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Show w W GIRL A! TI ART QFJDLENESS Rev Frank G. Bralnord delivered tho last address of his sorles on the education of girls at tho First Congregational Con-gregational church Sunday evening his subject being "The Girl and the Art of Idleness." Noxt Sunday even Ing John M. Mills, superintendent of thu public schools, will deliver an art-dress art-dress at tho Congregational church. In which he will stnto what tho public schools are doing for the youth of the city. In his address on "The Girl and tho Art of Idleness," Rev. Brainerd said "The ideal woman Is both skillful and artistic and converts the house In which she lives from a boarding house, without liberty, into a home of dreams that come true. "It requlros tho physically uitncc. essary things, often designated as the luxuries, to sot the truo value upon our appreciation of llfo and our human hu-man relationships. The meat and potatoes po-tatoes the husband carries home are tho physical necessities; the rose that ho brings his wife is not a physical necessity. But tho rose Is ono of tho marks of a man who is still a lover as well as a husband. Tho mended garments and the well coukod meals aro the necessary work of tho woman; wom-an; tho flowora on the table, the prettv gown, though madp of calico, and tho winsjmo smi! wo tho luxuries lux-uries of lovo and mark her sraolons rolgn. There an certun accomplishments that befit the beauteous character of girlhood, which will give grace and power to tho days of her womanhood. It Is to bo questioned whothcr or not art work with a chisel, brush or pen- |