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KERAMIC STUDIO 
colors are really wonderful, and if they came from across the 
water, they would create a sensation : as it is they are gaining 
new and lasting friends all the time, which may after all be the 
better way of winning fame. 
Mrs. Keeler had a small exhibit, but extremely dainty; 
one cup and saucer with a pale grey background, relieved only 
by a decoration of white enamel was artistic, but so quiet in 
effect that many passed it without noticing it. 
WILD CARROTS— MARSHAL FRY, Je. 
Mr. Fry's exhibit was poorly lighted, but it was just as 
artistic as ever. There was a variety in decoration, and just 
the same harmonious blending of color, which is the despair 
of all his imitators. We specially liked his handling of pine 
cones in the browns, and his roses. His work was superbly 
fired. 
Mrs. Fry exhibited a beautiful plate with raised gold 
flowers and vine combined with his delighted miniature roses, 
as a visitor said, " it out-Fryed the Frys." 
Miss M. M. Mason had a large and varied exhibit, show- 
ing she had profited by her summer sketches. We liked her 
treatment of the trumpet vine and a vase with the fleur-de-lis, 
which did not show to advantage until seen in a strong light, 
when the " quietness and goodness" of it was greatly appre- 
ciated. 
Miss Elizabeth Mason had some striking things in 
enamels and her designs were well adapted, and well drawn. 
A cup and saucer tinted in a soft ivory with a band of dull 
gold, containing a Persian motif, was very good indeed — ex- 
cellent. Her tea set in oriental style was particularly pleas- 
ing and admirably executed, as were her designs in enamels. 
If only more of our "painters" would become "decora- 
tors." 
Miss Allen exhibited a mushroom set, which was one of 
the first things sold. She is paiticularly successful in her fine 
pen work in gold, and with such skill we wish she would "go 
in for the conventional." 
Mrs. Phillip's work shows great improvement and it was 
especially pleasing to see that the figure work treated pictor- 
ially was painted on slabs and framed as a picture should be. 
Her handling of draperies and textiles is good. 
Miss Scammel exhibited an ambitious punch bowl (which 
was much admired) with lustres and dragons in raised gold 
very admirably executed. There was a band of currants in- 
side, also admirably painted, but which was not in keeping 
with the Japanese treatment outside. 
A very difficult thing to do, is to decorate a bowl so that 
the outside and inside hold together as one decoration. Study 
the Chinese and Japanese decorations ! 
Miss Horlocker showed a beautiful set of after dinner 
coffee cups. There was a band of green on the upper edge, 
which was cut into by a conventional design of hawthorn 
blossoms and steins in white and faint pink. This was a dear 
little bit of coloring, the green being so luminous and the 
blossoms so simple and clean. Her yellow roses on a jar 
were well placed and were particularly clear and transparent 
without being in the least hard against a fine background of 
browns and yellow. 
A stein in warm, rich reds was immensely decorative, 
with berries simply treated, that seemed under all this color. 
It was more in the nature of a monochrome. 
Miss Frances Marquard had a very choice exhibit, there 
was a bowl with conventional design in green lustres, and also 
a placque with a Japanese treatment of butterflies on a gold 
background that was noticeably good. Mrs. Calhoun had 
some small plates exquisitely painted. 
Miss Mary Taylor who was chairman of the Exhibition 
Committee, unselfishly allowed her arduous duties in that 
capacity to interfere with her own exhibit, and therefore had 
nothing that was truly representative of her best style. She 
is making a serious study of miniature work. 
Miss Fanny Neal had two vases with bird decoration, 
most beautifully painted. 
Mr. Sharadin's jug with the corn decoration was well 
painted, but the decorative effect was spoiled by the unac- 
countable splash of red on one side. 
Why is it that decorators are so fond of a clouding of 
red, whether with violets, roses, iris, or anything that grows? 
It is nearly always a fatal thing to do, and this we see run- 
ning through all the exhibitions. 
Many of the exhibitors were disappointed in not receiv- 
ing their work from the Omaha Exhibition, which had been 
there during the summer. The delivery of this work had 
been promised much earlier, and these members had counted 
upon their exhibits, to represent them here. There was 
much indignation felt, as of course it means a financial loss as 
well — the chance of sale being lost. 
