The age-herald., 1902-03-28
w and SOCIETY
MISS SPRINGER TO
 VISIT THE SOUTH.


 A recent movement inaugurated in Chi- cago and which promises to extend far south is the opening of a workshop by the Industrial Art League of Chicago.
 The clubs, churches, clergymen, edu- cators and philanthropists of that city are supporting the movement The particular object toward which the league is now directing it's efforts Is the establishment of a guild workshop in which the prac- tical aims of the organization may be car ried out.
 As with a majority of the more progress sive movements of the day this plan of the league has received hearty co-opera- ton from several prominent women, among whom is Miss Margaret Springer of Chicago.
 Miss Springer is coming south for the purpose of establishing a work center in this section. She will address the forth coming meeting of the Florida Chautau- qua at DuFuniak Springs.
 brief outline of the plans as given in one of the Chicago papers is as fol- lows:
 "It Is the intention to build and equip the workshop at the earliest possible mo- ment, as the work to be accomplished Is of such a nature that it can begin at once In connection with and as an auxil- 1 iary to the work of the Jewish Training School. This school which Is at the cor ner of Twelfth Place and Jefferson street, in the heart of the Chicago Ghet- fo ls o pop-aacfa riap school which has been so efficient and fortunate in It's work and in the results 1t has secured with the material at hand that 1t is con- sidered probable that more than one pur- pose would be accomplished by the loca- tion of the guild shop upon its premises and under It's supervision. Many of the boys coming to this school were found to be so poor that they were forced to leave the institution after snort period, in order to go to work. In order to keep these boys, Mir. Bamberger hit upon the scheme of establishing a small workshop in which marketable wares could be made. and in which the boys could earn after school hours the money needed to keep them in school. The boys took up the work with enthusiasm, became self-sup- porting, and continued in school without charity, and at the same time laid the | foundation for learning a useful craft.
 'The proposed workshop will be organ ized on the guild principle and will offer an opportunity for the most talented boys of the school to become craftsmen. Be- yond this there will be only nominal con nection with the school. Probably the first work undertaken in such a shop would be the manufacture of furniture and general cabinet work. For the higher grades of cabinet work requiring artistic | designs and tast eful execution, there Is a steady and growing demand. The main purpose of the entire industrial art move ment Is to awaken both producer and consumer to the reality of aesthetic val ues This must necessarily begin with the craftsman, and that the consumer IS quick to follow Is shown by the gratify- ing results already accomplished by the Rookwood Longwood and Laporte shops
 'In order to arouse interest in the movement in the South the league vii send Miss Springer to the coming meet ing of the Florida Chautauqua at De Funiak Springs, Fla, where she will try to establish a working center for the South. Miss Springer has recently given a great impetus to the work of the league by giving block of land upon which if is hoped the main workshop of the Chi cago guild may be established"