Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-03-17 | Page 13 | Declares American Home Depressingly Ugly, Lacking Art

Declares American lIotneDepiessiDg'.y Ugly,Ucjiog Art Adaptation of Trees Shrubs anJ Vines to Grounds Advo cateJ by Director Ross Dane "American home ar for Ih most part depressing: uglVi therefore, th communities ar ugly. Th cheapest snd most ef-fectlvs ef-fectlvs war to beaut fy thes ugly houses, snd thus transform tb community Itself, la by tha agency of landscape art. or ths adaptation of shrub, trees and vines to home grounds. These wilt transmul ugliness Into beauty and al trifling cost " Thl Is whst Mns Cran. dl. . rector nf Ih better homes Instl. j tuts ef Ihe Art Institute af t hi- j esgo. who wtll open session of the belter homes Inalllul nst Monday afternoon at I o'clock In the ballroom of Ih Hotel l ull, deelsre There will be session nf Ih Institute al I o'clock In Ih afternoon and at I o'clock In the evening for five days, com-menclng com-menclng Mondsy, and vry msn and woman of th city who wishes t learn now to beautify their horn grounds may do so by attending, at-tending, aa th Inatltut I for Ih benefit of th public and free. OR EAT FACTOR. Th better home Inatltut. which has been holding sessions In Ihe big cities of ths country, and which haa been acclaimed Ihs grestesi factor yet demonstrstsd In Influencing better living, lo be. Ing brought to Mad Lake by Tb ' fait .aa Telegram, soma nf th largo stores, furniture and lumber dealers, and electrical and realty Interests of ih city and other. Th fine Arts Mor let y of I'tah. which Is Interested In every phss of endeavor thai th better Home Institute a. and also th art department de-partment of lha public schools, will v be patrons of th Institute. Th Better Homes Instltuts ha something of great value to almost every rlasa af clllsea. f unusual Interest to women will be Mr. Crane' demonstmtlon and leetur nn furnishing snd decorating a home. He will us hi ports bis room and by Ih us of the actual furniture, ruga, draperies, pictures, pic-tures, books, etc, he will lllustrsts the fundaments I principles of homo furnishing. After spectator havs actually seen beauty, order, color harmony and esqulall homelike-nesa homelike-nesa produced befiar their very eye and by Ih us nf Ineipens-Ive Ineipens-Ive materials, they can go horn and apply those principles to their own rooms. That la Ihe porposa nf ths demonstrations. fin Mondsy Mon-dsy at a p. m. Ih first demonstration demonstra-tion snd lerture on thl subject will be given. A second will b given Mnndsy night, while a third will lie given Tuesday evening at o'clock. ART IN ORESS. Another unusual faaturs thst will attract thousand nf women and girls of th city will b th demonstration on art In dress by the us -of living models, ached, uled for Tuesday at I p. m. Th feature nf thla demonstration will b'to show proper colors for women tn wear. On Wednesday at 1p m. there will tie a second demonstration demonstra-tion on th art of dress, with aliens alie-ns I dlecuaslnn nf lino and suitability suit-ability to nccaalon. Kor art students there will fa twenty paintings by living American Amer-ican masters of painting, collected by the Art Instltuts uf Chicago, r'rldity. Marc h 21. st t p. m. there will be a leclur on these pictures. Kverynns in genersl, but men In particular, will be Interested In tha session Wednesdsy night, when Ihe sublecl of building a comfortable comfort-able and artistic home at the low. est possible cost snd ths heeutlfl-cstlon heeutlfl-cstlon of home grounds with trees, shrubs snd vines will be taken up. From the Kyehrows I'p" will be a special "chalk talk" to h given Thursdsy sfternoon, Msrrh 24 for hitch school teschers and students ."Isillars snd ' Mense for Your Town or How to Muse Your Town th Ileal Town In the Mist In Which to llrlng I'p a Child" will lie Ihe topic nf the Institute 1-Tills), March 2i. st I o'clock.