Five Mile Beach Journal,
Wildwood, N.J., December 06, 1905.

MISS MILDRED HOWELLS.

The Very Clever Daughter of the Famous American Writer.

Few artists achieve fame at the tender age of eleven years, but such was the good fortune of Miss Mildred Howells, the only daughter of William Dean Howells, the famous American novelist. A decade ago Mr. Howells wrote a charming book called “A Little Girl Among the Old Musters.” The little girl was Miss Mildred, and the book was Illustrated by sketches she made of the famous pictures her father took her to see In the old world's galleries and churches When the tiny artist was busy with her pencil her father

had no Idea of using her sketches, and, in fact, the book was an afterthought. Miss Mildred loved the works of art she saw and in her childish zeal endeavored to make copies of them. She had quaint opinions of her own concerning them, and her bright comments form one of the pleasing features of the book. She even went so far as to originate a Madonna of her own—“the Madonna of the orphans,” because there were “so many other kinds of Madonnas.” Miss Mildred is now a young lady, but she is still devoted to her art and has done a number of very clever things. She is a slender, splrltuelle girl, very much interested in art and literature and with little love for “society” in the fashionable sense of the word. She is not pretty, but has an interesting face and charming manners.

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Miss Mildred Howells, Five Mile Beach Journal, Wildwood, N.J., December 06, 1905, Page 4.