New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-28

ted BY the ordinary social arrangements to women who
must spport themseves-revolted by that sbirt-mak-
inc despair. which has become social reproach, aud
which our correspondent imagnes' may be alevated
BY their being thoroughly taught and presenting
certificates of qualification, the women VINO led the
movement resolved that dependent woman should, at
last have chance at something besides sewing shirts
At ten shilngs the Dozen
Vs noticed and commended the movement at the time,
and il received so favorable consderationirom many
cenerous persons that the necessary means were OBJ
tanned and after careful consideration the school went
into operation in November last Already It numbers
between fifty and sixty pupils, OF whom about two
thirds nav a small sum for instruction. The school Is
oman daily from nine to three o'clock. aud there is an
oforroon class for an hour and half Some of the
more advanced pupils already under inc instruction
Of an eminent master of wood-engravng ana one oil the
leading wood.engravers in the City, In expressing hTs
warm sympathy in the undertaking. and his desire 70
empoy women in the work as soon as they are ready
that his own daughter is studying for the same
end Wallpaper dealers are likewise much Interested
ord rho sbrevdest authorities have no doubt that do
nestle DESIGNS for carpets will not fail to be encour-
aged. These are merely Illustrative details
The system of instruction is not that OF Pestaozzl
ss stated BY our correspondent il by the PestoOzzan
svstem be meant the drawing from gcometrca figures
The plan pursued is that OF every good academy OF
ar-study directly from nature and from casts of the
best statuary The PestalOzzian system was, We be-
eye adopted in the Boston School, but expressly dis
carded here 1t is not expected that the School should
at once support itself 1t must command its position
bv the superiority Of its work, and that must depend
upon the talent for design women may possess and upon
the strDgency of foreign competition.
If with our correspondent, believed that women
could do nothing to support themselves but sew, we
should certainly despond Issewing necessarily and only
the sphere and field of labor for woman? What
is be fact about this work of the other SEX to which
our correspondent aludes Designing of every kind
seems to us Just as fit work for women as men Thees
tmouy of various practical in various departments
that required designing confirms our opinion Nayat atlme
when hotels are dsmssng male walters for female, and
our shops are gradually ranging shopgirs, instead OF
shOpbOys behind the counter, as has long been done
in other countries it is rather late to suggest that
Z" as a class" women cannot 60 beyond this sphere
of sewing. MANY ladies do their sewing because
they cannot get it properly DONE says correspond
skfully accomplished with the needle who are sarv-
ing upon the pttance doled out for shirtmaking. We
much doubt the existence of the class who are obliged
TO do their own sewing because nobody else knows
enough to sew for them and surely if city and country
compete in necdewOrk at the rate of sxpence shirt 1t
is mere humanity to take another step in different d.
rcct.on Success will be proportional to skill naturally
but experience shows clearly enough that the skill is not
wanting.
Our correspondent, who has evidently thought much
and well upon the subject, honors the motives but
doubts the method of the New-lork School The prac
tce at the outset of mechanical drawing disqualie
the pupils FOR the skill and grace which Will enable
them to compete with others; and he insists upon
the importance of general cultivation Very well
and very fair. But the fact is that drawing is
taught in our Public Schools, so that any advan
tage drawing may impart to seamstresses Is en-
loved there NeedlewOrk and embroidery, and even
worsted work and bradng practiced in the public
schools The House of Industry teaches sewing upon
LARGE scale These things show that women do have a
chance of such general cultivation poor and depend
ent women can hope to have; and when they come 70
the School of Design they are taught with reference
TO the path chosen by the scholar in precisely
the manner indicated as the proper one by
the scholars in the New York School are already so ac-
compshed in wood engraving that they are able to take
GOOD rank as designers and not merely cutters Every
day demonstrates the ability Of the sex with the pencil
and the knife as well as with the needle.
As for the strngency of foreign competition, We con-
ceiye il TO be much Oyerestmated Manufacturers as
the experience of the school demonstrates do prefer
original pattern to an altered European one and are
willing to pay in proportion to its success Certainly the
American girl will start fairly in the race as the
French or English, and the system followed in her In
strucon will be that approved by the wiSest thought
and so warmly and well commended by our correspond
ent Already manufacturers are coming for designs
already generous, humane and influential men
are interested in deserved and OF which
all the prospects are fair and for ourselves we have
no more doubt that women can advantageeusly do 9
hundred things now supposed impossible or improper
for them and that American designs in every kind viii
be more sought than foreign than We have othe superior
adaptation of the American genius to American wants
wherever has fair play At least let us all give good
chance to every plan of large scope, when so little
fault can Justly be found with it with the New YORK
/ School of Des On.
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THE GREAT PAVEMENT JOB.
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