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Show 'i 1 """ The Lease and Lome witTiM" J I xmtI r j D n " T I its furnishing generally re-, 1 lOme KeKeCtS toe fleets the character of the. Character of Dwefier dTUer JlL? By ROBERT BROWN ' h ' expression of the inner man, 1 1 are not things that can bfl bought. We come to them through education or inheritance. , j "Her monument was her home," says Lyman Abbott. "It grew "up j quietly, -as quietly as a flower grow. She had inherited that mysterious i faculty we call taste; and she cultivated it with fidelity. Every home she visited she studied; though always unconsciously, as though it were a: museum or an art gallery; and from every visit she brought away some thought which came out of the alembic of her loving imagination, fitted to ; its appropriate place in her own home." j Beauty in the rooms of a house does not necessarily imply rich and; costly furniture or lavish ornamentation. It does not need more money; to create it; often less it all depends on how we seek it. The potter with two pieces of clay alike in size can make one Teasel ugly and another beau-: ; tiful, the cost of labor being the same in both cases. j Wheroin lies the difference ? The beautifully shaped cup is the expres-i sion of the desire, the love of a human being for harmony in its positive . form, obtained through a sense of good proportion and fitness in form.: The ugly cup is the negation of these qualities. And so it is through all the applied arts that minister to our higher nature. : Given the same amount and quality of material in the building and furnishing of a house, the result may be harmonious and beautiful, or; the opposite, according to the thought and knowledge we express in the; work, in the disposition and proportion of the several parts and their; relation to each other, and the whole. ; The home builder who sets out to have all he desires, instead of seek ing to obtain the things he needs, is in danger of failure. Weed out the; non-essentials and have the primaries simple, yet good in design, exercising exer-cising care in selection both as to form, 6ize and color. If you have ugly things given you as wedding gifts, exchange them, or put them into the melting pot If "a thing of beauty is a joy forever," the' converse is equally true ; and if you value your own happiness you I j had better not live with ugly objects. There is no reason why you should, j ' The world is full of beautiful things. If we only open our eyes and seek them they shall be found. If in building a home with limited funds we despise not the economics of the subject at the outset, we shall be in a fair way to achieve success. The family man with a slender purse (confronted as he is today with the high cost of the necessaries of life) who aspires to possess a home of his own, at a reasonable cost, has indeed a problem before him. It may be ij that the home as we understand it today, will, at least for some of ua,' ! become a thing of the past. Some of the less wealthy families may have to join together in associated cottage3, with a communal dining room, !or some such form of co-operative housekeeping; all of which does not necessarily mean a loss of beauty in the home. Who does not recall the simple, quaint beauty of many an old English inn and the cottages clus- fT) ff , tering near by ? UAI Ms |