New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-15
schssls Of Design for Women.

women can DO something lot themselves.
With sensible and highminded women it is
a matter of pride to be no longer dependent,
and to Justify their "rights" by revealing
their genius. Even the most memorable
enemies of the Worcester Convention will
admit that there are many things, besides
the technically domestic, which woman's
greater delicacy of feeling, sensitiveness
grace and general instinct Of beauty, ena-
BILE her to do better than men. In the de-
nartmepts of human labor, also, there are
many employments Of a peculiarly womanly
character, unfit for the robust and active
nature of men, although they are often COM
PEELED by circumstances to perform them.
Above all, there is large number Of edu-
Gated refined and talented women in vari-
GUS parts of the country, fully able and fully
willing to maintain themselves and their
families, who are now condemned to sloth
no less irksome than notifying, be-
cause their gifts are not such as
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Such departments, too, are crowded.
But there is another sphere especially
adapted to female labor, and in which success
is in the degree of actual talent and executive
skill, which is now, by the wisdom OF hu.
name and thoughtful men, opening to the
many who are fitted and ready to enter it.
Mr.. Labouchere, late President Of the
Board Of Trade in England, was ex-Officie
Head of the Government School of Design
in London, and in his remarks, upon the pre-
sentation of the report of that Institution IN
JAM, 1850, he referred with especial appro-
baton to the exquisite designs for manufac-
lures of various kinds from the female class
es. The Great Exhibition, by quickenlng
the attention of the English mind to the inn
mense Importance of fine designing, IN
commercial no less than an artistic view,
has greatly served this cause. A French
writer speaks truly in saying " 1t is owing
to their good taste in design, and to their
selection of ornaments, that the stufis, the
bijouterie the jewelry, the tapestries and
the porcelain of the French have main.
tanned in every market in Europe victo-
rious competition with the English, and the
National School of Design may with justice
maintain its claims to this national supe-
riority." The truth of this statement, the
constant demand for novelty, and the sure
success of fine designs, are perfectly well
known, and it is time that our manufactures
in every kind--paper, cotton, wooden and
metal-should be designed here as well as
they are in France or England. Here is
one of the most obvious methods in which
good taste is directly profitable and the
earnest of success in the movement is the
fact of the constant demand.
This designing, it is clear, as well as
copying, bookkeeping, drawing for me.
chanical purposes, patterns of every kind,
&c., are all well adapted to the labor Of
women. Why should they not be allotted
to women9 England is practically answer.
ing this question. Determined that grace
and beauty and novelty shall be no longer
the monopoly of France, that country is
moving in the matter, and by an order of
Council just passed, in the month of Feb.
ruary, 1859, the Committee of the Privy
Counci for Trade have created new De-
partment, under the name of" The Depart
ment Of Practical Art" of which the head,
MIR. Henry Cole, one of the acting mem.
bers of the Executive Committee in the
Great Exhibition, is directly under the su-
pervision Of the Lords of Trade. In this
new department are included the schools
for women. In all the leading manufac-
turing towns similar institutions are estab-
lished, and ample encouragement is extend
ed to those which are already in existence.
The most satisfactory reports are received
of their beneficial influence in improving
the taste and increasing the skill of those
who enjoy their advantages. The attend
ance is constant and very large, and we
have continually encountered, in our re-
cent English files, the most encouraging
notices of the enterprise.
In the United States the movement has
already commenced. Many of the most ex-
tensivs and influential manufacturers have
expressed surprise that American women
had not long ago begun to reap the advan-
tages of such application of their talents.
For men thousand avenues to wealth and
emineace are open, to which unans xerable
reasons forbid women to aspire. Nature,
herself, intesferes. But any man convex
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