St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-07

LIT. Il. H. EDWARDS
1--WE Have Carried the outpostsS-
.'The Outside or Barbarian World"-
DR.. s. G.. Smith
''Our Dead". Capt. A. Wright
Music, closing with the Doxology. The
rhrisic is in the charge Of A. j. Meacham
WORTHY OF SKILLED LABOR.
Pupils Of the Public Schools
Show Samples Of Their Handi-
work.
The exhibition of work done in st.
Paul's schools. which opened yesterday
in the chamber of commerce, was Wis
tied by a large number of people. The
drawing, designing and mechanical
work is most creditable both to pupils
and teachers, and forms series OF
studies OF very great interest to all.
showing as it does the development Of
direction in the mind of youth.
Here is shown the whole series
of productions from the crude modelling
and drawing OF the first and second year
pupils to the bold artistic designs, cabi-
net work and WOOD carving of the senior
high school class ana manual training
school. The juvenile pupil starts out
with the study of form. The idea of
form is first brought out in his young
mind by means of different glometric
solids and tablets, arrangement OF sticks
and colored papers. From these he is
taught to make with his fingers the
forms before him, using plastic clay,
scissors and paper. etc., for this pur-
pose. The different colors are taught
him, and blackboard outline drawing is
at later date instilied into his mind.
When the idea of form has taken def
mite shape, its application is taught.
At first drawing books with the simp-
lest of copies are used to train the fin
gers into expressing the ideas taking
shape into the mind. Clay and paper
modelling and blackboard sketching are
advanced a step, and the use of the
brush in applying color to the varied
forms on paper is taught. For several
years the ideas developed by these are
fostered in the mind of the pupil, and as
his hand becomes more deXterOuS, his
eye more appreciative of proportion,
and his mind grasps more definitely
the general form of things. the studies
to be copied more intricate, the models
to be made more elaborate. In the
sixth year of the course geometry is APP
piled to his work. The application of
the problems he is just beginning to
puzzle over is shown him by means
of practical illustration. The fol-
lowing year the documentary prln-
cipleS of design are instilled
and the combination of colOrs in
correct and artistic juXtap0sition is
taught. Drawing to scale also receives
attention, and the following year the
copy is discarded and his mind is taught
to look to nature as a guide. Leaf and
flower forms, their nature and treat
| ment in ornamentatlon. conventional
plant and animal form in design are
rapidly developed by the use of the OBJ
jects themselves, combined with plaster
casts of them in conventionaliZed form as
copies. The manual training school also
takes hold Of the pupil, teaching him
how to make working drawings, projec-
tiUn, the use of tools, carpentry. JOInery
and the elements of wood carving. Per-
; spective, light and shade. the elements
of machine construction. turning. mould
! illgii and other technical work is now
taught in the manual training school,
while the high school takes up outline
drawing from models and casts and
plant forms from nature. The three fol-
lowing years the woodwork and machine
construction are thoroughly taught,
ton receive considerable attention. The
high school goes on from outline draw
ing to light and shade work i'll crayons;
from this to monotint work and water
color drawing, which are taught by
stages until the pupil surprises himself
by finding he can design something
beautiful and useful.
The different stages of the work
were all shown by the actual
drawings and models made in the
schools. From the simple models and
drawings, the productions of the minds
while yet crude, to the elaborate and ar
tistic designs of those in whom the con-
structive and artistic idea is highly de-
veloped, all are here and form study
of the most interesting description. The
work of some of the high school pupils
shows talent of high nature. Miss
Gautier, who teaches the classes in the :.
high school, explains her methods in
most interesting way, and shows her
self most efficient teacher by the fact
that all drawing is taught from the
round, and design is left entirely to the
mind Of the pupil, helped only by sug
gestions from her. The water color
painting, done rapidly from real flow
ers, shows in many instances great abil-
ity. Miss Laughlin has charge of
Guc CDtlIG WOIh III IuC oCiOOios
and her success as teacher is here
most forcibly demonstrated. Mr.. Ben
nett, who has the manual training
school under his care, has succeeded in
developing the construction idea most
remal kably in the minds of his pupils.
From their first beginnings in the way
of cutting and boring wood to their final
triumphant achievements in the way of
finely carved panels, perfect dovetail
joints, large boat, and polished and
glazed hard wood cabinet, every step in
the course is shown, not by picked work,
but by that,of every pupil.
One very Interesting phase of the de-
velopment of the artistic idea is shown
in volume of original drawings made
by very young pupils to illustrate a
given subject or proposition. For in
stance, the theorem, nine minus one
equals twice four and one over. is illus
trated in the following ingenious man.
ner by one pupil. Nine little children
are shown, eight of them seated in two
sets of four or two swings. land one stand
ing by with pocket-handkerchief,
IN his hand. The drawing is Of the
crudest description, but the idea is
there. Many others Of a similar nature
are shown, and form most amusing
series. But the work that is most at
tractive is that of the senior class in the
nigh school. Several drawings in sepia
are shown, one especially calling for
notice; it is head, drawn from a cast,
and is a perfect piece of light and
shade work. The original designs for
wallpapers, cretonnes, chintzes and
oilcloths are worthy of careful attention,
and show the result of the principle
in which all the work in the schools is
conducted, that of developing original
ity in the pupil. Practice in original
drawing and painting teaches child