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Last May a local art league was formed to put works of art in the school rooms on scientific and artistic principles. It costs fifty cents an- nually for adults and ten cents for school children to become members. The league has a large and growing membership, and we wish every adult and schoolchild were membera, so that the League could push it’s work rapidly tertwo or three yearutill the rooms are fairly well decorated. The idea is to give all the children, rich and poor alike. some fundamental ideas of true art as their school course progresses, and all this without trenching on their regular school work. It is all the art culture some children will ever get, and if it does no more than create a disgust for the whole set of coarse. and often vile pictures of the daily and other pa- pers, it will be a valuable result. ‘ We spent half an hour yesterday morning with Mrs. Vail (President of the League), looking over the work already done, and were surprised at the results. We found in the hall ten photographs of Thorwalsden’s baa-reliefs, presented by President Everett of the school board. Mr. F. C. Brown. gave two fine pictures of the American company's' ‘steamsbips and $5.00 in cash, and others have done more or less. In the main hall as you enter is a fine-copy of the Winged Victory. In the first grade is the series of the Proceséion of the Flowers, so that the little children are taught to follow the flowers all through the season. In the second room, is Raphael’s St. Cecelia and for statuary, the Flying Mercury. In the third are Breton‘s Lay of the Lark and Barye’s Lion, as choice a little bit of statuary as We hate seen. In the fourth are Lion's Cattle in the Highlands. very fine. and Barye‘s has-relief of Singer Boy. In the fifth. the Sistine Madonna and anoth- er Barye‘s Lion. In the sixth. water color of St. Marks in Venice. In the seventh, Venetian water colors and baa-reliefs. and in the eighth. a choice Guido’s Aurora. The executive cormnittee. besides the president, MissCushmun, are Mrs. H. C. Street and Thomas T. Watson. and they have done lots of hard work. Next week there will be in the Chicago Art lnstitute an exhibit of art work by the city school child- ren. and they want our eighth grade to see it. They have a scheme also for some extra fine decorations in the eighth room. For the shorl lime the league has done remarkably well: let them he encouraged. ans. 32 wmkx for «me dollar. i Tln. Sheet-Iron and Furnace Work Done to Order. ART IN OUR SCHOOLS. THE HIGHLANfi‘YAmngws. MRS. A. BOCK, Fancy firoceries, Dry Goods and Crockery. BOOTS mo SHOES. Fruit! and Vegetables Received Dilly. . A. KUIST, Goods the Best. Prices are Reasonable. Stoves, Ranges: Housekeeping Goods. DEALER 'N H A RDWARE9 Highland Park. Illinois. TJcphonc 54. Good: Delivered Free 0! Charge. MIGMLA ND PA RR. mearnmxmmmmnm