The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29

Education, Department OF the Interior No.
4-1sS2, of their circulars of information.
This one is the manuscript Of an article
prepared by Chas. G, Leland, upon Indus
trial Art in Schools, to which We have be-
fore in onr columns referred. Free hand
drawing, the motion from the shoulder is
the only road to artistic success, and the
cultivation of original designing is the
key to superiority and promotion in all
arts and trades. There must be the sue
cessive steps OF freehand, outline, and
monochrome-or use OF one color-before
proceeding to blending and shading, in
order 10 draw well and to become good
colorist. Mr.. Leland's experience causes
him 10 believe that nearly every child can
be taught drawing, modelling, needle
work, wood-carving and the arts generally,
He says:
"And those who would make the
mother witt the main dependence OF
boy, are apt to forget what vast proper
tion there are of orphans in this relation,
and that when mother wit is wanting what
an admirable substitute is provided by
step.mother education" With regard to
merit or capacity between the sexes, he
says: "In brass work boys excel, not be-
cause it requires more strength, for il does
not, and the one who makes least exertion
does best, but because women and girls
will not take SO much pains to learn to
make line well with tracer before pro-
ceeding." But girls and women who have
patience to take up one thing at time
and not hurry the successive steps to learn
that well, do learn rapidly and produce
good work.
BY making hand work part of every
child's education, it is hoped to destroy
the vulgar prejudice against work as be-
ing itself vulgar. This we greatly need
for there is no country in the world where
manual work is practically in so little re.
spect OF where there are so many trying TO
get above II, as in this American Repub-
lie. The native born citizen all too
eagerly flies TO any occupation in which,
by wearing black coat all day and keep.
ing their hands soft, he makes one move
nearer 10 being "a gentleman" 1t is only
in my native land that ever heard a man
gravely boast, as proof Of his social su.
periority, that he had never done "a days
work" in his life. While there are few
superior to this snobbishness, there are
still millions practically enslaved by it.
II arises from the fact that work-hard
WORKS. not yet sufficiently identified
with education and cultlre.
Now, industrial art in schools, based on
design and associated with studies, will
go very far to make manual labor "respec.
table" in the eyes of those protesting
Democrats who pant for aristocracy as the
hart for the water brooks" The final
argument is the unsupplied demand
among manufactures, for those artisans
who can make original patterns. All the
art schools, furnish but a drop in the
bucket, and are yet entirely made
quate. The botch.work Of new hands al
all kinds Of manual labor is a constant
pecuniary loss and source ofvexation. TC
keep children and youth at their books
alone and leave them to grow up with uD,
trained hands, is as unkind 10 them as Il
is to society. On moral grounds also
those who bave resources to I'll up thsil
leisure are so much happier and safer, that
all who have given thought TO the subjec
Of idleness and helplessness as related tC
virtue and honesty, gladly hail any move
ment that shall help learning and earning
to so together.