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is a real salve for one's conscience as the scissors commit the 
sacrilege. One may find many beautiful stitches on the old 
samplers and so a study of them is profitable. We have much 
in this country because of the large influx of foreign people. 
A most remarkable exhibition of woven and handworked arti- 
cles was shown by our Newark Museum last winter, called 
"Homelands Exhibition." The children in the public schools 
were asked to interest their parents and there was a most 
generous response. Out of ninety thousand school children 
about seventy per cent, are foreign so there was a great wealth 
of material to draw upon. Treasures from the old' country 
many of them brought over years ago were shown. A spin- 
ning wheel, a large wool wheel and a loom were exhibited. 
A weaver operated the loom at stated hours and was usually 
surrounded by an|interested throng. One late afternoon a 
little old lady came in with her grandchild by the hand, 
She moved from case to case looking at the various objects, 
until her progress about the room brought her to the spin- 
ning wheel. In an instant her aged face was aglow, and 
ejaculating something in an unknown tongue, regardless of 
the attendants or the "hands off" sign, she slipped under the 
ropes, and in a twinkling her foot was on the treadle and the 
wheelwhirring as she held the bit of flax between her knotted 
fingers. No one stopped her, and in joy she sat there and spun. 
The wheel had bridged the space between the present and 
those old days back in the far off homeland, and once more 
she was the happy young peasant woman of the long ago. 
The Museum people became much interested in her and each 
day during the rest of the exhibit she came and spun to the 
delight of thousands of people who visited the galleries. 
Perhaps here is an idea for you in your home town. Ar- 
range an exhibit of samplers and handwoven things and if 
you want to charge admission give the proceeds to the Red 
Cross for their great work. 
JARDINIERE 
Ada Maud Chapin 
IN the design for the Belleek jardiniere I have shown the 
one panel, or one-sixth. I used Miss Mason's Relief 
Enamels, soft Austrian Blue, for all darks, Emerald Green soft 
for medium tone. Flowers, Chinese Rose soft, with small por- 
tion of Best White Enamel. Center of flowers, Imperial 
Yellow soft. 
JARDINIERE— ADA MAUD CHAPIN 
