The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
DOING GOOD WORK RUSH FOR PENSION
Topeka Twenty Thousand Have
ing is Practical Applied Law.
Big Exhibition at High School Two Thousand of
Building. Kansas
FROM ART TO MACHINERY MANY MORE ARE Expected
Lathe Patterns Department
Shown. VIII Be Fifty Thousand.
Swings House and Senate
Among WOod Are Swamped
Topeka School Manual Train
ing Is Practical.
Big Exhibition at High School
Building.
FROM ART TO MACHINERY
Silk Scarfs and Lathe Patterns
Shown.
Morris Chairs, Porch Swings
Among Wood Work.

i Do you want design for dainty
table cover or silk scarf?
| Are you in need. of a plan for house?
| Would a pattern for turning lathe
/ interest YOU?
/ If you are looking for any of the
things mentioned you may find a sup
ply at the manual training building OF
/ the Topeka high school where the sec
ond annual manual training exhibit
closed last night after two days ex-
hibit. Everything shown is the work
of the pupils. Even dainty hats, de-
as light and fluffy as a cocoanut layer
as light and fluffy as cocanut layer
| cake. and as dainty as a high school
girls ideals. are on exhibition. Ano
| the cost of the material in the hat IS
all figured up and pinned on the finish
ed product The expense of these range
from about a dollar to nearly three
dollars.
Make Hats and Gowns.
Among others is a hat of white lace
Iand lingerie as pleasing and cool look
| ing as the sight of a snow capped
mountain. 1t (the hat) is the work Oh
Miss lane Alexander. The material
l. cost lust a$2.75. Another white and PINK
hat is by Hazel Alsen-costlng $1.oo-
Among the waists may be noted an
esnecialIv pleasing one by Miss HAZE
Rarher A white skirt with dainty
embroidery by Miss Violet Barrloge
also attracts much faVofapIe com
Miss Edna sClumb, charge OF the MAJ
department. Miss Lydia bolilldl Sui-
the gown makers.
1t is really a shame not to mentlon
mora of these needle and thread artists
but the visitor didn't have time 10
learn the names, for many OF the
feminine articles were WORKS Oh ART
IN the Art Department.
In the department of art proper even
h. hnT.
those who came TO De .poIeu 4,,e,. r1oo1T-
to admire. From dainty leather pock-
etbooks to artistic work in beaten cop
nor are the range of articles on exnl-
bition to say nothing or dencate sten-
Gil work as artistic as design OF an
ancient Greek temple. linen ART post,
ers. including ideas that would thrln
the calendar men, are included Or the
noster work are many unique des1gnS
70 advertise 1.-THE Dictator, play Dy
Richard Harding Davis, recently play
ed by the senior class are quite pro1ni,
nent. Designs for ''Votes for Women,
ma gazine, representing enthusiastic
looking women speakers are also TO De
seen in numbers. Miss Kathaleen NC
Mutt is in charge of this department.
Miss Pauline Haynes, whose design
for china work took 1rsl prize
Washburn recently, also has some
samples for interior decoration which
are out of ordinary. Hampton Sh1rer mas
had his hand in nearly every depart
nent of the art class. His =exh1p1tS
range from leather work to beautiful
masters and a ring and cuff button
set made I'm the Shirer Craft Shop.
A creme de chine scarf, maybe it was
table-runner, as delicate and 11lIny as
cobweb with a beautiful border OF
cockatoos, is the hand1work OF MISS
Thea Baker.
Miss Reba barnes with textile de-
signs, Paul Cooper in poster work, Carl
Barnes in leather work, Miss Saran
Doles and Ruby Long in decorative
work, show marked talent to say moth
ing of the beaten copper work by Miss
McNutt
Architectural Drawing.
ANALOGOUS to the art department is
the work of the architectural drawing
class W. Donnell Euwer, Harry r. |
Jones and Martin Nystrom have some
good ideas for modern houses. ]. H
Hoehner is in charge of this work.
Still in the drawing must be men |
toned the intricate mechanical
drawing, machine design and free |
hand machinery sketching from I
the first rough tracing to the finished /
blue print. A blue print by Dean Van
ness attracts some attention.
The application. of the blue prints is
made in the pattern and wood work I
room. You see a huge pattern of a I
screw turning lathe from which cast
ing could be made. 1t is the work of I
work proper a small boat model by T
William Carlson calls for favorable I
comment A step-ladder is from the |.
hands of Leroy Anderson. A full size {
porch swing by Reed Lyons, a Morris F
chair by Paul Young are out of the |,
ordinary
Samples of chains, hammers, ETC., |.
We're made by the forge work class.
Albert H. Winter is supervisor of +
manual training in the schools of the I
city. He is assisted by G. F. OFT,
Frank Kaho and .ohn H. Koehner.
Grade schools Exhibit.
Miss May Bunker is proud of the +
work in art which she has supervised +
the grade schools. Among the |.
exhibits of this department is a de-
sign a Votes for Women" magazine
by Elizabeth Elson of the Polk school. +
From the same sch DOL is a striking de-
bred Mcknight of the Buchanan
school has made a picture of the Til
tanic. The Kindergarten exhibit of {
paper houses, unique designs, etc., is Z
quite a feature of Miss Bunkers de- (
partment.
Among the woodwork samples from 4
the grade school is a mission settee by s
and a complete writing desk by Ell Il
wood Iindemuth of the Lowman H
school.
To mention all sereditable work /
would require too much space. How
ever, a general survey of the exhibits
leaves az impression that the Topeka
schools are solving the problem of ap- Il
plying art. theory and practice in the 4
effort to turn out useful citizens for
the worlds work
Square Bottles for Anybody.