Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — An English View of the Women’s Pavilion. [ARTICLE]

An English View of the Women’s Pavilion.

The most attractive part of the Pavilion is, however, that which contains specimens from the various American schools of d< fig !, notably the wood-carving from the sc ho <1 at Cincinnati. The quantity of really nrst-class work which it sends is astonishing when one considers that the artists are many of them amateurs and still quite young. It certainly opens a field for women’s work very different from the “old starvation sewing.” The pupils excel in such decorative arts as painting on china and slate, hut their forte seems to be wood-carving. One of the best specimens is a bed carved by two young ladies of seventeen and nineteen, while the pillars and lace arc done by one of fourteen. The devices are all floral and copied with minute fidelity and skill from nature. Two ladies will make very handsome sums by thus decorating, one an organ, the other a piano, which the manufacturer, with a well-grounded faith in their power of giving the instruments an attractive appearance, had presented them in hope of a good advertisement. It is very gratifying to be able to add that a school which can turn out such artiste gives its instruction free to Philadelphia Cor. London Times.