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Show HOME PICTURES. Catholics are the inheritors of noble traditions of art; but to look at many of the pictures offered for sale in Catholic Cath-olic art stores and hung on the walls of I manv Piltholic homec n-nuM too .- I the belief that we were still in the rudimentary rud-imentary stage, or. rather, the barbaric stage, -where gaudiness is the test -of value. Religious pictures should have a place in every home, and in our day there Is no excuse for these being eyesores. eye-sores. A generation or so back, ohromos may have been the only sort of pictures within the reach of any but the wealthiest; wealth-iest; but of late, new methods have been introduced and improved upon until un-til now works o" real artistic merit can be purchased for a price that brings them within the reach of every one. Etchings and engravings, photographs and photogravures, artotypes and halftones, half-tones, these have followed one upon another so' rapidly that they have now-brought now-brought really good art within the reach of the humblsst household. Nearly all the masterpieces of the art world have been reproduced in one or another of these methods, and, as a result, the great works of religious art can be purchased in these reproductions for a mere trifle. The approaching hol iday season suggests- a means of establishing, estab-lishing, in a small way, a sort of religious relig-ious art propaganda. There is nothing more suitable for a token of remembrance remem-brance than a picture adorning the wall of a home. Catholics in all our larger cities have good opportunity for the selection se-lection of good reproductions of the best things in devotional art. and when selecting se-lecting a present for friends in smaller towns where there is little opportunity to purchase these, why not send a well chosen and suitably framed picture? ! |