn Smithers, New York society’s brilliant force, whose salon housed artists and dreamers. Her ascent ends when she encounters Tallboys at a dinner, a reform-minded yet impractical fellow whose ideas about labor, liquor, and lectures derail her focus. She marries him. he becomes a budding political figure, losing votes when he speaks publicly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Smithere
Tom Paine
New York
Kant
Miss Smithers
Etting
Smithers Mansion
Walter Whitewings
Tom Carleton
Mlle, Dupuis
Geneva
Carolyn Smithers
Miss
Germany
Polly Prentice
Joe Brindley
Joe
Mrs. Joe
Tallboys
Women’s Guild
Carolyn
East Side
Academy of Design
Carolyn Tallboys
Harvard
Yale
Questions and Answers in the News Digest
A long reader Q and A column covers diverse topics from locks on the Erie Canal to land measure ranges and public questions about eclipses, congress sessions, and notable figures. It includes trivia on John L Sullivan’s benevolence, fictional quotes, naval power in the Revolution, and requests for information on Russia art and Cleopatra’s Needle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Insurance Department
Office of the Auditor of State
Indianapolis
Mehemet Ali
Great Britain
Alexandria
Thames Embankment
Russia
J. B. Atkinson
Publishers, Macmillan & Co
New York
Brandes
Publishers
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Harper's Magazine
Kremlin
George Barrie & Son
Philadelphia
Old American Bottles in April Century
In early American glassware the history of our national art progress is shown with blue green and brown amber bottles from the nineteenth century. Portrait bottles honor Washington and Franklin among others. Primitive flasks feature Indians, emblems, eagles, flags, cabins, cannons and steamships with outdoor scenes and domestic motifs appealing to patriotic collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Carleton
Washington
Franklin
Lafayette de Witt Clinton
Zachary Taylor
Kossuth
Jenny Lind
Red Rose of Margaret Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse recalls Margaret with red rose imagery and enduring memory. Lines speak of green leaves and a pale face like a pearl, promising steadfastness if the sun should fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Rose of
Margaret
Pele
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Ziegfeld JR
Ziegfeld
Chicago Record- Herald
H Maiden
English
Soo
Questions and
John L. Sullivan
Samuel Johnson
Bury
Southampton
Tennessee
Tharon V. Brown
Neil 8. Brown
Florida
United Tes Senate
Hatteras
Galveston Bar
Semmes
Congress
Legislature
United States
America
M. R
Ostier Joe
Indiana
R. K
United States Circuit
Kansas
Henry €. Caldwell
Walter H. Sanborn
Amos M. Thayer
William C. Hook
Holland
The
Netherlands
Y. Holland
Wilhelmina
North Holland
South Holland
France
Mexico
Moses Chorenensis
Epaphroditus
Armenia
Nero
Domitian
England
Boston
Unalit
St. Michael
Mississippi
King Edward
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Don A. Pardee
A. P. McCormick
David D. Shelby
George
Victoria May of
Teck
Louise Victoria
Duke of Fife
Victoria Alexandra Maud
Prince Charles
Denmark
Albert
Alexander
Princess Alice of Hesse Darmstadt
Alice
Descartes
Spinoza
Rene Descartes
Stockholm
Sweden
Ethica
Tractatus de
Tractatus Theologico- Politicus
Klaw & Erlanger
Troubadours
Harry B. Smith
Liberty Belles
Madison Square Theater
Hazel Kirke
Harry Davenport
John Slavin
J. C. Marlowe
Harry Grifon
Dr. Mack Lumsden
L. D. Wharton
Nat K. Cafferty
Edward Pooley
Etta Bauer
Sander Milliken
Margaret Walker
Augusta Glose
Edna Hunter
Lotta Faust
Pauline Chase
Middleton
Edith Barr
Grace Cornish
Dorothy Lester
Ruth Richmond
Jacques Maudi
Mrs. Perkins Fisher
World and Hastings
Mrs. Mark Murphy
Clarenze Quintette
Ida Russell
Theodore Thomas
Thomas Orchestra
Electa Gifford
Gertrude May Tein
Charles W
Tomlinson Haleae
Pike's Peak
Jon
Cne
Richard le Gallienne
Esks Minstrels
Empire Theater Eiss
Miner & Van’s
Bohemian Co Geers
Imperial Hotel
Capitol Avenue
Ohio Sts
Statehouse
Wm. Mas
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