The record-union., 1899-04-24
THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS EXHIBI-
TION.

most important work, a work that we
shall not be surprised to see outgrow by
far the present contemplation of the
members of the club Recognizing the
wide scope, the humanizing helpful and
developing character of the proposed in
dustrial arts exhibition to be held by
the club, the California Press Associa-
t1on has given it hearty endorsement
and called upon its membership to rem
der all possible aid to the worthy un-
dertaking, because the Press Associa-
tion, ever alert to promote anything
looking to California betterment and
development, perceives in this proposed
exhibition means to probable wonder
full possibilities.
In these columns on Saturday the
aims and purposes of the club were
very lucidly and interestingly set forth
by Record Union" correspondent.
The club is composed of some 500 public
spirited women of San Francisco, who
perceive many directions into which
they can extend their united energies
Tor the special betterment of the condi-
ton Of their sex, and generally of the
entire State community. Originally
looking about for avenues in which the
worthy women who must labor for their
livelihood may do so without engaging
IN the vocations and business in which
they most come into competition with
which women when employed even un-
DER the best of conditions, must lose
something of the feminine quality. and
De more or less drawn from domestic
tastes and capacities, the California
C1uo finds that there are many useful
arts Of handicraft to which women can
be introduced, who must make their
hvlng by labor, without leaving the
Womaally atmosphere or entering Who'll
~ INTO that of commerce, trade and
the trough and tumble of the shop and
the market place.
But these vocations are so akin in
part to useful handicraft arts pursued
by man that it has been resolved upon
by these public spirited women to hold
an exhibition in San Francisco in the
month of May, in which there will he
classified exhibits of the best work of
the craftswoman and the craftsman
side by side. But Of course as +bA
original intention is kept in view it is
expected that the handiwork of women
VIII dominate in number of exhibits.
by this exhibition it is hoped to show
the working women Of California that
there are avenues of industry into
which they may successfully enter. to
which the objection will not be omen
that this paper has so frequently raised
IN opposition to the entry of woman into
business.
Ihe California Club therefore, calls
upon women and men all over the State
10 expose at the exhibition extending
from the 10th to the 9th of Nav in
elusive. examples of all manner of hand
1work involving creative faculties.
skilled handicraft, and artistic and clean
tastes, especially objects in which art
and utility unite. The club wisely
sets up no standard of art or eonstruc-
tion OF design and origination. All it
insists upon is that there shall be some
percepuble degree Of merit in whatever
is shown 1t cares nothing for the
merely fanciful. certainly will reject the
trivial. we take it.
IT is clearly set forth in the pros
pectus that originality in design is es-
,pecially solicited. Nor need the work
be great, nor notably beautiful
simple design for a dinner card, book
cover, a commercial label a trade mark
or insignia for regalia, may prove of
higher value in indicating industrial
possibilities combined with artistic taste
and originality, than works of intricate
construction and exceeding elaboration.
Thus from repousee in brass, silver.
leather and paper to architectural orig
ialation; from the water color to ceram-
les; from print designs to needle work
of all classes; from decorative effects
to all manner of ornamentation; from
designs fer landscape gardening to
weaving, lace making, delicate joinery,
plant preservation, basket weaving, net
work, etching, painting. enameling. and
so on, will be welcomed.
Indeed in the inventive line we as
sumo it is hoped that women will show
what they have done and can do, and
hence we may expect to see in the ex-
position many curious and worthy ex-
amples of invention, especially in lines
related to art and refining work gener-
ally, though assuredly the invitation ex-
tends to all matters and things in this
line of domestic character So we
may anticipate exhibition of designs
and works calculated to promote labor
saving schemes in the home, to
make house surroundings more pleas
ant, and generally to conserve the high
er home life. In the skilled arts we
shall expect to see what woman has
done, can do and may suggest, in en-
craving, book plate designing, in pho
Biography, in modelling, sculpture and
but then, the suggestions in these di-
rections outrun the limits we allot for
this consideration
Let the California Club have hearty,
soulful and unselfish aid of all people
in this admirable undertaking, upon
which it has entered. 1t has prepared
q prospectus and a set of rules to gov