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Show Tho Fico Arts and Homa Talent. Salt Laks Cm, Oct. IS, 7d. , It hu3 often been li matter of serious Ihouj-ht when thinking of home productions why it is that a acteuco which is rqml to almost any aud oven superior to some of the arts, is so neglected and its votaries left in obscurity and poverty, unnoticed and forgot too save by a few refined minds who, having a lovo for tho beautiful in nature, will have it condensed and brought within a small compass so that much can be sccu alouoe by the piiinters' brush portraying the beau ideal; of nature's beauties. Any man who wants to make his home comfortable and inviting should endeavor to beautify it and thu Mir rouuJiuyd, if he wants hts wife and I'hiltlren to think that homo i; the brat place in the world and to havt them at home under the a renin! roof, enjoying the bt-.iuiif.il things ho has provided for their comfort com-fort and happiness. Very many homos throughout this territory are lacking in ihtso ihiiiK which, if introduced, would hav a creat tendency to keep our &us :uid daughters under the parental roi'f, auu enjoying many aneotionaie ami beautiful impressions and noblo and inspiring ideas. Often, when tho mother and daughter aro fatigued and depressed with cure by domestic labor and the anxiety of getting their never ending work done, do they dud relief and rest, and their thoughts are lifted above the drudgery of their work by looking on a picture whose subject appeals to their ideality, sublimity, human nature and revcreuce and is their theme of admiration, admi-ration, and how the eye will resume its soft, mellow, loving light aud the whole face become radiant and beam ivith the emotion of love, admiration, aud pleasure at mayhap the remembrance remem-brance of an original face or scene that the picture now brings to them!' Tne object of the writer of this is to try to bring to the surface of the minds of the people the love which he believes is in every man and woman's wo-man's heart to look ou and appreciate appreci-ate tho good and beautiful. What will decorate aud make tho interior of a home more lovable and inviting than good pictures,-the portrait of a ' revered and loved father, mother, sister or brother, or leader of a people, or army, whose goodness is the theme of the family, the community, or the nation; or a loved scene or incident that our remembrances aro conversant conver-sant with; or a likeness of some of earth's beautiful nlarps celebniteJ in our best Bongs; or the scenes of this beautiful earth as it is sometimes contorted, torn, and confuted by the wars of man or the wars 1 of the elements and the vivid lightning as it descends from the black clouds and shivers the masts and sails-of the noblo ship, as it is tossed by the angry waves that form liqaid mountains, threatening to engulf en-gulf the noble craft, with its living human cargo! And there are thousands thous-ands of other subjects figures, the "human face divine," landscapes , architectural, and marine view), which will bring to mind tho histories of man and nations, and of the earth and great ocean, and by possession of those works of art, will we nit make our homes the most inviting of our family resorts, but they will also raise the ambition of the rising generation to emulate some noble , man or woman, or achieve some noble deed or inspire a desire to copy or learn tho art, thereby making a profitable and pleasant employment. employ-ment. And where is the invalid who, forced to lie upon his bed, would not rather have, if only one, a good picture to look upon, than the bare and bleak alls. In a good picture he will have somethinc to attract his gaze, and something to study, thereby taking his mind for a time off the suffering and loneliness, and in reading tiie history of that picture mayhap it will point out hope of better days and their recovery. And what of the bare walls? Is there anything any-thing but poverty and desolation depicted de-picted there? They tend to bring desolation and despair to tho heart of the invalid and an evil foreboding of their recovery, and oftentimes would they wish even by death from thoso desolate and bare walla to be released . We have abundance of home talent in the fine arts who need the patronage patron-age of the people, and who can satisfy the most fastidious in figure, landscape, land-scape, architectural and marine painting". Let us then not leave this noble talent in obscurity and poverty in the days of its usefulness, and like the ancients applaud and give them lame when they are dead, and while tbeylive feed them on chafl and sulfur them and their little ones to go shoeless and naked; but lot us employ their talent aud give them the comforts com-forts ol life and they will appreciate a beneficent public, and if wo but do our duty in this respect to our families fami-lies wq are as much dependent on those artists as they aro upon us. Advocate. |