New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-10

and infants apparc! which adorn many Of the cases
The silk and woTsted samplers also, and possibly the
wax flowers may belong to feminine fingers and
brains excusively-beyOnd these there arc shown no
objects of art and industry for the manufacture of
which Thomasina has proved herself better fitted
than Thomas. The most notable practical results of
female industry in the Exhibition are those shown
in the linen and WOODEN goods in the Main Building.
The articles exhibited la the WOman's Department
lean rather to ornament than use. Large wall spaces
covered with paintings, drawings, engrayings,
and designs for manufactures from all the women's
art schools in the country. The most uniformly
creditable exhibition is that Of the Lowell Indus
trial Schools. They send excellent drawings from
the cast good bits Of flower painting, and divers
careful and effective designs for rugs, carpets wall
paper Oil-clOths, and laces There are few mantel
tiles, designed, painted, and made by Massachusetts
women and following the canons of the English
household art schools. Birds in alert fight stream
across the white spaces, and stiit-Stemmed plants
stand like sontinels either side The making AID
decoration OF tiles would seem to be an ingenious
and pleasant industry for women, but it is to DO
feared that the taste for them will not be wide or
long-yed enough TO make the art worth studying
In the same section are carpets made from the dc
signs Of the Lowell pupils, and porcelain cups also
designed and decorated by them. Here are, too
gay decorated frames for mirrors and pictures, and
others incosing wreaths of preserved wild flowers
very pretty tritles, but hardly representing in
capital letters any natonal class industry. The
Cooper Union Art School sends number of crsyOn
drawings, sketches on wood. and enqravings, the
intter done with knowledgc a.i good taste. The
most spirited and technically accurate cTayon por-
trait in the building is tine work u 70 teacher in the
Lowell Industrial EveHl School. There are some
clever pom and ink sketches done by lJ-ycar-old
cl ard large quantity 0f Indifferent oil paintings
By ialcpendcnt exhibitors. The picture COM
bnng most skillfully the twin charms of inn
mense size and lots OF paint is contributed
by Mrs. l.. VI. Spencer. Cases containing straw
work learned from the Indians at Saratoga"
stuffed birds, performances in Berlin wool, and
silk embroidce rescreens, stand about in all direc
lions. The two processes of weaving and printing
are 10 be carried IN the building by women
throughout the Summer elitle paper to be called
The Nec Century for Women viii be edited and com
posed" b. women llfOre the eyes of an admirng
concourse. The press-wOrk, however, is to be done
by masculine hands, no woman having sufficient
strength. The writers of the articles printed are
the majority of feminine American journalists. In
one section OF the department Is quantity OF
furniture carved and otherwise decorated by
the students of the Cincinnati School of Design.
These pieces have the merits of pleasant
Imagination and honest execution, bat they
arc in no other way remarkable. Inc de-
signs are chiefly floral, and are cut with taste and
discretion; but the furniture has not the rich and
massive effect which is the beauty of such things.
and which can be in the carvings in the Italian
section in the Main Building. decreasing and
door, in light wood, and ornamented with medieval
carvings and traceres rather attractive than 9TH
erwise There is a little chcsstabe near the squares
filed with sketches from "Alice's Adventures
which deserves the same commentator.
The number Of models of inventions by American
women is greater than people have supposed. There
are "a of them, including blanket-washer, man
gle, frame for stretching and dyeing lace curtains
an ironer bedsteads, easels composition building
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