Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16


and handsome and rich, and don't call
herself a philanthropiat, but does the
work OF real one, then she is-What!
Yes, you have said it-a gift of God.
When the New York School Of Tech
nical Design was started by Mrs. Dun
lap Hopkins her friends laughed, and
thought it the fad of a pretty woman
tired OF society; but time proved that
il this was q fad, fads We're good things,
since 1T resulted in a school where, for
a comparatively small sum, a girl may
learn to do work with her pencil, or
her brush, or with clay. To do work
that VIII sell. Not such work as we,
too often, see, amateurish to the last
degree and sold by some kindly Wo-
man, who doesn't realize the harm she
is doing the real workers, but who, be-
cause somebody needs it, gets $25 for
q painted PLAGUE, that deserves to be
thrown in the fire.
WOMAN'S PRACTICAL HELP.
The philanthropy of Mrs. Hopkins
work consisted in making girls under
stand that their work was only worth
what it would fetch in the market, and
not the sum given by their friends, or
at church rafiles. Well, year after year
the school grew, until now it stands
monument to the wonderful brain and
loving heart of one woman.
1t is free Of debt From it has come
forth the brightest women architects
in this country. From it, every week,
are sold at the bes, prices they will
bring designs for carpet weaving, de-
sings for wall paper and designs for
book covers. The girl who draws car
pet designs has learned her work ar
tistically and practically; she knows
how the thread works through the loom
for a certain kind of carpet, and she
knows the co,ors and patterns that are
most salea6le, and upon which the
greatest profit will be made. So 1t is
through every department. Each girl
knows that her work will be judged
absolutely according to its merit; con-
seQuently, she works, not only to be
an artist. but to be a money maker.
The girl artist in the past has, l am
sorry TO say, too often been a money
beggar, inasmuch as she expected TO get
many times the value of her picture,
because she was a woman. l believe
IN every consideration being shown to
women by men, but when man S work
and q woman S work stand side by side,
let the buyer forget which was the
wOman's and which the mans and buy
that which is the best. But to return
to the school. There is also in this
building q lunch room where, for
small price. the worker can get what
the worker always needs, a hot meal
in the middle of the day.
Somebody asks: 'Wh2t GOes Mrs.
Dunlap Hopkins get ont Of all this?
Nothing. That is, nothing in the
worldly sense. Her time and her
money have been given and given gen
edously. and she is satisfied if her work
is q success. That it IS. it proves but
another tribute to ii is the fact that in
London they are getting up a school
juJ like it and Mrs. Hopkins is teach
ing
THE KINDLY PRINCESS CHRIS
TAN,
the most broad minded of the Queens
daughters. to model a school after this
one in New York.
But ROW the girls clamOr for more.
They say: you have given US a work
ing place, give us home. Take US out
of hall bedrooms let us realize that We
are human beings who know how to
live and enjoy as we'll as TO work; give
us home" And the answer to this is
that the New York Model Building
Company. which is incorporated and
consists of the :wO women architects,
Miss Cannon, Miss Hand. Mrs. Davis
and The New York School of Technical
Design, expect to have that home ready
in q year. 1t Will not be way up be-
yOnd Harlem. but it will be in the heart
of the city. and, thank heaven! it will
be SO built that sunshine can reach each
room and be lived in. For sunshine
makes healthy women. The prices
range in this way. For a bedroom, a
sitting room and a bath, the three
rooms to be occupied by one woman,
the charge VIII be s. a week. The bed
room is good sized one, is light, and
so is the parlOr. but they are not, Of
course, the largest rooms in the hotel.
For two connecting bedrooms, two par
lOrs and bath room, rooms that are 10
be occupied by two women. the price
will be SO apiece a week. For two bed
rooms that are much larger, two par
lors that are much larger and very
large bath room, suite which two
Will also occupy, there will be made the
charge of s. each per week. The res
taurant prices are to be reasonable. and
it is calculated that the entire cost Of
living viii be but a little more than
that paid for a hall bedroom, and need
only, if one so wishes. be as much.
saw the design, and I know about this.
There is the money ready to do it.
GENEROSITY AMONG THE RICH.
But still there is another story. and
that is the one that appeals to me.
am not a believer in women's clubs. but
I am a believer in women helping one
another. So The busy architects have
drawn design for a club house where
there viii be a library, a reading room.
a gymnasium. several reception rooms.
and one large room given over to the
times when there are special meetings.
or special Entertainments. Many Of
New York's richest women have given.
not only their approval, but their money
to this scheme, and are gladly acting on
the various committees. A generous
giver concealing his or her name has
presented to the club a farm called
Twilight Park" ND in the nearby
country where the girls can go for their
vacations. when the so-called Cabin"
is built. But TO return to the club. It
is meant TO be for those girl-women
who are artists. writer's or musicians.
or who are studying any kind of work
and are alone. Il is meant to work
somewhat in this way; there will be a
committee on hOcDitqlitv and Soma