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is large, the greens are especially soft almost inconquerable problem of ink.
and rich, while there are also golden The adjustment ot the How of ink to the
yellows and russet, deep browns and vel- face of the type and the surface so that
vety blues." . each letter shall shoar clear and distinct
Biloxi ware is remarkable for eccen- and shall be of equal blackness through-
tricities of form and brilliant glaze.. It out an entire edition, presents a prob-
ia made by Mr. George E. Ohe from the lem of which few have any conception,
clays native to Biloxi,. Missouri. Mr. and one which-does not enter, with any
Ohe is said to be an erratic genius, degree of nicety, at least, into ordinaiy
wholly devoted to his potter's wheel, printing. The steady improvement in
Ilia cla he mines, grinds and prepares Mrs. Van Vechten's work in this r gard
personally. Careful and thorough as shows that she is on the road to success.
Morris, he feels as keen a joy in his ere- It should be a matter of pride to the
ations, and the moment ot axtucy ar- woman's club folks that one who has
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rives when the clay is on the wheel and
begins to take form, lie has been called
by his admirers, who know his heroic
struggles, the "second Pallissy."
Among the exhibits of China were
those of members of the National
League of Mineral Painters, founded in
1892. This is an association comnnsed of
sixteen ceramic clubs in different parts tno mechanicaf department of the Phil-
of the United States, and a ecore or two osopher press in the little town of Wau-
been actively identified with their work
ever since her college days, and who is
distinctively a club woman, should be
making the progress she is in one of the
serious crafts. It may yet be to the last
ing honor of the pine woods of Wiscon
sin that it is there that Helen Bruneau
Van Vechten is making beautiful books.
Mrs. Van Vechten has entire charge of
Ladies'
Tailor-Made
Suits
Half Price.
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We are grou'ly overstocked on ladies'
ready-to-wear suits.
It is our policy never to carry a lot
ot ready made garments from one
season to another.
We are determine? to dispose ot
every one ot these suits, and to do
it quickly.
While they last you can take your
choice at exactly half price.
Think ot it. $40 suits for $20;
$30 suits for $15; $20 suits for
$IO; $15 suits for $7.50, etc.
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of mineral painters not members of a
federated club, and has an aggregate
membership of about fire hundred. The
object of the league is to found a dis
tinctively American school of mineral
painting by centralizing the forces of
widely separated clubs, in lines of work
tending to promote originality and
arouse the national element in its aaso
ciates.
Its first exhibition was held at the
World's Fair. Annual exhibitions have
since been .held, serving to stimulate
public interest in the league and to en-
sau, Wisconsin. She superintends the
Betting of the type, plans the work and
sees thai it is executed. She designs the
books, determines the details, such as
type, margins, bindings, and decorations,
and with her own hands, feeds them
though the press. Of course, her hus
band and his partner by no means go
uncooaulted, but in the division of work
this falls to her. Thus the books of the
Philosopher press stands as the ac
complishment of a Wisconsin club wo
man, who three years ago knew not a
hawk from a hand saw in the pnut shop,
courage in the artist a just appreciative- act wn0 naa come from the parlor to the
ness of the dignity of his own profession. PB8 room, only to Bdd to the dignity of
The annual exhibit this year is at the
Paris exposition, and the league has en
deavored to make it as representative aa
possible of the ceramic work now being
done in the United States.
In selecting, preference was given to
decorations on American ware. Artifi
cial borrowings of foreign decorations
and copies of French pictures were elimi
nated. It would seem that this consci
entious discrimination should make the
exhibit representative and worthy the
league. Mrs. Worth Oegood is the pres
ident of the association, and this account
is mainly from her pen. The notice of
the league is "Keep the fire alive.'
One of the most interesting collec
tions in the Milwaukee arts and crafts
exhibit was that illustrating the "evolu
tion ot the book," from the etched stone
to the perfect product of the Roycrnft
or Wausau press.
The Roycrott has already become fa
mous and its productions are quite as
substantial and artistic as those that
Morris took such a delight in making at
Kelmscott. The Philosopher press has
not made quite so wide a mark, yet in
some respects its books are the most
beautiful issued from any press, and
they are the work of a woman, Mrs.
Helen Bruneau Van Vechten, "at the
sign of the Green Pine Tree." Mrs.
Van Vechten is not only a printer, but a
college and a club woman. William
Ellis says of her: "At the very outset
of her work, Mrs. Van Vechten evi
denced that capacity for infinite pains
which is most often developed to a high
degree in woman, and which is essential
to the best results in fine press work.
"At once she mastered in one stroke
the problem of perfect registration a
technical detail which has not been con
sidered essential by other book-makers.
The books ot the master book-makers of
modern days do not show as high a de
gree of accomplishment in this particu
lar aa do most of the books made by Mrs.
Van Vechten, It may be argued that
this is a non-essential, but it is some
thing that it was left for a woman's hand
and braia to solve the obvious difficulty
which has stood in the way. Mrs. Van
Vechten's books show a steady progress
in the mastery of the all-important and
the craft the graces never disasso
ciated from true womanhood. Mrp.
Van Vechten is perhaps more notable
among women who are doing something
from the fact that she is demonstratiug
each day that concentration in one di
rection need not produce apathy in ail
others. Her club work is maintained in
all its former vigor, she finds time to
give to public affairs, being one of the
trustees of the. Wausau public library
and secretary ot the county traveling
library association. She is one ot the
official vis'u'ng board ot the Milwaukee
Downer college, her alma mater; was a
member of the press committee of the
biennial, and with all her responsibili
ties playa golf and maintains her old
time social duties and her business life
seems only to add to her capacity for
other duties. She has always been a
dominant force among her associates,
and the fact that the Philosopher press
exists today is due to her indefatigable
energy and indomitable persistence as
well as to the excellence of her own
work.
One effort of the arts and crafts move,
ment will be to induce merchants to
substitute individual signs, hall marks
or trade marks in artistic forms
and preferably of metal for the monstros
ities that now disfigure the business
buildings of our cities. Doubtless, it
will sometime arrive that a ten foot sign
will be considered as vulgar as one's
"old bald-headed picture" in an adver
tisement. It is hoped that when that
day dawns public sentiment will arise
and abolish the horrors that disgrace
our streets. Then proceesioas of gum
manufacturers and red, blue and yellow
tag stores will be alike impossible.
Metal working is one of the most fas
cinating of the art crafts. Some one
has recently discovered a blacksmith
who after his horse shoes are made,
fashions beautiful things in iron to
adorn his house and that of his neigh
bors, adding beauty and quaintness to
the island village where he dwells.
What nobility aud dignity would any
city street acquire it wrought metal
signs, with a distinctive device, were in
troduced to mark each store, and facades
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