The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-29
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL---THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1885,

trained, and therefore skilful woman,
who understands form and color. the
effect of artistic draping and the
adaptation Of styles of drapeIy to the
leanest, the stoutest, the tallest
and the shortest woman, aud color
to the fairest and the darkest in COM
plexion. Almost all women can sew,
but only the aitistically and carefully
educated milliuer can finish work.
They, like the tailor, put what might
be termed a polish upon their work
that only artists can understand.
BY their effects they can make
or mar the man or woman.
Cooking, which had its beginning in
the first crude effOTtscf man to escape
from the horrors OF aw food, has been
elevated to place among the fine arts.
II, too, has its special vocabulary and
its technique, TO be expert in which
takes often years, sometimes a life
time. The necessity for technical
training thus made apparent, the ex-
istence OF this 81 hool is justified. Linn
tied in the number OF occupations to
which its pupils are confined, it is still
A MOST ENCOURAGING BEGINNING.
II brings comfort and hope to the few
who have urged and argued for a
practical education that shall fit boys
and girls for the real battle OF life
tibet shall max independent men and
women Of them in the truest sense OF
the word. For who Is so independent
as the man and woman who, skilled
in mechanism, can command emp oy-
ment at the best wages wherever they
may go in the overwhelming world in
which the English language is spoken.
The man who is not trained to work,
aud does not understand or has not
mastered trade or calling, is not as
we'll equipped as the man who can
handle the pick and the shovel with
the knowledge necessary TO the con-
seIvation Of his energies, The man
who knows trade is by SO much
richer than he who does not. He has
a capital of which he cannot be
robbed. He poss an engine
which he can use at will and engineer
at pleasure. The mechanic is the
mastsr and minister Of civilization.
Before he was called into being
the world was in the twilight
of tavagery. Civilization, as l have
Eaid, emerged from the age OF iron,
which was preceded by the bronze
age and il by the stone age. Before
bronze swords were made men used
stone hammers and bone knives aud
bodkins. With these crude and I'M
certain weapons they fought the fight
with savage nature and with each
other.
THE DISCOVERY or BRONZE
was a step toward a condition one
more grade above the brute. With II
men came to higher knowledge in
other thinge, like nets and seiues to
catch fish and houses on the margin OF
lakes above overflow and beyond the
reach OF their enemies. Thus
we have the first beginnings Of
mechanical construction. The iusing
OF copper and tin in making
broDzs, led 10 the discovery Of the
properties OF other metals and the
smelling of them by means that have
been much improved upon since.
Thus knowledge and acquired skill, in
ever 80 crude way, lies at the foun-
dation OF civilization. With the use
f iron the march of improvement be-
gan. As men became more and more
skilled in its manufacture they be-
came more and more civilized. In
this, the greatest and richest OF all Pc
RODS in the history OF the world
THE AGE OF STEEL
iron enters into the construction OF all
tools and engines and Implements, our
houses, our railroads, steamships, and
the telegraph and telephone-the most
wonderful instruments OF human
genius. The greatest Of all the indus.
tries OF Germany is the Krupp manu-.
factory Of guns, and the richest and
busiest part Of England is the black
country" OF the month, the fires Of
whose furnacEs are unquenchable. In
our own country Pennsylvania leads
all the States in manufactures, be-
cause of her coal and iron. And 30 in
the South here, our own State, rich in
these richest of all minerals, is rapidly
advancing with Alabama TO rival the
great working centers OF the North
The mechanic is the master and min.
lister OF the age. What is there in the
humblest home or most gorgeous
palace that is essential to life, comfort
or luxury that has not come from hit
pregnant brain and skillful hand
What is there that is essential TO com.
| NhaN han frAVn his
workshop? The Telegraph and tele.
phone wires and instruments, the
ocean cable, the railroad with It's en-
gines, the steamship and its engines,
all are the products OF his labor. The
chair we sit upon, the table we sit at,
the plates we eat from, and the knives,
forks and spoons we eat with, all
are from his workshops. The clothes
that shield US from the winter
blasts and the heats OF summer,
the bed that makes comfortable rest
and IecuperatiYe sleep possible are all
made by him. The very stamp and
engine by which the money tf the
country ia COINED and the press by
which greenbacks are printed are the
results OF his skill. The plows, the
harvesters and planters, the shovela
and spades are also the work Of his
hand and biain, whose ancient pre-
dscessoTs
FIRST LIFTED MAN ABOVE THE BRUTE
and placed in his hand the adze Of
stone and the sword OF bronze and oil
iron. In the museums OF our own
country, as we'll as those Of Europe,
the anthropologit-the scientist who
deals in the science OF man-traces by
distinct and gradient steps the growth
of barbarism out Of savsgery and
civilization out OF barbarism by the
progress made in tools for work and
defense, in fabrics for cloth
ing and in houses for protsc-
ton. He does not trace 1t by
capital, but by the inventive geniup,
the taste and skill OF successive gem
erations OF mechanics, each improving
upon the tools and appliances and the
work of the other, and each leaving
the world better than he found it.
And this is to be the hope OF the boys
and girls who are 10 be trained here in
the proper use OF tools. They must
strive for perfection by patient en-
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