The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

bers of them became students of in
dustrial art several years ago and the
result is already seen. In taking the
lead in providing for women a school
where they may obtain training in in
dustrial art Mrs. Ellen Dunlop Hop
kins of New York has been a benefactor
to her sex. A woman of means and
herself an artist Mrs. Hopkins in 1892
established her school of applied de-
sign for women because there was in
all this country scarcely a place where
a woman might learn industrial art ex-
cept in rudimentary way. The school
was intended to take the woman stu
dent who had passed through this ru-
dimentary training and give her prac-
tica1 and technical instruction in some
particular departments, thus specialize
ing and concentrating her effort. This
is the day of the specialist.
Mrs. Hopkins aimed to make her
school an institution where women
might learn to create designs in all the
ordinary Industrial arts, from furniture
and stained glass work to lace making
and curtain designing. The enterprise
made its way slowly at first, because
of an undoubted prejudice against
products turned out by the decorative
sex But Mrs. Hopkins herself had
much social influence, and she used it
enthusiastically for those of her stu
dents who proved their worth. AT
length the designs made by the women
in various departments began to find
sale Then there came requests for
students who had completed the full
course of instruction in special branches
of designing.
One young lady, Miss Florence N.
Fulton, attended the Dunlop School of
s11 ten f1I-
courses in art book covers, stained glass
work and making patterns for silk
weaving. She went to Philadelphia
and was employed by a firm to make
designs for loaded stained glass. She
was energetic and wide awake and ere
long got an insight into the business
part of the establishment as well as
the artistic end. At length the pro-
prietor of the house died. Miss Full
ton had cultivated the commercial
sense and she at once bought the con-
Germ and thence on conducted it her
self. 1t was a large undertaking for
girl to lay hold of. yet Miss Fulton has
been markedly successful from the
first. An impressive memorial win
dow designed and executed by. her il
Illustrates well the purely artistic facul-
ty in Miss Fulton. On the other hand
stained glass windows for sleeping
cars, ferryboats and private houses
show the application of art principles
to homely industry. The stained glass
work in the dome of the New Jersey
senate chamber at Trenton is a speci-
men of Miss F'ulton's skill. She has the
contract for the loaded glass work in
the windows of the new library of
Bryn Mawr college.
Wherever the right kind of woman
seriously takes up practical architec-
| tural designing she finds it means
for an excellent livelihood and some
thing more. The construction of huge
steel frame buildings, some of them
twenty-three stories high, has added
a new profession to those of the time,
that of architectural engineer. The
skyscraper. with its huge steel cage
frame, requires for its correct plan
ming the services of one who is alike
architect, mathematician and artist
Such an individual is Miss Marion s.
Parker of New York. AS matter of
actual fact, Miss Parker has been the
architectural engineer at the back of
the plans for some of the largest and
most important buildings on this cen-