The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-29

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bards exposition of the
beautiful work he Is accomplishing in
the dcvelnpmont of artistic handiCraft
at East Aurora. New York. That it
was begun as the mal,inG Of beautiful
books every ON" knew. How it Was
developing along other lines recalling
those which made the nam" of William
Morris. poet and art ARTISAN. famous,
was first unfOldod tn the fascinated
hearers of the recent lecture on Roy
croft Ideals At tha; time.
From time To time interest has de-
society over the successful efforts in
teaching Indian women in the west to
make beautiful lace and in some Eng
lish society circles over the revival of
Irish cottage industries III linen
weaving and hand made laccs.
Mrs. John X. Ottley gives an inter-
cSting account to the Record Herald Of
Chicago of the efforts of southern
Womcns clubs to encourage tho handi-
crafts of the mountain women, the
poor whites" and to open markets for
the sale of their products. The Gcncr-
AT Federation of Womon's Clubs of the
United States has a central committee
the purpose of which is to stimulate
interest in and demand for hand work.
Mrs. OttlcN prcfaccS her relation of
this Southern cndcavor by nnrratng
that the chairman of this committee
with an able corps of assistants, ar
ranged at the last biennial convention
of womcu'S clubs in Milwaukee an cI-
hihit of arts and crafts which was of
uncXcellcd value and Significance of
interest. Tho hand work of all ma
tions appeared in wonderful and dazzl-
ing arAiy, metal, jewels wood. lace.
leather and all the wonderful Wcavcs
Of the Orient tcStifying to the art of
the old world craftsman. l'cw and
pale in comparison seemed the rugs
and pots, the draperics and carvings
which stood for home products, but
of uuSpcakabl" interest to the loyal
American. who SAW in them the prom
isc of unfolding beauty and Develop
ment both of the art and the artist"
OF the inception of this particular
effort to help the poorest Southern
white class Mrs. Ottlcy says: THE
genuine highlands are remote from
civilization. but there are boundary
districts in which the "mountain
white" in his untcrriicd illitcracy and
shiftlcssness. lies geographically near
In AZ nT "a
so little. Such is the case near Rome
Ga, and thilhcr in excursions from
her ncighboring plantations went Mrs.
Lindsay Johnson, president of the
Georgia Federation of Women Clubs.
She found the greatest dcstitulion
and need of some sort of profitable
employment for the women, whose lives
are droary beyond description. In
most OF the homes were found the
old-fashioncd hand loom. and in many
the spinning wheel was still in use. The
weaving was, however, done only in
of each family
How under great difficulties. and
after refusals from many, one woman
Was induced To come To the Atlanta
Exposition of 1895 with her handloom
and her work, and the many orders for
such work that she took home for
herself and her neighbors to ill during
the next year and of how this has
grown to larger aud ever larger sue
cess from that time ON is told by Mrs.
Ottley.
The movement has not ended with
made furniture making among the
men, the humber craftsmen" setting
designs of artistic work before Them
In this the negro as well as the white
worker is, in some sections, aided and
encouraged
The demands for hand work. both
solid and distinctly ornamental, is
growing in the United States and is "A
good sign and omen for art and for
sincerity alike,
The Tribune, of Chicago. says the
building of tlats-apartment houses
has been greatly overdoue in the big
city on Lake Michigan, and tells New
YORK 1t VIII presently lind itself in
the same predicament. With the extern
SION OF trolley roads, and the conse-
quent lowered fares also ON steam rail-
roads for short distances from any
city, people who used 10 he glad to
avail themselves of flats are seeking
rural and suburban homes, in greater
numbers every year
,
The new comet, the twentieth CEN
fury comet" is reported 10 be travel
ing rapidly away from the field of
telescope vision, "and will probably
never reappoar, as its orbit Is appar-