Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1914 — FAMOUS PAINTER AND FENCER HERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FAMOUS PAINTER AND FENCER HERE

The Baron and Baroness de Meyer have arrived in America from England and the baron is giving in Chicago an exhibition of portraits of American women. He also has done much to stimulate the interest in gardens in this couptry by showing a collection of autochrome slides which he displays on the screen. The Baroness de Meyer is a god-child of the late King Edward of England, is one of the best-known women fencers of Great Britain, has fenced liere with many women prominent in society and posed for one of the most successful paintings of Sargent;