Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Decoration of the Home. [ARTICLE]

Decoration of the Home.

It is not "a matter of taste” when we accept for our home’s decoration those forms of beauty which we do not sympathetically-understand; it is a matter of intellectual laziness. We take what is smart for the moment without a question of its fitness and adaptability for our individual needs, and in so doing we lose that greater delight, which is the soul of art and which is our only thorough sincere study and search of the decorative fundamentals upon which the artists and lovers of the beautiruTuave built. —House and Garden. - - *. . •