Show Art in Industry What is art We do not need to look in the books for a definition Art now days is visible all about us in almost everything we use It is to be seen not alone in pictures on the walls in the form and ornamentation of public buildings and private houses and in articles worn for personal adornment It is in the humbltKt things we usein the form and ornaments of the himn at which we sit to read in the legJ and cover of the table in the pitcher from which we pour > a drink of water and the tumbler from < which we drink it in the handle of a boys jackknife gown in the pattern of a girls calico I It is impossible t escape the application of art to industry the farmer see it in the design painted on his lumber wagon and I his wife sees it in the castings upon her 1 Wtchen stove and in the backs and legs of her kitchen chairs I The making of a lumber wagon or a kitchen stove even supposing there was no I attempt to make either one of those useful i articles a thing pleasant to look at would be an art according to the dictionary i definition but nowadays when we speak of the employment of art in industry wd mean something else we mean the attempt not only to render beautiful to the eye objects ob-jects which are made wholly to be beautiful beauti-ful or pleasing like a p intell picture or a bit of sculpture but also to render those beautiful in some degree which are made in to Youths be useful Companion first of nllJ E Chamberlin |