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Show A LOCAL WOODCARVER. All who are Interested In the development devel-opment of the tine arts In Logan and who believe that we should not live bybrcad alone will be glad to hear that we now have a well trained wooa-carver wooa-carver living among us. He has already al-ready made a beautliullv carved frame of native poplar for the Michel Angelo medallion In the A. U. library and has carved two medallions, one of Lincoln and one of Washington, both of which are on exhibition at the college. The artist Is Mr. David Hughes who comes to us from Liverpool, Eng., where he has spent many years In the practice of his art, rising from apprentice to senior carver. We are glad to welcome wel-come among us so good a representative representa-tive or one of the most beautiful of the old world arts. It Is men like him who carved the choir stalls of the English cathedrals, whose cunning beautified the heavy oak furniture and chests that we admire in the ancient castles and who even condescended conde-scended at times to carve the Hgure head of a ship. Such men can teach us much. They can show us how beauty can be combined with the useful use-ful arts, can give them dignity and grace, and render them equal, If not superior, to the merely ornamental. Wo may, not care to borrow tho saints, the coats of arms, or the other decorative decora-tive themes of the old world, but we should like to seo the beautiful natural natu-ral objects of our state perpetuated In the decorative art The sago Illy, the suDllower, the poplar tree, the log cabin, the broncho buster, are all subjects sub-jects worthy of being reproduced by the, wood carver's art and subjects which lend themselves to the decoration decora-tion of our homes and our furniture |