lUeelily gbemawa American
VOL. IX. . JULY 13; 190(3 ' No. 17
Art in Industry
What is art?
' We do not need to look in the book
for a definition. Art nowadays is visible
all aboiit us, in almost everything we
use. It is to be seen not alone in the pic
tures on the wall,' in the form and orna
mentation of public buildings and pri
vate houses, 'andin the humblest things
we use in the form and ornaments of the
lamp, at which we sit to read, in the legs
and cover of the table, in the - pitcher
from which we pour a drink of water,
and the tumbler from which we drink it,
in the handle of a boy's jacknife, in the
pattern of a girl's calico'gown.
It is impossible to escape the applica
tion of art lo industry: the -farmer sees
it in the design painted on his lumber
wagon, and his wife sees it in the castings
upon her kitchen stove and. in the backs
and legs of her kitchen chairs.
The making of a lumber wagon or a
kitchen stove, even supposing there was
no attempt, to make one of these useful
aiticlesa thing. pleasant to: look at, would
) an ''art," according to the dictionary
'definition ; but nowadays when we speak
of the employment of art in industry we
mean something else; -we mean the at
tempt not only to render beautiful to the
. eye objects which are made wholly to be
beautiful or pleasing, like a. painted pic
ture wa bit of sculpture, but also to ren
der .those, beautiful in some degree which
are made to be useful first of all. Ex.
Salem July Fourth
- ..One of the divisions of yesterday's pro
cession which called forth much, favor
able comment-was the battalion. of cadets
from the Chemawa Indian -Training
school, which formed the escort of the
states and Miss Columbia float. The.
.boys, over two ..hundred strong, were
formed-in companies graded according
to size, and their movements, were mark
ed rby. the regularity and precision of
drilled veterans. . Their uniforms were
neat, clean -and well fitting and they
made a -fine showing.-;: The officers of
the school, and the boys themselves, are
entitled to the thanks of Salem for their
generous contribution to the day's pleas
ure. .Salem Statesman.
It is a mistake to stop at . teaching a
lesson once. After 'instructions, test;
after test, drill; after drill, review; after
review, review again and continue to
drill until the subject is worked into the
bone.