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PAINTING, DEAWING, ETC. 



Entkies 54. (62 pieces.) Oil Paiutiugs, 4 ; Water Colors, 9 ; Crayon Draw- 

 ings, 2 ; Pencil Drawings, 5 ; Miscellaneous, 34. 



Best specimen Oil Painting-, Miss Einily G. Bird, Great Barring-ton, S5 



2d do., Miss S. A. Smith, Great Barrington, 4 



3d do., M. Louise Karner, E.c>TPnioivt, 3 



Best Painting in Water Colors, Miss Bella Cass, Great Barrington, 4 



2d do.. Miss Hennie Howk, Lee, 3 



3d do., Mrs. C. M. Brown, Great Barrington, 2 



Best Crayon Drawing, Miss J. M. Scudder, Great Barrington, 3 



Best Pencil Drawing, Miss Cora B. Xoxon, Great Barrington, 3 



2d do.. Master William B. Tobey. Great Barrington, 2 



8d do.. Toll-gate scene. Master Fred Remington, Great Barrington, 1 



DISCRETIONARTf. 



Water Color, Miss S. A. Smith, Great Barrington, 4 



Notes :— Charcoal Sketch, by Miss J. M. Scudder, was the only "crayon drawing" we 

 considered worthy of a premium. 



Water Color Head, by Miss S. A. Smith, seemed too good for second premium, and 

 yet not equal to the one that took first. 



EENEST S. PEASE, ) 



MES. WILLIAM DALZELL, Committee. 



MISS A. J. EUSSELL, ) 



FANCY WOEK. 



Enteies, 31. Hair Work, 2 ; Feather Work, 7 ; Cone Work, 2 ; Sawed 

 Work, 1 ; Miscellaneous, 19. 



Best Hair Work, Mrs. S. A. Hoag, Great Barrington, S3 



3d do., Mary E. Cowles, Sheffield, 2 



Best Feather Work, Mrs. Amos Baldwin, Egremont, 3 



2d do.. Miss A. L. Pixley, Great Barrington, 2 



Best Cone Work, Mrs. M. J. Busby. Monterey, 2 



3d do., Mrs. S. P. Busby, Great Barrington, 2 



Best Fancy Sawed Work, W. H. Barker, Great Bai'ring'ton, 2 



2d do., Edson G. Bentley, New Marlboro, 1 



DISCRETIONARY. 



Butterflies, Mrs. H. W. Burgett, Egremont, 1 



Ornamental Horns, Mrs. J. A. Kline. Egremont, 1 



Pressed Flowers, Miss Nellie Little, Sheffield, 1 



Winter Bouquet. Mrs. F. M. Fellows, Gi-eat Barrington, 1 



Leather Images, Miss Coi'a Wadhams, Egremont, 1 



Frame of Bugs, Miss Annie Williams, Great Barrington, 2 



Towftl Rack. Elva Kidds, Pittsfield, 1 



Air Castle, Ella Gai'dner, Egremont, 1 



Fly Brush, Mary E. Briggs, Sheffield, 2 



Shell AVork, Mrs. Z. Cande, Sheffield, 2 



ALEXANDEE HYDE. ) 

 MES. T. G. EAMSDELL, ^ Committee. 



M. E. PEASE, , ) 



EMBEOIDEEY AND NEEDLEWOEK. 



Witli the pen and the sword, the needle forms a trio of marked influence in 

 the world. The use of the first is shared by both sexes ; the second is wielded 

 now entirely by masculine hands ; while the third belongs exclusivelj^ to the fairer 

 sex, whose attainments therewith command the admiration of the world. The 

 needle is a very ancient implement, aud its exploits date contemporaneously with 

 the ruder arts of the "loi'ds of creation." While Moses was busy with the struc- 

 ture of the extei-nal tabernacle, the Hebrew women were not less occupied with 

 their "blue, purple, scarlet and fine-twined linen" for its interior decoration ; prov- 

 ing that even an unsettled life in the desert could not repress the gratification of a 

 taste they had jn-obably learned during their sojonm in Egypt ; for, both there, 

 as well as among the Phoenicians, the art of em])roideiy dates back to a period far 

 bej'ond recorded history. Long before the Trojan war, the Sidoniau laidies had 

 acquired celebrity for their skill in this industry, and when, at a later period, it 

 was introduced into Greece, the females of that nation wrought fabrics with the 

 needle, which were said to rival the finest paintings. Old Homer incidentally 

 mentions the artistic labors in this line, of the royal women of his own and of an- 

 terior times, and the plumed warrior rejoiced, not only in his armor, but in tjie 



