The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-24
Dolly Sees SevetyfiOe Little Tots Leorn1g Embroidery Under Mrs Ethel B. Bdrnards CleOer Instruction
H, DOLLY DALRYMP.E

There are some people you just 'natur- ally like" the minute you meet them. You don't know what it is-that intangi- ble, magnetic gentle, quality which Is so easy to understand. yet so difficult to ex- piain-that person possesses. which draws you to them with hooks of steel' and keeps you there. but you are con- scious of it's existence the moment yon meet them.
 Such a personality is Mrs. Ethel b. Barnard, who is the clever manager in charge of the "Art Department at Love- man, Joseph & Loeb's.
 Mrs. Barnard has the sweetest, lSindest and most endearing manner, and her quiet, busness-like methods and earnest interest in her work and that of her pupils, impresses you most delightfully."- and after you have come to know her, you realize that her patience and unrut- fled manner, her firm though gentle de- meanor, the greatest assets in her sue cess which is little short of phenomenal.
 Mrs Barnard has had rather difficult position to fill.
 Knowing nothing whatever of business until few years ago-leading always the enviable life of the normal woman, pro- tected and sheltered from anything like a commercial career-she found herself in the position of having to earn her own
 livelihood.
 What to do?--that was the question she asked herself, as so many others have dcne.
 The answer wasn't an easy one and so she had to work out some problems in her own mind as to just what she could do best
 In these days of "specializing," the man or woman who enters the business worlO
 is almost sure of winning if one thing well done comes under his or her list of accomplishments, and Mrs. Barnard real izing this, immediately settled upon the needle,' with which she is so adept and accomplished.
 But how? when? where? These were the questions which confronted her. How could she get market for her work, and thus let the public know that she was ready to take orders'' for beautiful embroidery and at what prices? Yes, that was some thing to be reckoned with; and so again she encountered vexing problems. At last the chance came to her when the Liz house of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb offered her an opportunity to be- come Identified with their "Art Depart mcnt."
 With attractive surroundings, all the latest methods and appliances at hand and fashionable clientele, Mrs Barnard found that her lines had fallen in pleas irg places and so she began to build. How have I managed to make the Art Department a success?" Mrs. Barnard repeated my question as we stood looking at the tremendous class of little tots plying their needle and thread, bending over their work and energetically en- gag ed in combining colors and effects. | Well, I hardly know how to Sanswer you. In the first place, my classes like Torsy, have just growed I first start
 ed with adult classes, the offer being gen.
 erously made by the firm that any one given lessons free of charge. Of course, \ there were a great many women wha | took advantage of this opportunity and 1 soon the classes took on a very encour- aging aspect. Then lot of children
 came for lesson and so I inaugurated the
 Saturday morning classes for children
 with the result as shown today-75 little
 tots all working and happy and interested The children's classes meet each Saturday
 morning and have pupils from six years 1 of age up to 15.''
 Do the children learn more readily | than the grown ups?" I asked. l Some children are born with talent
 for the needle just as they are born witt | a talent for music or art or anything ! else," Mrs. Barnard said. "Others have to
 acquire it. The artists eye for combin- l ing colors and achieving effects is of l course a great asset to the child who I Is learning embroidery. Often those who
 do the neatest and most beautiful work