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...intent is that the pious shall climb from temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half-hewn statue of the Buddha greets the eye amid carvings of supreme delicacy. Thus is symbolized the axiom that the Buddha is of a perfection impossible for mortals to realize or portray...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing...
This was the dream of Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
...alike of the two countries principally concerned. The marble will be the joint gift of the owners of the quarries. Although the project calls for a statue that will be the most colossal ever carved of marble, the dominant characteristic of the monument is to be dignity and rough-hewn simplicity. The work should be completed within three years...
...Ford: "At 'Ox Hill,' Seal Harbor, Maine, a beautiful new $2,000,000 house is rapidly going up. When completed, it will be my summer home. Perched on one of the highest hills in the locality (a veritable mountain), the building will be made of faced granite hewn from the ledges on the side of the mountain. It affords a full view of the ocean and in the near distance are such places as those of Dr. J. B. Murphy, famed pathologist, and Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, Mass. These places are noted for their scenic grandeur...