Studio: international art (17.1899)

The National Competition

but in other London exhibitions of students’
work. The designs of such accomplished and
enterprising competitors as Hilda Pemberton,
Katherine Coggin, Edith J. Pickett, and Isabel
McBean have already been represented in these
pages. They are now reinforced by the no less

admirable talent of Maude M. Ackery and Kate
Allen, Lilian F. Baxter, and Charles Willett.
Miss Ackery’s silver toast-rack is both novel and
beautiful in decoration, and has the great merit of
table-ware in being easily polished and cleaned.
Those who have wrestled with toast-racks, sugar-
tongs, ornate jug-handles,
and similar instruments of
torture to the kitchenmaid,
will be doubly appreciative
of all that makes for sim-
plicity in the appoint-
ments of the dining-room.
The designs for electric
bell-pushes by Charles R.
Willett and Lilian Baxter
are ingenious and pretty,
and show a wise applica-
tion of taste to the develop-
ments of modern life.
There seems no reason
why the bell of commerce,
or at the porch of the
“ house beautiful ” in r899,
should be less worthy of
aesthetic treatment than
the gong or the tocsin of
old. These are intended
for silver or bronze; the
latter is always to be pre-
ferred for exterior uses
where the bell-fittings will
be tarnished by weather,
and where the cook in her
zeal will surround them
with a halo of cleanliness,
on the paint which comes
under the morning rub.

The designs for jewel-
lery by the same group of
students are very com-
mendable for simplicity
and purity of style; and
in the case of enamels a
true and delicate feeling
for colour is apparent.
Kate Allen well deserves
her silver medal for her
dainty clasps and buckles,
and Hilda Pemberton,
Lilian Baxter, and Isabel
McBean send similarly
good work. The silver
chatelaines designed by

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