New-York tribune., 1900-02-11
MANY INDUSTRIES.
SAMPLES OF WORK DONE BY PUPILS
IN MISSIONARY SCHOOL
CHINESE NEEDLEwoRK AFRICAN wEAv-
INGs INDIAN LACE. RUGS, BLANKETS
AND BEADWORK.

At the missionary exhibit recently held in the
Church of the Heavenly Rest in connection with
the services of missionary week, there were ex-
hibits from mission stations in Japan, China,
Africa Assyria, Brazil, Mexico and the United
States They represented the industries, utensils
and apparel of the lands from which they came,
we'll the occupations taught by the mission
schools in the different countries
In the African exhibit little piece OF patch
work framed between glass, which was made In
1Si5 by little African girls in the mission school at
Cape Palmas. Prominent in this collection were
a chiefs drum and kings seat and cap. There
also some quaint water color sketches or the
mission in its early days
An idol, dug from the foundation of one of the
mission schools. OF the curiosities.
Mrs William J. Boone widow of Bishop
Boone of China, in charge of the Chinese ex-
hibit. Bishop Boone's father was the first Episco-
pal Bishop of China and one of the first Christian
missionaries to that country. When he first went
there the ports of China not open to Euro
peans Mrs Boone lived for sixteen years In
Shanghai. The field occupied by Episcopal mis-
sions in China includes Shanghai, and extends nine
hundred miles up the Yangtse River to lchang
Schools are scattered throughout the district and
girls taught occupations suitable to the coun-
try-cooklng weaving and spinning.
THE girls of the country are married at elgh-
teen" says Mrs. Boone, land there is a marked
difference between the housekeeping of girls trained
in our schools and of the native women who are
uneducated. The homes of the former clean
and homelike The custom of binding the feet sun
prevails among the rich but 1t is not, or course
allowed in our schools"
Mrs Boone has a woman's shoe that came from
Annoy. 1t Is not than three inches long, ana
the heel is two inches high. The toe is not IN
tended to touch the ground. The tiny shoe Is
daintily embroidered. as is all the wearing ap-
parel of rich Chinese women, needlework being
the only means of occupying their time.
Among the exhibits were native costumes, cur
rency Chinese books and carvings iE wood. ivory
and bronze. A series of small wood carvings rep
resented familiar of China. Among them
water buffalo drawing plough, and a ma
tive one-wheel wIleelbarrow containing two women
with bundles and boxes. In the latter all were so
deftly balanced that it clear the skill re-
quired by the at the handles, as we'll as OF
the riders in the barrow. surpassed anything ever
required by the modern bicycle
The exhibits from Africa from the mission
stations of Liberia. There musical instruments,
wooden chairs made without nails African coun-
try weavings war cap of braided rice straw
stained black ornaments, implements of warfare
and a New Testament in the language of the
country.
Sibyl Carters lace industry attracts great deal
of attention, and much surprise is expressed that
the Indian women can be taught in so short time
to do such exquisite work and to keep 1t so clean.
Among the Iaces a pillow lace. which is copied
from old Venetian; Reticella revival of old Greek
cut work; English needle point and Renaissance.
There are schools where lace work is taught
among the Ojibways at White Earth, Red Lake and
Leech Lake. Mimi; among the Sioux at Morton.
Mimi, and among the Kiowas at Anadarko. Okla.
schools, in addition to these, have been started
recently at Oneida, Wis; Greenwood, s. D., and
Onondaga, n. Y.
This work is not" says Miss Carter intended
TO help the children. but it is for the uplifting OF
Indian women-earnest, long enduring mothers, and
often grandmothers who have all their lives
dured cold and every hardship of a hard climate
with lack of food and often serious lack of warm
clothing
all either superintend Sunday school or help in
one, and all watch over the sick and for them
Among the other Indian exhibits are those from
the Shoshones, Apaches, South Dakotas, Navajos
Of the Hamilton Institute. Besides the rugs
blankets and bead work representing the native in
dustries of the tribes, there various articles
done by the girls IN the various mission schools
In the exhibit from the Indians in Stka and Point
Hope, Alaska, there are baskets and bead work,
a walrus boat and a canoe covered with fshskin
implements made OF bones, a quart ladle made
from the horn of q mountain goat and a patch
work quilt made OF pieces of fur.
There are beautiful examples of Brazilian lace
and embroideries and laces made by Brazilian
solving wife of Bishop Kinsoving, of Rio Grande,
Brazil. Miss Dolores France and Miss Ella Arce
Orphanage, in the City of Mexico They have come
North to attend the Episcopalian Deaconesses'
selves for work In Spanish speaking countries. The
curious piece of work from Mexico is little
the size of hickory nut. It is witch doll and
obtained after three days hard work, with the aid
The witches use these dolls. which they stick full
OF pins and thorns Of the maguey plant, to frighten
the people.
Among the dolls at the exhibit was a large pap
poose from the Shoshone Agency, Sioux chief, a
Mormon bride and groom Syrian bride. trained
nurse from st. Agnes's Hospital. cotton picker,