Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1895 — Aesthetics Never Kill. [ARTICLE]

Aesthetics Never Kill.

'‘Aesthetics’will never kill man,” said one of; the managers of the New Fork exchange for woman’s work “No matter how largely developed julture becomes the palate and the ippetite retain their pristine vigor. This occurred to me in reading the statistics of our exchange. In the last sixteen years our miscellaneous lales, including paintings, water :olors,embroideries,decorated china, irtistic clothing, bric-a-brac and lousehold ornaments, have aggregated about $350,000. During the same period we have disposed of sake —nice home-made cake —to the imount of $150,000; of preserves, luch as your grandmother made, to ibout $50,000; other appetizing lainties to about $30,000, and the unch counter netted about $50,000. : t is the same thing with the other toman’s exchanges in the country, tome sixty-four in number. There s one soinewhere on Long Island there the proceeds from cake and he culinary department are threeourths of the entire revenue.” Swallows have been seen at sea iver one thousand miles from land