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the exhibition for explanation and instruction, and the quotations 
which follow are chosen from his remarks. The selection of art 
objects was referred to Mr. Bach, and they were arranged and 
grouped by Mrs. Vaughan, Miss Abbot and Miss Morris. The 
representatives of the two institutions worked codperatively 
and enthusiastically and are largely responsible for the success 
of the exhibition. 
The room used is nearly forty feet square, with a window on 
the south end and one on the east facing the entrance. Museum 
cases were arranged about the walls and in the center of the room, 
while the remaining wall space was covered with textiles and the 
floor space with screens and living plants. 
The bright and eager faces of art students as they began a 
closer inspection of the exhibit would have been an inspiration 
to a teacher of any subject; but with such a theme, involving 
as it did many centuries of art, literature, religion, and other 
forms of culture, and reaching back to the earliest artistic efforts 
of man, one could not fail to do his best. 
“By way of introduction, your attention is called to the verti- 
cal carved panel and the brilliant drapery on the wall to your 
right. The motive of the first is lilies, a vase of which stands 
nearby; and you will notice how these flowers have been arranged 
in two parallel rows to fit the space. If they had been copied 
exactly, the result might have been artistic but not an example of 
decorative design. 
“The motive used in the Turkish textile is the ripe fruit of 
the pineapple, a specimen of which is shown here, together with 
a young growing plant. The treatment is much broader and 
more conventional than in the wood-carving, so that you find it 
difficult to decide at first sight just what the motive was. 
“Design is selection and arrangement. Geometric patterns 
may be used or motives may be adapted from natural objects. 
Flowers, fruits, and foliage have furnished patterns for decorative 
design for many centuries.” 
CASE I 
PLaxts: Hyacinth, iris, marigold, pineapple plant and fruit, carnation, red cedar to 
represent the form of the cypress; pressed specimens of iris; colored figures of 
iris, opium poppy, pink; photographs of cyp trees; colored figures of oriental 
poppy and, on the adjacent screen, almond blossoms. 
