Show DESIGNERS WOMEN HO LEAD THEIR SEX IN FIELDS OF industrial ART mr candace wheeler 11 to enable gentlewomen lo 10 help 1 abat florence W cory end mr donlap copyright by american association the movement toward opening new avenues of employment for women has made great progress of lato years and among those who aro to be credited with MRS CANDACE especially efficient work in this direction are mrs candace wheeler mrs florence W cory and mrs ellen danlag hopkins nearly twenty beare ago mrs candace wheeler organized a society of decorative art which may regarded as the well spring of operative cooperative co work among women workers in the united states wheeler was born at delhi N and was remarkable from her earliest years for her artistic temperament which was supplemented time went on by philanthropic spirit and executive abilities that must find some outward expression although reared in easy circum married early to a prosperous business man mrs wheeler saw in many instances among her friends the necessity of some movement being made which would enable gentlewomen aass fortunate than herself to turn their talents and accomplishments to a practical further their and place the fruits of their labor before the public she formed a society that soon had branches in every state and it is to her sympathy and enterprise that he aisters of kindred tastes aro indebted for the exchanges and decorative art societies that afford them either an entire source of livelihood or a means of supplementing a limited income about a dozen years ago encouraged by the success that had attended tho initial movement for the benefit of her sex mrs wheeler formed the society of associated artists an enterprise conducted on business principles devoted to interior decoration tapestries embroidered by a method of her own devising designing of wall paper and textiles yet serving a double purpose in making it the medium of feminine workers whereby they could demonstrate kneir abilities to compete with men in the field of technical design and afford them also an opportunity of creating a school of art that should possess national characteristics many palatial homes of american plu toccata have been decorated by designs of mrs wheeler carried out by her corps of forty sister workers the rich textiles employed woven by american manufacturers which stamps her as being not only of philanthropic but patriotic tendencies mrs wheeler is on the sunny ide of fifty egweet voiced gentle mannered with a personality combining strength and sweetness in an unusual degree in 1880 florence W cory who may claim the distinction of being the first woman carpet designer in the world established her school of industrial art that now numbered in regular attendants and correspondence pupils members the sunny haired bright faced little woman has been known to manufacturers as the pioneer feminine worker in the capacity of a practical designer for many years bom in syracuse and reared in oswego she married when the was scarcely out of her teens and became a widow early in her twenties the necessity of either returning to the parental roof or formulating some plan of work which would eventually make her self supporting was a question which confronted her and it was at this period when contemplating an ugly carpet in the house of a friend she received the inspiration that has evolved itself into a life work and she determined to become a designer it was then spring and the doors of cooper institute where she expected to receive the necessary tuition were W CORY closed until the autumn but the youn woman plodded on during the interior ir by herself drawing designs raveling out bits of carpet puzzling over the in trica cies of the weaving the number ol 01 threads involved the repetition of th colors and various other technicalities while mrs cory found she profited ir p the eloquent silence and the glance 0 the eye and tho toss cf the head gener illy suffice to give the children at lea an inkling of what the mother ehe is so honorably keeping to herself but there are other women in walks of life alio may leavo use for lot aya favorite motto or who put to taca delves the cynical query Is it better to shut up or pay up households are there where questions of want are not raised sina money is abundant and alie luxury s life assured but few people feel contented to follow pauls edict A at bisa afa A ing food ana raiment therewith ir content not oven when houses an bankbooks added for these dabols especially the female half rt them contend that the luxuries of ono age are the necessities of tho next and that far from being content with food and raiment houses and bankbooks they count all those as naught and less than naught if they are not accompanied by sympathy delicate consideration harmony of temper and taste and that and sweet content only to found in congenial companionship these women having married an ideal hero of their own imagining and suddenly waking to the consciousness that they have played upon themselves just such a trick as did titania when sho crowned an with flowers when their dream of bliss all of a sudden resolves itself into an eternity of woo naturally seek to ease the shock of the discovery by an outcry more or less audible and it is very natural that they should do you happen to know that the surgeons aver the deadly effects of pain to be very much mitigated by outcries one of the most diabolical refinements of torture in athe inquisition was to gag the victim that he remained perforce mute men have thus died under suffering they might have sustained had nature been allowed her freo course and so with the woman who feels that life has become too complex and too painful to be governed by the girls motto of mume the word matters have come to such a head with her that the question now is can I 1 pay up and if I 1 cannot what then why alie alternative ter native is shut up and most women some of them with full intention and some of them with the defensive instinct that makes even a dove peck at tho cruel hand that squeezes it will begin the process of paying up by telling out their causes of complaint and their intimate enemy to an open shame I 1 say open for it is sure to become so even though at first the secret is only breathed in tho car of an intimate friend or even told in the confessional some cynic inquires why should you expect your friend to keep your secret when you could not keep it yourself and why indeed perhaps it is not only told to one intimate friend perhaps it is to several to everybody to the newspapers to the divorce court in either way or in all waya it effects its purpose and the unhappy and wronged wife weak and timid though she ishaya ispaya up her tyrant better than she could with even the six shooter or bowie of western friend do you blame her having shut up as long as she was able is she not right to pay up in alie end I 1 think so cares congas sore sold ly all on a guarantee 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