V 
I1ERAMIC STUDIO 
THE first meeting of the new Advisory Board of the League 
was held on May 23. The annual routine business was 
transacted, and the new committees were elected. The subject 
of greatest interest to the clubs in general, was the appointing 
of Miss Mary Chase-Perry, of Detroit, as chairman of the 
Educational Committee. 
Miss Perry has a wide knowledge of clubs, of their inter- 
ests and aims, and brings to this position enthusiasm as well 
as knowledge. 
There was a general feeling in the board, which was em- 
phasized by the many letters received from the various clubs, 
that the plans for the coming year should follow closely the 
lines of the last. The plans will be put forth earlier this year 
in order that the members may have more time to carry out 
their ideas, many having expressed the greatest interest in the 
work, and regretted their inability to join the ranks owing to 
the shortness of the notice. 
As the exhibit has not yet travelled far on its way, it is 
too early to say anything about the actual reception, but the 
preliminary letters, without exception, are very gratifying, and 
the outlook for a larger and better exhibition next year most 
promising. 
The wish of the board and the committee is to foster 
original work, and the requirements will have to be rigidly 
maintained in order to lift our standard. 
In this, the first communication of the new president, a 
personal word may perhaps be allowed. I only wish to ask 
the co-operation of all the members of the League in aiding 
this new administration. With members so widely scattered 
and with such an amount of clerical work, eating into the 
limited time of a busy woman, it will be a difficult matter to 
convince every one that the president is interested, not only 
in every club, but the individuals as well, so I take this oppor- 
tunity to express my sincere interest and to beg your indul- 
gence for any seeming neglect. 
All suggestions will be most gratefully received and 
placed before the board, which is only striving to work for the 
best interests of all. 
With cordial greetings to all, I am most sincerely yours, 
Ida A. Johnson, President of N. L. M. P. 
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The Portland Club of Keramic Arts gave 
a dinner to Mrs. E. D. Eastman, the former 
president of the club, who has just returned 
from an extensive tour in Egypt. Mrs. Eastman is an 
enthusiastic Egyptologist and belongs to the Egyptian Soci- 
ety of the United States. The dinner cards and all accesso- 
ries were of Egyptian design and color, made by members of 
the club, especially for the occasion. The arrangements re- 
flected great credit upon the committee in charge, but the 
feature of the occasion was the informal talk on Egypt by 
Mrs. Eastman, who illustrated her remarks with rare souve- 
nirs, teak bottles centuries old, beads of amber, photographs, 
and a full costume of an Egyptian woman in which she ar- 
rayed one of the members. 
C LUB 
NOTES 
A new club has sprung into existence, the outcome of 
Mrs. Leonard's private class in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They 
call themselves the " Leonard Club of Keramic Arts," and 
gave their first exhibition and reception the fourth of June, 
at the residence of Mrs. Henry Haines. It was interesting to 
see the result of the year's work, as this little club of workers 
is pursuing a certain line of study, most of the work being 
done away from the class, which has within its membership a 
few who never painted before, but the result was most sur- 
prising and gratifying to those who were capable of judging. 
Much of the success was also due to the good firing by Miss 
Kate Thompson at whose studio the class has met. 
The Jersey City Keramic Art Club spent the day of June 
fifth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The morning 
then was devoted to the study of porcelains with Mrs. Leon- 
ard. This energetic club will spend another day this month 
at the Volkmar pottery, when Mr. Volkmar will explain the 
process of modeling, glazing and firing. 
The Mineral Art Club of Denver, held its 13th annual 
exhibition in the Brown Palace Hotel, May 6th, 7th, 8th and 
9th, opening with an invitation evening on the 6th and con- 
tinuing open to the public on the following dates. One of 
the features which proved interesting was a set of " Columbine 
plates" decorated by members of the club, of which there 
were twenty-one. There was a special jury to pass on them 
and then the public was invited to vote, each individual being 
handed a slip as he entered and the vote deposited in a ballot 
box. At the close of the exhibition the ballots were counted 
and the sealed verdict of the jury opened. The results were 
as follows: 
( 1st choice No. 13, Mrs. C. B. Sanborn. 
Jury. J 2d choice No. 4, Miss Ida C. Failing. 
( 3d choice No. 15, Mrs. E. L. Hubbert. 
f~ 1st choice No. 4, Miss Ida C. Failing. 
Public. -J 2d choice No. 15, Mrs. E. L. Hubbert. 
[_ 3d choice No. 20, Mrs. C. B. Sanborn. 
(The names were not known until after the voting.) 
This showed that the public choice and the jurv were 
almost identical. There were no prizes offered, the only 
object being to see how near a jury and public opinion would 
agree. The exhibition throughout showed an improvement 
in all branches of the work. 
The Mineral Art Club of Denver, held its annual election 
of officers on Monday, May 26th, resulting in the election of 
the following: Mrs. E. L. Hubbert, President; Miss Jennie 
Brown, Vice-President; Mrs. F. E. Warren, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 
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