Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-08
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Few fields Of labor offer more attractive view to
women who will attend the National Chautauaua of
Glen Echo at Washington, c., than that of the In
| dustrial Art and Manual Training Department.
In addition to the usual branches of the nne arts
usually pursued in very desulory and arnateurish
at summer schools) the radical feature Of indus
trial art and manual training will be added make
women and understand that art is something more
than sketching from nature and picture making and
| that its true meaning. Human labor regulated by
human design. enarges the field and brings play
to carve bookcase. to design gas FIXTURE to model
vase form flower jam pot. to be able to the
hands in variety Of to turn materials into
things Of use and beauty make children and adults
| realize the power of beauty" and the dignity of
labor will be the wide scope Of the school of in
| dustrial art.
As an occupation for men and women. few fields
afford more opportunity than the manual training idea
as an educator Few yet sufficiently trained to
teach. and it Is only matter Of few years more
when all schools from the primary grade TO the college
students will receive manual training a matter Of
course. AL teachers will ultimately be required to
| have a certain amount Of hand training well as
brain training. and it will be considered surprising to
think that schools should have existed where the
three RS alone taught. instead of with in
bination with the three M's-''Manual, Mental and
| Moral"
The method Of instruction will be similar to that Of
| the Public Industrial Art of philadalDhia
This school under the charge of the board Of
Of PHILADELPHIA the first in the United States to
incorporate manual training the public school sys
tenn has been in operation eleven and has in
creased in size from 100 pupils in 1880 to 700 in
1891 receiving instruction every week; and taking in
! as pupils primary. secondary and grammar grades
and also classes of the public school teachers.
One Of the chief difficulties encountered by those
who stand foremost in the system is the general
prevailing idea that by Manual Training instruction
the teaching of trades is meant, which not the
As pursuit for women alone. 1t is of the most
attractive at present Offering the ranks of bookkeep
typewriters teachers and governesses being al
ready overcrowded. OF skilled and trained Manual
Training Teachers the country is quite decient-the
demand greater than the supply in fact there is
supply yet. The Chautauqua movement in Washing
ton will eventually change this. special teachers will
be required in every and VILLAGE throughout the
land.
CHURCH WORK
The manual idea for work In churches s as yet COM
paratively undeveloped, except in Philadelphia Few
churches realize the value Of classes manual
ing as q factor in lifting up the lower members Of
society and making them realize the dignity labor
This work opens large field for work for women
teachers. In the basement Of many churches and
church guild rooms are many large comfortable
apartments which, at little expense. be fitted
work shops and drawing and modelling rooms with
out interfering with any other department. In Phila
delpha several churches have busy classes working
during the week. all successful in results and attend
ance.
Graded courses for two four and six weeks will be
organized. pupils being able to join at any time.
Teachers, parents, kindergartners and others will
receive special benefit from this Instruction
in radical methods of and object
drawing in design. in clay modelling and wood cary
ing-wil be given by trained teachers who have been
taught by Mr.. Tadd and who at present teaching
in various schools and institutions throughout the
country IL