HOME ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 
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HOME AETS AND INDUSTRIES. 
ABSTRACT OF LECTURE BY JOHN PHILLIPS. 
(Read 22nd December, 1887.) 
While much is being said in this country about work for the 
unemployed, other countries are doing for us work that we might 
well do for ourselves, thus taking money out of the country that 
we sorely need. 
The Governments of other countries organize new industries 
for their people. English enterprise should be sufficient to 
enable English people to follow the example of foreign Govern- 
ments. To some small extent this has already been done. How 
to do it has been well shown by Mrs. Ernest Hart, and the 
Donegal Fund. 
The work of the "Home Arts- and Industries Association" 
is preparing the way. Their system of training educates the 
members of their classes for " supplemental " employments ; these 
classes constitute in fact " continuation schools." 
Through this Association it is perfectly demonstrated that 
English workers are no less apt scholars in art training than 
those of other countries. Work is now being produced in the 
minor arts that meets in quality and price the imported article, 
and yields increased earnings to an increased number of producers. 
The development of new industries, and the revival of old ones 
in country districts, will be greatly assisted by the practical 
application of recent scientific discoveries, in regard to the 
distribution of motive power, through the agency of electricity 
and of compressed air. A central station on the banks of a 
river where now the water runs to waste, could generate sufficient 
power to supply surrounding villages. 
The import of articles in metal, wood, pottery, and textile 
fabrics is very large, and the trade in such goods with the colonies 
increasing. The supply of this increasing demand can be readily 
