The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-19
CHANGES FOR
Hl|NIH'S lRl
Commercial Branches Open
ing to Them Daily.
IN PREFERENCE TO MEN
Many Manufacturers Making
Success a Matter of Work.

ing applied for by women had little or
no relation TO the practical uses OF art,
SAYS the New York Post. Women as
pired to paint steel easel pictures, Of il
their abilities were not great enough for
that they decorated china and bric-a-
brac. This in spite of the fact that a
number Of American industries were in
constant need Of designers having mt
only a sense Of the beautiful, but tech
nicaI training in the production of designs
adapted to manufacturing purposes
The extensive field which lies open IN
what is termed commercial art, formerly
all but monopolized by men, is now at
tracing many hundreds of women yearly.
incidentally the community is benefited by
being relieved of much of the burden or
bad taste in household decoration under
which it groaned of old. Making designs
for wall paper carpets, oilcloths, chint-
yes dress cottons, and silks is more salts
fying to the artistic soul than painting
chocolate sets, and also more profitable
Outside of these there are dozens OF
branches of manufacture involving the
use of ornamental designs. Manufacturers
who formerly obtained most of their de-
signs from Europe are only too eager to
obtain them at home, for the reason that
their expenses are lessened and they are
able to produce original instead of bor-
rowed patterns.
The work is more permanent in its char
acter than more exalted branches of art
Trade demands a constant succession or
novelties; originality and novel effects are
sought in commercial art perhaps more
than elsewhere.
AS an indication of the range which de-
signing offers, these items are taken from
the reports of students progress read at
a regular monthly advisory board meeting
of the New York School of Applied De-
signs for Women
Miss V. has sold several lace designs.
Miss NJ has sold a silk design for SIS: also
a coat-of-arms for S. Miss d. has SOLD
four rug designs. Miss S. has been sent
to complete the painting of the YerkeS
collection of rugs, which three other stu
dents are also engaged upon" Several
students are named as having sold maya
zine and book covers, embroidery designs,
portiere designs, architectural details, ad-
vertisement drawings, posters, and so on.
During the past year this one school
secured positions for sixty-three of its
graduates and the pupils received between
So, 600 and $4,000 for work done by them.
Some of the graduates at the beginning
of their professional careers earned sala-
ries as high as $3.50 year. They were,
of course women of original genius and
unusual talent
There is a constant demand upon this
rt,-ot Ore- for 4
vertisement designers and clever designers
of fashion plates. The call for tutors IN
art and trade schools is steady.
Women have not appeared in numbers
in the profession of architecture, but they
are finding profitable employment in ar
chitects' Offices as draughtsmen and de-
signers OF special parts of buildings, IN
teriors. etc. Interior decorators and fur
nishers find trained women designers If
valuable. Women have the home-making
instinct which most men lack and are
therefore able to make rooms lvable as
well as beautiful and luxurious.
Some years ago Sir John Millais stag
gered the art world by selling his picture
"Soap Bubbles" to a well-known soap
manufacturer who reproduced it in colors
over the world Up TO that time/although
plenty of artists had made advertisements
they had done it strictly under cover aud
such work was alluded to as pot boilers
unworthy Of acknowledgement A change
of sentiment has come with new and ad-
vanced methods of black and white re-
production Artists of reproduction draw
advertisements and are very well paid for
them be it said. A woman whose pictures
of child life and character bring high
prices from magazine and book publishers
does not disdain the advertising sheets Of
the very magazines in which her iliustIa
tions appear, and illustrations and advez
tisements are equally wei executed.
A young woman is at the head of The
art department OF a large picking and
preserving establishment. She devises the
pictures and announcement placards sent
out by the firm and also devises the ad-
vertisement pictures that appear in the
magazines. Another establishment en-
p.oys a woman to ornament the labels on
their Jars and bottles. 4 good proportion
OF the clever cards shown in street -a's
and other public places. Illustrating the
virtues of soaps baking powders, con
deuse0 soups. etc, are made by won n.
Most If them are made in advertising
agencies Ii one or another Of the 'arye
cities. nearly all of which employ woinen
designers.
Few photographic establishments are
willing to take girl apprentices. but many
Of them are glad TO get young women who
have learned the trace outside Tho7e
who are able to design as Wen as htho-
graph are doubly usefuI
\ few women lithograhpers are employ
ed in scientific institutes, colleges, muse
ums and botanical gardens to draw OF
stone the structural forms CT plants AID
erowths that are used TO Illustrate re-
search work. They are employed n a
similar capacity b. publishers Of text
books
Women have been conspicuousiy sue
cessful as designers Of book covers SO
rood are many u these that II So ms n
pity that the artists names should not Re
signed 70 them Feh IS f. ma CONE
By and by that '-Cever designed BY Miss
blank" VIII be psiutei on inside iesvcs
of novels.
At least ore woman has made fame To-
herself as = designer % artistic 5ewelry.
and enc. IN England. has made fortune
With her ane wrought iron work. At tn
last Architectural Les sue exhibition were
some beautiful sun dials. door knocke-s.
and fousJsias designed ~ womer, sag
costing another br-nch % commercial ert
in which they are lnssy % shine
To become q desiEne- requires nrs; -
al artistic temperament AMI Al irsiiHeS
FOR the beautiful. Technique car b 49,
qugrea but taste Is insora- Given thssa
these requisites. course % study eontfa