Word: ancestresses
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Louis Betts, N. A., long a most facile portraitist, achieved the most coveted honor of the show, the Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print...
...skeleton of Pocahontas, the tender-hearted Indian girl, of whom he claims to be a direct descendant. He has already gone so far as to disinter more than a hundred skeletons, and to measure their skulls in the hope of being able to recognize his Indian ancestress. Of these skulls he has selected three or four for future reference, while Canon E. Lionel Gedge has reburied the remaining bones with due solemnities, and the wardens of the Church have called down evil upon Mr. Gaston's head and prophesied for him a death similar to that of the late Lord...