The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-24
OPENING OF ART SEASON
 MADE SUSPICIOUS
Ninety New Members in Or ganization-Hear Table
 Decorating Lecture.

The first regular meeting of the Bridgeport Art league for the 1s16- 1917 season was auspiciously begun yesterday afternoon with the addition of 90 new members. Because the league rooms in the Staples building are being redecorated, it was neces- sary to hold the meeting in the parlors of the Universalist church. Mrs. c. Lincoln Banks. who with Miss Ophelia Foley and Miss Clarice Pietremont, spent the summer at Marshall Fry's school of table design in Southampton, L. l., gave an interesting address upon this work and also on costume design ing.
 MT. Fry thinks that in the plan of interior decorating, table decorating has been much neglected so he has worked out many beautiful and inter- esting designs and teaches his pupils to do likewise. MT. Fry uses every color. The china, rugs and other fittings of the room are designed to harmonize. White linens and china are used only for the most formal oc- casions.
 While to the average person who has always been used to the pure white 1t would at first seem a bit strange to sit down to a table cover- ed with yellow, pink or blue linen and having napkins and doilies to matfh, and china to harmoniEe. The exqui- site beauty of these table fittings shown in the examples from MT. Fry's school on exhibition yesterday at the meeting could not help but make him never want to see the white again. One beautiful set was of grass green hand woven Russian linen with a very small crocheted border of nat ural colored linen. The napkins has also the border of crochet. Examples in yellow. and pink were also shown while the majority of the work was in the natural color of the linen.
 The center table was handsomely designed 1n blue and gray. The table runner ct the blue had a half inch line of gray within the border. The napkins matched the runner and the crockery was of blue and gray Ded- ham crackle ware.
 Mrs. Banks had also some examples O. tied and dyed work and Batik work sent her from India and Java, where they are leading methods of decorat- ing cloth. Interior decorators are us- ing the methods here somewhat in decorating curtains and other hang ings. In the tied work. small punches of the cloth are tied securely with string to form patterns and then the whole is dipped into a dye. Then the dying is completed. the string is TO- moved and a pattern in the original color of the cloth, where the string has not permitted the dye to penetrate results. The Batik work isAa some what similar process except That pat terms are formed with wax, the dye not penetrating the part that Is waxed.
 This is a higher class of work than the tied work and some very beautiful effects are obtained with 1t.
 The tied work is much used in Java in decorating the short and narrow cloth. which forms the sole garment of the women of this island Mrs. Banks had several examples of these garments.
 Mrs. Philip L. Holzer. president of the league, presided at the meeting yesterday She arnounced at the bus mess meeting that three prizes amounting to $15 will be offered to school children of the city for the best handcraft work which they pro- duce suitable for use in the Anne Hathaway cottage. The prizes will be awarded at the annual exhibition of the league in the spring.