The Washington times., 1910-03-15
To Swell Funds of Arts and
Crafts School, Purpose
of Talk on Africa.
SOCIAL LEADERS
WORK WITH VIM
Toll In Modest Quarters to Pro-
duce Articles of Utility
and Beauty.
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

At little arts and crafts school mere I
which has not found its way into the
papers. fifty busy. happy women In big
homespun work aprons are learning how
20 do things.
Frequently. a big limousine or smart
brougham draws up before the modest
building, 80 Seventeenth street, and one
Of washingtcns fashionable women
Bteps out to enter the school where her
name IS enrolled as pupil and where
she works harder by far than she did
Rt any finishing school.
Other pupils do not come IN auto
mobiles.
I'VE are those more fortunate wom-
en-" said one or them merrily this morn
ing, as she shaped a wonderful bit of
pottery out of soft clay, who know
what fun il is TO draw pay envelope,
and who do not buy autmobles because
we like spring hats better
Work Apron, Union Label.
But the work apron, is a sort Of union
lsbeI at the Arts and Crafts School,
and all who wear IL are women busy
NJ the same tasks. Whether the work
ers are carving woods. shaping metals,
weaving fabrics at the loom. or cutting.
tooling. and Illuminating book covers,
the task which lies before them is the
creation Of objects which shall be both
useful and beautiful No piece of handi-
craft-basket earthenware vessel, bit
OF hammered metal or hand-Wrought
tewelry made by these women Is con-
eidered acceptable # it be beautiful but
useless. or on the other hand, II II Is
useful though hi0eOus. In the output
OF the Arts and Crafts School, II Is re-
ouired that beauty and utility go hand
In hand.
Mrs. Charles j. Bell. Miss Ethel louise
Eeupp. and Miss Mary Chew are among
the popular and prominent Washington
's-omen who are enthusiastic pupils at
the Arts and Crafts School, where they
are studying decorative design.
Some Of the Workers.
Miss Ruth Harlan, daughter Of Justice
Harlan, is enthusiastic over the baSketry,
and there is scarcely weave. a grade
Of reed. or an Indian stitch with which
she has not familiarized herself dur
ing her study Of the craft.
Mrs David FairchiId and Mrs. Charles
Marlatt are learning weaving The
looms at which they work have turned
Of. under their skillful guidance, fabrics
kich in design and color In the weaving
room today, a visitor who exclaimed en-
Enthusiastically over a number OF hand
gOme curtains designed and woven there,
was told that they were for two Of the
most exclusive homes in Washington
Miss AtIee supervisor Of drawing in
the public schools Of Washington, Is
studying at the Arts and Crafts. and
seven teachers from the unEraded
Fchoois he-e. in which manual training
has reCeI tlV been introduced. have
5oined the classes there in order TO
equip thems YES for this new line OF
work
Mics Mary Foster. Miss Harrison. and
Mrs. Paul Charlton are studying metal
pnd leather work, and among other pu-
pills at the school are Miss GoetZ. and
Miss Ethel Goetz, Of Buffalo, Miss
Miss Porter. Of Baltimore, members OF
the Handicrafts Club Of that city; Miss
Sue HaXalI. Mrs William 3. King. and
others.
Find It Remunerative.
While many women take Up the work
20 crafty taste or talent others have
found in II a source Of constant re
Enumeration. IN every large city there Is
always a market for good craftsman
ship, and the book covers, leather bags,
metal work. and jeweIgy, beautiful pot
tery. baskets. and other articles made
by students OF the school are thus
source Of revenue. as well as pleasure.
10 The craftsman,
Mrs. Charles WorthlnEton. Of Penn
Eylvania, who studied last year at the
Arts and Crafts School here. has estab-
Hl6neO at 0er nome III IldL SLdIe an arts
and afts shop, where the country peo-
ple Of the vicinity have been taught to
make beautiful things which are now
in demand throughout the United
States.
Many applicants at the school are
earnest girls and women, with fine tai
Pnt, and urgent need for developing IT,
but who are unable TO pay for tuition.
10 cover these cases, scholarships are
essential. and the school is deSirous OF
obtaining as many of these as possible
Those who have contributed scholar
ships this year are Mrs. Graham Bell
Mrs Charles Richardson, Mrs Julian
James, and Mr.. HeUrter.
In Aid Of School
IN order 10 meet the urgent financial
peeds of the school. d benehl Will be
held al the National Theater Thursday
afternoon al 4:5O O'Clock. when A Rad
ely DugmOre will give his famous lee
ture on Swapping AfTica's Live Game
ON RooseveIts Hunting Trail" Mr.
Dugmore is not a hunter. but i'm obtain
ing his wonderful photographs, he ven
tures closer 10 death than hunters need
o. dare His collection Of pictures with
which the lecture is illustrated are the
most wonderful OF their kind ever seen,
and be can probably Sive a closer in
sight into the animal life of the African
yvilds than Sny other living authority.
Tickets for Mr. Dugmore'S lecture
are on sale ar the National Theater and
the Arts and Crafts School
The trustees Of the school, all of whom,
are interesting themselves actively in
the success Of the benefit, are Mrs,
charles J. Ben. Miss Jane Bartlett Mrs.
ward Brown. Mrs. Charles Conner, Mrs,
David Fairchild. Mrs II. B. r Mac
5arIand Mrs. Charles Mariatt, James
Henry MoSer, Mrs. h. Cleveland Per
I-ius Mrs Cuno II. Rudolph, Miss +. S.
Echroeder. Mrs. Richard X Tyler, Hen
~ II. Ward Mrs. John Jay White
Ntorruan Williams.