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ness of her design wJiich is conventional in treatment and 
particularly well adapted to treatment in the mat glazes. 
Manjr pilgrims from the Exposition stopped at Cincinnati 
on their return to see the work in its birth-place and the trip 
was perhaps more satisf5Ting than the formal exhibit at St. 
Louis, for the personal always lends interest and in this case 
the surroundings are of unusual attraction. The pottery is 
perched on top of a high hill like a rook's nest on the tree top, 
so high indeed that the visitor returns again to the city's level 
by an elevator car descenchng an incline plane; as the city is hid 
from view bj^ an intervening cloud Of smoke and va]5or, one 
feels somewhat like Dante, descending into Inferno. 
sort of relaxation and amusement for the chemist, the natural 
development of the original line of Rookwood being sought 
rather than an extraneous effect which would necessitate an 
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FIBEPIiACE AND MAlNTTEL— ROOKWOOD FAIENCE 
The qviaint low buildings of Rookwood with their grey 
brown stucco and brown woodwork outlined against the sky 
and surrounded by clouds of smoke so that the city is seen always 
as through the mist, seem the very home of inspiration and the 
interior is as attractive as the exterior, apart from the works of 
art therein contained. Bj^ the courtesy of the manager, 
Mr. Taylor, the visitor is conducted through the potterj^ and 
shown the entire process of building the finished vase, from 
clay to glaze. There are no secrets here except in the labora- 
tor3^ Here is the machitiery for preparing the clays and 
glazes, here the wheel and moulds. Here are the rough sketcligs 
and the finished work, the large architectural pieces in pr^r 
cess of construction as well as the cabinet pieces of less size but 
equal value. To the favored are shown the museum of pieces 
exchanged with other potters and potteries; the experiments 
in fiambe red and crystalline glazes made as far back as 1900, 
pioneer work in this country, along which lines Rookwood 
has not cared to follow except in an experimental way and as a 
MODELLED BORDER USED IN FIREPLACE— ROOKWOOD 
entire departure from the present methods and a break in the 
logical sequence of Rookwood's artistic growth, the archi- 
tectural work and artistic tiling being at present the natural 
and gratifying culmination of its efforts. For the present, at 
least, Rookwood leads the ceramic world in America. 
[TO BE CONTINUED] 
COLOR SCHEME OF CHRYSANTHEMUM 
Sara W. S. Safford 
A WHITE chrysanthemum against a grey green background 
is always a happy combination whether for a vase or 
tile. For a grc3' in this flower use violet and 3'ellow deepened 
with dark' green. The centre may be kept warm with yellow. 
For a yet more delicate grey in lightest flower, pearl grey with 
a touch of violet may be used. 
If one desires to have a delicate pink or yellow chrysanthe- 
mum a thin wash of rose or yellow may be applied for the 
second firing and the sharp detail touches added in for third 
firing. 
In nearly all cases the worker will arrive at happy results 
if he is careful to keep his lights and shadows in the first paint- 
ing and then use the clean pure color in after paintings. 
Use violet with cool greens in the " laying in." With the 
j^ellow chrysanthemums warm brown greens would be happy. 
Use pearl grey, violet and dark green in the background. 
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OLDER THAN THE CHINESE 
WE often point to the Chinese as the oldest existing nation, 
.but there is abundant evidence that the cliff dwellers 
of the southwestern United States are much older. The verj' 
name of the race has perished, but houses of this strange people 
have been found on the wildest and most inaccessilale of moun- 
tain sides. 
The potter\' from these long wrecked homes suggests 
Egj^pt, as do the inscriptions fovuid. Mummies, bodies 
wrapped in cloth and feathers from the breasts of turke^J^s 
have been dug from burial places among the cliffs, and there is 
a general resemblance to the oriental tj^pe. 
There is good reason to believe that these people were 
blooded relatives to the inhabitants of the land where the Nile 
is god and that they antedate the pyramids. 
If the human race did not start on this continent there is 
every reason to believe that it made its appearance here verj' 
earh' in the game. — Boston Morning Globe. 
