Improvement In Public Taste

jTT N American palnter who has recently J 1 rctunicd froin Europe after an absence of four years, malies the f ollowing obicrvatlona upon the Improvement in taste noticeable to him even in so short a time, espoclally in our home dccorutions. We glve hls wordt; on the subject: "The most mirkeil improvement in public taste is shown in our homes during the last four years. Havlng been absent forabout that iength of time 1 UB probably impressed more fully with the fact tban though I had remained at home. One can hardíy euter a home now without remarkinj the taste shown in the arrangement of the piet uros, hangine, furniture; In fací the beauty of the home is looked upon as a most important matter today. The desire for color to enllven a durk corner In the forni of a rieh brown VWS lor flowera, or the wlh to urcak the ruonotony of too manj straight Hm throv In f drapery over the corner of a frame alltbti tend toraake the home beantiful. Added to this, the hown In the vise selection and harmonlzlng of the colors, and we trlklng example of the improvement of our tnstís for the artistic and beauüful. Whtle cm the itn who observes the dressos of to( there eau be no doubt that the f and harsh contrasU of color ar i uw 10 a few y almost every department of life the for form and color has manifested Ittelf, and urely thcre is no more cnIng sifju for the art development of lothan tbc improvement of their We -'¦.¦in to be Jtnt awaltenlngto itbilitiesof art and fiud ihat we creise it in small mattcr3, that all of form and color ai' cidedly a part of the art of paintlngand I M.luctiou ofagreat rtatue." The men of genius touch the universal. Thetr aud works thr wlth the great ebband Bow "f thlng. Tliev write and work for all mcm aud for