Show Those Monotonous Decorations TOte ad 0 Tom The G. A. decorations as the people and but they were without special beauty or meaning except that the white and blue colors signify the country and its it seems to us that these decorations were very wretchedly historically and financially a great altogether these decorations simply showed the lack of good taste and the loss of a magnificent opportunity to do something worth For one front could have been devoted to flags the another to those of the others to the flags and emblems of the various nationalities of the Every person who hails from some other land should have not merely permitted and encouraged to mingle the na- 1 lional colors of his own country with the stars and but should have been invited and even pressed to do Every nation could just as well have been represented in the The flags of other nations of be grouped around that of our own which would be the central In some cases a series of fronts could be made to culminate in one higher front of some tall building from which the stars and stripes would float above all the latter leading up to it in some artistic ome buildings could be grouped in threes one to be decorated in another in the third in Other buildings could bo similarly grouped leading up to the American eagle with the animal emblems of other countries surrounding and looking as it to the bird of the annual or flower em of each State should have been displayed at each of the several State Around these could been the flower and animal emblems of other Now all of this could bo done without in any way detracting from the main objects of honor the flags and colors of the United Ity means of proper in such a way as to subordinate the colors of foreign there would be no other thought than the exaltation of the emblems of the even while the friendly relation of other nations to our own would be suggested by the tasteful grouping of the The decorations could have been made very instructive and and they would have been much more effective because of the interest and curiosity that would have attached to them as well as because of their beauty and We admit that we arc as proud of our own glorious flag as any one else dare wc also admit that art is not one of our specialties but when the monotonous re- petition of the and blue stretched for miles upon every no one eared to see more than one small sample of the decorations because they were practically all On the other had anything artistic and historical been even nearly everyone would have tried to see the various and it would have been worth their Several spots in the decorations were fairly the covering of the entire interior of the dome-shaped roof of the Tabernacle was the happiest of all and was artistic in many as well as though it must have deadened the sound of the singing and the music given in the Taken decorations answered very and we suppose they were up to the average of other hut they fell so far short of the remarkable series of spectacles that the same amount of bunting and flags might have been made to that we hope something the kind suggested herein may be tried on similar occasions in the |