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Show WOMEN AS DECORATORS j AND DESIGNERS. Interior decorating is a field in which women have met with unparalleled unparal-leled I success during the past few years. At the Fine Arts academy Is to be1, found a whole class of young women studying the art of house fur-i fur-i nlshin3 and wall paper designing. At graduation they are generally able to Becure good poslt'ons with large de- mrtmsrt anA whol.snlp flrrn while the more ambitious go Into business for themselves. By her intuitive sense of color and her quick eye for the fitness of things, the woman decorator is able to combine beauty with utility, yet with perfect harmony as a result. She can transform the homllest room into a thing of beauty, and at not half the expense a man would think necessary, nec-essary, while the deft touch of her feminine fingers will make the most unprepossessing of houses Into the co-siost co-siost of homes. It is only a few years ago that the flipt woman designer of carpets and silks was discovered. A young widow of twenty-one. with a child to support, found herself left In very stralteued circumstances. She was waiting In the parlor of an elegant home when she commenced studying the pattern of the carpet, attracted by Its ugliness and inharmonious coloring. Then the Idea flashed across her brain: "I have found my vocation 1 will design carpets; car-pets; I certainly can Improve on that one." She knew nothing about the work; in fact, she did not know how carpets were made, but her urgent need of earning a living made her determined, and she set to work to master the situation. sit-uation. She experimented on old pieces of carpet, copying their designs, and even unraveled them to fpo how they were made. Finally, she wrote to the largest designer of carpets In tho United States, ask ng the methods using in designing them, and if there was any chance for a woman in such a capacity. . She waa delighted to receive an enthusiastic en-thusiastic reply from tho manager, saying that she was the first one he knew of to suggest that a woman could design carpets, and offered her an opportunity to travel and study the different looms and factories. ' She went from place to place,, meantime studying . at a famous school of do-nlgn. do-nlgn. Later she established the first school of practical design for women ( In America, where women are taught ; to design patterns for carpets, lino- j leume, wall paper, silks and prints. |