The morning call., 1895-01-20
and money prizes to be competed for in

and money prizes to be competed for in
every department.
The school has had an unprecedented
success from the first. Of the 200 designs,
including all departments, sent to the
Worlds Fair, there were three gold medals
and four diplomas awarded, While the ex-
hibition sent to the Midwinter Fair in
charge of Mrs. Ellen ]. Pond, the secretary
was awarded one silver and three gold
medals.
In April, 1898, the Art Amateur offered
prize of 500 for the best set of designs
for silk, wallpaper and book-covers made
from Indian corn, which was won by stu
Not only is the school well known
throughout this county, but in August Mrs
Dunlap-Hopkins was invited by the
Princess Christian to "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 in
trinsically good Mrs. Hopkins complied
with the request, and was not only lion
lied socially, but was the means of the
English Government erecting building
suitable for the purpose at South kensing-
ton, which will open under the auspices
of Queen Victoria and be governed by the
Princess Christian as its president. Mrs.
Hopkins is now en- route to England to
school. The services of such artists as
William Morris, Walter Crane and Lewis
f. Day have been secured as teachers.
Under such circumstances the success OF
the effort is already assured.
1t was my good fortune to visit and in
spect the New York school recently. Like
our own Woman's Exchange the school
opened in one room with only three pupils,
but it now occupies building of five floors
and is so crowded that much OF its casts,
models, bits OF armor, rich fabrics and GU
rious art treasures are packed away. The
library is already pretentious and is almost
daily In receipt of valuable textbooks from
all over the world. Every available wall
space is utilized and there are some mar
velously pretty ideas carried out in some of
the various designs. The plans for new
building are already adopted, and before
| long a new modern brick and stone struc-
ture will take the place of the one now
| overcrowded. Just where it will be erected
no one at present knows, but every one
smiles and says, "Leaye that to Mrs Dun
lad-Hopkins. She will find place and the
money, too"
! 1t is pretty work that of drawing and
coloring your own conceptions of wall
paper, carpet or silken draperies, and many
an idle dabbler in paints, who sits before
| her easel wishing she knew what to do
with the material on it, would be better
morally and physically to be enrolled
/ among these busy young designers.
Sitting before high desk, with an elab-
crate Persian design for prize under her
! brush, was a deaf mute. Her work, car
pet designing, the most delicate and exact
! ing, because of the fine canvas-like lines
that crossbar the paper, was executed with
| the utmost taste and precision. BY this
means she was enabled to support herself
/ comfortably. What boon to one so
| afflicted otherwise, and what encourage
ment there is for the girls who take a
course in our new polytechnic schools. By
finishing out the same lines in the School
of Design in New York they may hope to
become practical breadwinners from an
artistic standpoint. Those free scholar
ships are open to any clever. ambitious
i graduate from polytechnical school in
! the country. FRoNA EUNIcE WAITE.