The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-09

texture like velvet. The artist devel- oped a passion for peonies which she found at their best during her stay in the east. She says that their sumptuous- ness and their gorgeous hues give the most excellent opportunity for beautiful pictured effects and then, too, she loves them for their own sakes. The feeling and sympathy which has been comment ed upon by her teachers as entering so completely into her work with flowers, can only come from an intense love for them.
 The china which Miss Douglass is ex- hibiting in her studio as the result of her summer study is revelation of the hard work it must have required for the accomplishment of so much The char acter of her work in china is very much changed. Most of her pieces are deco rated in the conventional designs. The luster work and Things of silver so popular now complete the decorations of many. There are several breakfast sets, and her new tea sets are unusually lovely. quaint little pot and slender c6ps to match form a perfectly fascinating set for black coffee. The design Is a Japan ese drawing in silver, its delicate tracery daintily trimming the whitest of china backgrounds. A tea set of white is also decorated in silver The wild carrot seen
 
 ventional motif, and the silver lining of the cups with the same effect carried out under the saucers makes an unusually pretty decorative scheme.
 There is porch set, also in Japanese, in the sedji ware in green with a conven- tional tracery of silver, an attractive ad- Junct to which Is the green wicker tray which accompanies 1t. One of the pretti- est things in Miss Douglass studio is a different froD cla bao yet achieved. Yellow flowers suggesting the wild rose are painted in graceful sprays over the exterior of the cup and giving the appearance of having been laid carelessly about on the saucer. There is Just the daintiest suggestion of the wild rose In a graceful spray about the cup, which is lined with a shimmering luster. The saucer has the same flowers in att tractive design. The attractive feature of this set is it's exquisite daintness-and appearance of fragility. brass pot and tray accompany it. Some bouillon cups oeserVihg Of mention are worked up in very conventional design of red and gold 10 present the decidedly Japanese effect.
 A striking bit of china to be found among the specimens of Miss Douglass work, which was shipped this week from New York, Is a puff box With the art lstes usual quaint humor she hit upon the peacock as the fitting ornament to so vain an adjunct of a woman's toilet tapie' It is vivid blue china without ornament except for the single peacock m the center of the top proudly spread Ing his feathers. The drawing of the bird IS conventional, and the gold and black which give the extra touch to the blue background present a rich effect.
 Miss Douglass has furnished cards Tor scores of dinners, luncheons and card parties during the past few years. When her studio was first opened the Douglass Heads were very much in favor TOT such things. Since then the demands or her patrons. have taxed her versatility and wit. The times and the moods ana characteristics of people who are to use them have produced some of the clev- crest results imaginable. Her best work m this line was done last winter m tne DO cards used at the Tennessee company dinner given by MT. Webb crawforo m honor of MT. William E. Corey, Eacn