Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-10-21
CHINA PAINTING
 TAUGHT BY MAIL System So Simple Pupils Are Amazed at Rapid
 Strides Made.
THE WORK CRITICIZED
Home Study Method Begets il Mar,e- Ious Result in Very
 Short Time.

University City, Mo-, Oct. 20.-- h.
 c-edul!ty, that ever-present factor in
 human nature, is one of the chief ob-
 stacles instructors in the People S
 University are forced to overcome.
 Can you teach china decoration by
 correspondence? is a question put
 countless times each day to Mrs.
 Kathryn E. Cherry, instructor of chi
 ma decoration and design in the Art
 Institute of the American Woman s
 League. This is q question l am
 called on repeatedly to answer, said Mrs. Cherry. We have many visi-
 tors to our studios who come espe-
 for friends and to carry home with them the information concerning this course which is so popular with so many members especially since MT. Lewis has so generously given the League members the privilege of be- ginning the lessons upon the first payment of $4. With each mail come testimonials of satisfaction with the courses offered and of progress made. This, l think, is ample proof that the subject can and is being taught by correspondence
 How do we teach? Each lesson is gotten out in pamphlet form with Illustrations of materials required and explanations for the use of the same; illustrations of the piece to be decorated and designs to be car ried out are embodied in each lesson with full instructions for the exc cution of the piece to be decorated and designs to be carried out are embodied in each lesson with full in- structions for the execution of the piece to be decorated and the work is sent in for criticism, the criticisms being typewriter so students may refer to them at any future time, should they meet with the same diff ficulty again. Firing of the decorat- ed pieces is free. To lessen the ex-
 
 ing formed in the different cities and work is sent together, dividing up the express charges. Another benefit of club work is the value the stu icisms.
 When firing can be done in the pupils home town she is not asked tol send the china on for criticism. h. stead she mails an exact copy of the work on paper and this enables me to see just how it is carried out On the china.
 'The design course for china is taught in connection with the china decoration lessons. These lessons are given to encourage the student to do original work, and mot to depend on studies after she is familiar with | the different methods of carrying out the work. Then, too. we should know the appropriateness of decoration, whether good or bad, and not depenl upon copies. Think of the advantages 1 our members have in this department alone! I should have been glad to have had such opportunities when the desire of studying art came to me. When a very small girl was obliged | to wait until I could go away to study in the eastern cities and then abroad. Here we have the opportunity to wok out these lessons at our convenience, and many who are unable to leave home duties and many employed in Vffices, etc, can have these advan- tages and continue with their obliga- tions.
 Every woman enjoys decorating her table with good china, and she should know what good decoration is. The day is past when gaudy decora- tious in roses violets appeal to .be good housewife. The dainty designs of good color and gold now appeal to our best judgment. How much more it will mean to the women of our land if they club together and take up some one of our many cours- , es: China decoration, weaving, pot tery, embroidery, etc., and at the ex- piration of year have something that is worth while, instead of pass ing afternoons at cards with an oc- casional p-.ize of piece of cut glass or piece of china, which may be something none of us would care to yY~ l~A | every state testifying to the success of the course and acknowledging the opportunities and advantages offered students who are able only in this way to carry out a longing for the study Of this particular branch Of art. We have many students who ere teachers and have had . great deal of