The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-13
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work in the line of these panels increases
steadily.
There are great possibilities for won1-
en- in this tapestry said a teacher from
one of our industrial art schools in a
little talk some few days since. En-
tire walls are now being covered with
it in large houses. 1t is spread across
ceilings, in the spaces occurring be-
tween windows. beneath canopies. over
setttes-in fact, everywhere.
Now women have a distinct knack to-
ward this kind of thing. Some of the
most charming panels in the land are
the work of feminine fingers welding
the brush. and perhaps there is no bet
ter opening at present date for women
OF ability. A number of young women
have gone heartily into the work, and
are pushing vigorously forward-but
there is room for more. Many a woman
who is now wearing her life out at some
less lucrative form of art could earn
good money at this.
"A course of lessons is necessary for
the beginner. But when some pre-
liminary art training has been received
this second course will not prove long
nor expensive.
s
"Once tha the technicalities are mas
tered the young artist either engages
herself to work regularly for some firm
or she makes herself known by adver-
Using, and takes private and special or
ders.
I'm either case, the work is done in
ones studio, as a usual thing. The de-
signs are occasionally original. but
often painted from photographs. oil
paintings or other panels. Price one of
these panels in our ~shops-even a mod
crate sized affair-and you viii discover
that the work brings in much more
liberal wage than any one of half a
hundred other meters in the industrial
lines now followed by women"
..But isn't there a danger that the Xix
ing for this tapestry will pass away.
That it's use win prove to be a mere
fancy and that the sale will fall off"
was asked.
II think not. The liking for it seems
on the increase. 1t increases steadily
not historically, as a fad would. The
impetus toward artistic home decoration
demands more and more effects in this
line. One New York firm alone has
something like fifty artists engaged in it.
1T must be remembered that a change
has come over the work. A few years
ago painted American tapestry meant
something unsightly and inartistic-at
present it means something very differ
erent, indeed
Now is the time when the helpful shop
per causes over-taxed store people to
rise lip and call her blessed. Why?
Because she saves time, patience, tact,
everything that causes the wheels OF
busy lays like these to run smoothly and
without jars.
This ideal woman does not start away
from home before she knows exactly
what she wants. She sits at ease in her
rocker in her quiet sitting room and let's
her brain go on a shopping tour long
before her body starts on it's quest.
She knows what she wants to buy, for
she has been looking about her every
where, and is pretty well posted as to.
the inviting things that are on exhibi@
ton.
Carefully and concisely she prepares
her list, and maps out her route, and
when at length the last button is fast
ened upon her glove and she steps out
into the air there is a general effect of
helpfulness about her that makes her
very presence a tonic.
One preparation she has made that
none Of her sisters should overlook at
this season, and that is the writing of
her full name and address on a card
which she puts into her purse. Pick
pockets are looking for their harvest
now. of course, and against them we
must DO the best we may, but hundreds
Of purses are mislaid, are lost or dropped
that would go Immediately to the owner
if only they were marked
But as it is, all the stores have a lost
and found department to which groups OF
distressed people hurry every hour be-
cause they have carelessly laid their
purses down on a counter, a chair or q
table. Then label your purse, my good
lady. and SO keep you mind serene.
another thing this helpful shopper
does:-She takes with her a shopping
bag and carries in it all her small pur-
chases, for she has seen the significant
sign: please TAXI small packages with
YOU: and knows thai the most obliging
merchants in the world are sorely taxed
at Xmas time in trying not only to sell
their goods, but to deliver them unfair
nisned to their buyers.
Arrived at her destination his helpful
shopper is seen at her very best; in the
aisies of the crowded stores she persist
emily keeps to the right, goes steadily on
her way. docs not dream of talking to q
friend before she draws her aside from
the thoroughfare and finally reaches the
especial counter she wants without the
least discomfort.
Once there she quietly waits her turn,
asks for exactly what she wants, has her
money right at hand, does not forget to
give a pleasant look at the hurried girl
who waits on her; takes her change and
her parcel with a smile, "a THANH
you whenever there is the slightest oc-
casion for it, and goes on her way leav-
ing a track of general comfort and rest
that is an untold relief to those whom
she meets.
Mrs. g.. r. Rorer tells how to make can
dies at home for the holidays in the
Christmas Ladies' Home Journal. and
gives the following rules, which insure
the success of the work. Never stir the
sugar and water after the sugar has dis
solved. Wipe down constantly the gram
sules forming on the side of the saucepan.
Do not shake nor move the saucepan
while the syrup is boiling. As soon as the
sugar begins TO hoiI watch # carefully.