The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-08-11 00:00:00

RLIDIENTA KT_ DRAWING.

It is now generally ANTIV4I that the nyntematic and
coinpubiory teaehing of drawing bi young children is
a very beneficial part of their iireparatem for the
pnictical work life. If, having learned at sahool
deccribe thingit with a pencil, they afterward. enter
them! trade., in which a knowledge of drawing is
necesnary, they find their initial difficultien very
I. lighten..l7 they are ready to Iscrin practical
work at once, instead of having first to learn the
AIS C. And if, on the other band, the bliAillewol they
take up does not demand a knowledge f.f drawing,
then, it is argued,. they have hat !palling by being
taught it, became! it is, apart from its 'gavial utility
in. varimp. handierafta, • g." id general training for the
I; you nannot draw even a very little without
observing and thinking, for which, I believe, WI one
in ever the worse. Many people *tem to Kippur.- that
the chief object of teaching drawing to children is to
make them great artiste. This ic a fine old crusted
British supen.tition handed down from dap of dint's]
ignorance and vague ambition. It would be just an
reanonable to nuppone that the chief °hiect we have in
teaching everybody to read and write in to make
everybody a man of letter*, Drawing in in thic *erne
.me of the things which it in uneful to be able to
practine, and is, in mime trades, • part of elementary
knowledge even more neceenary than reading or writ.
ing.—Harry V. Barnett, in " Dec Magaant of Art"
for Augunt.

WHAT TO WIAN IN ACCOST.
The prospect of hot weather in August leads our
thought. to suitable dresses. One material, however,
carries all before it, and that is canvas. From ex-
perience, I do not consider it cool, but it is certainly
light, and the good kinds are durable. In defining
materials it is difficult to be quite certain where
canvas ends and woollen lace begin., for a great many
elnwese are now matte of an open-work fabric in wool,
more like piece-lace than canvas. For there W /If I
11..011r0 to be fashionably dressed at small cost, this
fabric has merits, for it can be made up eever a silk
which may have loot some of its pristine fnehnesa,
and it will stand a (resort deal of knocking about. The
fashionable colours in such gowns would !WPM I be
blue over red, and dark green, and both are invariably
trimmed with woollen lace. The thick open-work
made of woollen stuff, which is rather piece-lace than
absolute canvas, does not need much drapery, or many
folds. Consequently it is generally permitted to hang
plainly in front, and only to he slightly draped at
the back. The bediceri have little points in front, and
a long one at the back ; the barque lonlered with
lace ; full waistcoat of the colour over which the stuff
is mink up, give the necessary touch of brightness. in
washing-gowns, light materials would 141.111 tc, Ise all
nettle with velvet collars and cuffs, which cause them
to les& letter and cleaner by contrast. 'lie cotton
crapes are well worn, for they really look a great deal
better than they are. A pretty white one I have seen
was made with a full skirt having four tucks above the
hem; the tunic was draped with a point in front, and
left plain and long at the back, being simply hemmed
round ; there was a velvet plastron over which the
'Asher., made full, was drawn at the side, and there
wax a belt neund the waist with diamond buckle.
Blue, (lark and I Imp, and purple are the favourite
velvets.—From "Cnanll's for
August.