North End how to make the coarsest 
pillow lace. From this humble begin- 
ning she has studied out the way of mak- 
ing the most exquisite laces and has 
taught a class of girls under the auspices 
of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts 
and is prepared to mend rare old laces 
as well as make new. 
The whole movement has a great in- 
fluence over manufacturers as is seen by 
the various textiles, furniture and decora- 
tive articles for sale now. Look through 
the advertising pages of any of the best 
known magazines and see how many of 
the advertisements have the names, 
Arts and Crafts,’’ ‘* Handicraft,’ 
Craftsman,’’ and the like attached. 
This is one of the signs that the man- 
ufacturers have noted the desire for Arts 
and Crafts articles and are promptly re- 
sponding. Some of these are really good 
—some merely seem good at first glance. 
The craze for mission house furniture 
and textiles is still another sign of the in- 
fluence. Inthe rebound from the fussy 
overdecoration of twenty years ago peo- 
ple have in some instances swung too far 
and clumsiness and weight serve to label 
anything “‘ Mission’’ or ‘‘ Craftsman.’’ 
Even the advertisements themselves 
have caught the spirit and are in them- 
selves quite artistic. 
Educators have realized that the boys 
and girls needed training with the hand 
as well as the brain, and that the two 
should work together. 
As a result manual training schools and 
departments have been established in 
connection with every up-to-date and 
thoughtful school system. Our own 
town schools give a splendid example of 
what is being done in such lines. Sew- 
ing and cutting of garments as well as 
drawing and design for the girls; work 
in wood, brass and leather for the boys. 
Articles are made with thought for 
both use and beauty and the designer and 
workman are in most cases combined in 
the same boy. What is being done here 
is done in thousands of schools all over. 
the land to a greater or lesser degree. 
The factories give boys and girls no 
chance to learn design or workmanship. 
So the great need is for schools which 
shall teach a trade from start to finish; in 
other words, make Craftsmen. Massa- 
chusetts has such a school in the Lowell 
Textile school. There boys are taught 
the treating of the raw material, dyeing 
and its chemistry, weaving and the de- 
signing of the fabrics, the machinery and 
the production of the finished fabric. 
A department of design has recently been 
established for girls, which should prove 
useful in training for craftsmanship 
Many of these hand-crafts are taught 
to the blind in the state institute, and 
thus those who would otherwise be de- 
pendent are given a means of expression 
of their art and a chance to earn a liveli- 
hood. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Handicraft studios have sprung up 
mushroom like all over the country, and 
in each one, some one is trying to do 
something well, and in all, beautiful 
things are for sale. 
The movement has hada great influ- 
ence inthe homes, and more beautiful 
things, and fewer ugly ones are found in 
the majority of homes. Articles are 
chosen for their true worth and use, 
rather than because they are gaudy or 
** the thing.’’ 
Whether the movement is to be per- 
manent and prove a success, depends to 
a great extent upon the purchasing pub- 
lic. If we buy with discrimination and 
refuse the tawdry, cheap, imitation trash 
that is put out by manufacturers as 
** Arts and Crafts Goods ’’—then those 
true craftsmen who must live by. their 
craft will be encouraged to go on to bet- 
ter work, and we shall have the Arts and 
Crafts with us permanently and not just 
as a fad. 
Thomas Carlyle saysof buying: **‘No 
good man did, or ever should encourage 
cheapness at the ruinous expense of un- 
fitness, which is always infidelity, and is 
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If I> want an 
dishonorable to a man. 
article, let it be genuine, at whatever 
price; if the price is too high for me, I 
will go without it, unequipped with it for 
the present—I shall not have equipped 
myself with hypocrisy, at any rate. 
This, if you will reflect, is primarily the 
rule of all purchasing and all producing 
men. ‘They are hot permitted to en- 
courage, patronize, or in any form, 
countenance the working, weaving or 
acting of hypocrisy in this world.”’ 
We have noted how craftsmanship 
rose and attained its glory in medieval 
times—then its slow decadence and later 
its supercedence by the factories. To- 
day in the midst of the rebirth and look- 
ing forward to years of prosperity for 
good craftsmen and the love of Aonest 
well made things, let us listen to Lowell’s 
thought on honest work. 
**T’m older’n you, an’ J’ve seen things an’ 
men,, 
An’ my €%perience,—tell ye what it’s ben; 
Folks thet worked thorough was the ones thet 
thriv’, 
But bad work follers ye, es long’s ye live; 
Ye can’t git red on ’t; jest ez sure ez sin, 
It’s allers askin’ to be done again.”’ 
—James Russell Lowell, (Bigelow Papers.) 
