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Show B PLEASURES OF EAD TASTE. H One of tlio Many CitHni In Which Iciior-H Iciior-H anon In "yiionymmm with HIIm. H A lady who has always been known H as a person of quiet and refined tusto H confessed to iih' once, says a writer in H Lippincott's, that she bad all her life H had a passion for bright-colored gluss B beads. B This fancy had been frowned upon B by her mother. She was Ut .. when, as H a child, she begged for beads to wear, J that none but overseers' daughters B (this was in the south) would wear nny- BH thing of the i.ort, since bends were ugly B and vulgar. This was sufllcient to pre- H vent the manifestation of her fancy, but B tho louging remained. HB Hut are glass brads ugly? Tho un. JIB tutored mind everywhere accepts them H ns beautiful. The tutored 'mind, one PJB may almost say, has lost the faculty of H spontaneous admiration. To say that H a thing is ugly is himply equivalent, PJJJ with many women, to .saying that it is ! "not worn." To tho bnvage, to the un- PJB taught in civilisation, a beautiful thing H Is beautiful in it.self, not with regard H to lltnest,. fashion or cxpensirencss. No H searching for data upon which to base PJM an opinion cheeks tho thrill of quick m delight in the presence of .the admired JIB object. To them a red glass bead is as piH attractive at, a ruby, a tinsel ornament as beautiful a.s gold. |