Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-10


Special Ca--sspoR1sn-eo t Gas.t'e and journal
NEW YORK, May 4-Whca she said
ait, shrugged my shoulders an lis.
tened wt:A the air Of one being bore,
had suffered aE0uies # heart and Train
from badly painted pictures, from over
oTnamcHteQ ornaments, from banged
cut brass, from queer things done With
p0kers aud glcefer ones done wit. pen.
ellis, all bs0agh: 10 me under the name
of art, and because | was g woman, and
because the creators Of these awful
things were also womeS was expected
to approve Of them. | was asked to
buya bad picture because 1t was paiatri
by woman who was poor That i
usually the argument Vow, if a woman
is poor, aud asks for money, it is charity
10 give it 10 her; but il She makes an
effort 10 sell YOU something in the Tay
OF picture, and claims 10 be giving YOU
value received, and tEat picture is poor,
the whole affair is q cheat
Consequently when art and women
have been mentioned 10 me there has
always arisen a procession Of cups and
saucers, OF painted ribbons, and general
izing # poor work. So you can't blame
me, IT, when she said art, looked bored
and felt SO. But minute after, heard
the word practical, and then | grew
interested. She said, "Will you rlE"
And | said "Ges, for few minutes. =
And | stayed two hours and half
woMAS's INTEREST IN ART WORK.
Aud now for my story. There is q
gentlewoman here who has done, ia a
quiet way, a something that means
much 10 women who wish TO earn their
own livings honestly and honurlJly
land by honUrably | mean giving value
Tor value receiyedl. She came here.
like 50 many good things, from gu; Of
the West She is more than good t.
look at, for she is extremely pretty, and
has great dark eyes ii which one may
discover that quiet determination that
belongs by right to all women VINO
mean to succeed. She had seen how
much Of woman's work in the art
world had been poor. She recognized
that this was because they were not
properly taught in the beginning, and
because their work instead OF being put
in the market and getting its real worth.
had been uvct.valued by kind friends,
who, when they grew weary Of opening
their purses left the unfortunate worker
10 believe either that the work yves not
properly appreciated, or to realize,
which, alas they seldom did, thut the
work had no worth.
Now this genilewoman saw that there
were women born with genius for
form and not for color; that there were
others who could combine color and
form, and that there were still others
who could unite Imagination with the
form and the color. So she set TO work
to found a school that should be self.
supporting, and in (which women who
needed to earn their bread and butter
should be taught how to do work that
would bear the hall mark OF success in
the business wurld-it would sell. Not
to the sympathetic friend, not to the
charitable millionaire, but to the dealer
who simply demanded that the work
should be good, and wasn't interested
in knowing whether it was done by a
woman or a man, Do you know what
this work meantg II meant on the part
of the gently bred woman who did it,
the giving something more than her
money, although she was generous
with that; 1t meant the giving of her
| time; not just an hour or two day, but
the hours of the day from 10 in the
morning until in the afternoon. But
she did it, and now she has made a
success of her work, such success that
women like the Princess of Wales and
| Princess Christian have said to her,
when they met her socially, "Come to
US and teach us how to start school
| like this where women can be taught to
earn money in way that is purely
womanly, and yet do work that has no
sex because it is good"
TWILL TELL YOU WHAT SAW.
/ saw girls working on designs for
wall paper. There was the sample for
the ceiling, for the walls and the friezc,
while on each side of the paper was
shown the colors employed, giving the ex-
act limit allowed by the manufacturer,
Many Of these girls were 50 expert in
their work, SO correct, and withal so
artistic, that the best decorator in Now
York is given first choice Of the de-
signs, because he has found SO many OF
them desirable, and, here comes the
practical side, because he pays good
prices. / saw girls and women who
having grasped the technique of their
work, revelled in color and were making
designs in which the shades OF the Orient
We're most conspicuous, that were 10 be
developed in rugs, in draperies, and, in
some instances, IN tiles. Not one oil
these women put in color, or arranged
line that the manufacturer would find
impossible. They knew what the ma.
chimes govern, and nothing was on the
paper that wasn't possible in warp and
wool. saw dainty book covers, ones
that had been sold, and which had
evoked my admiration as | read the
pages between the bindings, although
never dreamed that the dainty scheme
of coloring and the clever artistic touch
as it bore its relation to the story, had
been done by women.
MOST MARVELLOUS OF ALL
that afternoon, | saw the work OF
woman to whom color was as nothing
but to whom straight lines, and the aftel
development meant much.-I mean the
work of the architect. And, as looked
at it, thought, "Why shouldn't women
make good archi,ectsg They live much
more than men do in houses. They
know when q staircase is badly placed
when room might have had another
window in it, when the nursery should
have been placed in the sunshine, and
all the Kitchen arrangements made mos
convenient. They know what the bad
disposition of pipes means, and why
shouldn't they learn to draw the design!
that will eventually be the bud of tina
most beautiful flower-the homer
By-the-by, from ont of the West la!
come the orderto this school for great
hospital-and the best scholars in The
class Of architecture are competing fol
this.
Said l, as looked at the class who
were working at Garnet psigninrr t,IVbr