Music: Maria Daviess

She Chats with John Farrar

Maria Thompson Daviess (whose autobiographical narrative Seven Times Seven is appearing in the Pictorial Re-view and soon to be published in book form) is an invalid; but, in spite of the fact that she is confined to her room most of the time, she is the gayest, the most effervescent of women. When I saw her the other day she was busily planning to take up again her favorite work of "play-doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why...

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