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KERAMIC STUDIO 
T EAGUE There is a most interesting annual report 
NOTES ° f the Advisory Board now printed, ready for 
the members. Upon receipt of ten cents, the 
Secretary or President will mail one. This small charge is 
simply to defray the printer's bill. The report is twenty-four 
pages, and is most interesting, and is nicely gotten up. Each 
member should have one. 
There will be a meeting of the Advisory Board of the 
League held at Mrs. Osgood's residence, 402 Madison street, 
Brooklyn, November 17th. 
Schedule for circulating letters for December, carried out 
by clubs of the National League of Mineral Painters: 
New York writes to Columbus. 
Detroit receives letter from Boston. 
Bridgeport writes to Indianapolis. 
Brooklyn writes to Denver. 
Wisconsin writes to Jersey City. 
Providence receives letter from Chicago. 
Columbus receives letter from New York. 
Jersey City receives letter from Wisconsin. 
Duquesne receives letter from National League. 
Indianapolis receives letter from Bridgeport. 
Chicago writes to Providence. 
Denver receives letter from Brooklyn. 
Boston writes to Detroit. 
San Francisco writes to Washington. 
Washington receives letter from San Francisco. 
Miss Leta Horlocker and Miss Eugenie Gangloff are 
going to take a party of ladies and gentlemen to Europe. 
Three weeks will be spent in Paris. This is Miss Gangloff' s 
fourteenth trip to Europe with parties. For particulars and 
itineraire apply to Miss Horlocker, 28 East 23d street, New 
York. 
TN THE Miss Jeanne M. Stewart, who has made 
^TTTDTn^ so man y fi ne stu dies for us, has returned from 
her summer in California with about forty 
new designs of the frui' and flowers of that generous State. 
She has resumed her classes in the Marshall Field Building, 
Chicago. 
Miss Louisa M. Powe of Wells College has returned from 
her summer trip abroad. She writes that she was disap 
pointed in not seeing more in the keramic line. She repeats 
Miss Shaw's observation that good amateur or professional 
work on china is not to be seen abroad except in the factories. 
We quote a few passages from her letter which may be of 
interest to our readers: "We spent half a day at Sevres where 
the fine collection of large and important pieces, with their 
bold forms and colors, harmonized by perfect taste and long 
experience, was somewhat a surprise to one who had been 
accustomed to associate the name of Sevres with a high key 
in color ; and the admirable room where were shown many 
specimens of antique wares, carefully selected and arranged, 
afforded keenest gratification. * * * At Interlachen I 
found a great deal of the majolica made at Thun, at the other 
end of one of the lakes, between which the town stands. It 
is a coarse glazed ware, chiefly colored with a dull but agree- 
able blue, or a dull warm red, suggesting mahogany. The 
edelweiss motif is used in white raised decoration, with in- 
cised outline filled with black. This motif is found on every 
piece I noticed, always gracefully conventionalized and com- 
bined with geometric border designs. The shapes of pitchers 
and vases were extremely pleasing." 
Classes in Plastic Design have jurt been opened under the 
auspices of the Y. W. C. A., 7 East Fifteenth street, New 
York, for self-supporting women, or women intending to be 
self-supporting. The cost of tuition is merely nominal: $15 
and $10 for the entire year. Any one interested in making 
her own unique designs for underglaze would do well to look 
into this work. The teaching is along the lines of "New 
Methods in Education," by Prof. Tadd. The leading educa- 
tional society of Germany says, "One generation of American 
youth brought up under the universal application of these 
methods of education will produce the artist-artisan and your 
exports will then excel in finish, beauty and art attributes, as 
they now do in quantity and bulk." 
Miss Harriette R. Strafer has opened a studio in the 
Monroe Building, 9-13 East 59th street, and is prepared to 
receive orders in miniatures on ivory. Miss Strafer has 
studied and exhibited in Paris. She has also done very clever 
work at the Rookwood pottery, with which she was connected 
for seven years. The KERAMIC Studio wishes success to 
this versatile and talented artist. 
Miss M. Helen E. Montfort gave a studio exhibition and 
sale of her work, November 4th. Miss Pierce, who is one of 
her assistants, is doing very good work in the conventional 
designs of flowers, paste and enamels. 
Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols is receiving pupils now in 
water colors. Her work at the New York Water Color Club 
exhibition is delightfully refreshing. Mrs. Mary Alley Neal 
has also a charming bit of New England scenery on the line 
at this exhibition. 
The leading keramists are all busy now in their studios, 
preparing for exhibitions and Christmas orders. 
Miss A. S. Tukey has invited friends to her studio to 
hear a " Heraldic Reading of ye Olden Time." Miss Tukey 
is making a specialty of heraldry. 
Mrs. Clara Taylor, who has just opened a studio in St. 
Louis, is returning to New York unexpectedly, and will con- 
tinue her work there until her return to St. Louis in December. 
