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Show PICTURES fly UTAH'S ARTISTS SHOULD BE PURCHASED .s .: , j Logan, Jan 28. "Buy the pictures by I'tal) artists to put in your home!-, i and you may be sure, not only of hav-' hav-' in works of art. but you will also j bfl making a pood commercial Investment, Invest-ment, for pictures thai may b bought for $10 now will be worth thousands to future generations, for thru the 1 work of the artists of your own state will rank with that of the old masters." mas-ters." This advice was given by .Mrs Y Vernette Morse or Chicago, following an addrrss by Professor Calvin Fletcher on "Pictures in the Home, ' I at the mcotini; of the housekeepers conference- here t hie morning. The address of Professor Fletcher, who in at the head of the applied arts department of the Agricultural col leRp, on "Pictures In the Home," was one nf t Ik? eems of the conference program Professor Fletcher said in part "Instead ol nrt for art's sake. I i prefer art for life's sake. The pic j Hires in the home should represent . Meals for the family to follow. In I buyinp pictures It is safest to select I from the work of artists upon which the verdict of time ami high standards stand-ards have placed the stamp of np proval In buying Rood copies of the work of old masters, one cannot make n mistake In buying original picture?, it is best to seek expert opinion. "Do not allow the expert, however, to make the selection for you Let It express your individual taste and, after you have chosen, get someone who knows good art to tell you whether or not the picture is worth while before it is bought "One good picture in Hie home I consider of more value than a cartload cart-load of inferior ones. The plan of buying one good ihing at a time is the b"st rule to obsen e in all house furnishing, if one has limited means, and putting up with makeshifts until other good things can be added to it. rather than by furnishing a house throughout with cheap furniture "Copies of good pictures can be purchased from a penn apiece up, the quality Increasing with the price. Photographic reproductions are best the carbon photograph leading in ex-cllnnce ex-cllnnce since it Rivos a good iJ a of paste and brush effects. The photogravures come next, and these come within the reach of the most modest poekeibook, and even magazine maga-zine pictures reproduced by the photogravure pho-togravure process are often worth while. 'Frames should harmonize with pictures, but should always be subordinate sub-ordinate in color. For instance, a dark frame should be a shade lighter . han the darkest tone in a picture and a light frame n shade darker than the lightesl tint of the picture." i Photographs of members of one's family w re relegated to the precincts of one's bedroom by Professor Fletch- t er s verdict ( The members of the conference were brought to earth from the high i plane of art to a consideration of t meat in a session with the farmers r in the afternoon. Meat Is Discussed. But after all, there was something artistic about the way in which William Wil-liam P Madsen of the Ogden Packing company cut a section of beef into the proper portions for cooking, and In the manner in which Miss Agnes Saunders of the domestic science de partment of the college showed the nutritive values of the different cuts ifter they were cooked The farmers and housekeepers were entertained during the evening by a moving picture exhibition of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company, called "The Spinners of Speech." .Mrs E. E. Corfman of Provo, president pres-ident of the State Federation of Vom-n Vom-n s clubs, who has been attending the sessions of the conference for 'he past few days, will go to Garland tomorrow to visit the clubs there A reception will be given for Mrs. ('orfman In the afternoon by the Indies' In-dies' Safe Culture club, at the home of Mrs. T H. Edwards, with Mrs .1. E. Day and Mrs. Heber Cutler as hostesses Mrs. Corfman will ad dress a public meeting In the ward chapel tomorrow night Economics Talked. Mrs. Corfman will go to Ogden from Garland, then to Hooper, and will arrive in Salt Lake next Wednesday Wednes-day going from there to Lehi. Miss Althea Wheeler of the home economics department of the University Univers-ity of Utah, who came from Salt Lake yesterday for the federated club day program and attended a conference of the home economic workers of the state at noon today, returned borne this afternoon. Mrs George B. Chambers, manager of the woman's wom-an's department of the Utah Gas & Coke company, who has been attending attend-ing the, conference, also returned to Salt Lake this afternoon. |