The record-union., 1897-05-15
FOR A VERY WORTHY CAUSE.
Katie KlatSch Benefit for the School Of
Design.
A Novel Entertainment to be Given
at the Art Gallery Next
Tuesday.

ASSOcldtIOl, AUXILIARY 10 the Ca11Ofnla
Museum Association, has managed to
maintain from two to five and some
times greater number of free scholar
ships in the School of Design at the Art
Gallery. In this work the association
has been greatly assisted by the indie
pendent action of the Saturday Club
and the Kingsley Art Club.
OF late, however, it has been with
more difficulty that the ladies have
maintained any scholarships at all. They
are not at all disheartened however,
realizing that all tides ebb and flow
They are such devoted friends of the
art institution, which is quasi, if not
wholly a public institution, that they
have resolved to call upon the public for
aid, the first time they have made an
independent appeal in three years, by
the way. They realize that the Art
School is of high Importance to Sacra-
mento, that there are many worthy
young people endowed by nature with
taste and capacity for designing who
cannot take the lesson courses unaided,
and that designing is so far a part of
all true education, that he or she is not
properly QUILTED for any vocation who
has not some knowledge of it.
They wish to fill three free scholar
ships therefore for 1878 and to do so
have gotten up what promises to be a
charming entertainment certainly a
novel one. 1t will give the people value
received, and thus the honors will be
easy between people and the associa-
ton. The entertainment is to be known
as Katie Klatsch." 1t will be held
Tuesday Afternoon and evening next, and
for the occasion Mrs. Margaret E.
Croker has generously given the ladies
the use of the whole of her spacious
mansion at the corner of Third and o
streets The admission has been placed
very low-25 cents-in the hope that the
attendance will be very large and thus
make the affair a social as we'll as a
financial success. tits to be informal
and by no means a dress affair. There
will be a pleasing programme of music,
vocal and instrumental, readings and
recitatiOns, exhibition of Colonial relics
and they have gathered a large num-
Der, and some of the quainteSt imagin-
ab1e-and refreshments will be served
and a variety of entertaining features
introduced that need not now be sched-
uled. At the night entertainment there
will be dancing as an additional feature.
Cars will run frequently day and night
to the doors of the mansion and those
who attend the theaters that evening
will find Katie latsch in full blast, and
a delightful supplement to the evening
after the theaters are closed. 1t is a
worthy movement and deserves support.
The public should by attendance recog-
nize the untiring work of these devoted
women, without whose aid the School Of
Design would long ago have been COM
PEELED TO close its doors.
The wonder is that when a years
scholarship is sold for so low sum as
$50 that people who are we'll able, rich
lodges and societies in number, do not
seek out deserving poor youth with
tastes for designing and send them to
the Art Gallery to be taught. When 1T
is recalled that no matter what the life'S
work of a man or woman is to be, me-
chanics, business. teaching the profess
sions, trades, etc, knowledge of the third
form of expression better equips them,
the high value of a course at the School
| of Design will be realized.
There are now something like twenty
applications by those who cannot pay
tuition in addition to maintaining them>
selves, that are deserving of free
| scholarships and whose work would re-
/ fleet credit and honor upon the donors.
| 1t is to be said Of the Ladies' Museum
Association that in nine years time it
| has purchased something like forty free
| scholarships and in but two instances
of all these has the selected pupil been
found untitled for the study. In those
cases they were promptly supplanted by
! others who proved to be naturally en-
dowed, and who did honor to the schol-
arship.
| Tickets for the Kaffe- Klatsch are for
sale at Hevener & Mier's, J street, at w
| p. Fuller & Co.'S, Second street, and at
the Art Students League, 525 ] street
The Summer Girl buys her hat of