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895 Cake Plate— Mrs. Lydia Hadden (Second Prize). 
806 Jug — M. Etta Beede (Honorable Mention). 
766 Chop Plate— Miss Bessie L. Hill (First Prize). 
of the decorators' art, and have the added merit of being not 
only original, but absolutely American in decoration. 
A tall very imposing rose jar with cover is an all-over 
pattern of peony flowers and leaves in rose colors, smoke and 
white. This jar is very decorative and original, in pattern, 
although it has a feeling of Japanese study clinging to it. It 
is well handled and deserves the reward of Second Prize placed 
upon it by the jury, and is the work of Mrs. Anna Senge. 
The third award was placed upon a nut bowl that has a 
lively colored border of considerable width adorning the in- 
terior, with a narrower one as a finish on the outside. The 
colors are rich and varied. The background is formed of gold 
dots, and bands of gold further accent this piece, which was 
painted by Mrs. A. M. H. Dutcher, now of Lincoln, Neb. 
Mrs. Kissinger received Honorable Mention on a bowl 
of square corners and flowing shape. The motif is well-worked 
out in pink sweet peas, their tendrils making geometrical 
forms that are clever. The background has accents of black, 
making a rich decoration. 
An excellently well-designed vase of geometric pattern, 
forming a series of rounded ovals, interupted by more delicate 
masses of line until it reaches the top, where it alternately 
surrounds circular medallions of color and enamels with a large 
odd shaped blue blossom. All the geometrical lines are in 
914 Luncheon Set — Mrs. Louise Rees (Honorable Mention). 
862 Plate — Mrs. A. Berglund (Honorable Mention). 
825 Plate— Mrs. J. B. Emison (Third Prize). 
burnished gold. Here and there an accent is given by the 
introduction of a dark blue in the background. This is from 
the hand of Miss Helga M. Peterson and received Honorable 
Mention. 
Mrs. Emma Hutchinson of Michigan City took an Hon- 
orable Mention on a medium sized vase with heavy gold geo- 
metries forming oblong medallions that are inlaid with delicate 
blue grey daisy like color forms with smaller flowers that are 
in lighter accents. Between the gold lines are deep blue forms 
to fill the spaces around the neck, altogether a very successful 
creation. 
CONVENTIONAL CLASS 
Seldom do we meet anything in etched gold done by an 
amateur worker that is at all successful. The First Prize of 
Conventional Work went to Miss Bessie L. Hill of Huron, 
S. D. This chop platter richly deserves this award, not 
only because the work is so good, but because the design is 
practical and interesting and well thought out. Geometrical 
forms project into the center of the plate and are held together 
by well considered points of several lines each. On a mat 
gold ground shining forth are small floral sprays in burnished 
gold, and medallion in the center is also interesting. One 
thing might be improved upon, and that is the circular forms 
are rather of a type not altogether true, but this minor 
