Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — Artists in Every-Day Life. [ARTICLE]

Artists in Every-Day Life.

There is no place so remote but the work of artist hands may be seen therein—no work on earth where people are so impervious to the elevating influences of the beautiful that the result of artistic imagination.is not apparent. The farmer, who mows his lawns, prunes his trees, whitewashes his fences, and spares an occasional fore-it tree in his pastures; who selects a conspicuous place for his garden, lays it out properly and cultivates it well, is an artist. He is conscious of his power to please and to attract, and is stimulated thereby. The housewife who knows just the kind of carpets she needs; who knows where to hang the light pictures and where the dark: who can transform the humblest abode into a fairy palace by harmonious grouping of flowers and draping of vines, is certainly an artist. So* also, is the young lady who can dress herself beautifully with a small outlay, or the ugly girl who can make herself pretty by wearing the colors that harmonize -with her completion and adopting the styles that suit her. The merchant who can drape and dress his window so that it can not fail to attract, the fruit vender, who knows how to arrange his wares so as to tempt; the thinking architect, thh'careful cultivator of flowers, all goto make up a class whose works are indispensable to the welfare and happiness of mankind, far more so than the labors of thousands who have received the homage of the world, and whose names “shine as the stare”— Mattie X Brown, in CourierJournal.