Vol. VI, No. 5 
SYRACUSE NEW YORK 
September 1904 
THE ''ALLENDALE ARTS AND CRAFTS" 
E arc in receipt of a charming little 
blue print booklet on the above 
subject, printed by "Old Sol," 
everj' now and then at the Allen- 
dale farm. "Old Sol" is assisted b^' 
the boys who are taught all sorts of 
crafts from i^hotographj^ to the 
working of wood, metal and the 
dcA'eloijing of useful Christian men 
out of boys who otherwise might 
have hard work to be other than flotsam and jetsam of the city. 
We append some extracts from "The Blue Priiit" wliich will 
explain the Allendale Farm and we hope to enlist the sympathetic 
aid of those who are interested in the saving of boys and the 
future manliood of the countr5^ 
"The Allendale Association," 
L. Everett Thompson, Sec, 
1007 Tacoraa Building, Chicago, 111. 
Director, Edw. L. Bradley, 
Allendale Farm, 
Lake Villa, 111. 
"The men and women who are lifting the world upward 
and onward are those who encourage more than thej^ criti- 
cize. — "Elizabeth Harrison. 
Allendale Farm is a communitj^ of boys, not a reformatorj' 
— ^neither is it a charitable institution, in the general accepta- 
tion of that term. The work is principally for the benefit of 
self respecting boys who need our help. 
The community is now divided into five groups or families 
of from eight to fifteen boys. Each family has its Cottage 
Home presided over by a mother or a father who has in charge 
the home life of the boys — the connunnit^' is organized as a 
junior inunicipality. 
We need onlj^ 1,500 friends, children and grown-tips who 
will contribute $500 a year to guarantee our running ex- 
penses. Allendale is dependent for its support upon the free 
will offerings of those who believe that " an ounce of preven- 
tive is worth a pound of cure." 
" It is hard to feel at home with people who never malce 
mistakes." 
Allendale is not an institution. It is the paternal home of 
the homeless and neglected child who is received into sonship — 
not viewed as "a case." 
$900.00 is needed for water tower, tank and power. 
The doctrine of total depravity will have much to account 
for in the day of judgment. We know that the child is good if 
he has a chance — an environment of goodness. Children long 
for something to do, and they love right doing far more than 
they love wrong doing. — F. W. Parker. 
There are great possibilities for work in the various crafts 
at Allendale; such as simple bookbinding, leather carving and 
pottery, and we hope, in time, to open up work along those 
lines, this year the boys have worked only in wood and sheet 
metal — the following is a list of articles made and sold by our 
boys, write for price list: 
"Oak and copper sconces, brass and copper candlesticks, 
pin trays, ash trays, card receivers, envelope and letter holders, 
lamp shades and decorative salvers." 
A correspondent writes, "There ai'e acres and acres of 
pottery and porcelain at the St. Louis Exposition — and some 
of the best is the work of women potters." 
Beginning with the November issue or the December at 
the latest we will begin a series of illustrated articles on the 
pottery and porcelain at St. Louis, both native and foreign, 
which we hope to make not only interesting and covering well 
the entire field of artistic ceramics at St. Louis, but instructive 
and inspiring as well and especially to our women workers. 
The list of women potters is growing and adding lustre daily to 
keramic art — Miss McLaughlin, Mrs. Frackleton, Mrs. Irelan, 
Miss Perkins, Mrs. Poillon Miss Perrj^, Mrs. Robineau, are 
names that make no mean list for an art, young in America, 
and the prominence that some of these names are gaining, not 
only at home but abroad, should be a most exhilarating know- 
ledge for the thousands of women enthusiastically and sincerelj^ 
working in keramics. 
Manj^ china decorators have felt somewhat shy of taking 
up a course in design such as the one by Mr. Hugo Froehlich just 
finished in Keramic Studio, under the plea that, while they 
appreciate the value and need of such a course, they can not 
afford to put so much time on work not immediately appHcable 
to the china itself. The article on the Trillium by Mrs. Robi- 
neau in this number will remove this objection bj^ showing how 
each problem may be worked out and immediately utilized in a 
design for china. She finds that there is not a single problem, 
after the general principles of spacing are mastered, which may 
not be applied directly to the work in hand. 
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STUDIO NOTES 
Mrs. S. V. Culp has just returned home from a visit to the 
World's Fair and the East and during her trip visited all the 
prominent studios and brought back with her renewed en- 
thusiasm for the work in china painting as well as some fine 
specimens of the art. 
BRUSH WORK 
(continued) 
W . p. J ends and F. H.Rhead 
LESSON 2. 
THIS lesson deals with curved strokes, giving examples of 
simple designs in which curved strokes are used. For 
figures I to 4 observe the same directions as given for the same 
numbers on sheet I . Figures 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 look a little more 
formidable, but by this time the student will have acquired a 
certain dexterit3^ with the brush and with a little practice they 
can easily be made. Practice the borders until you can do 
them swiftly and of an uniform size. The strokes are done 
with what is more a matter of " feel " than anything else, when 
the shape required is perfectly understood, and the knowledge 
that a shape is large and wide makes the brush go down on the 
paper as a matter of course, whilst only the point is being 
used for fine lines. Figure 6 is excellent practice both for 
making each form separately and for making a continuous ' 
border as long as there is an3' color in the brush. Figures 10 
and 12 are lessons in making forms composed. (Figures shown 
on next page.) 
