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3d do., Miss Sadie Champlin, Otis, $3 



4th do.. Miss Lizzie Lindsey, Sheffield, 2 



5th do., Mrs. Isaac Spurr, Sheffield, 1 



Best Silk Quilt, Miss Kebecca Pearce, Mount Washington, h 



2d do., Mrs. A. W. Curtiss, Sheffield, 4 



3d do., Mrs. C. H. Husted. Egremont. 3 



4th do., Mrs, E. K, Joyner. Egremont, 2 



5th do., Mrs. Edwin Hurlburt. Great Bai-rington. 1 



Best Patchwork, (by girl not over 12,) Minnie L. Brewer. New Marlboro, 3 



2d do., Eva M. Crosier, Washington, 2 



3d do., Minnie Merryfield, Sheffield. 1 



DISCRETIONARY. 



Silk Quilt, Miss Allie Hurlburt, Great Barriugton, 1 



Silk Quilt, Mrs. H. A. Bristol, Great Barrington, 1 



Silk Quilt, Mrs. E. L. Gorham, Great Barrington, 1 



Satin Quilt, Mrs. Albert Clark, Lee, 1 



Silk Quilt, Mrs. Louise Karner, Egremont, 1 



Silk Quilt, Mrs. J Wright, New Marlboro, 1 



Patchwork, Silk Stand Spread, Miss Ellen Hoag, New Marlboro. 1 



Patchwork, Silk Stand Spread. Miss Alice Ray, Great Barringnon, 1 



Patchwork, Miss Abbie Ray. Pittsffeld, 1 



A Quilt exhibited by Mrs. N. Hunter of Canaan, Ct., would have received a 

 premium had competitor lived in this county. 



Committee. — E. J. VoBburgh, Mrs. J. A. Tanner, Mrs. John B. Hull. 



PAINTING, DRAWING, ETC. 



Whole number of entries, 27 ; Oil Paintings, 12 ; Water Colers, 3 ; Crayon 

 Drawing, 1 ; Pencil Drawings, 4 ; Miscellaneous, 7. 



The love of ornamentation is instructive in our race, and its grati- 

 fication is commensurate with the taste and ability of individual de- 

 sire. We trace it in the uncouth characters upon the implements of 

 the stone period ; more frequently upon those of the age of bronze 

 It appears on a larger scale and in truer proportion on the ruins of the 

 Aztec structures. The Alascan Indian erects quaintly carved posts 

 before his dwelling ; the Red man of our wilderness adorns his pipe 

 and the tanned coverings of his wigwam, and treads the war-path 

 bristling with gay feathers and talons of the eagle and the bear. The 

 savage of the tropics is proud of his tattooed cuticle and his blazoned 

 tom-tom. Civilization tamed the barbarities of the instinct into the 

 bold and somber adornment of Egyptian art and the delicate and 

 truthful designs of Grecian taste. In all ages and every where we 

 recognize the love of ornament ; graduating from the pigment of the 

 barbarian to the diamonds of the belle of modern society. 



There have been times and people when and by whom all art be- 

 yond the absolute requirements of decency and utility have been re- 

 garded with religious abhorrence. The Quaker and the Puritan 

 looked upon an aesthetic production as a snare of the evil one insti- 

 tuted to detract from the cultivation of higher and holier aims. 

 The drab suit and barn-like meeting-house were constant sermons 

 against the delusions of external adornment. But mental progress 

 and larger culture introduced more liberal doctrines with the lapse of 

 years, and it came at last to be generally believed that a worshiper 

 might do service as sincerely in broadcloth and enameled boots as in 



