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KERAMC STUDIO 
times the various forms are treated flat, like the Egyptian 
but more often modelled slighty and rounded like modern 
western decoration. 
PLATE BY MISS VILAS 
Application This is adapted from the design No. 2. 
to Modern ^ n tne OI "ig ma l the entire surface background 
p as well as scroll is covered with a fine tracery 
** of flowers similar to Fig. 3, the dark part of 
the design being green, the medium shade brown, and the 
light part bright yellow. The entire design is outlined in flat 
gold. 
VASE BY MRS. ROBIN EAU. 
This is a simple adaptation of the design used as a head- 
ing to the article on Historical Ornament. The color scheme 
is carried out to suit your own taste, the design outlined in 
flat or raised gold as desired, the enamels colored or white to 
harmonize with your color scheme. We would suggest bright 
yellow, olive, mauve and green, with the enamels in white. 
The colors are given in order from light to dark as represented 
in the design. 
Women's ingenuity and artistic skill have scored another 
victory, this time in Boston. A young woman in that 
city has during the past year laid the foundation for a fortune 
by repairing valuable pieces of glassware, china, porcelain and 
statuary. She repaired $300,000 worth of goods in twelve 
months, and secured 10 per cent of the value of the articles 
as payment for her work. 
The young woman began by getting from a large depart- 
ment store the privilege of repairing all their broken china, 
etc., and to take orders from customers of the store. Her 
field of work broadened very quickly, and the Art Museum 
made a contract with her to repair its many pieces of shat- 
tered pottery. The lot included many rare vases and other 
articles unearthed in Europe and which often reached the 
Museum in almost a thousand pieces. Weeks are sometimes 
spent on a single article, and the utmost care and skill are 
necessary in accomplishing the work. One of the last pieces 
repaired by this young woman was a glass urn from the Nile 
Valley, which is of almost priceless value. When it came to 
the Museum it was in over 600 fragments, and great difficulty 
was found in handling some of the minute particles. It is 
now apparently flawless, and its wonderful beauty and shape 
seem never to have been marred by a single crack. Scarcely 
a trace of the mending is to be seen. 
The young woman is, of course, an artist, but she has also 
much mechanical skill and inventive genius— two necessary 
factors in such work. She uses a particularly fine cement, 
made from the albumen of eggs and mixed with evaporated 
whey. This cement resists heat and moisture, and maintains 
its strength for all time. And for her ability in this direction 
her income each year exceeds that of the Mayor of her city 
or the Governor of the State. — China, Glass and Pottery. 
