St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-11
The Character of the Work
Turned Out by the st.
Paul Schools
To Form Part Of the Compel
tive Exhibit ct the
Worlds Fair.
Di5cussingthe ACCESSIBILITY Of
Selling the Ancient Mar
ket House.
The Differing Rostrum Talk
of Lieut.. Peary and Miss
Peck.

Inc CNlllDli Ol lilt NOlh VI biG puOAiO
school drawing classes for the Column
bian exhibition, at Room No. II of the
high school building yesterday, was
very credltable. As this display is
taken from the work of the scholars the
past year ana not specially prepared for
the fair, it may be called more than
creditable. There are about forty sheets
prepared for the fair. These are single
sheets of cardboard. on which the fin
ished studies are pasted, TO be framed
and entered ut the educational exhibit.
These pictures are all original work
that Is, each one is made by the pupils
themselves from casts or models, from
fruit or flowers, and are not copies of
some one else'S pictures. The course of
drawing in the schools is only two years,
or four terms of five months each. The
pupils are taught from the foundation
to do good work, first at drawing from
perspective, when the pupil draws from
models that represent the simplest
forms of outline, then these forms are
combined into groups; from these to
flowers and from these again are
worked conyentiOnaliZed designs in
which the flowers are developed into
designs that may be used in many sorts
OF mechanical work such as wood carv-
ing, fancy iron work or wall paper de-
signs, in facI it would be hard to men-
ton any work of this kind into when
this first terms work does not enter.
The second term introduces modelling in
white and black. CrayOn Is used III
this term, and the first terms work is
advanced one step. On the third sin
gle color is introduced and the pupil
hnufnc RI luaptn "a Nr1 Inc nf pnlnFg This
is sepia work and differs from the sec
ond mainly in the knowledge of the
value CT cOlOrs. The fourth term
all cOlorS are introduced, aud the
pupils paint in water cOlors from
flowers or vegetables or any still life
models that they may choose. Each one
is encouraged 70 paint what he sees, and
so his individual observation and ability
are cultivated. The studies are pasted
on sheets of card board and those
displayed are divided into two classes.
The first class are sixteen in Eumber,
which occupied the front wall of the
Room No. II, and which were arranged
to illustrate the work of the four terms
successfully are To be placed in a re
YOlving case in the state building in the
educational exhibit. The second group
is TO be framed and hung on the walls
Vi TIC SldlC otC AlOuib7
ed in the same way as the first group.
There were nineteen sheets in this group
and we're: No. l, study of chrYsanthe-
NUNS, in pale yellow. The uncertain
flowers in this were very life-like. No.
= showed an antique silver basket filled
with some very eatable candy; beside
the basket lay the paper box from which
it had Just been poured as natural as
life; another on this sheet was study
of naStentiOns, very good indeed. No.
8, a study of lemons, an odd vase and
some boxes OF matches and shaving
set. No. 4, peck measure, Just sucn
one as our farmer friends use to meas
ure Just such red streak apples as
those with which ii was flied. On this
sheet also a collection of Lottles labeled
ponds Extract were natural enough
to cure all the ills that flesh is
heir to, as the model from which
they were painted promises 10 do on the
same dainty study of milk-Weed pod
lust bursting, and allowing the fluffy
seed with their fairy wings TO escape on
the autumn air; No. ), another study of
bottles and a basket of fruit, just such
a basket as all Indian woman would
offer you flled with wild red raspber-
ries in the woods further north in the
summer; No. 6, designs in black and
white; Nos. and s, designs in sepia;
No. 9, a design for magazine cover in
pen and ink. that showed artistic merit
of unusual order, as did other work in
the same medium by the same hand;
No. 10, designs in sepia; No. IL, de-
sign for stained glass, that was very
good; No. Il, a pen-and-ink study
by the pupil who made the mag
azine cover; No. Is, vase of wild
flowers, grapes, an. old fashioned
candlestick with lighted candle, sum-
mer squash; No. II, a head; No. 10, jug,
squash, celery and egg plant,very good;
No. Ii, another little brown jug, all
electric light globe, a study of daffOdils,
and two lovely purple-tOp turnIps; No.
II, a still life study; No. Is. design for
wall paper and tiles; No. 10, two little
red shoes, coffee mill, and an old
fashioned white and yellow bowl heaped
with the fragrant brown berries; No.
20, original design of a round frame in
wood carving, a study OF vegetables.
The school is hanpered somewhat by
a lack OF flowers and fruits for models
a. this time of the year, but the display
of work should convince even the most
skeptieal of its value in education.