The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-28

GIRLS WHO LIVE ON 81.
A CHEAP BOARDING SCHOOL ON
FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.

Where Young Ambitious Maids with
Practical Artistic Ability Are Taught
90 Make Designs for Carpets and Wall
Papers-A Cooperative Scheme.
Four dollars week is not alarge amount
10 expend for board and lodging, and yet
themselves with that expenditure. "Oh,
yes; of course" says some one. poor sew
ing girls on the Eas. Sids-"
Not at all; they are healthful, bright
eyed young women, and their abiding
place is no less fashionable and high priced
a neighborhood than Fifth avenue, near
Eighteenth street The aforesaid young
women have not been drilled in the school
of poverty and necessity either. They are
simple, self reliant well educated daugh-
tiers of the south and west, who have come
to study the art of technical design at Mrs.
Cory's School Of Industrial Art. and don't
want to spend any more of their fathers
and brothers money about it than Is nee
eSsary.
Upon the top floor OF the big building al
1874 Fifth avenue are these abo6es of econO-
my and miniature housekeeping. Each
room is occupied by two girls, who pay
two dollars a week apiece for rent Than
they each put two dollars a week in a
household purse, and the most determined
girl holds the purse strings II she finds
the week's appropriation disappearing too
quickly she pulls the purse strings little
tighter, and al luxurious tendencies are
repressed with stern hand.
As for the kitchens themselves, . chapter
IN the DOLLS House" ought 20 be devoted
to their description. Various decrepitdry
goods boxes furnish the basis of the stxuc-
ture.
BOARDING CHEAPLY.
Portieres of the riohest;calico, strung on
brass rod, close the front of the establish
ment and protect its internal arrange
ments from the unfriendly eye. The boards
comprising the kitchen are put together IN
that somewhat hsphszard manner char
acteristic of feminine carpepteriag- An
occasional crookedly driven natl. spiinsered
plank or cleat askew bears witness 20 the
anguish of mind and finger expended in
the building of this shrine Of cooking.
On the top Of these cabinet kitchens Is
arranged that portion of the little stock of
china which is innocent of flaws, while on
the upper shelves of the Interior are the
less presentable utensils, the kettles and
pans, the oil stove and tho spree boxes. On
the lower shelves are the bread TINS, the
sugar boxes, the bag OF -four and other
stores The icebox Is outside theyvindow,
and the laundry behind tho ciosetdoor.
The housekeeper for each week Tuakesva
pilgrimage to Washington market. every
three or four days, and puts out che few
dollszs In her purse in the manner that
will stretch tho amount the most, the bal
of fare Including meat, fish, vegetables,
pancakes, etc, with an occasional fight
into the higher regions of cake and pastry.
Many of the students realize enough
money from the sale OF their designs for
wall papers, carpets, oiicloehs, silks, tiles
and prints of all kind, 10 pay q portion OF
their expenses. Some have paid all thsir
expenses by work done while at-scbool A
good design viii sell for twenty-five dol
lars. Sometimes as much as fifty or sew
enty-five dollars will be paid for an elab-
crate design.
Mrs. Cory's hobby is "practical' instruc-
ton. She will not allow her pupils TO
turn out work which is simply pretty. but
of no use to the manufactures because of
the limitation of machinery and the re-
Quirements,of business.
TRICKS OF THE BUSINESS.
There are lots of little tricks Of thetrsde
which must be known before one can do
work that can be used in the factories.
Thus, in the average loom for making
body Brussels carpet, only five colOrs can
be used. The average wall paper printing
machine can only handle eight colors at
one impression. The largest maohine will
take twelve. Additional colors require n
second printing, and this increases the
cost. Two wet colors must not be Land to
gether in printing. for they viii run. {"
etc.
Professional designers keep their knOwl-
edge to themselves. They Will teach no
body but their apprentices, and they Will
only take boys as apprentices. Mrs. Cory
work is 70 get "loEcIy woman within this
charmed trade circle.
The School Of Industrial art and Tech
nical Design for Women, as Mrs Cory's
institution is called, has about zoo pupils
on its books, many Of whom are taughs by
correspondence. One student is in-Japan,
and part of the work of pupifs and grad
yates is the making Of designs for real
japanese goods" manufactured in this
country. In speaking OF her sySteEn or In
straction yesterday while sitting in an
easy rocking chair snd keeping oneeye on
class Of young women struggling with
the mysteries OF perspective, Arz. CORY
said:
1.-THE first year is taagft geornetricafaF
ransement, Observation-Disclosures OF flowers,
the drawing Of fowcr5 from natare ard
adapting them 20 GSrzpbs deSiGns-<aAt Is,
prints, etc The tectznieaksses arr simple
a. concerns wzh psper, ehtnta, czsir0 or
anything that Is prEused- IN the second
year I teach the principles ard the tech
uicaifties Of machinery. md designing Of
all fabrics upon which the dssdUnts oro1ght
to the surface by the jacquard foorn tAli