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H0T-WATE! JUGS

DESIGNED BY HAROLD STABLER

executed by tiiomas spark Keswick Class

dents without falling into something like the board-
ing-school routine, in which we know that the young

newspaper rack designed by j. williams

EXECUTED BY T. ADAMS
Five-mile-town Class

lady who exhibited Dignity and Impudence at
Christmas will achieve The Sanctuary in the mid-
summer term. But the committee are for-
tunate in having among ihe class-holders
themselves designers of rare and delightful
ability, such as Miss Mabel de Grey,
Mrs. Carpenter, and Mrs. Hodgson, whose
taste and enthusiasm in the art and craft of
wood-inlay sustains the work of this branch at
a notably high level. In the Pimlico and
Stepney classes and at Bolton-on-Swale some
very careful and effective pieces of decoration
have been done. The best items were a dainty
little workbox in which unimpeachable crafts-
manship by Edward Ford does due honour to
Miss de Grey’s design ; a panel for a dining-
room overmantel by the same artist, laid in rich
but mellow-coloured woods by Lewis Ford ; and
a letter-box with a bright little design of turkeys
by Mrs. Carpenter, carried out by Nathan
Fawell. In the same group must be mentioned
two benches well constructed and decorated by
Arthur Toyer, Geo. Butler, W. and N. Fawell,
and a bookcase by Walter Smales, all from Mrs.
Carpenter’s designs ; also an oak chest with a
very original and humorous design called Scandal
—a group of old women sending gossip by
the birds—designed by Miss de Grey and

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