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Show Iv " V "(5)T W "" " - " v LIJ r . VOL I. Heber, Wasatch County, Utah, Monday, Jui.y 21, 1S90. N05. , THE SIX PRO- WIDE-OPE- N people are already so great that willing to build homes which are beatiful :as well as appropriate and consistent when Stanford .White, design. a Peabody, or a dkirlmy isr asked to plan - a home, he finds himself dealing with a client who appreciates nay, alpiost reverence his taste, and who will spend with a liberal hand to enable the architect to work out a consistent and beautiful whole. And we may yet have a Sir Christopher Wren or a Michael' 'Angelo, for the people are already willing jto build churches, not alone to secure a temple in which to worship, but to produce a thing of beauty and a joy for- ever. )i Nobody has ever deTmed art very skilifuly. It seems to me impossible to do it; but certainly fitness or adaptation to its purpose is the first essential to' the architects plan. Lavish expenditure is by no means necessary;" 'The' cheapest is often the better plan; but harmony, and fitness must, never be sacrificed merely for the . sake of economy. 4V mongthe noblest specimens ..of archite-tur- e which illustrated this principled fitness Some widely different examples might be quoted. There is the magnificent cathedral on Fifth Avenue, New York city, whose spires Jiave just There is also the building of the Jdanhaitan.. Storage Company on East Tortysecond Street in the same .city, most wonderfully perfect for; its purpose, and therefore artistic and J)eautituL lhTo bejcgxtinued. of-ou- FESSIONS. TAKEN FROM HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. r To-da- - There isprobably no greater average in any people of one of artistic-taleage rather than another; but it would be clear to any mind that art could not flourish uhtlil they were purchasers of work of art, and a new country developing great agricultural and mineral resources, avhere the opportunities of makeing money are constantly presen-- ; ted, the crude bnisness spirit overrides ; all considerations except those of utility, and affords little encouragement to talent young men except in its own direction. But as wealth accumulates, and the chances become fewer for rapidily, all this is changed. A brief glance at the history of dtaly, ' Holland, Belgium, and France will showyou that their respective schools of art and architecture sprang up when the people became so wealthy and the opportunities for investment at lucrative rates of interest so few that men. began to loose their greed for gain, and were willing to devote part of their fortunes. to the erection of beautiful homes and the purchase of work of art. The , nt 1 , : make-ingiortun- es ' und - a supply,Ther be- wonderful Felmish school of painting gan to make itself known when the rate of intrest fell in Holland to two and a half per cent per annum. . You will see from all this that here- - after the' architect irr America will have a wiser scope and freer play for his imagination and talents. The, .iiicrecse of means and the improvement in taste y, , been-complet- ? . Advertise irr' the Heber Heraed will pay. ; I v it ed. |