Bassett's scrap book . cher in the winter of 1877-8,when it was drawn. At that time G. T. Morgan, thedesigner, was working on the sketches for the im-print of the then new silver dollar. Prof. ThomasEakins, then of the Academy of Fine Arts, advisedhim to use a life study, and introduced him to MissWilliams, then living at Thirteenth and SpringGarden streets, in Philadelphia. Miss Williams pos-sessed strikingly classical features, and she consentedto sit for the drawing and her profile was used tocomplete the design of Liberty on the dollar. Mor-gan put his initial on the head, but it requires
Bassett's scrap book . cher in the winter of 1877-8,when it was drawn. At that time G. T. Morgan, thedesigner, was working on the sketches for the im-print of the then new silver dollar. Prof. ThomasEakins, then of the Academy of Fine Arts, advisedhim to use a life study, and introduced him to MissWilliams, then living at Thirteenth and SpringGarden streets, in Philadelphia. Miss Williams pos-sessed strikingly classical features, and she consentedto sit for the drawing and her profile was used tocomplete the design of Liberty on the dollar. Mor-gan put his initial on the head, but it requires sharpeves to find it. A flat—A people coop. Seven rooms and a land-lord, with hot and cold gas and running flat is the poor relation of an apartment. Relations, as somebody said, are disagreeable ac-quaintances inflicted upon us by Providence. BlT itis no use in losing ones temper about what they say;it only pleases them.—Richard Bagot. |CANEELMEN OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT Conducted by the
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