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Rh able and representative women in the country. Though still a young woman, she has won phenomenal success in her chosen work. She goes in society a great deal, and is a great favorite in Newport, being a very clever entertainer. She is an expert horsewoman, plays a fine game of tennis, and makes a good partner at golf. She has but little time for social and club life, but is intelligently alive to all movements which tend to elevate American womanhood. She is an earnest advocate of simple and hygienic living.

GNES BEARCE DAY, whose maiden name was Agnes Bearce, was born in Calais, Me., September 21, 1867. Her parents were Byron A. Bearce and Ella F. McDougall Bearce, the latter belonging to one of the best known Scottish families of the Province of New Brunswick, and directly descended from the famous clan McDougall of Scotland. Agnes Bearce in her girlhood attended the public schools of Lewiston, and was graduated from the high school in 1883. She was married in Boston, September 12, 1903, to Holman F. Day, of Auburn, Me.

Mrs. Day's artistic impulses came to her early in life. She was first drawn to china decorating, and displayed so much talent that after a course of study with local teachers she went to New York and pursued her calling in some of the best keramic studios. While there her work shown at the Waldorf-Astoria exhibit attracted much favorable notice. She has also studied with well-known Boston artists, and is recognized in the leading art circles of that city.

She began teaching in Lewiston in 1896, and has had classes most of the time since then. She has given annual exhibits of her productions. The work she has done in water-colors and oils during the past few years has received fitting and extremely favorable notice in high quarters. Her keramic achievements have been especially gratifying to her friends. Two years ago the managers of Poland Spring Hotel solicited and placed a case of her work on exhibition for the summer in their widely known art gallery, to which only artists of recognized talent are admitted. Her designs have been [printed in some of the leading art publications of the country.

For five years she has held the position of superintendent of the Maine State Art Exhibit, and for the past four years (1899-1902) has had entire charge of their annual exhibit at Lewiston. Her duties comprise the collection of the pictures and china and all the details of arrangement, and it is pleasing to note that the art exhibit has grown steadily under her management.

She is a member of the Murray Club of Lewiston, and has been a member of the New York Society of Keramic Arts since 1899. In her religious faith she is a Universalist. Her home is on Court Street, Auburn, Me.

NNIE C. SHATTUCK, of Fitchburg, Mass., a National Aide in the Woman's Relief Corps and a devoted worker for the cause of patriotism, was born November 26, 1851, at New Ipswich, N.H., her parents being William K. and Elizabeth (Stark) Hassall. On the paternal side she comes of a long line of worthy New England ancestors, one of whom, Anna Hassall, was massacred by the Indians, September 2, 1691. On her mother's side she is a descendant of Archibald Stark, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in ]&)7, who married Eleanor Nichols in Londonderry, Ireland, and came to New England in 1720 with the party of Scotch-Irish that settled Londonderry, N.H. From this pair Mrs. Shattuck claims descent through Major-general John Stark (as a great-great-grand-daughter) the noted Revolutionary hero, who at Bennington and on other battle-fields achieved so much for the cause of American independence.

Annie C. Hassall was educated in the public schools and at the then noted Appleton Academy in her native town. In 1861, on the breaking out of the Civil War, when societies were being formed for the relief of the soldiers at the front and in the hospitals, her mother, who was an active member of some of these societies, wishing her to aid in the good work, taught her how to knit. Although then but a girl of ten, she knit several pairs of hose, which, with