Vol. XV. No. I. 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
May I9I3 
HE fourteenth anniversary of the 
birth of Keraviic Studio dawns 
auspiciously. In every way success 
seems to be opening out before us 
and it seems almost as if we might 
say that we are meeting with a 
deserved recompense for we have 
conscientiously labored to bring 
before the ceramic fraternity or 
sisterhood, the best obtainable 
designs and the most helpful instructions. Moreover we can 
assure our friends that our interest has never waned and that 
we are momentarily on the outlook for every new movement 
and every possible helpful design or instructive article. We shall 
use every effort to make our future work gi'eatly outshine our 
past and every anniversary mark another milestone in the 
advance to a refined and truly American type of ceramic decora- 
tion. 
And do you not think we are offering you this month a 
pretty interesting issue? Besides the designs which we have 
endeavored to make as varied as possible, we find the illustra- 
tions of the new Keramic Society of Greater New York ex- 
ceedingly worth while. The members seem to be seriously 
endeavoring to evolve a new and characteristic style of work 
and succeeding wonderfully well at it. We wish them all 
sorts of good luck. We are hoping that the members of the 
old New York Society of Keramic Arts which has merged with 
the National Society of Craftsmen, will send us as interesting 
material from their exhibition which will be held this month 
at the Galleries of the National Arts Club. 
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Our fourteenth anniversary supplement is, perhaps, the 
best Keramic Studio has ever published and the most useful. 
The dainty cup and saucer designs by Mrs. Kathryn Cherry, 
cannot only be used just as they are for after dinner coffees, 
but are easily adaptable to all sorts of pieces. Moreover 
Keramic Studio expects to give half tones of these cups in the 
full tea size in succeeding issues so that our readers will have 
the enlarged drawings for larger pieces. The coloring of the 
study, while very attractive, is, of course, not quite true, as a 
reproduction is never quite exact, but the color directions will 
enable the student to reproduce the originals in every detail. 
Elsewhere will be found the advertisement of our "Four 
Winds Pottery Summer School," but we would just like to 
say a word here about it for we feel that our dream of a really 
American school of ceramic design and decoration is beginning 
to come true, and not only that, but the opening wedge of an- 
other dream, of an Arts and Crafts village on top of "Robineau 
Hill." Not only have we Mrs. Cheny again for ceramics but 
there is such an enrollment of students that she will need at 
least one assistant and perhaps two. Then besides three 
teachers of other crafts we have had the signal good fortune to 
secure for our landscape sketching, Mr. Henry R.Poore, A. N. A. 
author of "Pictorial Composition and The Critical Judgment 
of Pictm-es," the "Conception of Art," etc. Mr. Poore was for 
seven years director of the Art Department at Chautauqua 
and later has been in charge of the composition classes of the 
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has had much experi- 
ence in private classes. It is an exceptional opportunity for 
students of out-door work for Mr. Poore will devote his entire 
time to his classes giving five criticisms a week beside a weekly 
review of the class work in the studio. On Satm^days the 
student's will take their lunches and make a day of it in the 
open. 
The crafts classes will include jewelry and metal work, 
leather work and basketry, frame making, carving and gilding. 
The feature of children's classes in basketry, carpentry, 
sewing and drawing will be continued, not only because of their 
popularity here but because many mothers have found it 
solves the problem of what to do with their little ones while 
they are themselves studying. 
If the school continues to increase in numbers another 
year as it promises we shall have to build a sleeping place and 
restaurant on the grounds. 
We have been trimming our orchard trees and bringing 
in the branches to blossom out in water. It is a charming way 
to anticipate the spring. Have you tried it? If not, try it 
another year. A friend had a charming group of pussy willows 
and catkins in her window and another year we shall try other 
shrubs that blossom before the leaves come, such as Forsythia 
and Magnolia. 
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And now what are we going to do about the domestic 
problem, those of us who have homes and children and husbands 
and still feel called to follow the lure of art? For four long 
weeks the editor has been struggling with the mysteries of 
breakfast, lunch, dinner, sewing on buttons and darning, 
sweeping and dusting and otherwise trying to cling to some 
shreds of decency and order in her household while a two 
hundred and fifty dollar order stands, needing only a few hours 
to finish and suspended ideas in porcelain are fading in the dim 
distance and others are crying to be put in execution. This is 
a periodical discipline that never fails as a chastener and the 
periods are coming with momentarily lessening intervals. If 
only some good whole-souled woman with a love for art but 
talents only in the way of caring for a household and children 
would have the inspiration to take the home in charge and 
make it possible for the artist to devote her entire energies to 
doing something worth while in her art, heaven would have 
come upon earth, and, between you and me, the honor of the 
artistic achievement would belong to her almost as much as 
to the artist herself. It is because of the children and the home 
that we cannot and will not give up, that the woman can never 
hope to become as great in any line as man. Ai-t is a jealous 
mistress and allows no consideration whatever to interfere with 
her supremacy. 
Such dreams can never be realized; but in the meantime 
where are gone all those good 'old fashioned 'cooks*and ^helpers 
who gi^ew^tollove the family and became indispensable and 
faithful friends of a life time? — "Gone alas! like a dream, too 
soon! " 
